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I did that 6 years ago and never looked back. So disheartened by the lack of snow down south, we booked a weekend skiing in Scotland. Never skied before or seen that much snow! Immediately booked a week in Austria and have been skiing about 3 times a year ever since. It makes the disappointment of a south london winter that bit easier to bear. At least we have had a bit of lockdown snow, but still miss the mountains.

Could be a good night for Croydon, my pessimism from yesterday has lifted a little

It has been a weird spell of weather so far - not quite the super cold temps we were promised, continuous light snow for many - frustrating but unusual - it is still snowing here, I think it stopped for about 10 minutes this afternoon. We have the strange ice days with wet pavements, now stupidly low dew points (usually the holy grail of settling) and Thames streamers that only produce moderate snow, I have learned a little bit more about the weather, and I can stare out the window, or stare at the radar, as often as I like whilst working from home.

Just for fun, quick screen grab of all models projected wind direction at my location - seems the shift back towards the NE will be around midnight if I am reading these correctly? This is at the surface. Even more fun, you can move the slider up and look at conditions at different heights!

So I have sun, snowflakes, dripping, icicles, a temp of -0.5 with a dew point of -5 - I have it all

What are we all going to do without radar

Does anyone look at this one? I use it for wind and waves in the Summer but it has lots of overlays and you can compare the different models as well as reported observations from professional and amateur stations. You can click on a point and get the stats and show readings from the nearest stations etc. There is loads of functionality I didn't even consider until viewing it now in conjunction with the snow forecast. Winds veering more ENE later so back in the game imby Windy as forecasted WWW.WINDY.COM Wind map and weather forecast

My garden stepping stones have the same problem, There is no pipes underneath, no salt residue and they are not close to the house so I can only assume there is residual deeper warmth. They do get covered in the heavier bursts but it soon melts when it gets lighter. Still weird though with it being -1.7 out there.

Met office app said snow until 10am then clearing a bit. Also shows showers, some heavy during the evening and overnight. Let's see how it fares

Same here, heaviest snow so far, I'm under a darker pink radar return for the first time

Morning, looked out the window prepared for disappointment but hoping for a surprise and got neither

That usually happens to me too

We don't know where you are - you need to put your location in your profile

I can hear the fat lady in the distance...

Haven't we been talking about that since Saturday night

Definitely no drainage system in the garden, in fact the grass is so compacted it was actually more like a bog when I went to the compost heap on Saturday which goes some way to explaining the wet stepping stones in the grass. The ground temps must have turned now though, as some of the previously wet patio areas are holding the few dandruffy flakes that do make it to the ground.

Very little snow showing on the met office app now, it has been accurate all the way through this for me so far, as long as you only look a few of hours ahead. Every time I look it, has light snow "now" and on 10% chance in the following hours equating in my book to "it might snizzle". The persistent snow showing earlier from 6pm to 10pm ish and most of the night (60%), which made me think streamer, has disappeared and the look of the latest radar and wind makes me think we night miss out in the part of South London. Obviously I believe that the met office personalises the app updates for my exact location I really hope I am wrong.

I do get that, but the conservatory isn't heated. I got a 4.9c reading in there earlier before moving the sensor outside a few feet from the door where it is now -1,1c. Even the paving slabs up the garden lawn are still wet - it's almost like what happens when the dewpoint is too high

The patio outside my french doors and conservatory is still a bit wet and the flakes melt on landing. It is weird, surely the ground must be freezing by now I've sent a different temperature sensor out there to check

Nice to see everyone getting excited about the bigger flakes, suddenly I feel a bit more optimistic Garden temp hasn't gone above -2.8 today, unless the sensor has permafrost

Heartbreaking

We did get about half an hour of proper snow at about 9am - with bigger flakes and more intensity - exciting to see, but back to dandruff now. Of course 2009 is the benchmark arounds here to which all other events will be compared to (until it is surpassed)- that and my favourite - 1987

Thank you - only been here 16 years

Been a bit hit and miss this one, very narrow bands of showers now, temps not as cold as I hoped, and the wind not nearly as biting as we were lead to believe. Somehow I was expecting Siberia to visit but it didn't quite make it up the garden path. Not many in here from my neck of the woods so guess we are all a bit worn out with the earlier anticipation/disappointment

Ok, starting to stick to the pavements now so feeling like proper snow. I'm off out for a walk now