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Afternoon, just wanted to pass on my condolences to you John for your loss. I lost my mum to a heart attack and although never forgotten, the pain will dim I promise.
Lollipop..I hope your mum makes a speedy recovery.
Leemondo - congratulations! Bet you're on cloud 9!
Chilly today, cloudy too. Hoping for some late snow and cold...bring it on!!
I would like to echo Lottiekents comments above. All the very best to JP & Lollipop at these very difficult times for youn both. You will be in my thoughts and prayers.
Also very many congratulations to the parents of Noah.
Although we all in the main enjoy cold snowy weather I trust that it does not cause too many problems for JP and Lollipop in their current situations.
A few years back my grandfather passed away. He had been invalided out of the first world war and spent most of his subsequent years unable to work and not very mobile. He was interested in the weather as he spent a lot of time watching the seasons change etc and the day of his funeral we had heavy snow and the hearse had difficulties arriving at my mother's house. On our way to the cremetorium the driver stopped and we noticed a middle aged gentlemen well protected from the elements rushing over to the car. When he opened the door we noticed it was the vicar. He explained that the snow was so deep he was unable to get his car ourt of his garage and so he hitched a lift with us. It was quite fitting really and my grandad would have loved it. He was probably looking down on us having a good laugh.
God bless
Kind Regards
Dave
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This is a very good looking Easterly on the Gfs 06z, quite a lot of snow showers coming well inland, exciting times ahead next week.
Yes I agree the charts this morning look absolutely brilliant, but if I was TEITS I would be a little concerned as there appears to be a "hole" in the precipitation charts you posted right over the top of his house!
Before anyone chastises me for my comment on a precip chart that far ahead I was joking and I realise that this could all change with fine tuning of the location of the various components that make up weather in our neck of the woods. It is what makes the whole thing so interested and has kept me engrossed since when I was a youngster during the 1962/63 winter.
On a personal note I feel that this time there is more likelihood of things going to the general themes shown over the last three or so models (12z, 18z 0Z & 06Z) and we are for a very cold lengthy spell of weather with notable snowfall to be expected in some areas from next weekend onwards. As has been stated elsewhere the favoured spots under such a regime' will always be eastern, southeastern and northeastern districts, depending on wind direction as well as more southern counties if we experience a channel low developing.
I am really looking forward to seeing future model output to see how it is all expected to develop.
Kind Regards
Dave
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Very occasional flurries here. Just back from work, as the marvellous A12 messed up my journey home for the third consecutive evening.
As you can tell, I'm starting to think of it as a wilful entity (and one I detest!)Hello Steve I feel exactly the same with Greater Anglia. This week travelling up to London has been an absolute nightmare.
We had a few flakes here about an hour ago, but nothing now
Regards
Dave
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Just got back from Dubai. Still a couple of inches of snow on the ground, and temperature is around freezing. Cold weather seems to have messed up my internet, so still trying to get my thermometer up and running (it's a Netatmo, goes via internet). I understand that there may be more snow today before it all disappears.
Just driven round from Gatwick, nothing on the ground there, although a noticeable line around 50-100m asl, then up here still lots of snow on trees and no dripping. Amazing what a bit of altitude can do. This has been a very good winter for us, lying snow for about 2 weeks in total.
That is remarkably cold for Dubai!
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Where is it off to?
My direction I can just about see it from Euston Tower. What a horrible drab day it is
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i agree i think myself id of taken offence its a very difficult job and its bad enough in here let alone in a office trying to make sure peoples lives are not at risk because in servere weather where would we be without the met office.
i sopose if there was no met office we could use geese robins and fern cones lol.
And seagulls!
Looking at the earlier charts and what TEITS is stating I also believe that there will be a south and west correction of the feature and all but southern coastal counties as far as Hampshire and then a norhwest progression in a line to say Newport and then westwards will after perhaps initial rain see an extended period of snow with in many places especially over high ground witness considerable accumulations. The precipitation from this will probably make it as far north as Sheffield or thereabouts, but for the more northern areas that will be disappointed by this, especially in counties bordering the North sea they can look forward to a lot of convective snowfall from Monday onwards for a couple of days or so until more settled cponditions arrive.
Kind Regards
Dave
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Meto warning update.
Yellow Snow warning for all of our region!
Oh no who is doing what they shouldn't in it again!
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I despair with those who pretend to be safety conscious and use it as an excuse for not be Ar***d to do something. I am a Health and Safety professionaly involved with construction site health and safety. Blame health and safety on everything rather than take any degree of personal responsibility in assessing the actual risk of doing something. It is a far easier option.
A few years back I was based at one of our company's offices in Colchester and I had to travel to a site meeting at a school that was having a new dining hall and a few minor internal alterations being carried out. The school is in a small village called Toppesfield in the northwest of the county in a very rural location with the pupils attending from a large catchment area.
I left for the meeting at about 11.30 and snow was falling heavily, but the forecast was for it to rapidly change to rain. On my journey I was listening to our local radio station and all the time news was coming in of school closures, many of them in large towns such as Harlow and Basildon, but relitively few in the less populated areas.
When I arrived at Toppesfield the snow was just beginning to stop and I noticed all of the children in the playground having a wonderful old time as kids used to in the olden days.
My meeting lasted just over two hours and by the time I returned to my car the majority of the snow had melted.
Now the moral of the story is to not jump the gun and send children home too early. It was evident that the snow was going to be a fairly short-lived affair and to send the pupils home during the worst of the conditions was placing them and their parents picking them upin far greater danger than if they had remained in class.
Kind Regards
Dave
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Amazing eh, out of the 140 people here at work 138 made the effort to get to work , yet all the schools are closed cos its too snowy to travel, god knows what would happen if it was really bad !
Hello 80's Weather,
I ventured up to your neck of the woods yesterday (Hertford) to visit my son. In Chelmsford it had been snowing that very fine but heavy type all morning and we had quite a bit on the ground although the main roads were fine. When we got to Godmanchester there appeared to be less snow on the ground but apparantly it had began to fall much later. We left at about 18.30 and the estate roads were quite bad and the road through Godmanchester was not that great but the A14 was fine. When we got to th M11 it was much worse and I kept my speed down. In spite of this athough I was only doing about 40-45mph the car suddenly started to slide alll over the place and I very nearly lost control of it. This made me even more careful for the rest of the drive home, There were, however, a few idiots who insisted on overtaking still at speed in spite of the conditions but generally the majority of drivers were driving in a very responsible manner.
The A120 was even worse as was the rest of the route home and instead of the journey taking about 75 minutes it took about 2 hours 10 minutes. I was glad to get home in one piece. We seemed to have even more snow as it had continue to fall for the remainder of the day.
I walked down to the railway station this morning (I always do as I like to keep fit- a distance of just over one and a half miles) and it was really beautiful along my usual walk which includes a section along the river.
Got to work in NW1 without too much hastle with the trains to find that it had started snizzling as I walked along Euston Road towards where I work. Lots of people have not made it into work today, including several from south of the Thames and quite a few from as far afield as Cambridgeshire.
The weather is a lot brighter and the sun is now shining. If there are clear intervals overnight the temperature will definitely tumble.
Is there any chance that central Essex will receive any snowfall overnight?
Kind regards
Dave
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haha yea i now 90 quid for xmas tree. do hope it gets a bit heavier
Why how much does it weigh?
Here in Chelmo still fine sleety snow falling like it has been for at least the last 90 minutes or so. Anyone know what conditions are like it the Godmanchester area, as we have to drive up to there in about an hour or so's time.
Kind regards
Dave
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I know. Bet they still drink £200 bottles of wine on their jollies
Although, on a clear night it does make looking at the stars easier
What the lights out or the £200 bottles of wine!
Here in Chelmsord the weather remains cold and cloudy with light snow falling. We are visiting our youngest son tomorrow who lives near Godmanchester to his boy's second birthday party. Hoping that we will be able to get back home in the evening.
Regards Dave
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Good morning everyone,
It is nice and bright here in Chelmsford this morning. I thought I would join the EA thread along with the rest of the Chelmsford posters. Also good to see Steve on here. Good luck to Steve on the A12 this coming week if the forecaste holds true!. I used to work in Colchester and I agree with another poster there are often idiots driving along there. Now I work in :London and have to commute by train each day to NW1 so it will be tough and go as to whether i will see any of the white stuff.
It is also good to see TEITS posting on here as i always value his opinions and comments as well as John Pyke promising to provide details for our neck of the woods.
With Saint being on board (in spite of supporting a lesser Football team than the mighty Clarets (only joking)) is another welcome addition.
I am really looking forward to the upcoming cold spell.
Kind Regards
Dave
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Hello everyone from a cold and rather windy Chelmsford with temperatures hovering around the 4C mark and complete cloud cover.
I would be grateful if the more experienced amongst you could advise on whether the higher than normal temperatures on the North Sea will dilute the degree of cold to any great extent. Will those on the Essex and Suffolk coasts experience rain or sleet rather than snow. If that is the case how far inland would be affected by any such modification.
Many thanks in advance.
Kind regards
Dave
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I have to laugh as a Ex employee of Thames Water, following the drought earlier this year and hearing that river levels had never been so low and how they would take years to recover? Now its coming over the top and all the reservoirs are full because they did not allow their levels to drop in the summer.
I see all weirs are fully drawn so there is nothing more that can be done to prevent flooding?
I suppose on the plus side Thames water have saved millions of pounds in pumping costs this year which will add to its share price so every cloud has a silver lining as they say
Hello HP, Very interesting, The shareholder is always king, The customer is now far down in the pecking order!
As a matter of interest is your game still on at the moment?
Ours still is officially in spite of a lot of local flooding, I very much doubt it will go ahead, I am not confident looking at the further outlook if our home game on Saturday will survive the weather either.
Kind Regards
Dave
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all you SE/EA posters/readers of this thread.
It has been a joy to read it over the past few months.
The weather here in Chelmsford is very dull with drizzle in the air, but certainly not cold.
Currently the charts do not give a lot of confidence that the situation will improve in the near future.
A lot of sports fixtures could fall foul of the weather during the festive break, which will have a devistating effect for a lot of non-league clubs in particular they rely heavily on a steady cash flow. Playing the postponed game on an evening mid week does not usually generate the same number of spectators.
Kind regards
Dave
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Snow envy!! Mild mush here. Feels odd sat inside with Xmas lights and slippers on when its around 12degrees outside!!
I should think it does feel odd wearing Christmas lights, I would not like it- could get an electric shock, especially.
Very dull here now in Chelmsford, rain no doubt due again soon. Went down to the City Centre earlier to get a few odd last minutes bits of shopping and the river was fast rushing and the ground remains saturated.
Merry Christmas everyone
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Snow near my girlfriend apparently on the heavy side... (Staines)
Thats no way to talk about your girlfriend!
Weather in NW1 is cold and grey.
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Loads of people are still stuck in traffic, so I'm feeling a little smug having set off early.
Or am I a mug?
Hello Steve,
You did well leaving early! I bet the A12 continues to be chaotic.
Absolute nightmare this morning getting down to the railway station from north Springfield. Took over 45 minutes for what is usually about 10 minutes. Does not appear to have been any gritting and everyone was sliding all over the place. A lorry was also stuck just the other side of the traffic lights at the end of the Chelmer Valley Way just after I got there. It had jacknifed but luckily it was turning right and we were veering left so we were not held up by it.
After a ten minute delay at Liverpool Street to get past the ticket barriers onto the underground due to passenger congesttion I have finally arrived at my office off Euston Road.
Kind regards
Dave
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Days like today, make me realise how lucky I am working from home, nice and cozy, no travelling, bliss!
Hello Andy,
you are lucky working from home. I commute up to London. This week the trains have not been keeping to time. This morning's reason for late running on the electronic notice boards at Liverpool Street was a "Classic". Trains are running slower because the tracks are wet caused by rain. The railways have been operatng for the best part of 150 or so years but the powers that be appear to be unable to do anything about not particularly heavy rain.
Kind regards
Dave
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Good evening everyone,
Another dull, miserable day here in Mid Essex. It has been an extremely dull autumn this year. I do not have a weather station and so I am just basing my comment on perception. Does anyone on here from my neck of the woods record hours of sun each day and if so do they agree with what I believe to be the case?
Any observations would be gratefully received.
Many thanks
Kind Regards
Dave
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Could you also add me too please. My postcode is CM1 6TS
Many thanks
Kind regards
Dave
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Because colder air is moving towards the UK?...
Btw, nature doesn't decide the future, it shows the past- of course grass colour in November means nothing about December, January and February, more something about August, September and October.
Hello Isolated Frost. You are correct of course but I have been wondering lately if the country folk of olden days may have accidentallly been on to something when forecasting what lay ahead. For example. take a glut of berries, they say this portends a harsh winter. We know that a lot of berries come about through good growing conditions earlier in the year. But what I am thinking is do these previous conditions with positioning of weather systems etc predetermine where weather systems will subsequently be positioned and what will happen months hence and that such conditions would favourably be more biased towards cold rather than mild weather?
Kind Regards
Dave
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Good morning all,
In the words of Oasis "Why does it always rain on me"! Being one of the matchday organisors at Chelmsford City, playing at what is an Athletics Stadium with a football pitch in the middle, each Saturday I help with the putting up of herras fencing and protective matting accross the running track as well as locating the roll-on terracing behind both goals inside the running track. Almost every Saturday recently without exception we have got soaked undertaking these tasks and today does not look like it will be much better. We entertain Dover in the FA Trophy today. It will be interesting to see the size of attendance today. It will certainly not be as big as last week for our FA cup game against Colchester United which was a sell-out.
Kind Regards
Dave
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Hello Chionomaniac.I am going to jump off the fence. Now 60/40 split in favour of more +ve AO start to winter.
Sorry to be dumb, but is that good or bad for the lovers of cold weather?
kind Regards
Dave
As you can tell, I'm starting to think of it as a wilful entity (and one I detest!)
Winter Model Discussion 06Z 17/02/13 onwards.
in Spring Weather Discussion
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I did not know that Mr Gandhi was renknowned for his nightclubbing!
On a serious note I am pleased to see Ian F post on here along with the more knowlegable of our "own" such as GP. BFTP, SM,NS & TEITS. Since I have started to frequent this site three or so years ago I have learnt an awful lot about the weather from these people and appreciate all the input from them.
Although I am not by any means anywhere near as "clued up" if I may be able to put forward my opinion of what I see is in store for us as far as believe that the incoming cold spell is concerned. I believe that will be a noteable one and although it will be disappointing from a snow accumulation viewpoint for most of the country I consider as is usually the case under such trends currently shown the southeast and possilby southern parts of East Anglia may do rather well out of it from convective precipitation. If only the high pressure could migrate a but further north/northwest it would be more benificial for more parts of the UK. we will have to see whether the trends from the last two models (OZ & 06 ) continue through with the slight northen movement in the 12Z charts.
I would post the charts to support what they indicate, but I am a bit of a Ludite when it comes to computers and I am still working out how to do that!
Computers and I are uneasy bedfellows as my work colleagues would testify. If anything can go wrong it always seems to be me that has the problem.
Kind regards
Dave
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