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A really nice day today and I'm feeling summery for some reason! Need to remind myself it's February still.
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Really? All the Weather Underground stations close to Reading are about 2 or 3C at the moment. Which station are you looking at?
Yep I was looking at the Benson station close to here, which is a real cold spot, but very strange because High Wycombe not so far away was 3 degrees. Should have mentioned it was Benson I was looking at sorry!
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It's about 6 degrees colder than the BBC are forecasting for T+0 hours right now! Feels like we're back in the recent cold spell with temps down to -3 but should pick up again to above freezing.
Was a really nice day today too didn't need a coat and the sun felt warm-......ish.... !
From twitter - Perth, Australia very impressive.
image.jpgDaniel is that one lightning strike?! It's a great picture
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Started snowing here much earlier than expected. Very light flakes now need some of the heavier stuff on the radar to get down here quick! Very pleased that it's come so much earlier than expected whilst I'm still awake.
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What a terrific moon halo in Reading this evening! Best I've ever seen and great to look at! Unfortunately it's hard to capture with any normal camera.
I believe it's something to do with the moon's light refracting off ice crystals, creating the halo, where the sky within is actually darker than the rest of the sky. It is also suggestive of precipitation in the next few hours which as the radar shows will be snow! Unfortunately the blob in the radar right now will begin to fizzle out and become much more showery in nature so max 1 or 2 cm here. But any snow falling won't have trouble settling after a freezing cold day. Just a shame the snowfall has to be at 3 in the morning again!
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There wont be any snow in Reading tonight, think that's pretty obvious.
As is say when it's forecast it's less likely to happen than when it isn't!
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Credit to BBC for once their forecast has been consistent. Haven't noticed a change all day with light snow forecast from 2 till 5 am in the morning so once again might wake up to a centimetre or two and temperatures look to be perfect as well. But if history is anything to go by the fact they're forecasting it is probably a bad sign!
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Surprised to see it still snowing in many places in the south east. The snow on the ground and surfaces is melting here quite fast now with rainfall. Temperature 2 degrees. Anyone seeing snow right now with the same temperature?
Just had a look at the radar and it seems the more wintry precipitation is further east around the London area where here in Reading we had our fix at 3am and now have to stick with rain!
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Had heavy snow for a bit in Reading last nigh and got a few centimeters. But just a centimeter left now as I woke up and it's started sleeting.
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wow been out since 4:30 only missed 40 pages.... Expecting a bit more snow early tomorrow morning but temps don't look to be falling away below 1 degree so I don't expect to wake up to anything. Saturday morning and Sunday morning also not without interest but again it doesn't look like amounting to more than a snow shower or two. Interest is in Tuesday morning which is now within the 5 day range, maybe something more sizable then!
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anyone else seeing some brilliant mammatus cloud after the thundersnow hail event. Looks terrific
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Just a shame it was so shortlived! But better than nothing and good to see a snowflake for the first time since March 2013.
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Just chucked it down with hail before heavy snow, and now it's just a flurry, but wow that exciting we have a cm or two already on some surfaces and it was just 5 minutes. Everyone from the met department here's gone bonkers.
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Reading is waiting! .... had a light rain shower earlier, then a brief glimpse of the sun again, now it's once again clouded over and looking imminent. Hoping to see a snowflake a bit later on.
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Absolutely freezing out tonight. Haven't felt so cold during training in a long time with the wind chill! We have had very cold evenings this winter so far yet this felt like the coldest of the lot. Stars are out so definitely no precip here till tomorrow lunch time I think.
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Just heard on LBC Radio that it is 11c in London this afternoon. I think not......
They probably said something along the lines of a high of 11C but of course that was before 10am when the cold fronts came through!
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Very impressive gusts early this afternoon, though it's calmed down just a tad now and the sun's come out. Wouldn't want to be cycling against it!
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Well judging by the GFS whilst we may just get a few snowflakes Thursday to Saturday, Sunday morning is offering some more meaningful precipitation and hopefully won't be too localized to north of London! ... and I'd like to think this time it's a case of 'how much' rather than 'rain or snow!' A very cold few days in the lead up also would be nice for a change so any snow shouldn't have a problem settling. Definitely keeping my eye on the forecast for that one; met office haven't quite picked up on it yet.
Best case scenario 4/5 hours of light/medium snow should give a couple of cm, which a couple of years ago would have been disappointing but I'll take what I can for the time being
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Not for the first time this week even at T0 hours to go BBC Weather seem to have predicted the temperatures to be too high in the evening and overnight. These aren't differences of 1 degree or so either; current temp is -1 at the nearest weather station yet BBC are saying 3 degrees at 10pm. Very chilly out there but starting to feel a little less cold what with the -7 on Friday morning!
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Blimey it fell to -7.3 overnight . Wasn't much more than that when I was walking out in it this morning and my face nearly fell off. Absolutely lovely day though and the sunrise mixed with the frost is brilliant!
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Probably won't be much colder than this come the morning. (would be cool if it was)!
A definite cold pool over Reading right now, with almost 0 winds, temps down below -4 and the nearby station recording -6. Yet just walking home it didn't feel that cold probably because of the still conditions. You might find the temperatures actually rise back suddenly during the night nearer to the the temps predicted by the met office, but none the less looking forward to the frost tomorrow morning! -
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grey and cold. Nothing falling right now had light sleet on and off.
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Well we had an amazing frost here this morning one of the best I've seen in a while so I'm not complaining as I go to bed this evening with nothing better than sleet falling outside. I try to remember to count myself lucky when we don't have 8 oktas of low stratus cloud all day with uninspiring temperatures! I'll be back lurking on the MOD thread
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now that I'm back home indoors it's got quite heavy. It's getting more snow sleety and less rain sleety, and I think I'm seeing the odd snowflake. Hoping this lampost will deliver the goods soonish!
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Wouldn't bet against some snowfall during the night though. 
Southeast England & East Anglia - Weather Chat >> 1st March Onwards
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Relative Humidity dropped below 30% here a short while ago which is super impressive.