Ninman

P18 will do.. From a developing ridge . To a wedge with undercut...nice! Chefs are starting to bring their dishes to the table for Christmas dinner..could be a good feast on the menu!

Meanwhile the AO has taken a holiday to Blackpool to go on the big dipper!

Just for fun obviously - CFS 0z shows a possibility of the high shifting out to the NE with eventual undercuts through Dec with some cold uppers at times

If only! I've only seen a couple of flakes before it changed to rain. Maybe Mansfield or Chesterfield has had snow but Nottingham hasn't

I've been waiting all day for a snow shower, and then one finally arrives but turns straight to rain!!

Didn't someone say this winter would be a winter of discontent? We'll we have certainly been discontented with the model output so far. This was a very good call! I wouldn't like to make a call for the next 4 weeks. Looking at the latest output, it looks like a slow move back to westerlies of some form, but the way this winter has panned out, we could well see an imminent flip to something more favourable. The background signals are still currently in our favour, so we still could end up with something decent, but until the models have agreement at 5 days out for a cold spell, there is nothing to get excited about.(unless of course you like the emotional soap opera, the GFS that is aired 4 times a day. It's performance for best story line will beat anything eastenders comes up with, and no tv licence is required!)

A few very light flurries in Nottingham. Seems to be more showers coming in from the east on the radar so I'm hopeful of a light dusting. Showers could crop up anywhere the further east you are

It looks possible for a few snow showers to move inland from the east today, although patchy and light but better than nowt!

Hopefully the east mids can get a dusting from streamers from the north east overnight

-5.2c in my garden this morning, very frosty. Then a thick layer of freezing fog descended around 8am. If you can't have snow then this is the next best thing!

GFS looks good for south Midlands - north midlands look to get a couple of cms from it, but looks light on its northern edge

ARPEGE also has a wintry mess/mix down the spine of England on Saturday, just in case this week's drama isn't enough

Just for entertainment value (if nothing else!) it will shift further north and then be further at odds with the lower res models. Then the likes of GFS/ECM etc will move it north on their next runs. Tomorrow, it will then come to a nowcasting scenario, where it will actually end up in the English channel.....that would sum up this week!

I'm pinning my hopes on the HIRLAM for East Mids for a dusting of snow

Snowing in Notts now...just as I'm heading out!

Still raining in Notts. Could be very icy tomorrow morning as temps look to drop below freezing overnight. According to my weather app radar it should change to snow in around an hour

Carlton, so east of the city centre

Its got heavier in Notts now - can see a few cms accumulating from this - of rain that is

Just had about 5 seconds of sleet...hopefully it will turn more wintry as the temps start to drop. I think the main event is Thursday night - lampost watchers get ready!

Light rain now in Nottingham. HIRLAM has it changing to snow around 4pm. Interesting the WRF NMM model shows snow streamers through the night from Cheshire through the Midlands on a NW/SE flow, so could be a few more flakes falling.

Great....send it down the A52 to Nottingham and I'll pick it up with a truck load of salt!

A few spots of rain in Nottingham with the ground fairly dry. Not convinced we'll see any settled snow. Looks like it will be mostly rain with it turning to wet snow before the band dies out. Thursday/Friday looks more promising

BBC seeing something similar but on Saturday:

Currently 6c here...not really a cold snap now. Its just an average Feb day!

Yes, very dissapointing! The dusting has now also melted :-S