Snow Queen one

woke up to snow in the garden. Not settled on the roads and pavements but has done on the grass.

Very heavey soft hail shower now.

We have had sleety showers here today. Rain now.

In reply to your link Kar although the temps before christmas were not correct we did indeed have some very windy storms which produced lots of rain on or near 1st Jan. So Jonathan called that one quite well. He also said in that excerpt you posted that temps would be above normal at 12*C or so well i can say down here his temp predictions were spot on. I am still wearing tshirts under my coat. The forcasters cannot be right all the time and the example you posted does have some of the events included in it which we have experienced. It's the tabloids who blow things out of proportion not the forcasters. It sells papers and our weather has always been a much talked about topic.

It's not Jonathans fault the newspaper blew this out of proportion. At least he tried to justify it. And explain

Well today has the feel of spring to it the sun is out the temp in the shade is 12*C and i have just seen a fly. There is a breeze which is taking the edge off the temp but all in all better day than yesterday. If this weather keeps on like this we will either see a big boost to the bird population or a big drop. I saw a magpie getting nesting material yesterday so if other birds are nesting and hatch chicks in mid Feb then if the weather does get cold the chick stand a good chance of dying which would be a shame. :o This country gets more messed up each year.

Dull boring Drizzle.

nice to see the firemen get food on the job. :blink: :unsure:

I apologise for using this thread to ask this question but it seemed the nearest appropriate one for my question to put on. Has anywhere in europe had any snow this winter so far? (excluding the usual places that normaly have snow whatever the weather at this time of year elsewhere)

It's always this time of year this happens and people then get all hyped up and when the first signs of cold appear some people go into overdrive. I hope the cold does come but being quite a bit older than some on here i am able to say that even in some of our coldest winters we did not get tons of snow and there were also warmer times so please try not to translate cold into snow for months on end because that just will not happen. but enjoy it whatever comes.

Haven't read all the posts here but in Kent offshore of reculver/Herne Bay we have a very big wind farm which is lovely to look at when the sun sets behind it and in Maidstone much to the nimby's rage we have a new incinerator which will burn our household waste and produce enough electricity to supply most of Maidstone. Although the burnt waste will no doubt provide another thing to rant about it is still i think a good idea. I also feel that these new ways of obtaining energy are dissed because they do not give the government or the utilites suppliers enough profit. The utilities will have to spend money and that is something they do not want to do.

Well i am hoping for more snow this year than last year. I got hardly any here. I like the cold but not too cold for too long. But this year has been unusual so i don't see any reason why we should not have lots of snow. We seem to be suffering far more extreams this year.

Does the latest loop indicate Chris is going to die i just wonder as i have friends in Miami who are having their roof replaced with a hurricane proof roof and they do not have a roof on their house at the moment. If Chris is not going to be bad then it will be good for them.

Rain Rain and more Rain. Cold and wet but the wind has died down now.

4 flashes of lightning and 4 rumbles of thunder loads of rain fell about 5pm today he rellies round so could not report till now. Looking forward to the next lot. Calm now still light rain.

about 5pm today we had torrential rain and four flashes of lightening followed by thunder so quite exciting here.

Been raining hard here but skies clear now rian is off coast just touching folkestone/Dover only a very small part of kent is affected.

Got heavy rain and large snow flakes mixed together here now. Not seen flakes this size all winter if only this could have come in December.

blue skies light cloud sun all day. cold

been cloudy all day with one break in the cloud around 4pm snowed lightly at 3pm then nothing till 4.45 when it tipped it down with snow pellets twas so hard all the grass and car roofs went white even the road for a time. Now cloudy 1ºC could i have more to come? mmmmmmm.

snowed at 4.45 today and kept snowing till approx 6pm grass and car roofs covered decking covered and some even settled on the road for a while.

been having soft hail here for the last half hour. Not forcast so very surprised.

snow grains fell here last night too looked like someone had been out with the icing sugar all gone now though

woke up to snow grains here looks like someone has been out with the icing sugar.

I'll second joneseye's question.