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6 minutes ago, Come rain snow or shine said:

 

Maybe the front has stalled and will weaken as/if it moves away northwest wards. Doesn't seem to want to [or is unable to!] take that exra step to hit the coast and move inland. 

I understand thanks.

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Why are the showers dissipitating off the coash?

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Looking good on the radar. Should get some heavy snow hopefully.

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7 minutes ago, Steve Murr said:

A few bigger flakes falling here

- radar continues to build - hastings etc should have some heavier snow

Is it me or has that heavy band of snow slowly nudged east in the last hour or so?

It has pivoted but it seems to have moved slightly north east?

Around 6pm a band of very heavy precipitation formed of France which looks like to be hitting the south east.

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How's it looking for Crawley?

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Radar is looking very good

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1 minute ago, seb said:

Steering winds are almost due north (700hPA) which is what counts

Makes sense, thought I was going nuts lol

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Just now, turkishfella said:

mate, it's impossible, the wind is from east and quite strong

That's what I thought but I am obsessively following every frame on between radar and it seems to be shifting. The radar is not perfect though.

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It's definitely moving east!!!!

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Looks like the low pressure is coming towards South East

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9 minutes ago, Uxbridge90 said:

Do you think it'll make it this far East of the region that soon? It looks to me that it's following what the HIRLAM has proposed which means if it follows it's current track it won't be over to us till the evening, and even then how far East it makes is still debatable.

Are we talking about evening today?

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No snow for me now in Crawley according to metoffice. Hopefully wrong

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Met ofice seem optimistic for Crawley if anyone is interested.

We are down for continous snow from 10am to 3pm.

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1 minute ago, magicpatch said:

3-4 cm around here I would say, I'm slightly off the beaten track (if possible in these parts!), there's not too much traffic moving so despite it being fairly light in nature, small flakes, it is starting to build.

Interesting, thanks. 

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What's the best radar to use other than the netweather one?

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1 minute ago, magicpatch said:

and it has!

How much have you got in croyden?

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2 minutes ago, Mark said:

Where are you?

I was in Amberley, near Arundel today. Beautiful, but snow free, apart from a few shady spots

Crawley. Its looking good on the radar.

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Woohoo we have got heavy snow

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8 minutes ago, coram said:

No, my son is due to fly from there tomorrow morning. Would love for you to get some snow...but I also hope his flight isn't cancelled.

Streamers are funny things! It has been snowing in north Hamshire for a few hours - probably an extra couple of inches so far

 

ah fair enough. 

We weren't scheduled to see any snow before 8am tomorrow. And I don't think we will see any snow tonight. 

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Just now, coram said:

Are you close to Gatwick?

Yep. You?

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18 minutes ago, Steve Murr said:

Just bad luck / wind allignment

no other reason.

Sorry about that mate, just got frustrated

Thanks for the reply though.  

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5 minutes ago, Steve Murr said:

snow Getting heavy now here - patient all day but moderate 7/10 snow setting in - near blizzard conditions

It seems crawley is the only place with snow, it's just going around us.

Is their anything scientific reason for this?

Genuinley interested lol.

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7 minutes ago, bobbydog said:

yet it still hasnt made it to horsham! 

snow shield running at full power!

It's a joke  

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5 minutes ago, Surrey said:

Just piling in.. Don't get it not in many models if any 

It's not on any models because this is all coming from cold air picking up convection from the reletively warmer sea.

So essentially this snow is coming from "nothing". There is nothing producing that snow.  It is random and the models cant pick up on something coming from nothing.  You can't  model what isn't their.