Steve C

To be honest mate, I'd just ignore the comment. The chances of him saying that to a stranger's face would be somewhere near zero. Most people here would also agree.

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I have no weather station here; where I live it's pointless, but I can guarantee that the temperature has risen a couple of degrees in the last four hours - snow is now very claggy underfoot and has compacted a lot. While it is still flurrying, it is definitely becoming marginal. Any thoughts? I don't wish to read through lots of previous threads for an answer, but would appreciate a repost etc. Cheers.

Mine happened when I was skiing. Last person on the lifts before wind closed them - high level, above the tree line. The wind blew me along to a faster than running pace. But the first I knew of it was when I could feel I was moving, rather than see anything. I inevitably crashed. When I could eventually see, my brother had crashed right next to me - literally a foot or so away. I was lucky in that I was then on a sheltered part of the mountain and could get down, as the wind had dropped. Another way of describing it is like when you first go into a dark room or a deep cave, where everything is black. It's just the reverse and everything is uniform white. I pity anyone who gets caught in this situation for any length of time.

Some good ones there. Interesting that some of them show evidence of drifting. I haven't seen any in this area so far, which being near the coast here is a bit of a surprise. Sounds like drifting might be an issue now though.

I commented on this a couple of days ago. When you can't see your feet, or people next to you, caused by snow blowing at 60mph plus. Very surreal and scary.

Interesting. I've noticed the wind has got up here, but no chance of me venturing out now to check it, till I hit the pubs later. Might have to be my local!

Definitely! Anyway wind is blowing snow about here now.

I don't think the press help, when the first snowfall of any winter is described as a blizzard. Sensationalist journalism.

All in all an interesting situation. Absolutely nobody, no matter how good a forecaster, is going to predict the weather 100% accurately, all the time. There's always the breaking wind in the garden / typhoon in the Pacific a few weeks later syndrome. Anyone that good would have been appropriated by the Government by now as a 'gritting czar!'

Moderate snow here, as recent picture. Fence is about 15 metres from lens at largest distance.

Very light snow here. You can tell this is going to last a while, as the cloud is uniform and grey, not like shower cloud. Just hope it stays as snow.

I think this is the first part of what TEITS was talking about. Severe weather warnings are in place for more parts of England than the SE, after today (inc Wales and the north). This situation is developing.

MetO have just issued an upgraded severe weather warning for Essex for 7-12 cms and up to 20cms locally. Strong winds and drifting too. Does anyone else get irritated by these warning maps, with the jagged lines of counties defining boundaries?

Cheers. It definitely looks like there's loads building up in the Channel / North Sea. The next couple of hours will be interesting. Although cloudy here, still no sign.

Will probably squat on this board, even though I'm a few miles south of Suffolk border. To be honest I think the weather of Norfolk and Suffolk is more akin to the weather here, rather than in Kent and south of the river.

I did kind of wonder - was even thinking about the directions of your SE photograph. Didn't have the confidence to come right out with it at the start though.

Hopefully a reasonable chance later today, or this evening.

To be honest, I thought that was what might happen. It seems to be a developing trough.

Dad lives in Orwell Way and a good mate lives in Ripley Close.

Are you located somewhere near Constable Avenue? From walking this morning, it appears our depth of snow is less than it was yesterday evening, even though we've had something of an overnight top up and no thaw. Obviously rate of compaction was higher than the rate of top up.

This is interesting. Note the recent movement of the band. I like the fact you can zoom in here too. http://www.meteogrou...ed_kingdom.html

Yes, sometimes you can see this by looking at different cloud layers, eg shallow cumulus at a low level and at a higher level altocumulus or cirrocumulus - they can often be observed moving in different directions.

Yes, going to Mauritius in a couple of weeks, so wouldn't appreciate the devastation if it hit there ( not withstanding the strife to the locals! ) Thankfully shouldn't be an issue. An impressive storm indeed. Is 905mb close to a record for the Indian Ocean?

My opinion is that with the current direction of the showers, you've got too much of a fetch of land - the showers develop over the sea and gradually decay as they pass over land. Therefore I wouldn't expect much before late tomorrow, when the weather pattern may change. ( now I've said that, you'll probably wake up to a massive covering ) Do you have much snow now?