Scoutsy

Light powdery snow just starting here in Edgbaston. I see the forecast for today has just been upgraded with heavy snow forecast between 12 and 3pm today. I think we really are down to nowcasting so who knows what's coming Friday/Saturday?

Remember it well. Had to abandon my car near the Plough and Harrow and walk home with everyone else in the city.

Heavy snow here too on the edge of Harborne, just starting to settle on the roads. Looks like there's quite a bit more coming too if the current track holds.

Me too, teeny bit lower down on the Harborne/Edgbaston border. Fingers crossed, we've an interesting weekend in store!

I don't post much but I've been watching the forum and the model output discussion thread long enough to know that with snow in the UK we are pretty much down to now-casting the vast majority of the time when it comes to specific locations. I remember a massive snow event in 2005 that gridlocked Brum that the MetOffice assumed was going to be rain right up until it was actually snow, and an awful lot of it. Car abandoned, I trudged home along with 1000's of others in the snow and the silence that comes with a good fall with not one car moving. It was quite an experience.

Lol I know - but given that I have to make that journey combined with my usual luck - your chances of a total white-out blizzard-fest have just risen exponentially Meanwhile Birmingham will stay as grey as a seriously wet grey thing.

I seriously hope not, we have to pick my Father-in-law up from Hadfield soon! We're going to need a bigger snow-plough.

It would be just nice to see a bit of the white stuff falling! Seems like years since we had anything decent here and the last time it happened I was in New Zealand (although I'm not going to moan too much about that!). I see the Met Office has upgraded the forecast here for Friday. Fingers crossed. I'm also very glad I've got winter tyres on my car, hopefully this year we will actually need them.

Same here - my bed-time approaches. Snowing more heavily here now and covering both minor and main roads. Will be interesting to see what I wake up to! G'night everyone - sweet dreams

It's been snowing here as well since about 10.30pm. It's starting to accumulate albeit slowly. I'd say we've got light-moderate snow but it's fine grains. That said I've got about 1cm on the car and it's starting to stick to pavements and minor roads. It's still quite wet here too on the ground.

Snowing heavily here as well. Small flakes though at the moment. I wasn't expecting to see any for a few hours yet!

Still snowing here! Also had to post a photo of these guys. I've been hoping to snap them for a while as they've started to become garden regulars - slightly O/T but here you go anyway - I think they're gorgeous.

Just got back from picking up the other half (I refused to let him take his rear wheel drive beamer to work) and a journey that would take me 20 mins tops took me 1 1/2 hours. It also had the obligatory rear wheel drive bmw trying to get up a hill sideways.but actually not too bad for Birmingham, given that we usually have a grid-locked city after 5cm snow. It's still snowing heavily although the flakes are a lot smaller and denser now, we've got approx 8cm depth and it's -1 degrees C. Anyway here are a few more pics: Our main road at 9am Same road at 1pm (except I found my wide angle lens ) Our street is looking a lot snowier now A happy blackbird enjoying lunch (I know, I need a new bird table)

Coming down quite heavy here now. The main roads are starting to cover and we've got 4cm so far, not including slight drifts. The wind is not particularly heavy though.

Well, here are some photos - taken at 10pm tonight. Sorry they're not that great but I'm a bit limited without a tripod. Will be aiming to post more as time goes on tomorrow if anyone's interested in the progression. So far the snow is still light, as it has been since this started this afternoon and we've got about 1cm or so of lying snow.