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E ventually dipped to -5 in Canterbury , but now it is up to - 2.4..

On the local news Kate Kinsella also reported -7C at the Frittenden treacle mining station. Don't think tonight will be so cold.. Just sub zero again, though frost hasn't gone at all

-7.3 Now , probably won't get much colder ,brrrrrrrrrrrrr

well -5C in Canterbury as the tree and I head off for bed,,,

Currently -3.2 C in Canterbury, had to get the Avocado tree inside or it would have been finished off tonight..

Still coming down hard here, got the flickering light as well, all is white outside, first serious covering in 3 years..

Snow arrived in Canterbury, really blowing around big flakes in the strong wind

Well , my take on this for the SE region as especially Kent is. In my experience from the West / NW the ppt usually runs out of puff by the time it gets here. In addition right on the South coast is likely to be just too warm for any snow. The best chance for any snow , and it won't be sledges time I fear is, if the ppt arrives as late as possible on Thursday once the temperature has dropped away a bit. However it might be best to take what we can get. As has already been said, watch the radar, odd things can happen and sometime very locally..

Certainly was chilly this morning but warmed up nicely. Our local Morrisons had gritted the approach road and were selling mince pies ( sell by Oct 4th mad or what ! ) . What do they know that we don't..

Thing is if you have a section called weather in the media , and perhaps curious but less informed people post , should we not be able to warn them about the rubbish that the express and others spout. In my job I have 2 choices when someone makes an erroneous statement , I either ignore it, so as not to give it further creedance and not to fan the flames, or I have to put people right by stating the facts as hoping to persuade them without being condescending. It is probably is best to debunk their crack pot theories, otherwise and snake oil forecasters , there are some excellent articles in the Guardian , which really tear them apart especially some of the completely fake forecasters they used from PWS in the past for example Emma Pearson who is a hair dressing assistant / model, Kelly Smart "an egg donor, a hot date, a sublet property broker in Sweden, a lawyer, an expert on snoring, eyebrow threading" and Charlotte Haines who's only qualification seems to be and I quote " a pretty blonde woman " So I guess it is best to make people aware of the facts..

To be honest I think it is worth a complaint to the press complaints people. What they do is highly irresponsible. For example my workplace is arranging an event for young people at around the time this heat wave is meant to hit. Based on the that being true , we would probably choose to postpone it as we wouldn't want people getting heat stroke. Then we could well end up doing it in worse weather. Secondly they cry wolf so often that one day they will report on a serious weather story that is going to happen and no one is going to believe them or more reputable sources such as netweather or the met office.

Another load of hot air from the express and their tame doomsday forecaster If you can be bothered to read the article the met office say it will be a little above average in the south at around 20C. From my research even an overly optimistic forecast would not predict above 25C which is shown in the Fantasy charts at around 5th October. That would be impressive enough. The mention of the met office is an attempt to seem credible. Then the rubbish part about 30C which has never been reached in October ( ok 29;9 in the heat pool that is Gravesend on 1 Oct 2011 ). Let's see how accurate the express is .. Yep I agree I've dumped the express link

Today in the Sunday express online they managed to print a story about " the worst winter in 60 years " without noticing it was a rehash of a 2013 story, the complete give away was that it contained a long range forecast from 2013, and the http link contained a reference to 2013, wow a forecast accurate 3 yrs in advance , what kind of super computer does the express have. Mind you in 2015 it was going to be the worse winter in 50 years on 10th Jan this year they predicted the coldest winter for 58 years ( very specific ) " an Arctic Snowbomb" But on 18th Feb they had backed down and predicted "ARCTIC gales, snow and freezing rain is sweeping Britain today with the entire country facing the worst winter blast for at least a year." Not the worst winter blast for at least a year , what since the last winter , how odd. They got that one right at least. Anyway I will predict now, that this winter will be the harshest winter since last winter, and next summer will be the hottest since last summer. Maybe they will give me a job. Obviously making up stories about the weather is useful when covering up more painful truths. BTW I don't read the express , I was looking for news on my home town on a woman who had a fight in McD's

One particular forecast has 70mm of rain in 2 hours for Canterbury which is about a month and a half, think I might build an ark.

There is a massive storm just south of Brighton in the channel, likewise just south of Dover, they mainly seem routed along the channel atm in 3 zones, I can't see the 3rd zone now south of Brighton not impacting on the coastal region soon

seem to be some beefy showers heading this way from the channel suspect they will clip in Brighton way in around 15 minutes, Hythe / Folkestone in around an hour, most of the SE corner by 8.00 ish

Can see some very beefy storms brewing up to my South and West, always impressive how they can boil up out of nothing.

Heard a good few rumbles of thunder in the last few minutes, got dark all of a sudden. Would expect some thunderstorm action in a few mins

Hi it wasn't sleet but did look like it, it was kind of half formed / clumped hail that when it hit the ground / car windows looked just like an enormous snow flake, but when you looked closely it was clearly hail.

Been out in the storm, roads are covered in hail ice, my daughters umbrella was white with hail. Hail stones are a good 1/2 cm across on average with some considerably bigger. Absolutely horrible .

must be the tropical heat has set it off.

Blimey the thunderstorm over Canterbury has brewed up quickly

Currently some unseasonal cold in Nothern Spain. Yesterday was 18 C and we had an ice cream , today it is snowing in Burgos and has been for around 4 hours. Laying on roofs but not on pavements due to earlier rain.

The main worry of this low pressure in my view is the rapid shift of wind direction from south to east to north all strong in the space of 6 hours , accompanied by the rain ,during rush hours. Perfect tree up rooting conditions as the tree gets swung in 3 out the 4 possible direction and the water gets under the roots.

If you roll back the radar you can see how the snow hit the mid/ west of region also favouring the south, I went on a bike ride to find some close to home, and I still found some laying snow at Stelling Minnis. See below.