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On raintoday the precip is just reaching Oswestry, be interesting on here shortly :-) Also worth reading the warning from this site that's just been issued Alert details: A frontal system moving southeast over the next 24-36 hours will bump into a cold continental airmass in place across the UK. Outbreaks of sleet and snow are likely to spread southeast across many northern, central and eastern areas by the end of Monday, rain is more likely across western areas and the far south. Sleet and snow will continue to affect eastern areas on Tuesday, though tending to turn more showery and increasingly confined to eastern coasts by Wednesday. In more detail, an occluded front bringing a band of sleet and snow across the north, falling as rain near western coasts, will spread southeast during Sunday, reaching central areas this evening and the southeast during early Monday morning. Accumulations will vary with passage of the sleet and snow. 5-10cm are possible across the north today, though the sleet and snow will tend to become lighter as it heads southeast, with a few cms possible across central and eastern areas by Monday morning. Then another band of rain, sleet and snow will follow on Monday, reaching central areas by Midday then arriving across the southeast in the evening. Snow will be confined to central and eastern areas of the UK, with rain or sleet more likely across southern and western areas. Accumulations of up to 5cm are possible, perhaps a further 10 cm over higher ground. The band of snow may intensify as it reaches eastern England tomorrow evening (to the north of London), so there is a risk of some significant accumulation to lower levels too. Further snow is possible across eastern England Tuesday morning bringing a few more cms in places, before snow turns more showery and becomes increasingly confined to the coasts of East Anglia and SE England by the evening. There will be a risk of ice developing on untreated surfaces where rain, sleet and snow has fallen, especially during the overnight periods as temperatures fall below freezing. The public are advised to be aware of the risk of treacherous driving conditions and the risk of travel disruption caused by snow and ice.

You may do better than me in the Severn valley, due to your higher elevation

We need the upper temps to be a touch lower than forecast in the middle of the day on Monday  if you look on the following link this may explain better http://www.netweathe...;sess=#forecast Basically the cold air to the east needs to move a tad west, 50 miles would make a huge difference This may also help http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=snow;sess=

I'm 20 miles south west of Birmingham, 10 miles west of the M5 but with quite a low height 40 odd m asl, I'm still worried we'll miss the snow, but a small correction west will Make all the difference, the annoying thing is that I'm due to be at worcester college doing some training on Monday, so I will be stuck inside from 9.30- 4.00, so a pasting when I wake on Monday would be good, I could have the day at home glued to the iPad

ECM moving in the right direction now, let's hope it continues, & from a selfish reason I want Sunday/ Monday's snow a tad more west, just want a few cm's that's all, See our locations are back, will make posts a lot easier to follow

Makes interesting viewing, copied it off the model thread, it's just been updated

I'm driving my wife, daughter, brother inlaw, & colleagues mad with my weather talk, my 8 year old cried when I told her it now wouldnt snow tomorrow, had a chat about the weather never doing what it was forecast, she said dad I" I just want snow" just a cm will do :-/

Would be really helpful if people could put there location in to there signature (Profile, Edit, then Signature is an option on the left)

I know it's in fantasy land but 20mm of rain on Wednesday uppers of -2 would that fall as snow?

Locations missing is something to do with saving bandwith apparently, another way is to pop your location in to your signature, go to profile > edit > signature add your location & save Back to weather, interesting times ahead, my wife will want a divorce due to me being glued to this forum

Just watching the 18z roll out now, exciting stuff, it's very annoying as my geographys pretty good, so I'm normally able to build a good picture of what's incoming........

We're still 2 days from possible snowfall in the midlands, 50 miles further north & were back in, Saturday will be an interesting day, does anyone know if were going to get our locations put back on, as it makes this forum much more interesting, my co workers couldn't believe how good I was in the last snowfall event, remember telling them " it will be snowing in 2hours" & it was lol

As always I think it will go right to the wire, as usual, 50 miles either way will make a huge difference as always :-/

Well minus -1.2 here last night, according to the netweather forecast for my postcode on Saturday it will snow Most the day heaviest in the afternoon, rainfall total just over 1cm, how much snow could that be???

From reading the strat & model threads, I'm pretty certain it's going to get cold even very cold, as for snow, yes for some parts of the uk, don't think we will know where until prob Thursday, must say the strat & model threads make interesting reading

Haven't posted on this thread before, have been on the midlands regional thread for a couple of years, I've followed this thread and the strat thread since November, if you read the strat thread alongside this thread it's amazing to see that what the likes of chiono said is now happening, and weve only just begun to see the effects of the ssw, I take my hat of to you guys :-) On a slightly off topic note this thread has made amazing reading & has improved my understanding of "the weather" but I must say the way some of you post on here regarding each other is shocking, show some respect, Lastly fingers crossed for the next few days/weeks :-)

I have a customer who runs our local highways gritting depot, he said to me last week there's a high chance of a cold possibly snowy jan/feb, I asked how he knew this, he said it had come from a superior & that they were ready....

The netweather winter forecast makes interesting reading http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=winter-forecast-2012;sess=

Rains started again here in Stourport on Severn, quite heavy

Light rain started here before 8, its now raining moderately, seems to be getting heavier as the morning goes on, NO TL though :-(

Moderate freezing rain here, sounds heavier than it is.....

Just done the takeaway run, it's snowing heavily in stourport on Severn, roads are lethal, 5cm+ of snow

What time can we expect snow to start in Worcester, today is my busiest day of the week, but I also need too get home @ 5pm????

According to netweather forecast I may get a dusting in the early hours of Monday, let's hope it pushes a bit further east & we get at least an inch :-)

Worcester cc must have £ to waste........ Not lol