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12 minutes ago, DonnaThw said:

Has everyone gone

 

I'm back. a finger of precipitation has fed northwards from the channel, of all directions and sources, proving that a low formed today over london and has  slipped south westwards, or has re-emerged there.  The finger is bringing snow with it to parts of west sussex and surrey. There is a similar finger further east, in Kent.  Update a3 13:43: those fingers of snow are expanding and one has reached north to london

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Just now, D.V.R said:

I took these a little while ago and you can see everything is covered now.. The hard surfaces have a nice sugar coating now. The snow is still coming down. 

Nice.  Thanks for posting.

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3 minutes ago, Katrine Basso said:

The definition that I found on the internet is what the temperature feels like. I got the weather data from the Thurrock Weather station website which is based in Tilbury.

Hmmm, so it's different to the windchill? - the temp for which you also give. Not your fault. Just seems a biz bizarre. 

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3 minutes ago, Marie said:

Lamppost has just come on outside my house ? and it’s snowing lightly but it’s still snow Brighton temp is 0.1 dewpoint -2.5

To those with lampposts I say - boo. None here for miles.  But we do have 3.45 flakes per minute.

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9 minutes ago, tomp456 said:

Are you going to put money on it?

I'd put a bitcoin on at least 3.98 flakes per min, probably increasing to 20+ or 200+ by midnight.

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6 minutes ago, Katrine Basso said:

It  has been snowing since 7 am and there is a heavy dusting of snow.  It stopped snowing in the late of morning.  It has been sporadic snow showers since the early afternoon and the snow will become heavier over night.  The pearly grey clouds have been thickening throughout the day. The temperature is now at -1.5 °C , the windchill is at -4.9 °C , the apparent temperature is -5.2 °C  and the dew point is -2.3 °C .

 

What is an "apparent" temp!!!?>??

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4 minutes ago, tomp456 said:

Current snowfall rate = 3 flakes per minute.

hopefully we’ll have a nice dusting if it carries on like this until 2099.

 

 

 

Be patient. Soon to be 3.26 flakes per min. Then.... bam!

 

 

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7 minutes ago, CK1981 said:

The blob over Suffolk returns. Now this puzzles me. Is it a fake radar return or local forcing causing the intensification ?

Dunno but precipitation in the SE area is now circulating anticlockwise, over a wide area, around ... London.  Is London the temporary centre of a shallow low, which, earlier, was centred south of London?

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Looking at the Met Office radar again ... still indications of a low or trough in the far SE, centred on where there is little or no snow at present. Snow on the East Anglia coast is edging north, while off the coast of eastbourne it's heading ENE or EN.  In Surrey it's edging south well into west sussex. Or is all this to do with a France Low; e.g. or a perturbation of it...

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9 hours ago, IPredictASnowStorm said:

Is this band of snow going straight down or to the left ?

Looks like an apparent mini low forming south of london has disspiated and a mass of precipitation is moving in from the NE/ENE.  .

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1 minute ago, CK1981 said:

Lots of us on here are trying to give a balanced view and insight today. Others are mocking that, which is a shame. I think rather than mocking people, appreciate the input others make as it’s often valuable!

Quite. Anybody messes with me - i'll give them facts

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Just now, D.V.R said:

Definitely. I was born 1978.

Oooer, a youngster lol. You were a toddler in the 79/19 winter - a good one for cold, less so for snow, but there was some decent snowfall.  

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Just now, FiftyShadesofSnow said:

Bloody hell its raining

 

That's UK weather for you! Probably just temporary or a sign a low is on the go.

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Just now, D.V.R said:

Very good!.. I too feel a lot younger than my age

If we stay clued in ... we stay OK. When were you born? 

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1 minute ago, CK1981 said:

We will mate. You’ll get it first as I’m west of you. It’s developing now in association with a wave from the south and a trough aligning through the Thames Valley 

 

Ah, that's probably what i saw via the radar - when going back in time a bit then to the present ... Anti clockwise movement, with the centre of that south of london/north of the sussex coast. 

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4 minutes ago, D.V.R said:

When was you born?

 

1951. And still working - and walking 2 miles a day - and reading a lot, and feel like i'm about 40 or younger. 

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4 minutes ago, paget said:

That’s ok thanks, I’m never sure if I’m part of it!!!! X

 

Yes/No. Take yer pick!  http://www.surreyhills.org/board/map-of-the-aonb/

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Just now, D.V.R said:

She mentioned some years in the late 40s too.

OK, thanks. cold winters can clump together ... why not cold springs. i remember frozen snow flakes on the ground in the winter of 1956. i was very young.  Then came 62-63, lol!  Magnificent.

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Just now, Jayces said:

The radar shows current weather, not the next 24 hours?

The met office radar allows you to go back but also to look at the present situation.

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1 minute ago, D.V.R said:

It's crazy!

I forgot to mention earlier when I went on my short quick walk.. I was talking with an elderly lady who told me cold springs were a regular occurrence back in her day.. She was born in 1943.. I got the impression she was quietly enjoying the weather though even if she was struggling to stay upright at times

 

Cold springs were all the rage in the 1960s, after the 62-63 winter.

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2 minutes ago, snowy weather said:

What does that mean? Just looking to learn

Look at the the met officer rader ... go back in time from then to now. You'll see the direction the snow bands/showers are movingin the SE  - which is anti clockwise, with the centre of the bands between london and the sussex coast. That centre might be a low pressure forming.

 

 

 

8 hours ago, IPredictASnowStorm said:

Is this band of snow going straight down or to the left ?

 Both. you can track it here: https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/observation/rainfall-radar#?map=Rainfall&fcTime=1521226800&zoom=5&lon=-4.00&lat=55.01

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3 minutes ago, D.V.R said:

The IKON is showing another easterly later on in the month?

Yes. Beast Mk III

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Looking at the direction [anti clockwise] of the snow radar returns for the SE ... it does look as if a low is forming over the south east  [between london and the sussex coast].  

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Met Office is warning of significant snow across the south tonight. 

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At 1.30pm today ...OC right by the sea in Shoreham, -1C a few miles inland. Crazy temps. Snow settled on the hills and trees. Incidenally, is a trough or low forming on or off east anglia?