andy_leics22

Hello you old codger haha, I have no idea why I haven't been on here for ages to be honest. Been quite busy with work and i kind of got out of the habit of coming on the forums. I don't plan on leaving again for now though don't know why I left it so long to start posting again!Well, I can see no South Central thread and i'm not joining the South East thread I feel at home in the Midlands thread. My broad Lestoh accent goes well in here! People can't understand me half the time down here anyway haha

Thanks for those uplifting words shakeh that has raised my hopes a tad

Having just had another look at the 12z run, I think some parts of the Midlands have a chance of seeing snow on Tuesday afternoon/evening. Height will be a big factor though. Anywhere above 250m would have a decent chance I think but it doesn't look great for low ground. Timing is also bad at the moment! The timing of the front on Tuesday is the worst possible really. It seems to arrive in the West Midlands around lunchtime. If it were to arrive in the late evening/overnight I think snow chances would be much better. Temps look to be dropping to between 0 and 1c later on in the night, but that's once the PPN has cleared away! Typical really.

The rollercoaster is well and truly underway then! The 18z will probably upgrade it again.

Well I certainly hope to be a good omen! If me coming back means that the Midlands gets a dumping of snow, i'll be more than happy 12z run coming up soon, everybody strap yourself in for this one!

I'm good thanks fizzychops! How about you? Haha, after last Winter being snowless, any snow this Winter is a bonus!

Hellooo yep, i've been in Oxfordshire for 2 years now. Moved down to the infamous 'Abingdon snowless zone' in 2013 and moved just down the road to Kennington last month. I didn't see a flake of snow all last Winter but saw a dusting yesterday morning which was a nice surprise!

Ahhh, the good old rollercoaster ride The situation for Wednesday is very complex, it will chop and change loads before then. It does look better at the moment though!

Haha! Love it I haven't posted on here for what seems like an eternity! I have been as glued to the model runs as ever though for the past few months. Some interesting developments at the moment, looks like a bit of an East vs West battle this coming week!

*Pops head around door* The old place don't change much

Haha! Are you the owner of the Abingdon Weather station? I hope the snow line moves as far South as us. According to the Weather station in Abingdon, it's 2.2c with a dew of 1.2c. That is so close to good conditions for snow, but at the same time... So far.

Hi everyone, I'm so jealous of you Midlanders right now! I moved down to Abingdon in Feb and right now we have rain. I need to be back up in Leicester :-(

Bahhhh! I moved down to Abingdon in Oxfordshire in Feb and I wish I was back up in Leicester right now. Just rain here and the dew point is still above 1c.

The only reason I was being so bullish about the GFS kicking the NAE's a$$ is because, I have seen the NAE get these milder air hitting colder air scenario's wrong quite a few times before. It underestimates the mild sector, like last night for instance, it showed -2 dew points over the whole of the East Midlands by midnight till 6am. I'll put all the money I have on the dew point being nowhere near -2 by midnight.

Must be an early April fools or something. There's no way it will turn to snow now, the milder air is spreading in and fast. 1.3c here now with a dew of 0.6c, the dew point was -1.8c at 7pm, says all you need to know really.

Well i'm never trusting another NAE or UKMO chart in a borderline scenario ever again. If the GFS says rain/sleet but NAE and UKMO say snow... The GFS will be correct. This is about the 3rd time in 4 Winters this has happened now. NAE and Met-O ramp up 5-10cm of snow for our region... GFS says "Nah, forget about it, sleet at best" and the GFS gets it bang on.

So that's why Polar Low hasn't posted anything then.

Don't mean to blow my own trumpet, but I did warn against what the NAE and UKMO were ramping up for us last night. I did get shot down a bit for my views on that as well.

You not got snow anymore Dave?

*Aims sniper at your window*

Won't be snow anyway. We've had some red/purples come over Leicester in the last hour, still wasn't enough to produce snow though.

I'll be mentioning this let down event for years to come, don't worry.

So? *Is jealous as f**k* I knew I shouldn't have got excited by the beebs ramping earlier, should have trusted my own instinct and what I said last night.

Totally a non event here. Even if it turns to snow in a minute... We are halfway through the band and it's moving East at a rapid rate, huge let down IMO.

I knew the Beeb had called this wrong, had a feeling they would. I've seen them give us heavy snow in set ups like this about 3 times in the past and it's ended up being rain/sleet. It's happened once again. Crap event, end of.