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Now snowing lightly and starting to accumulate. 1/10 SM scale.

Sleeting here a few miles in land in Eythorne. Still no hope of it laying as its very wet on the ground. Fingers crossed for some colder conditions coming into play through the day. Good luck all.

Just chipping in as I noticed the mention of SAD on this SE thread. I noticed a few years back during the darker months I was lacking energy and often had a pretty lousy mood. I'd gotten past teenage moodswings and this felt much more like a mild depression which seemed to recur every winter. Not that it will work for everyone, but I tried taking occasional vitamin D supplements (available on amazon - I chose to use the vitabiotics ones but there's plenty available), and they had a profoundly positive effect on both my mindset and physical energy level. Please, if you're feeling a bit down and haven't tried these, or sun-lamp, give it a go. It doesn't stop the pessimistic thoughts of - 'bloody heck will this rain never end?!' But at least you might smile about it. Fingers crossed for some high pressure and clear frosty winter days soon ey.

Some sleety snow in that, settling on cars and the like

North of the Estuary/kent downs well ASL - yes probably. Me in Deal on the coast at 25m ASL - watching the rain

Just thinking the same. It has been raining non stop all day today and not just drizzle either. Definitely going to see widespread flooding across the SE this evening and it's forecast to go on until the early hours...

Yep.. done for!

Love all the 'what storm' chat in the main Ciarán thread.. from folks in the Midlands where it was never forecast to be bad! Gusts seem pretty severe here in Kent. Hope it calms down soon as the new fence (concrete posts) is now definitely leaning and flexing a bit

Really strong gusts now felt on the east Kent coast in Deal. House shaking slightly. Definitely getting started. Girlfriend has decided to brave the rail commute into London despite the warnings on service - no doubt will need picking up from somewhere remote a bit later on. Sigh. Thankful to be working from home. Stay safe.

Aww wow you lot, I'm in the Gatwick area,a and can safefely say I've not seen a storm like this all year, if nit for a few years! Frequency and power. Boooom.

I'm flying out of Gatwick at 5am tomorrow. Chances of any weather affecting the flight... although tbf I'm also supposed to be sleeping and instead I will be window watching any storms!

Hmm. Strikes, or just hidden treasure?

Yeah, I'm not sure what out maximum was yesterday being coastal, but there wasn't much of a breeze at all, got quite misty again just before sunset.

Was just thinking the same, set up looks really hit for the SE corner. Wouldn't be surprised if Heathrow sees a 33 today at peak.

Looks like it's just about round 2! Not Bitty now! Bitty later!

Bloomin Eck! Guess we're just gonna get the muck scraped off the edge of that beast.

Sun's up - starting to fire up strikes in the channel and this side as well according to the nw radar.

I would say early hours like 3-6am. Might be better before the dawn - more visible lightning!

Thanks bud

A few shots from the beach last night.

A few snaps from the beach last night. Mostly cloud based until it had passed, but still a decent enough storm.

Aye, I might be a little too far east as it seems to all be moving north, but the block of storms behind the front has some lovely depth on radar. Hope you get a good show!

Got a nice pass to head down to the beach with my camera! It's a rare occasion so please be kind nature

It's actually steamy in the air, maybe the earlier rain burning off... or just very high humidity

Really humid here, all the earlier rain turned back into some sort of soup...