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9 minutes ago, D.V.R said:
I left for work at 6.30 and it was snowing - I'm back home.. guess what - the snow is still falling.. and the radar says there's more on the way
Could be a good night for Croydon, my pessimism from yesterday has lifted a little
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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.
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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!
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So I have sun, snowflakes, dripping, icicles, a temp of -0.5 with a dew point of -5 - I have it all
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1 minute ago, yamkin said:
Other radar outputs were also in the same boat
What are we all going to do without radar
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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
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23 minutes ago, Ian Docwra said:
A number of reasons are possible - for a start:
1. Drains or pipes running underneath (we have this with our front path)
2. The ground still has some deeper warmth from the mild weather before the snow and this leaches upwards
3. Salt residue
4. Generally, slabs and concrete transmit heat better than grass, and heat leaks from houses' foundations to surrounding areas and warms them enough to prevent anything but brief freezing in strong winds, when the heat leaking out is overwhelmed by the constant influx of colder air. Lighter winds can't take that heat away fast enough.
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.
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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
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19 minutes ago, Great Plum said:
Still coming down lightly but harder than it managed at any point yesterday!
Same here, heaviest snow so far, I'm under a darker pink radar return for the first time
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Morning, looked out the window prepared for disappointment but hoping for a surprise and got neither
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5 minutes ago, Met4Cast said:
I've been staring at the radar waiting for it, I should have looked out the window!
That usually happens to me too
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4 minutes ago, Howie said:
Slowly starting to give up on snow for my area
We don't know where you are - you need to put your location in your profile
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I can hear the fat lady in the distance...
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4 minutes ago, Djdazzle said:
I thought the wind was meant to change to more ENE?
Haven't we been talking about that since Saturday night
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1 hour ago, General Cluster said:
I've been out to Lidl, via the two-foot drifts, and discovered something: although none of the snow is anywhere near melting, BT's junction box thingy was covered with water, presumably being warmed from within (it's too late now for Solar radiation) which prompted another thought: is there part of the drainage system beneath your garden path?
If not, I'll just give up, and put it all down to nocturnal UFO activity!
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.
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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.
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29 minutes ago, General Cluster said:
There are two main reasons for that, dubmuffin:
One: there's heat radiating directly from your conservatory onto the patio, thereby making it slightly warmer than it otherwise would be; two: heat also conducts from from your conservatory floor and out into your patio, also making your patio warmer than it otherwise would be. If it were -20C outside, I doubt it would matter, but being it's nearer to zero, 0.1C can make all the difference.
Hope that makes sense, as linguistics are not really my forte!
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
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9 minutes ago, Arrows1986 said:
You laugh but just outside my French doors snow doesn't lay.. I try and park my cars facing the house as it doesn't tend to freeze as much lol
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
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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
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38 minutes ago, Blessed Weather said:
Hit the nail on the head there zubzero. Our Region is stuck under a blanket of stratus giving just light intermittent snow, whilst further north the convective shower activity has pepped up and snow showers are pouring in off the North Sea. The latest satellite image illustrates it nicely:
11.45:
Heartbreaking
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22 minutes ago, southbank said:
that do me !!! yep 09 was prob a once in a life time experience for a london borough having 10 inches that night
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
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6 hours ago, Biggin said:
When you quote someone to the far right of their post is an arrow click on that and it will take you back to that persons post
Thank you - only been here 16 years
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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
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Ok, starting to stick to the pavements now so feeling like proper snow. I'm off out for a walk now
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South East, London and East Anglia regional discussion - 8th February onwards
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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.