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Just logged in, haven't read any posts. Said I'd re-post this winter only in the event of a snowy Friday, hence here I am! Very snowy and blustery Sutton, Surrey, right now.
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Re-posting this from earlier given the nature of chit chat on here this evening.
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Again, surely the MetO knew this earlier this eve? Hardly a revelation, the continental flow is it? Dammit, I’d promised to stop posting. Bloody weather! ?
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So they’re just radar gazing like the rest of us. Like the Hokey Cokey, the MetO. How many people on here questioned the wisdom of that amber extension earlier? As they did on here when the Amber warning was pushed WSW earlier in the week? Poor.
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Tomorrow morning last hurrah for my region (Gatwick) and then that’s game over for this spell. Hoping the snow can stay grounded long enough in favoured areas for me locally to get the kids onto the sledges Saturday before we put them away until 2023 ? Had I not been ‘fortunate’ enough to be a working nomad this week, I’d have seen pretty much sweet FA. Cold and bits of powder snow have been impressive however, a real throwback. Cracking drive out to Balcombe on Tuesday and a brilliant two hours at London Bridge yesterday, that memory will endure as that was hen’s-teeth rare in the heart of the capital. Topographically in an unfavouraed spot in Horley but seeing a colliding front come up from the channel and then all the decent precipitation bugger off yet again to Kent and Essex (not all of Kent and Essex, I know), as well as bunny hopping over the north Downs to places like Thorpe, has been hard to stomach last night and this morning. What has been an almost reassuring relief for me this week is to see that in the age of (albeit debated) climate change and AGW, Britain can still ‘do it’ when it comes to unusual and deep cold. If the synoptics are favourable, the cold is there. So, that’s me done with regard to winter posts unless tomorrow early doors springs a local surprise (experience tells me no and that favoured locations for this spell will remain favoured). Adore the snow but if ain’t going to really snow I’ll be turning my less-avid attention to the first long-fetch southerly of the spring and that first amazing day of the year - as good as any snow day - when the thermometer teases 20c in a sheltered garden with the sun on my face. Sadly, that looks a way off and more of that vile cold rain (see below) looks to be a feature for the reasonably foreseeable. As winter’s go, I’ll mark this down in my locale as the epic winter of cold rain (7 unbelievably close and absolutely hideous near misses) and the year that winter rediscovered its growl in the UK, which gives me renewed hope for when this all kicks off again in eight months time! Great forum, this. Thanks for your company. Toodles.
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Gone in Horley. And that’s just me! ?
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Although the east of the region is currently doing considerably better than the west of it. Guess it’s how one defines east and west but I’m going to draw my line for later at Winchester and hope I’m off the mark.
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Gawd bless ‘em. Taxi!
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Intensely frustrating to see a system broadly push up from south and west, skirt West Sussex (apart from dandruff) and land in parts of Kent that are almost directly due northeast of here! ? You moved to the snow a little while ago didn’t you? Good call! ????
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I do not. Hope to be wrong but can’t see it. Nothing I can see on radar and modelling, and nothing on any live (not app) forecast suggests anything other than petering out imminently to leave a dry cloudy day with flakes here and there in the wind. Gatwick.
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Thanks. Radar watch it is then.
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Completely at odds with MetO warning issued for south west et al literally just now @seb?
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Fabulous FiveLive weather forecast just now for just about the entire country... except the south east. All focus currently north and east and later, south west, Ireland, Wales and central southern England. No doubt we’ll see some snow but as for the ‘event’ all the pointers suggest a near miss. Don’t see that changing, as it’s not a showery airstream. But I guess we’ll see.
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Horley doing its usual thing. Dandruff.
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Hoping that on the south-west Surrey and west-Sussex border, Horley doesn’t yet again find itself in the precipitation gap with a system approaching from the south and west ?
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Ah... and still you have more than me! Honestly, you get the off-cuts here in Horley, it really is a poor location for snow (generally I mean, not today). Perhaps I’ll go and pull up on the hard shoulder at junction 8!
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Had a dusting recently and now have the delightful snizzle. As this is frontal and not showery like recently, you’ll definitely have more there regardless - elevation will make a difference. You ‘up’ or ‘down’ in Reigate?
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No, you can’t. Cheers.
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Locatikns locations locations please folks! I guess most of us are on phones and have no idea where you are. Cheers!
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Fabulous. Not been perfect for everyone this spell (me included) - although the end of the week interest to come - but even the past 2-3 days. Pretty awesome. Good old-fashioned 'proper winter'.
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Join the Horley club, sir. Topographically immune.
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Which strikes me as a bit unusual, given that a frontal shield usually restricts precipitation.
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Absolutely loving watching the snow at Wembley stadium on TV. Really nostalgic. Just want the orange fluorescent ball now!
