GoonerGregg77

1cm lying with light 5p flakes floating about, had snow falling since 9:15am Temp 0c Dew point -2c

Snowing moderate light, settling readily on pavements and cars and blowing about as powder snow... Hmmm Nice! Temp: -1c - Dew -3c

It's like willing a horse home this band of snow! Looks like starting light at first, and gaining intensity as the day wares on. It's the stalling of the front that is making me nervous! I mean, we've heard that the snow will last on through the afternoon and evening, and even overnight, but it's moving in quicker on evidence so far, so here's for hoping it stalls and pivouts right over us!

I want to be scared too! RED ALERT, RED DRAGON! And all that patriotic stuff lol

For those in RED ALERT....you lucky gits!!! ENJOY!!!

Ian Ferguson mentioned or at least showed that the front with snow that is so close to making it's way east too fragment and retreat north and west.

Temp currently: 2c, dew point -1c - Windchill -2c

" The snow was expected to ease off later on Friday, although it is set to remain in eastern areas " Ooooo matron......

However insignificant this maybe, but I just took a walk too the shops. Heading West as I did too the shops, it wasn't nippy at all, however, on the way back, heading east into the light breeze, bone chilling! Shame that area of sleet/snow can't make it further east. Cannot wait until tomorrow, gonna be memorable I tell ya! Looking forward to maybe going Red on the Met!??

Yes, the sun did warm things up, but as you say no sun tomorrow! So no warm up! Simples. In shade, it was as cold as the temps suggested they would be, but that sun today was surprisingly warmish. My car recorded 3.5c this afternoon.

Interesting looking at the radar as that blob snow shower tries to make inroads past Lowestoft down that NE facing coast there in Suffolk, and it's stuck there it would seem, I'm sure it was there this morning? Probably someone already mentioned it, but I'll be honest I do think we will see this happening over the SE tomorrow I bet, stalling whilst pivoting up against the block and dumping S**T loads of powder snow in the process over us!

I'd punt further east

From the Met Office for London & South East. Friday: Snow becoming widespread through the morning and continuing through the afternoon and evening, with further accumulations and a risk of disruption. Feeling bitterly cold with a brisk southeasterly wind. Maximum Temperature 0 °C. A beauty of a forecast if ever you saw one!

Look at the Atlantic, suffocated all but! Great stuff! Be careful what we wish for.....BRING IT ON!!!

Grabbed this off Twitter. Gotta love Piers Corbyn, he's gone for " Extreme cold, blizzards and snow drifts "many feet deep" to bring chaos to England and Wales for at least three weeks - into early Feb "

Ooooo, now there's a choice.....

Hmm, I've been looking on cautiously, and you can take the latest runs and apparent downgrade(s) on snow even making enough inroads towards the SE as this.. The block to our East is very strong. That's a good sign right? We can't have our cake and eat it can we? Of course we want to, but let's be realistic, we have seen at least two bands of precipitation trying to move in west to east, but the block shoved them sharply south eastwards through SW England and said goodbye to them as they marched into Northern France. Friday's band will have more energy coming in off the Atlantic, and will try extra hard to beat the block, but on evidence up til now on going by the the latest runs again, it would appear with a better effort, it will just about make the central belt of the country and maybe just a bit further east into West London even, thus giving only a few cm's of snow for it's efforts before being sucked to death of energy and fizzling out! That's the guess at the moment anyway. If this front moves west to east easily enough, I'd be more inclined to actually believing the block isn't as strong as being shown in the models, and that may be a sign that more energy will surpass the block and break it down. We have to be realistic and be greatful however disappointed and disgruntled we'd be about not possibly getting 'Snowmaggedon' on Friday that the block is proving tough to break, and hope we get more of a easterly or NE component and then we can get some beefy showers in off the north sea. Not that I'd be that much excited at losing out yet again, I feel rather downbeat about our diminishing prospects, but eh, we can safely say after the last few supposed events, were slowly getting used to it.

Fergie is a class forecaster, oh why can't he do SE forecasts! Peter Cockcroft Pfffft!

Here's too hoping we get some real glorious snow for us South Easteners this coming Friday!

!! CAUTION !! I am not a doom munger, although I will come across as one, but honestly, there is a hint already that we could be looking at a heavy snow to moderate rain event. This worries me, and I really urge caution too anyone who gets a little too excited about Friday. Were likely to be in the unlucky area once this area of precipitation comes in from the west. It will be a M4 corridor job northwards come the end of the week when we see the forecasts, I can see it! I bloody hope not, just a feeling that's all, nothing to back my notion of course, so I hope mods don't think I'm trolling. The models look very, very good though, I must admit, it would be fantastic to see an all snow event, but I just think the SE with all the great chances we were getting introduced to last week, it would seem fitting that the end of the week brings with it more huge disappointment. Fingers crossed I'm wrong in a big way

Heavier rain and sleet, with wet snow mixed in here in Dagenham East. I'm sure I heard a little crackle of thunder just now looking outside from my garden.

Of course London will be the dividing line! After all if the public here that, then they'll dismiss snow completely, and BANG! There's a surprise! It's all snow! London will get all snow today and tonight, put money on it! BBC Pfffft! Hate em'!

Oh yes they did. What you fell for was there graphics at 5am (Showing next too nothing), but they did say it would clear the SE fragmenting as it does so. They don't want any panic, so saying the NE will get heavy snow was a good way of ignoring the SE I'd suspect.

Feeling colder outside now. There's a snow nip now, whereas earlier strangely there wasn't.

Not surprised at your disappointment in regards to that forecast, it looked very marginal didn't it, but seriously, they are so vague, I keep saying it. I'm sure it will be a little more interesting than what it was showing graphic wise.