[Kent, Home counties and south London general weather discussion 25/02/2018 onwards]

I slept through last night but I’m curious – did all of the snow fall in one single shower or was it a more complex set up? When did it start/stop?

[Kent, Home counties and south London general weather discussion 25/02/2018 onwards]

1 minute ago, Snowy Bob said:

Is that our lot for the time being?

 

Ask your friend Ray Darr

[Kent, Home counties and south London general weather discussion 25/02/2018 onwards]

3 minutes ago, Kent Blizzard said:

I'm just sticking to the Dutch radar now mate,

Waste of time, most of it won't get anywhere near us.

By the way, our region currently has (or had) severe weather warnings every day from Sunday last week to Saturday this week! Seven days on the spin! When was the last time that happened?

[Kent, Home counties and south London general weather discussion 25/02/2018 onwards]

I appreciate there's still a fair bit of snow potential over the next 2-3 days, and some will see more than others.. but it just shows how embarrassing those comparisons were with 1987/1991.

[Kent, Home counties and south London general weather discussion 25/02/2018 onwards]

13 minutes ago, Steve Murr said:

Possibly some snow but looking less marginal as the warm uppers dont make it -

Are you currently in Eltham, Steve? If so what's it like over there snow wise? I'm in central London and struggling to get a decent enough update from the OH! Thanks.

[East Anglia and North London weather discussion (25/02/2018) onward]

2 minutes ago, Daniel* said:

Charmer aren’t ya no skin of my back, it’s objectively true! 

scarpers back south of river..

Your Twitter feed is a total ramp fest! A bit embarrassing if I'm honest

[SE and East Anglia general weather discussion 11/02/2018 onwards]

I think people have a right to be disappointed when they've spent the last 3 weeks of their lives tracking a "historic, once in a generation" cold spell, only to be left with what appears to be a 3 day cold snap. Would they have invested so much time and hope if the latter had been the likely outcome all along? Frankly, no.

But we've seen how quickly things can swing so let's hope for another in our favour in the morning 

 

[SE and East Anglia general weather discussion 11/02/2018 onwards]

The week ahead forecast on BBC News just now was quite something.

[SE and East Anglia general weather discussion 11/02/2018 onwards]

First time I've ever seen a forecast for snow with temps in double figures. 

 

[Model output discussion - here comes the beast!]

I don't agree that the GFS is overplaying the low, but still it's too early to assume that that's how it will play out.

Having said that, it wouldn't surprise me at all if some parts of the country saw merely a dusting of snow from what promised so much only 48 hours ago

[Model Moans, Ramps and Banter]

Disappointing to be dealing with marginality in a so called "exceptionally cold" spell, but hey this is the UK winter and it has no shame.

[SE and East Anglia general weather discussion 11/02/2018 onwards]

5 minutes ago, Snipper said:

Possibly all to do with crying wolf on too many occasions. How many times on here are the prospects ramped up out of all proportion too far out? A lot of wishful blinkered thinking.

Seems likely this is a more certain prospect but the detail is far from confirmed other than it will be cold or very cold. 

Very true. Unlikely cold/snow events are all too often ramped up on this site. Fair enough, it's a business and it helps to bring in the dosh, but we need to have the presence of mind to be sceptical until much nearer the event.

[SE and East Anglia general weather discussion 11/02/2018 onwards]

Just now, Uxbridge90 said:

Just outside the warning zone, hopefully that means we'll avoid the worst of the disruption! 

The warning zones always begin quite conservatively to avoid causing too much potentially unnecessary panic. Once the details firm up, I'm sure the zone will be extended to cover most of the UK, with amber warnings across the SE

[SE and East Anglia general weather discussion 11/02/2018 onwards]

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[SE and East Anglia general weather discussion 11/02/2018 onwards]

1 hour ago, Dorset_mist said:

Good afternoon SE snow hunters! My company pay for access to Met Office data (stocks and shares and all that jazz). We have all been placed on RED disaster recovery status alert, avoiding all none essential travel. The Beast is coming...

Lol Liam Dutton has blasted this post on Twitter

[Model output discussion - here comes the beast!]

The GFS and ECM op squeezes the Scandi high southwards, resulting in the convective potential being pushed down into France, and a significant decrease in the severity of the cold for most parts of the UK except maybe the far South/SE.

Considering it's the GFS and ECM ops, this cannot be ruled out.

The next 24 hours will be crucial.

[Model Moans, Ramps and Banter]

1 hour ago, Buzz said:

I have to ask .......... why???

Because no posts/clicks = no ££££

[Model Moans, Ramps and Banter]

It will be colder than average with the chance of some sleet or snow flurries. The usual suspects in the models thread are ramping things up to an unnecessary degree. And I think we know why but perhaps I shouldn't mention it here

[SE and East Anglia general weather discussion 11/02/2018 onwards]

Do yourselves a favour - just check the MetO summary 2-3 times a day and take it as gospel. Especially now with their new supercomputer, of which, most of the output is inaccessible to us!

[Model Moans, Ramps and Banter]

4 minutes ago, SLEETY said:

Let’s just ignore the met office update this afternoon then,

they would not put out such a bold update regarding cold and snow unless they were supremely confident at that range

They have access to far more info then we do

lots Of posters here going to have egg on their faces this time next week

 

including the so called experts and cold rampers writing off this cold spell happening now

 

 

 

Well now even their own models are showing things to the contrary, so...

[SE and East Anglia general weather discussion 11/02/2018 onwards]

Does anyone else miss those days where we could only check the forecast on tv/teletext, at which point it was more or less certain to happen?

 

[Model Moans, Ramps and Banter]

The cold spell will arrive in April. Temperatures will be 6-7C instead of the average 13-14C

[SE and East Anglia general weather discussion 11/02/2018 onwards]

Why is it always t+120 in the mod thread? 

[SE and East Anglia general weather discussion 01/01/2018 onwards]

Our rubbish winter is made even more depressing by the fact that Paris is getting blanketed over the next 36 hours.

[SE and East Anglia general weather discussion 01/01/2018 onwards]

Today's Netweather report is in line with Met Office expectations, and in my opinion too sums it up fairly accurately for our area:

Scattered light wintry showers tonight, perhaps leading to a very slight dusting on hills, then gradually becoming less cold throughout the week as winds turn more SW'erly.