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Are you in Danbury, your elevation suggests so. Think the heaviest precipitation has passed me by unfortunately.

I had thought exactly the same thing, as the next nearest place with that elevation is Brentwood, in which case Brentwood would have been mentioned.

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weather for this weekend looks like it is backtracking into a disappointment from what I have seen, reading posts and seeing TV forecasts - Saturday might see some convective showery stuff from the North sea and Sunday which is still up in the air looks like bringing only light snow inland and maybe sleety/rain nearer the coasts! - but who knows might all change.

To be honest, I'd much rather that than a big frontal system passing through, which gives 2 cms of snow in the first hour and a half, then rain.

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Snow here too, as predicted by others.

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Heavy shower just started, small flakes. Michael Fish going to be on BBC SE in a bit.

Thanks for tip.

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Should be coming over your way, Ive noticed today that the showers are following the course of the River Colne and go out towards Rowhedge!

Can't see anything yet, but am expecting..

Deciding whether to go for a few beers in Bricklayers, near North Station now.

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Very heavy drifting powdery snow here now!

Crikey! Nothing here at moment.

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I'm gonna stick my neck out and make a bold prediction here... I think that by mid week next week things will be slowly warming up. Yes...a premature end to the cold spell is what I'm predicting for the area. I have this feeling that, in spite of what the models are saying, the cold is not going to get a vice like grip on us and will be more susceptible to a renewed onslaught from the Atlantic than perhaps the models are suggesting.

I expect to see the models get in agreement with this over the weekend. But after mid next week that will be that as far as the type of winter we've been enjoying goes, though there may well be the odd marginal event stretching into March.

Not what I want, but what I feel is happening.

I've got this sort of feeling too, although I feel the cold might re-establish itself after a short interval.

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Latest BBC Forecast looks good for this region on Sat Night/Sunday. With winds more Easterly by then, snow should cover a good deal of the region

Hope you're right.

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Sky forecast must of changed then because earlier the Sunday snowfall was as far N as the Lincs based on the graphics.

In my opinion, it would be very unlikely that a general band of snow would extend from the south and cover all of England as far north as Lioncolnshire, without consequence - I'd then expect southern England to then get sleet / rain, then milder drizzly type weather.

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NOWCAST : Wind has just turned n/neast

Good. Hope it veers just a bit more..

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there wont be no warm sector as its coming from a cold continent.. its been explained time and time again in the model forums..

I'm no novice.

Let's wait for his explanation.

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Youll have to wach the warm sector :s

Are you talking about late in the weekend?

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Wind has picked up here in last half hour. Not sure whether light flurries or blowing snow.

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Where east of england thats rather vague tbh

Includes Norfolk

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Flurries of snow here again. Better than nothing.

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Is this it now or is this supposed to get worse because if not then once again somewhere in "the firing line" and prime location is going to get nothing, looking at the radar there doesn't seem to be anything other than a few patters here and there

If I lived in your area, I'd expect the chance of snow to be higher than where I live over the next 24 hours.

However, due to the unpredicability of the weather, who knows?

Fingers crossed!

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Has the Fish been brought out of retirement? Great news. A proper weatherman and weather enthusiast unlike the mild lovers at the beeb... Dan corbett being my current hate figure

Not sure, as it wasn't my original post. I think it might have been from a BBC region further south than here.

We have the 'pleasure' of Julie Reinger on my local BBC. I'm sure she just repeats what someone tells her parrot fashion. She even explained the first tranche of this cold spell as 'originating in Belgium' last month. I'm sure I sighed audibly.

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It is going over your way towards Great Bentley way! Must have around 5" of snow here now. I did not expect snow here this early!

It's back down to flurry level now. Not sure if this means your stuff is still on the way.

Have notived that we must have had a very small amount of graupel this morning too, by what's lying.

It's interesting in that Brightlingsea had only half of what we had here yesterday at a maximum ~ < 2 inches versus about 4, when it's literally 2 miles as the crow flies and they didn't have any rain.

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Snowing again here now.

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Very heavy snow here again, sky looks full of the stuff, is any where else in Essex seeing this? Can't just be colchester??

Hopefully, as clouding over

Looking at the radar pictures from 8 o'clock, it seems Colchester had more snow than just a little way east.

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so close, so close I can smell it. Just a little bit longer. Clouded over nicely here now and looking ready for some more action

Yes, looks like the shower we had an hour ago in north Essex is due to hit you.

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Like something from the 80s

(From retron / TWO)

Excellent!

He was one of the best. Just the fluke of weather presentation shifts caused his reputation to be unfairly tarnished.

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Well said. I have, but only only ever in the mountains or higher regions. Very scary. All you can do it sit down and wait or dig in as I once had to in Scotland.

Ditto me. When I was skiing ( when fitter than now )

Couldn't see my feet or my brother who stood next to me. Ended up being blown along (just had sensation of movement, without seeing I was moving) Inevitably crashed. Surreal and very scary.

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Snow now easing. Guess it was just a shower?

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Snow has JUST got much heavier. No way a white out though. How many here have experienced a true white out?