The Weather Yoda

Infrequent poster...long time skulker. Actually very upbeat about our chances down in east Kent this time, espeically following on from Steve Ms excellant forecast last night (we should all club togther to buy him a snow shaped medal or something for his hard work and diligence to the cause). Doubly excited as tomorrow is my birthday and haven't woken up to snow on my birthday for many, many years. I do remember 1981 as my birthday party had to be cancelled due to the snow and I cried...embarassing for a 22 year old I know Latest GFS is what we want to see trending over the next two days if we want to hold on to our snow...low from the north head east and the low from the south stay over Europe...just once we have to have the weather gods play into our hands...is this the time???

From the met office...their definition of a heat wave. Region Threshold temperature (°C) Day max Night min North East England 28 15 North West England 30 15 Yorkshire and the Humber 29 15 East Midlands 30 15 West Midlands 30 15 East of England 30 15 South East England 31 16 London 32 18 South West England 30 15 Wales 30 15 These temperatures could have significant effect on health if reached on at least two consecutive days and the intervening night.

Is that snow or did someone sneeze? Just the smallest of wafer thin coverings here this morning

Still snowing here, but a definate thaw has set in on lying snow. Just hope it can last out till the skies clear later this evening and temperaturs drop back down again.

Still snowing here...sleet and rain must be confined to coasts as I am about 10-15 miles inland. If anything it is starting to pep up a bit again...

Just returned from a quick walk to the shops and I can report a very slight thaw is now ongoing, with slush on the roads and tree drip. Snow is still falling very lightly though. The roads are gonna be a nightmare tomorrow morning when all this freezes over...

Moderate snow here since around 11am non stop. No issues here with sleet or thawing, which bodes well for the rest of you...

Moderate snowfall for past half hour around 3-4cms of extra snow. Radar shows a big hole in the cloud coming our way so looks like this will stop soon and then we await the arrival of the main fornt...will it be rain or will it be snow...dun dun durggghhh

Moderate snowfall here, starting to accumulate....rain, rain go away!!!

Waiting with trepidation as the main front approaches from France. 15 miles from the coast, but a good 100m asl so am hopeful will stay as sleet at the very worst. Only a few cms on the ground here from the initial cold front yesterday lunch time with no siginificant snow since then. As I type the snow just pepped up a bit as the first band of precipitation associated with the front crosses east Kent...

Having seen the weather at lunch time I think the meto are thinking that most places will see some leading edge snow as the front moves in, but in the south this will very quickly turn to rain. However, it may still cause a few problems before it turns to slush. With regard to the 6z this did indeed show the snow line further north than previous models, but as someone has already mentioned it is still further south than yesterdays 6z. Tens of miles are going to make all the difference in this situation and with 36 hours to go there is still time for the line to go further south or north. Just look at the event a couple of weeks ago when the snow suddenly switched direction hours before it arrived and Nick et al got a nice covering. Nothing is for certain until you see it happening through your window...

Been snowing moderatley for about half an hour now, just beginnign to make a stab at trying to settle. Radar suggests its about to stop though...shame