snowray

yes, hopefully....fingers

Problem is we hardly ever get a true northerly or a north easterly in the SE, if we did and it was cold enough then we would get snow. Think you may get a fair bit.

Might have to get myself up one of them hills then I think, stand more of a chance then right here on the coast.

Those BFTE events in the 80's and 90's where very much as you describe there, as you went down the A2... Bexleyheath.. nothing or a dusting Dartford.. A covering Northfleet.. 1 or 3 inches Gravesend.. Thick snow, 3-5 inches Medway.. Blizzards with drifting. Eventually it would also snow around London, etc, but mid Kent by then would be snowed in. In 1987, one of my first jobs in London, my boss did not come to work for a week, a shortish sort of man, could not see above the snow that had drifted up his back door, somewhere the other side of Maidstone.

Did consider a drive up to Heathfield if there is nothing white on the coast, which there probably won't be.

Yes probably sleet, could get lucky though, where's this highest hill?

UKMO 06z for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

Indeed, one of the best, more eye candy. Battleground... Slider... Cold wins!!!

6.9c and 88.5mm please.

Is it really that difficult to get a half decent North Easterly in early March these days?

Could go either way, might well end up too marginal. Need that LP to move East or ESE into the colder air and maintain intensity or deepen, with the colder air digging back south.

Its the next lot of ppn for the 9th that should be wintery as it moves into the cold air, probably north of the M4, could be a fair dumping Midland north? Pure speculation at this stage and I'd much prefer an undercut of that little LP.

I'm happy with the ECM, anyone got the PPN charts for T240, looks to me like there could be a fair bit of snow around.

Icon smelling the coffee, well done UKMO! Slider and battleground snow event coming up?

Pity, I thought maybe one or two beefy showers could have produced a temporary covering, maybe on the higher ground like up at S M's gaff in the north kent Alpine range.

More showers moving in I see, possibly get some snow in them later on.

ok, thanks.

Some chunky looking showers moving inland from the north Kent coast, any weather reports?

Very mild as we go into mid March on this run, could easily see 20c+ in places.

I'm thinking there may be even more showers around tomorrow, and a touch colder, probably very hit and miss though. Think its going to stay tense over there for a while yet.

Tomorrow could bring a few decent wintry showers.

And even faster in April of course, in fact I have seen snow falling quite a few times in April, but it has always been all gone by the afternoon. This is around London and the SE though, can't account for other areas.

Well there are many factors to take into consideration of course, also early March as compared to April will make a massive difference, and whereabouts in the UK, Scottish mountains or Cornish beaches. For most low lying land, particularly in the Midlands and south, it usually makes very little difference after around mid March, even 6 foot drifts will melt relatively quickly even after a hard frost once the sun comes out, although as you say, a cloudy day might keep the snow from melting for a while longer.

It has also snowed in April with uppers less than -10c.