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15 minutes ago, Paul Sherman said:

Quite happy with how yesterday went, and my forecast was pretty good overall. Expected the Twig to be over Mid Kent then relaxing eastwards and the divergence and convergence eased away south into the channel. ALways knew places from Medway Towns to East kent were going to be in the sweet spot with this NE Set-Up. 

As expected a new area of convergence was expected from Midnight until 8am this morning in the Thames Estuary as winds relaxed to first ENE then East and now East South East which would bring more of the Thames Corridoor into play and NW Kent and parts of London.

I know some were not overly hopeful but the High Pressure was far enough north for this little window of opportunity to have its final farewell and looks like the Estuary SST's of 7c mixed with Uppers clinging on around -9c were enough to generate some lift at 650mb for some shallow to medium sized showers with tops around 10,000ft to 14,000ft in some cases, indeed some instances of Thundersnow occured last night as well off the Kent and Essex coasts.

I think the nice thing going forward is we seem to be on the cusp of a nice dry spell of weather which should hopefully help the water table out a bit if a reload comes in the last week of February.

Yes - spot on Paul. Thank you for your excellent coverage in this cold spell. Roll on the storms in summer!! 

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Stunning here. Simply beautiful! 

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Wow. Canterbury is pasted. White everywhere, stunning! Going for a early walk before it gets trampled on! 

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3 minutes ago, Maidstone marginal said:

It's clipped into Maidstone. I'm surprised. 

 

4 minutes ago, Jamie M said:

Double digits now. Going to be another 20 years before I see anything like it knowing the weather at this rate.

We are close here. Will measure in the morning! Seems to be never ending...more heavy showers coming in! 

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Chucking down in canterbury! Again! Great evening here ! 

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1 minute ago, crazysnowcatz4 said:

Well that was a bit of a surprise. The snow has all but reloaded all we lost in the partial thaw today , thanks to the Stour Streamer which always serves Canterbury well.  Could even be more on the way. Snow was much more intense than the Sunday / Monday fall and built up more quickly , -4 C outside now.

Radar looks great, plenty of showers pouring in from the North Sea, was a whiteout earlier! Was stunning!

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1 minute ago, Neilsouth said:

Incoming!!

Yep! Looking good for say faversham eastwards to get battered by that! 

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WOW. What a shower. Everything covered in an inch or so. Mad! Radar shows more incoming too 

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4 minutes ago, Paul Sherman said:

Canterbury to Folkestone you are in for an early evening treat.

Going to be some nice totals from this.

It is teaming down. Watched it come in from the mound. The orange sky, the mist in the distance then booom!

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Chucking down again. Best snow of the spell so far today here! More coming too! 

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Stopped now in canterbury but wow what a shower! More incoming too! Radar looking good for a bit 

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Caking it down here. Radar seems good for a while now. We seems to be right in the middle of the stream 

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That stream has now hit here. Moderate snowfall 

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6 minutes ago, SlimJ said:

Got Canterbury's name on it!  Slowly drifting East by the looks of it.

Seems to be just west of us. Some more coming tho and it is snowing here

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Looks a little band is building! 

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11 minutes ago, Neilsouth said:

Whiteout Conditions for about an hour, covered everything! 

we had the same here for probably about 30 mins! Was excellent. Seems a gap now but North Sea seems to have more in it atm east of say Ipswich that looks good for us hopefully. Saw this little guy on my walk!! 

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Eased but that was an EPIC snow shower! Haha 

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Shows what the North Sea can do. Shame it’s not gonna be here for longer!

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1 minute ago, craigore said:

Let's hope so 

Would have settled better in an hour or so.

Any way looking good.

Whiteout here now! Looks good for next few hours

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1 minute ago, alexisj9 said:

Temps must be dropping now, it's gone back to, fine flakes here. So looks good from now for settling I expect. Where it's falling moderately, and less melt, fingers crossed for those with heavy snow.

Biggest flakes I’ve seen so far in canterbury! Hopefully the line will be on us till 12! 

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3 minutes ago, Snowfish2 said:

From ramsgate also. I was hoping it would show up and the convergence is still due to deliver heavy snow  for us here in Ramsgate?? 

The convergence line is still on us at midnight according to the earlier fax! 

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7 minutes ago, East Kent Snow Desert said:

I'm at the hospital. Still light here. Send it this way!

From the mound! 

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Coming down very heavily in canterbury 

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@Paul Sherman do you still see Canterbury in the firing line later? Thanks  

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Definitely some darker echos building near Margate...Sittingbourne looks WOW!!