Matty J
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7 minutes ago, Southender said:
Same here in Southend, Matty.
We always seem to suffer in these events mate, it does my brain in!
I’d be less annoyed if places more coastal than me like Canvey had rain but they’ve had decent snowfall.This is easily the coldest rain temps i can remember. If it rains at these temperatures I honestly don’t know what we need to actually get snow!
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What a utter frustration
Rained all evening, turned to snow briefly and gave a slushy covering and now it’s gone back to rain. I don’t get it!
I live by the estuary but places like Canvey further south have had massive flakes and a very decent covering!
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1 minute ago, Dbarb said:
Sleety snow here not settling rather odd considering I'm away from the coast by a few miles. Hopefully as the evening progresses it will transition? Any other reports from Essex?
I’m in Heybridge and we have rain! Despite a temperature below freezing and frost still coating most surfaces.
Hopefully it turns soon like it seems to be in other places.
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Briliant, just our luck! Absolutely baltic outside with everywhere still coated in frost and yet it’s bloody raining!!
Make it make sense
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Well with today being the last day of cold i think it’s time to sum up this cold spell.
Days of falling snow = 6
Days of lying snow = 7+ (Still plenty around)
Ice Days
Icicles
(The best since Feb 91!)
Biting easterly wind
Overall I’d give it 8/10 tbh. I missed the 2018 spell as i was on holiday so for me this has easily been the best and snowiest spell since December 2010! And to see videos of the sea at Southend frozen i think demonstrates how cold it has been!
I’d welcome another beast before the end of winter but if it’s not to be then I’ve had my snow fix so roll on some warmth
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23 minutes ago, Nick F said:
-3C with DP of -8.5C here, probably will be the coldest night here of this cold spell here, certainly feels it this evening, accentuated by the cutting wind, roaring log fire on the go aswell as heating on and still feel a cold draft coming in from somewhere.
I’d put today down as the coldest day of this spell here too. I’ve worked outside in it all week and today was the only day I’ve been cold, that wind was absolutely biting!
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Been snowing in Brentwood for the last hour, only light but still a suprise!
Bitterly cold in the wind. A very decent cold spell I’d say
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Well this cold spell has been more than decent! Woke up again to another powder dusting, thats 5 days of falling snow and we’ve had just over 12 cms I’d guess.
It was sunny when i left Heybridge, now in Basildon and it’s like a winter wonderland. The showers overnight have obviously been concentrated more down this way.
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Been absolutely chucking it down in Brentwood for the last 20 mins, some of the heaviest snow I’ve seen!
Parked for 10 minutes to do a delivery and the windscreen had fully covered over
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Well this cold spell, after a slightly delayed start has been rather good!
Went out to go to work this morning and we easily had another 2 inches overnight, probably nearer 3. Very suprising!
Its still snowing now.
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Really coming down still here! I got in from work at 6pm and it was snowing and now the van and all the tracks i left in the road and driveway are fully covered again.
Very dry snow, blowing around nicely in the wind
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Still snowing here and now even the main roads are being covered again. Yesterday 6cm or so had frozen to the van with a lovely inch of powder on top which must have fallen in the night
Its absolutely baltic out there now! Hopefully this keeps up all day
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Well the radar didn’t look promising before bed last night but I’ve woken up to maybe another CM or 2 so the showers must have got going overnight.
Everything is now covered including the roads and paths and the rest of the lying snow has been topped up, it looks absolutely baltic out there!
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Snow is coming down again now
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Well about 1hr before dark the temperature finally dropped enough to allow the roads and paths to be dusted after being soaked all day long.
All other sufaces have around 5cm but we had dripping all day so with a degree or 2 colder we would have been absolutely buried! Everything is now frozen solid and the wind is absolutely biting
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Settling more readily now on most surfaces as the temperature has finally dropped below freezing, just a shame it’s dropped off so late in the day!
Cars which had lost their cover earlier are now covered again. Hopefully a few more hours of this
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Just now, Southender said:
It’s actually powder type snow here in Southend as well. Just tried to build a snowman etc and it’s the very dry type. Rare!
Amazing the differences locally.
Here we have wet snow which has been melting almost as fast as it’s falling . Everything is covered bar roads and paths which are soaking wet.
At a guess I’d say we have many 4cms on shed roof and car roof, rest of the car it has slid off as it’s so wet
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Pretty big let down here so far
Its snowed since about 8am but it just isn’t cold enough. Roads and Paths are soaked and it’s melting off the cars despite it still snowing.
Really didn’t think melting would be an issue
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Really suprised that the roads and paths are still just soaking wet. Everywhere else is covered and it’s pretty heavy here again now.
Even when had a dusting a few weeks back the roads and paths covered easily
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If the flakes get any smaller here they will be impossible to see!
I’ve got a thin covering but things really need to pick up if this amber warning is to be justified
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1 minute ago, Nick F said:
If the snow was heavy here would definitely verging on a blizzard here, the light snow is horizontal here in the strong wind.
Blimey Nick an overload on the “Here’s” there i think
Snowing fairly heavy here right now although the flakes are small and being whipped up by the wind. All surfaces covered bar the roads currently.
After a late start let’s hope it keeps up
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Just woke up briefly and thought I’d check out the window and see how much snow we had, absolutely NOTHING! So i thought I’d check the radar to see if that looked promising, nope!
I’m with Paul here, this is going to go down as the biggest bust ever from the Met Office. Snow was due to start at 11pm last night, then 1am, 3am etc and now at almost 5am it’s currently drizzling with a temp of 2c!
How can they get it so wrong at a matter of hours before the event, I’ve been in the amber warning zone for days!!
Off back to bed, it’s a bust
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People need to seriously stop getting hung up on these useless weather apps!
There’s more than enough information and charts etc on this thread which shows what is forcast. These apps have no human input and will change about 50 times a day!
Just enjoy what is coming later tonight
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4 minutes ago, Matty88 said:
Although not as cold the wind direction seems very similar to 2018’s beast - which doesn’t bode that well for us south of the wash post Sunday, I think our best hopes for good snow are Sunday otherwise we may be watching on as the North gets battered (again)... hope I’m wrong though !!
This is my main concern, if we miss Sundays prolonged snowfall from the LP system then i fear we’re facing the prospect of cold but mostly dry.
The latest beeb forcast just backed this up, the north and northeast of england were pasted with shower after shower due to the much longer sea track, and we were mostly dry.
We need more of a NE element if we’re only going to rely on showers, and that isn’t showing.
Id rather get a pasting on sunday and have piles of snow on the ground then whatever comes along after is a bonus. I’m not keen on relying on showers!
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The ICON has shifted the low further south again, which tbh is now becoming a major worry. Aware that model isn’t one of the main players but it can’t be ignored.
We see on the cusp now, surely we’re not going to be left disappointed again
Over to the GFS pub run and lets hope that doesn’t shift it south!
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Problem is we very rarely have anything let alone it all.
Proper easterlies are rare as rocking horse lemon now. The last really decent spell we had was 2010.