Chris101

Afternoon all. Well the time is finally here, when the neighbours walk by and see you staring gormlessly at the sky or lampost. To be honest i think we all stand a good chance of seeing snow in the region at some point, especially after viewing the GFS precip charts yesterday showing nothing getting inland over Northern Germany and yet there were 2 nice shower trains sending snow well inland. Don't forget to keep watching how the North Sea on Sat 24 this can be a great tool for watching snow showers as the radar does'nt go that far East, you can see now showers already heading the right direction, all eyes down to see what that curve of moisture does when it heads towards land. Good luck to all

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Word has it that MOGREPS takes the first low through the channel and the others follow it keeping the Easterly flow over the UK which is why they keep the wording East wind in their update.

Haha you beat me to it, i was trying to google a bottle of prozac for my post above

People keep calm, we've just spent 2 weeks watching the ops wobble all over the place while their Ens and the meto (and believe me they have outputs you could only ever dream of seeing) stuck a big finger up to them. Enjoy whats coming

I thought it was a pic of his view out the window next week.

Morning all, temp 3c dp 3c Sat 24 looking dreamy this morning,behind the weak front in the North sea. Clear to see the cold air already working a treat off the West coast of Estonia and Latvia making some wonderful looking shower trains spreading towards Germany and Netherlands. This is the same effect we want to see off the coast of the Netherlands over the next 48hours. https://en.sat24.com/en/scan/visual

Maybe at any point we get slacker winds, but as far as i see they aren't set to drop, so probably not.

Good on ya mate, we've worked damn hard for it

I'm pretty sure you'll be ok, when the flow is coming from SE (very short sea track) it may be tough, but the flow is going to bounce around up to NE and back as the cold gets deeper, when it favours you more ( E-NE ) they'll be big and you'll get the Estuary's best. I'll send them down the coast.

Haha the classic British Rail line

The only worry is, i remember trying to build snowmen and snowballs in 87 and you just couldn't because of the dry powderiness.

Ermm, i hope thats after snowman building with your daughter My little girl is 6 this year and like yours never had the fun of building one, by the time i was her age i'd built a good few

Feels good doesn't it, i'm off for the next 2 weeks, give me a chance to go and help round the village if its needed.

You look outside the next day Sorry bud, i just couldn't resist

Don't forget to make sure your outside taps and any pipework are well covered up people

Most snow events over the next week, maybe even beyond, will probably be sorted the day before, some troughs maybe a couple of days, but i've no doubt that some days will have snow thats not been modeled at all, appear from literally a few hours beforehand. Its certainly going to be a day by day basis for what could be a fair while. @Essex Chelle, I really think it will be a see whats happening 24/48 hours before, it could very well be that there have been falls the day before and you manage to get a 12/24 hour window when main roads get cleared and the sun comes out for a bit to dry them right out.

You've got more chance of a three legged cat landing on it

Think temps should still be ok for Sunday, just below zero next few nights but still getting up to 3/5 during the day any frost shouldn't be penetrating too deep just yet.

Yes, especially when you read the regional risks

Thanks for the feedback guys, unfortunately any replies must have been lost in the 4 pages of bickering about charts that will look nothing like they do when they get to t0. On aside note i must be easily pleased, i shall be very happy with -10 uppers heading across the country during Monday.

Its ok, i have a mate in Clacton thats a genius with Wi fi and cameras, he spent about a week tracking and finding the signal that goes to the lampost outside his house, now he can turn it on and off from his pc.

We should start a SE lampost app, everyone puts a camera on their lampost, theres money to be made here

Now i've probably looked at nowhere near as many past cold spells as some of you guys and i do try and remember little trends. So my question.......Is it not representative of past cold spells to have a theme of cold pulse, trough/disturbance, another pulse of cold, trough/disturbance, pulse of colder air again and so on? Obviously as oppose to having a straight easterly going for days on end.

With all the kinks and waves in the isobars coming across the North sea all the way down the U.K i think theres plenty of opportunity for troughs and showers along the whole East coast.