East Kent Snow Desert

Thanks for this info. I was living in Cliftonville (Margate) at the time and my German relatives, who were staying with us over Christmas, were scheduled to return home on either the 5th or 6th but we all woke up to an unexpected snowfall and they had to delay their trip. I was sixteen at the time and recall quite a significant amount of snow especially with us being so close to the seafront. Good to see how that cold spell came about! Cheers

System seems to be pivoting a little off the Belgium coast. May creep towards us but will be much more marginal if it does affect us!

My parents always said the same thing. Cloud cover at night lifts the temperature so guess that's why???

I guess there's no signs of a stall and pivot across the south east corner now as I think one or two of the models were suggesting this last night.

You sound pretty certain. Thought a couple of the 18z runs were suggesting that the system might pivot across the south east before clearing!

Now snowing in Margate as Neil suggested it might earlier!

I'm working in Margate today and the pink blobs have been passing on the radar for 15mins but nothing falling to the ground from what I can see!

Looking more promising. Met app has us down for snow at 11am and then again mid afternoon fwiw

Must have been a flock of seagulls if so

A slushy deposit on the car here after a short sharp shower. 2 miles inland!

The app is showing rain all the way for next 12 hrs for my neck of the woods. Talk about chopping and changing!

A covering here but you can hear the wet flakes as they land

Was hoping to see improvements on the Met Office app for tonight/tomorrow but it's pretty poor tbh. 2 hrs of snow following 5 hrs of rain/sleet. As ever it takes a lot to go right in this corner of Kent and without an easterly component the odds are not looking too promising

Those talking about temps not feeling low enough for snow need to remember that the precipitation when it arrives will drag these temps lower which will increase liklihood of white not wet

Yep, a mile or so inland and a little elevation does seem to make quite a difference in these marginal situations. Not long to find out I guess.