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I think it only showed on one run and I haven't seen it mentioned in the mod thread since. So, sadly, I think it has ceased to be. It is an ex-snow event.

Gone a bit cloudy. Temp already above yesterday's max at 0.5.

Not so cold last night -3.9. Lots of lovely showers traveling down the North sea which, will obviously, not affect us at all. Very frustrating.

Agree it was pretty pants. But it changes a lot so hopefully it will change for the better, from a cold perspective, soon.

I found that during the December cold spell it consistently forecast max temperatures to be 2 to 3 degrees above what they actually were. Seems to be the same this time as well. Not sure why, generally it's pretty good with temps but doesn't do well when it's cold.

Just popped above freezing for a couple of hours. Maxed out at 0.2 now back to freezing. Frost all day in the shade.

-5.9 at 9 this morning. Nice and sunny.

February 1991 34cms January 1987 30cms Feb/March 2018 16cms December 2010 15cms Generally other falls in the 90's and 2000's between 5 to 10cms. Not sure about December 1981 lots of snow but individual falls in the 10 to 15cm range. Jan 82 lots of drifting so difficult to tell how deep but about 15cms I think. Jan and Feb 1979 lots of snow and drifting again but probably individual falls if around 15cms.

Totally average December day here. Gloomy and damp temp about 8.

Made the mistake of looking in there this morning. Seems it's always the same few posters declaring winter is over and we are in for weeks of mobile wet weather as soon as there is any hint of this shown on the models. Then when it looks like turning colder they disappear. There are some posters who provided some excellent clear unkneejerky posts trouble is you have to wade through all the nonsense first. My ignored users list is getting longer and longer...

Temperature only 1.1 and it's raining, yuk. Not melted much of the snow as yet.

Low of -3.3 last night. Now -0.2 cloudy.

Maxed out at 1.3 today with a slow thaw. Pavements still mostly covered. Some way short of the forecast high of 4. Been the same all week the forecast highs have been 2 to 3 degrees above the actual highs and the forecast lows 2 or 3 degrees too high as well. This going off the met office site.

Minimum of -8.9 last night coldest since December 2010. Currently up to the dizzy heights of -7. Last of the really cold nights and forecast to get several degrees above freezing today for the first time in 4 days. Then the big mild starting Sunday night. It's going to be odd when everything is green again after a week of white.

I was at uni in Swansea at the time but my home was in Upminster, outer NE London suburbs. I remember it being cold, really cold for Swansea something like minus 4 max. Snow arrived in Swansea on the Thursday, 4 inches I think. I knew there had already been some snow at home and that there would be much more there. So I made the decision to go home for the weekend, under the guise of visiting my parents but really to see the snow. I set off on the Friday and it was, surprisingly trouble free into London despite there being a fair bit of snow along the route. Travelling out of London was slightly more tricky as the trains were only going as far as barking initially. We were turfed off there and then there was a shuttle service going further out. I got off the train at Upminster and knew my journey had been worth it. The few cars that were driving around had over 1ft of snow on their roofs. The mile and a half walk home was amazing with snow halfway up my legs. Don't remember there being much more snow over the weekend. I did an official measurement of 14 inches. 2 inches more than January 1987 but with no drifting. The journey back was uneventful and back in Swansea the snow was still there and hung around for a week or so but there was no more snow. Back at home there was another snow event on the evening of the 12th I think but quite marginal and localised to the South East I think. This left another 4 inches, according to my mum - I trained her well. A few days later the thaw began but it was the most snow I have ever recorded, so far anyway.

-7.3 now so coldest night of the spell. The way it's rocketing down I wonder how low it could go?

Another ice day today, Just at -0.1. Going to be the coldest night so far down to -6.7. Only 0.2 to go to beat Tuesday nights min.

Well they have updated Sunday's warning. Basically they have dragged more areas into the ice warning that were previously in the snow and ice warning and not the other way round as I'd hoped. There is still talk of a temporary 1 or 2cms of snow for some so we'll see what happens.

The max temperature on the met office site for Sunday has been trending down. Yesterday morning the max shown was 9 then 6 and 4. Now it's updated again to be 3 and, for the first time, a sleet symbol has appeared instead of just rain. Could we perhaps see another decent snow fall on Sunday before it all gets washed away? Will be interesting to see if the warning is updated later to include more of a snow risk. It's not being mentioned in the mod thread at all as everyone is fretting about the impending return to mild.

Lowest temp last night was actually at 8:45 this morning -6.2. Highest was only -1.6 at 7:15 this evening. Coldest day so far.

Warning issued for us for ice on Sunday. Main snow risk is further north. https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/warnings-and-advice/uk-warnings#?date=2022-12-18&id=0cd37da1-bb2e-4889-bcee-58536f3b16ba

Temp peaked at -1.4 today. On its way down since the mist rolled in. -1.8 now.

Same here. It's gone all misty now. It was lovely and sunny a short time ago

Still not sure of the situation for Sunday. The forecasts are still mentioning the possibility of a period of snow before turning to rain later. Not sure if it will amount to much for our region. The model thread isn't much help, everyone seems to have moved on to the mild(er) weather that the models seemingly have nailed for next week now.

This was updated today. I find it quite encouraging, from a cold weather perspective. https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/outlook