matty40s

That was when you were naughty in February though.

The temperature difference ove a couple of hundred miles is massive, 12deg towards denver and snowing heavily and in the 70's towards Oklahoma. I imaging ben and team were wearing thick jackets before setting off this morning and will soon be down to t-shirts 52 degrees difference between Garden City KS and Wichita KS - around 200 miles!!. Anyone would think somethings going on.............

Is the UK2USA streaming team off here, or is that someone else?

oh, yes, may have to prepare the matchsticks to keep the eyes open tonight. The outlook looks very promising, Large Tornado possible and 10% probability, the WDT offce is slap bang in the middle so we might have a comsistent stream, although Bens' was excellent last night.

here we go, large cell just given first severe thunderstorm warning, ben macmillan is on it

That radar in Goodland , Kansas is going to be the one to watch today. Probably worth watching from around 4pm our time. 10% Tornado risk is very high.

well looks like we are off, maybe a day early, stuck chaserTV on tonight and the cars look like ants around a jampot!! Whoopee, straight from my winter interest, into my Spring interest, storm chasing!!

we were also in drought conditions from probably summer 2010 to april 2012 in most of the majorly populated English regions, so the general public with short memories or new houses get caught out and report more often severe weather events involving water. .

I drove down from staffordshire to hertfordshire this morning, it was lighly snowing and you could see the snow blowing in the wind along the motorways. I was in Berkhamsted for lunchtime, snowing lightly, and then drove back up the M1 towards Leicester. the snow didn't stop until Northampton Junc 16. This weather pattern and synoptics are very unusual , I am enjoying watching the events upfold, even if it has cost me money to get my cars underplates replaced last week as they were torn off by the staffs snowdrifts 2 weeks ago.

Don't talk about your friend like that.

I am increasingly moving away from the Met Offices rather drab forecast for Friday and leaning towards the other models. The Met removed todays weather warnings a few hours ago and it is now snowing quite heavily just South of Derby. I think the expected seasonal sunshine and av temps are playing havoc with their calculations and hope that the next fax forecast comes up with the goods.

well looks like the GFS was spot on for the Midlands tommorow, the Met has gone for it almost exactly.

it came , it snowed, it went. turning to mush now, and with more rain on the way - the bloomin rivers will be over the banks again!!

just starting to snow in Loughborough, the wind has picked up big time and the radar shows a lot on the way if it stays from turning to rain

This is the model thread, not the IMBY whats happening now thread.

strange as we have had an ice storm in loughborough, snow intermingled with ice crytals, the sleet/snow,freezing as it falls, the canal has filled with slush in the last 1/2 hour

really strange here tonight, I hope the mods move this elsewhere and do not delete as I am witnessing something I hae not seen before in the uk and is prevalent in the us, an ice storm. The snow started about 8pm, but it was ice crystals mixed with snow, the road surfaces were immediately white as the ice and snow intermingled. I am seeing a previously unfrozen canal stretch turn to a slush puppy and the TV signal give up. Now I have torrential rain/hail mix. The models give some strange short term forecasts, with heavy flooding a possibility again, which is not good for us boat owners in the uk.

Temperature 1.5 / 2 deg c in Loughborough, lot of melting gone on in the last 6 hours here.

31st Jan - 2pm matty40s

It appears the Metoffice rainfall radar is broken!!

Well you can be sure that most places will see snow on Friday, how much and for how long is still not completely clear......but it could be a lot for a lot of people. You will notice that there are no weather warnings out yet for Saturday or Sunday, this is because the Met Office still have no real idea of what Fridays progression will lead to, and it may be late tommorow, or even Friday when this becomes more clear. You may also fing that the Regional thread for your area gives you more localised information, on here is mainly the whole of the UK model analysis

a lot of this snizzle and snow yesterday and today isn't showing up on the radars. I'm flying out of East Midlands tommorow which shouldn't be a problem, however, flying back in on Saturday.......could be fun!!

Lukey, because the people on here are nationwide, not just in Solihull, and a bit of a damp squib for you today could mean that someone 30 miles further east has had a winterwonderland. It is also the precursor to the temperatures dropping remarkably as the block sets in with the Easterlies. Models such as the GFS are using software that relies on a west-east atlantic flow, and struggle to cope with the vagaries of blocking and East winds. The main model guidance seems to be moving away from a quick breakdown and snow could happen anywhere later this week, it is just an educated guess at this point, where that snow will fall, and if we have a batleground between atlantic and block, there could be snowfest anywhere. Given the altitude of the West Midlands, it could well stick as well if it happens over you.

interesting to see that the Met Office has just shifted todays amber warning mightily South and mightily close to London, so we might see something on the news now !!!! http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/warnings/#?tab=map

I can assure you there is more snow being added tothe last two nights covering. From Loughborough where the tiny flakes are slowly getting bigger.