[South East, London and East Anglia regional discussion - 8th February onwards]

7 minutes ago, Angus Mcoatup said:

Hi, for all those who can’t work out why the snow is melting, it’s to do with the ground temperature,which, when I put thermometer in the ground earlier, it read 2c. I guess that might change in due course.

Does it make a difference that the ground round here is completely waterlogged? I believe we had 200%+ of average rainfall in Janurary. Plus a couple of days ago it was so warm I was walking around without a coat. Maybe the water under the soil was quite warm to start with and the cooling effect from the snow above is being canceled out by the unusually high amount of warm water below.

[South East, London and East Anglia regional discussion - 8th February onwards]

We were lucky to get hit by that extremely long and thin streamer people were commenting on last night at around 9pm, which gave us the first snow we'd had from this cold spell, and there was an immediate covering of pavements and roads. It was great to watch, looking like some sort of cliched film "blizzard" with plumes of powdery snow flying horizontally past street lights in the wind. Before 10pm unfortunately the streamer shifted slightly west but it was a nice 2 to 4 cm and the snow didn't melt overnight.
 
Since the morning there has been at least eight hours of constant light to moderate snow, but rather annoyingly it hasn't done anything to add to the snow levels, and despite the temperatures having been below freezing for at least 24 hours whatever lands in places that didn't get a covering from the horizontal snow last night is melting.
 
The streamer has given a nice base which hopefully might cool things a bit ahead of any further snow on the way, but it's got to be falling much faster out of the sky than it has been today or else nothing is going to happen.

[South East and East Anglia Weather Discussion Sept 2019 onwards]

That band is moving through Hitchin now and I'm afraid it's just rain. Fairly heavy, but rain. It couldn't be described as a storm.

[South East and East Anglia Weather Discussion Sept 2019 onwards]

2 hours ago, SLEETY said:

All this moaning about the heat, its like we get it for months on end which we don't, unlike other poor souls in other countries, and its not that bad,should be getting used to it a little by now. 

We've got a six week old so there's plenty to moan about, and with justification too. The recommendation is babies should sleep in rooms which are 16-18 degrees to lower the chances of cot death, last night the lowest it ever got inside with all windows open and a fan going was 28. It's been a miserable time here for all of us and the constant promises from the forecasters of an end which then doesn't come is becoming rather tiresome.