daniel barber

Let the snizzile streamer commence. Had one of these a few years ago. While it's not heavy its often more persistent and affects a larger area

That's totally normal. As well it's dry land. You can't have lake/sea effect snow form over land

Didn't mean to word it like that apologies. I see what your saying and do agree. They can be abit slow sometimes to update stuff according to radar. But I would say if we're here watching it they likely are aswell. But practically unless your an enthusiast like us it doesn't really change much.

Looking on satellite seems like a messy streamer is setting up behind. The type that covers a large area but with lower snowfall rates. Lack of cloud tops.

Yeah I would guess there's going to be a short interlude

Looks like the north sea may have given us what it can offer. Not much else behind this blob of showers.

Wouldn't be surprised of we get reports of thundersnow in Kent. In some of those really small but intense cells. Looking out to the north sea however things don't seem to be backbuilding as much as I would hope

The fact we are seeing reds on the radar is crazy. That's very very heavy snowfall. Pretty amazing given the atmospheric conditions

The current blob moving in likely would have dropped a few cms had it been colder. Unfortunately after this set of showers I see streamers setting up in a more organised manner so less widespread

Moderate snowfall here now nice to see. Unfortunately not settling but as the air gets colder there's hope

Never been a fan of these types of setups as again the wind direction has to much of a southwesterly direction bearing. Same with the bfte and countless other easterlys. Unless you live on the coast or in Kent you won't see much. Bring back the 2010 easterly type I say.

I mean tommorow if the uppers are right it won't be 5 degrees. As I said earlier the bbc often overinflates daytime highs. That's the maximum temp it could reach which I think is s stretch. Many places could struggle to get above freezing

The met and the bbc do this pretty much every cold spell. They always inflate the temperatures by a few degrees typically until the day it occurs

Seems like it was well forecast to me

I'm not saying those at the bbc don't look at models. But for pretty much every cold spell they always wait until closer to the time frame before they really pick up on it. Those folks looking at models here are enthusiasts and the data is always subject to change. But simply writing off anything just because the bbc hasn't updated seems abit silly. In that case you way aswell not look at models at all. If the trends stay give it a few days and the bbc will line up. As they pretty much do evey cold spell