BLOWERS

Never mind that... the SEA is going to freeze.

Anyone live in Lincoln? Wellies out....!!!

Oh. It was available from the 'Other' tab last week... now it's gorn!

Title is self-explanatory - the favourites link seems to have been removed somewhere! My sub is up-to-date. Any ideas gratefully received!

Meant to say this in Feb, but 'the Midlands' is a big area! How about East and West discussions?!

Wet snow / sleet in Chilwell. Bitter East wind. 1.4C.

Sleet in Chilwell, 2.8C at 7.40am, then wet snow by 8am and a drop to 1.9C! Steady sleety rain now. No weather for golf!

A few flakes now in Chilwell...

Main roads very tricky even here! Just back from the Vic in Beeston ( plug for best pub in E.Mids) - piling down! Maybe 3" ... Temp. 0.4c. Worse to come on radar. We NEVER get this!

Wind increasing. Still quite light snow, but enough to dust driveways and pavements. Sugar frosting on greenhouse...

Very light snow started 2.15pm Chilwell, just SW of Nottingham. I'll be amazed if we get more than 0.25" here - we never do!

First flakes of the winter in Chilwell - 09.51. Clouded over, then very light flurry. At last! Maybe the weekend holds some real promise, although the Nottingham snow barrier will doubtless be raised...

Bright, sunny morning, but current temp. only -9.4C! Minimum -9.6C. Coldest recorded by me since we moved here in 1991. About 2cm snow cover.

Not a massive fall, but most welcome after the disappointments of Dec/Jan! Approx. 5cm this morning by 7.30. Now 1C,occasional light flurries but slow, drippy thaw setting in. Apologies; not meant to be a new topic. I know it should be in Today's Weather topic... it was MEANT to be! One day I'll get the hang of new posts.

Just started snowing in Chilwell, Nottingham. 2.3C (dropped 1.2C in 2 hrs), E. breeze increasing. Radar still showing rain...

Will someone tell the radar that it's light snow in Beeston now (2C) and NOT rain!!

Brilliant! Many thanks. Sorry if I posted in wrong forum...

TEITS, I think I know roughly what an SW is (part of a LP system?), but could you clarify/define for me, please?! I've looked everywhere in NW Forums, and Googled, all to no avail. Apologies for thickness (or should that be temperature?!)...

Maybe that explains (the 'face value' bit) why the 06Z GFS has almost as much pink on it - from later today and through Monday - as the old British Empire maps. Yet, bizarrely, BBC radio and TV forecasts this morning don't even HINT at any snow for England! I did hear 'chance of wet snow on the Scottish mountains', but how can the two be so contradictory? Is the current set-up REALLY so hard to work out? Maybe it is...

Ice confirmed - snow now settling on road and pavements. Gone whitish very quickly!

Steady light snow in Beeston area Sth Nottingham now. Temp. 0.3C - starting to settle on greenhouse. Thought our side road was just damp until I saw a woman trying to do a 3 point turn and gracefully pirouetting with wildly spinning wheels!! Beware ice...

Couldn't agree more - EVERYTHING is getting sensationalised nowadays, presumably to grab our gnat-like attention spans! I heard 'Des' on BBC East Midlands TV the other day describe -4C as an 'incredibly severe frost'. Now he is a laugh, granted - a nice guy too, I'm told - but in my book -4C is surely nothing more than a 'sharp frost'. The sort we used to get quite often in most winters when I was younger (late 60s/70s - 54 now). Today I have heard BBC Radio journalists describe how 'the blizzard hit late yesterday'. Blizzard? What blizzard?? A blizzard is a full-blown snowstorm. Moderate/heavy snowfall, perhaps, but surely a blizzard involves appreciable wind and whiteout conditions? We have had several Met Office warnings this winter of 'heavy snow', when what they mean might only amount to 1". That's little more than a dusting, not 'heavy snow'! Heavy snow is 6"+ to me. It seems to me that our official forecasters are desperately trying to cover their proverbials all the time in case they get it wrong. Sadly we live in a 'blame and compo' culture and take no responsibility ourselves. So we end up getting forecasts that go wildly over the top: those of us who take any notice at all prepare for the worst and are continually made to look stupid by far less severe outcomes. Is it any wonder that forecasters have become a joke to many people?! WARNING: There is a chance of further moderate to severe rants over the coming days..... :lol:

Already arrived in Beeston/Chilwell. Settling readily - light snow with heavier bursts for past 25 mins. Doesn't look like stopping for a good while yet!

... some parts of the forecast may also be subject to random apostrophe's moving up from the south.