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Thank you Mr Blobby for creating that vast blob in the channel and throwing some our way this morning     Nice big flakes at the mo.

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Patchy light snow here from the current surprise backbuilding.

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3 minutes ago, turkishfella said:

Guys, is this an extra snow? None of the forecast channels and website mentions this!!! I am happy and confused. It’s been snowing really good in Brighton but metoffice doesn’t show this

Met Office radar does!

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12 minutes ago, crazysnowcatz4 said:

Have to agree that the radar seems to be showing more snow than expected. MetOffice and Beeb seem to have slightly adjusted their forecast but both predict it stopping before 10PM

The bbc forecast at about 7.15 this evening showed snow showers running across the south all night - and into the morning, when they'll be restricted more to the coastal strip.  

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3 minutes ago, D.V.R said:

Is she related to Dusty Springfield?

 

You got it  She had two topical numbers: Wishin' and Hopin' - and Summer is Over.

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1 hour ago, Ellozee said:

The only time I remember seeing deep accumulation of snow in Deal. The roads were filled, the hedges and fences were drifts. Being coastal and low-lying we rarely do well from any other kind of set up.

 

Glad you got a lot. That was fa ab night.  The low was expected to track west across southern england - but it stopped and grew deeper, and chucked out a lot of moderate snowfall all night.  

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5 minutes ago, D.V.R said:

we need a name for dusty snow

"Dusty Snowfield"   I'll get my coat

 

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Who remembers -  in Jan 2010 i think it was ... when a trough moved up from North East France, turned into a low that stalled over southern england for many hours and gave a lot of us a foot of snow? Can that happen tonight? I'll ask Mr Blobby to fix it for us.  

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Mr Blobby's blob has arrived between Horsham and Worthing, but it's no longer just a blob - a blizzard, Thank you Mr Blobby.  It started as a small shower off Dover; now look at it. Quite a system of some sort. 

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So ... Mr Blobby is delivering *again* :-)

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1 hour ago, Kent Blizzard said:

Nice to see people bit more level headed and calmer in here today.

Yesterday in here we witnessed flying goats, sledges, wellington boots, carrots, Lumps of coal the lot apart from snowballs 

 

And, late last night/in the early hours today, My Blobby in the channel throwing 2 very good blobs at us. 

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8 minutes ago, cobbett said:

Yep bit odd as metoffice still showing some heavy snow for this area later this eve 

 

A minor low/trough/wave will zip westwards tonight, most likley along the english channel.  It can be seen [as the "L"]  on the met office pressure chart for midnight tonight.  https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/surface-pressure/#?tab=surfacePressureColour&fcTime=1521374400

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1 hour ago, TomSE12 said:

Well, what a surprise. Went to bed around 10.15 , with any chance of snow, seemingly vanishing, as ppn boke up south of the river. Felt really tired and didn't have my afternoon nap, yesterday, which I need every day, after suffering a Haemorrhagic Stroke, 2 years ago. Also had row with wife , for that "infernal clicking", of my keyboard!! She had just finished a twelve hour shift and likes to "crash out", in front of the tv, which I can understand. So trudged off to bed,with my tail between my legs.

Think I got up for a bathroom break, around 2, had a quick peek out of the window, to see grass, road and pavements, all covered!! See it was me, that was stopping the snow from arriving south of the river!! Just spent an hour, trawling through all your posts, to ascertain when the snow fell. Looks like it arrived from the S/SE, sometime after midnight and it appears that Lee, SE12, jist caught the eastern edge of it. Many thanks to all of you that stayed up and posted, this really is an informative thread. Special thanks to Nick F and KW, for their superb analysis, of the evolving situation, others too.

Someone posted earlier, that one model gives us more snow chances,, later on today. Perhaps I should promise to come off the computer, if that's the case, later on.

Regards,

Tom.  

 

 

A narrow but long finger of snow came up from the channel into one part of west sussex, then expanded and became heavier as it reached up to london, and hung around for quite a while.  

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24 minutes ago, DonnaThw said:

Slipped over on decking 

 

Have you considered gettig a TENS "machine "? Might help.

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15 minutes ago, Nick F said:

I suspect some didn’t really think we’d be looking south for the snow tonight, given the surface wind is still ENE or NEly, but the snow is being driven by winds aloft rather than surface, a look at recent synoptic analysis shows upper low in red dotted lines has circulation and steering flow from the south for SE now the low has moved across the SW

 

Thanks for that.  I wondered what was going on when I identified* a low of sorts y'day afternoon, centred between london and the sussex coast. It then became centred over London before transferring in a SW-ish direction.  *by looking at the met office radar and going back in time a bit then coming back to the present. That showed  precipitation from the isle of wight to the wash ... moving in an anticlockwise direction.  

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Great persistent snowfall here west north west of brighton. The fields are now white.  Thank you, Mr Blobby, stuck in your rowing boat in the channel, for chucking the snow up into sussex. 

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1 minute ago, D.V.R said:

It's still going to be cold Monday with frost in the morning and night.. What temps have you seen?

2 or 3C. Could be colder.

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1 minute ago, James Gold said:

How far in advance did they predict this one as a possibility 

 

It's all the rage in the model discussion at the moment - or was y'day. It was puicked up a few days ago but seems to have firmed up. First thoughts were we'd we'd get a notherly blast. Now looks like The Beast Mk III.  The first week of April can deliver good snowfalls that lie.  

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1 minute ago, Bob Lee said:

Runs a chip shop with Elvis 

 

In a Tesco - or on the moon?

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2 minutes ago, DonnaThw said:

Does anybody have any clue about tomorrow evening, I’m not sure much snow at that point will make much difference if we get the temperatures they say we will on monday

 

Might belt it down. Met office chart shows a small low zipping west, tomo night. maybe along the channel. Apps are saying snow for tomo night - but i don't use them.

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By the way, warm and cold weather lovers. Beast From The East Mk III due to hit in time for Easter.   Extraordinary if that comes off. 

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1 minute ago, snowrye said:

Blob has moved on,bye bye blob,miss you already,please send more heavier blobs my way,love you blob

 

That reminds me - where's Mr Blobby these days...

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Just now, DonnaThw said:

Look at all this creeping up??? Or I think it’s creeping up. Anyone help me with this theory????

 

Snow in sussex and kent is moving northwards-ish.

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8 minutes ago, James Gold said:

Met office app showing for the first time some snow Sunday night into Monday - I know this app is always wrong as today showed but it’s being noticed maybe

 

Yes. a shallow low or trough will be zipping west from the east, maybe along the channel. Interesting! It's indentified as a minor low - its has no clearly define centre - in the latest met office pressure charts. Could give a decent dumping.

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17 minutes ago, DonnaThw said:

I think I must be lucky I’m sitting under one of those fingers. Just stuck my head out the door, snowing harder than it has all day but not laying.

 

Thought you might be under the one east of us. It ought to start lying. The finger over us is getting heavier north of us [and now near us] and still expanding east and westwards. Could merge with yours soon. Could be an interesting night after all..