snow drift

Fantastic pictures and ramps but here is the biggest of all.................................................. Bournemouth will get 6 inchs of snow this year maybe all at once!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes your correct. Even if it is unlikely to materialise, its what I like to view as we move into the "show time" part of the year.

Very heavy rain currently and thunder on and off for a good part of the night.

It is getting cooler and the misses asked if she could put the heating on? I said she could get some candles out. If gets realy cold, I said she can light them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No I don't really feel we have that sort setup at the mo but with a few tweaks it wouldn't be completely impossible

Thanks for the reply. It is really interesting to see the Meto be out on its own like this. They have been very good and very interesting times ahead. The fronts moving in from the sw and the possibly stalling could lead to some heavy snowfall for some. Not in our region tho I feel.

I agree. Are you sitting in one particular model camp at the moment or are you sat in the middle of all 3?

Where have you seen this forecast? BBC hinted at watching a low over france may head our way.

The fact its quite in here is the clue. Oxford looks about as South as it will get and thats pushing it a bit. Depends which model you want to go with but East Midlands looks good on one and Warwickshire and west Midlands looks good on the other. Still trying to find a model that shows the south might get some but may need to draw that one myself. Good Luck to those in the North of the region.:smiliz19:

Its your 39m ASL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:smiliz64:

I know. Bit of snow and its all over the news. When we get it down here, you don't here us going on about it. Earlier in the year we had nearly 2 cm's. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Was it all over the news?

Thanks for the reply. TBH PPN coming from SW would almost always only be rain in the last 20 or so winters. The fact that there is dowt shows what a great winter this has been. All be it that we down here have seen little snow.

Are you thinking the same for us here? Up north, like ringwood, New forest might get a dusting before the sun melts it.

I would agree. Surprised that it is that far north TBO. Bournemouth might get something. Rain prob. Still I chose to live here. Moved from North cotswolds. They have had loads this winter!!!!!!!!!!!!

When was the last time we saw charts that were showing something at t144 plus and those actual charts were what happened on the day? very very rarely. I am not suprised that things have moved East. I would add that just because they are better looking charts now does not mean that they will verify. We are in a situation where cold weather is now. ( a few light snow showers here today). Cold air is likely to stay with us for the next 7 days at least and within the period we have oppotunities to get snow fall. Interesting model watching. Often people look for extremes and these are rare and therefore if that is what you want you are going to be mostly disapointed. Why? The clue is in the word extreme. Finaly to TEITS. You said a couple of weeks ago that you were going to ignore the people who have a go at you. Like the Nike add "Just do it" they are not worth it.

I think your comments are based on where you live rather than the country as a whole. If I remember, you live in Poole just down the road from myself. Down here, something fairly spectacular needs to happen for us to get something memorable. However what the models are showing is that we are heading back into a cold pattern. Some areas will do well from this. I love watching cold approach and how this is handled by the models. Remember last Sunday and what was being shown? I commented at the time that I thought it was advantage "mild". So will it snow, yep, somewhere. where, need to wait to nearer the time. The last spell had a large snowfall showing for down here and this had been showing for about 24hrs. Then 3/4 hours before it was due to arrive it decided to make a semi circle round us and we ended up with about a cm. The lesson from this is snow ppn will spring surprises. Not all surprises are good.

It may be yesterdays. What he said was, it is "a pretty good fax chart" no reference to Date!!!!!!!

I think the Met Office get way to much stick on here. If most of the posters on here had given a forecast for the coming weeks then it would have changed on a daily basis from, very cold and snowy to mild and south westerlies. Reality is that the ground in the middle is likely to be the outcome. If you are constantly looking for extreme weather you are, for the most part, going to be constantly disappointed. The people I feel for are the ones who can not decipher the models for themselves and then hang on the words of the posters. This must drive them to distraction. The models have struggled and continue to struggle with this mild air cold air battle. I don't think that this has been resolved although as time goes by I would put it at advantage mild.

My rant is about the model discussion thread. People keep picking the model runs that show what is their preference. With the models as they currently are illustrates this perfectly. People are saying that they think GFS is more likely because BLAH BLAH BLAH. Which translates to "it is what I want". They then recall a time when the model was last wrong and then give that as a reason to why the model that they don't like is wrong again. Models by their very nature are often wrong but do fall in line at a reasonable time frame. As a game, for the next few days, see how many posts you read that cover "the models are all over the place at the mo" or " the models cant agree so no one Knows". We Know that the models are different and that they are not agreeing, what we don't need is loads of people telling us they don't agree and FI or F1 starts in t24. WE KNOW!!! Some of the posters on the thread do not fall in the trap off. " nothing to say but want to post anyway so here goes" " I don't know" That feels better. oh and I think the models don't know at the mo so i am going with the one I like!!!!!!

First 18 days of the year and no rain fall. Is that a record?

We are still here Nick. Silently observing. Not until the magical weekend in April, Grand national weekend, Masters weekend and some times F A Cup semis weekend do I then switch off to weather.

Nope! Just rain. It did try bless (in a very condescending way).

Where are you in dorset?

Parents are flying out of Bristol in morning about 8.00a.m. What you are getting, is it likely to close airport.

Everything I dislike about winter is happening here right now. Horizontal rain, 3 degrees and snow in garden gone. On top of that models show little for at least the next two weeks. Enjoyed the last 3 weeks tho, very much.