John Michael How

Just started snowing here though facing the Thames it's ridiculously windy you couldn't make out the precip type

Mine says heavy snow from 8am until 1am tomorrow very very rare for here that would give us more snow than 2.5weeks ago!

Which models that I see the Hirlam is showing 10-15cms for most of the SE now

Catching up with the thread a few pages back and I thought I had gone on to the alcoholics forum lol. Maybe I'm just a wee bit jel as I'm a delivery driver 6 days a week so rarely get a full weekend like most to have a few?. Kinda dreading driving round London/Surrey/Kent all day tomo! Might need to hit the whisky tomorrow evening and watch from my balcony overlooking the Thames the streamer set in?❄ Before spending my day off sledging with the neighbours? goodluck to everyone in the region we deserve a second "mini beast" after the last few winters/Marches

That's ok I'm flying to Mauritius on 30th March if beast 3 doesn't arrive lol. Also on that hirlam precip chart does it show 12 or 17cms over NW kent/SW Essex?

Perfect right near the middle in NW kent?

I was hoping this would happen to minimize the warming effect of the sun on the ground so temps can scoot down quicker tonight

So did we have any accumulation totals for the region for the last few days. It's very hard to judge with the sunny day melting half of ours on Wednesday when we were just missing the cloud cover and streamer that got Essex and London. but I'd guess overrall somewhere in north-central Kent or Essex got the most? I think in total we had about 8-9inches fall in Gravesend but only 4-5inches remained after the Wednesday melt day& extra small accumulations since. While Other areas accumulated more on other days. The drifts on my way to work between Gravesend and Meopham were very impressive several feet high above my car in places! I stopped to take pics. I was surprised by the lack of snow in Surrey! I was around Guildford this morning while delivering there was barely a cm before the PM snow came. Still a lovely spell of weather for us coldies to savour and a snow fix achieved for another year for us all- I'll leave you with my pics of the drifts just south of Gravesend today. Goodbye Beast from the east 2018!

Tell me about it I've got to drive from slough past your end to Kent and dreading it lol only time you'l here me say that about snow! I'll love it again once I make it home?

I've literally been the dividing line just the wrong side all day-Can see constant stream of showers blowing through Essex up to London I'm just too far south yet last couple days too far north&West bloody typical! NE not good for here nor ESEly need ENEly again. Suns been out all day in Gravesend and melted half the snow?

And what' now annoying is being so close to the constant showers just passing by to my east? literally 3miles east of here has triple the snow cover

Am I right in thinking that maybe Greenhithe/Gravesend area was the furthest West along the Thames to have a little covering. I stayed and watched our fall at 2.15-3am last night. Can' believe how just a few miles south and east of here there's like quadruple the amount of snow? My family in Dartford are now moaning at me they have no snow. Was it due to the wind direction being more conducive to a Kent clipper I assume?

I used to live there many moons ago I've walked to cliffe from here in Gravesend before. We literally have barely a few flakes lying on the grass? crazy difference for 3miles away

The most frustrating location of the winter goes to MY LOCATION! Keep seeing all the showers miss me by a couple of miles I even missed the slight covering that the other side of town got! I've had enough of clippers time for a Thames streamer for Once since 2010!!

Just catching up on the models- I think u missed the streamer over my area of NW kent? (were south of the M4)

Here in NW Kent and SE London too and probably far S essex too we've been so unfortunate this winter just the wrong side of marginal on numerous occasions. Medway to out east has had a little snow. 10 miles north and south of here have had a couple of half decent snowfalls December- now. I was going to call this the ultimate Sleetfest winter 2017/18! Let's hope this all changes. Tbh for once I'm actually thinking I could be in a prime location in my Thames view apartment just south of the river as in Dec 2010 the villages up the road from here had the most snowfall from the famous 2.5 day streamer. And 2009 we also did very well. I might have to stand by the river cheerleading the beast?Bring it on!!

Not according to Mr Dutton as I just posted on a previous reply( wrong snow type?) what are the chances atleast it won't be marginal

Liam Dutton tweeted yesterday that we will struggle to build snowmen as it's too dry a type of snow "powder snow"? ( pours some water into the garden)

But haven't mid Essex already done well in December etc we'e not had any in 5 years. The thing with your location is you can still do ok from Northerlies unlike south of Essex and my part of NW kent

I like the ad!funny enough I'm going to Mauritius on good Fri think I'll need it after the Thames streamers!?

Liam Dutton said temps up to 3c above freezing as maxes next week so I sent him this?

So a Kent clipper/ Thames streamer looking the most favourable on UKMO then? ( suits me and about half of the population that reside in Southern and Eastern areas ?⛷) still I do hope we have more of a blend of the outputs to favour more of the nation

I do notice the streamer going through the Thames- November-Dec 2010 again??

Isnt there a reason why the met don't use the GFS? Just seems like it's lagging behind a lot of the time. Wasn't the UKMO and ECM more SE rather than E the other day?

Pretty much what the ECM showed for the same timeframe on the 0z ?❄