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Back in Reigate now. Dry but the wind has picked up. Radar suggests there should be precipitation but so far there isn't.
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1 minute ago, Ed Stone said:
Wasn't that the legendary Bill Farkin?
Aren't we approaching the snow cut off date?
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Cold in Reigate when I left home just before 7am, -5.4c. Lots of hoar frost as I got closer to my office near Harefield. Stunning day.
Could be in a good spot for snow later although timing is not great as am driving to the North Norfolk coast on Friday for a couple of nights away, where I suspect it will be moderately bracing.
Still lying snow on Reigate Hill this morning.
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Much lighter snow now in Reigate. Radar suggests it's all light stuff from hereon before fizzling out in about an hour or so. Small amount of settling on cars and grass.
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Pretty steady snow now in Reigate, has got a little heavier in the last half hour or so and continues to settle on cars at least.
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Just started to settle on cars despite it being so wet. 0.9c with the dewpoint now at 0.1c here in Reigate.
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Snow in Reigate now. Relatively light but definitely snow.
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Just now, John Stevens said:
My wife has to drive back home to just outside Dorking from Kingston Uni, this evening does anyone have an idea what it's like between the two? She doesn't normally leave until after 9, with leaving early?
Sleeting in Reigate, 5 miles east of Dorking
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1 minute ago, john mac said:
On the turn here
Good lesson there to keep your milk refrigerated at all times
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Reigate: 1.8c temp, 1.0c dewpoint, quite sharp falls in both in the last 45 minutes or so. Sleeting.
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In Reigate, Splodgeness Abounds. Were it not for Dry January I would be tempted to have 2 pints of lager and a packet of crisps.......
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Heavier rain in Reigate now and the temperature has just fallen very sightly to 2.8c. Dewpoint has just started down as well, now 1.9c from 2.1c. I suspect we may be about to see something of a drop-off now. At the moment if it does turn to snow I'm going to struggle to see it as my homemade burgers generated a rather large amount of smoke under the grill and I am (temporarily I hope) semi-blinded.
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1 minute ago, Jayces said:
Save your breaths folks aren't going to listen
Well I don't know about anyone else but I'm reporting my current conditions, I've said nothing in those reports to the effect that we are only going to get rain. If it turns to snow or sleet or even a plague of frogs, I'll report it. The video Paul S posted last night was really educational. My concern is that the band may be narrowing for us down here to the south of London and that notwithstanding some altitude we may not see much of anything wintry. As I posted earlier, the tops of the Downs may well be different. Fascinating watching though.
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Temperature and dewpoint has edged fractionally up again in Reigate at 105m, 3c and 2.1c respectively. Just started raining gently.
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Just now, yamkin said:
Piers Corbyn is very good
Maybe, but at what?
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Rain Today radar suggests some weakening of the intensity of the rain band to the west and south of London. If that's right it won't do much for prospects around my area in Reigate as I imagine it will continue to weaken as it moves in.
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Temperature and dewpoint creeping down in Reigate but it's a painfully slow process
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Light rain in Reigate has just started.
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Just now, kold weather said:
Yeah its the type of set-up where the downs may well benefit from the added height and do ok with settling snow. I may well shoot along later to a local 'peak' and see what happens, could well make the difference.
I remember several times driving through Reigate and then taking diversions and the difference in snowfalls was sometimes quite stark!
Yes Kold, the High Street isn't actually that high at about 70m but the top of Reigate Hill and Colley Hill is about 230m. Certainly can make quite a difference in marginal situations. Leith Hill is the highest around here which, if you include the tower, takes you just over 1000ft.
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26 minutes ago, Steve Murr said:
I will be in here from 530
expecting 2-4cm across the piste
maybe 5 here due to height...
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You have piste? Is that left over from last year?
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Here in Reigate in the Surrey Hills the temperature has risen steadily after an overnight low of -3.4c and it's currently 5.4c with the dewpoint at 2.3c. Those readings, clearly not conducive to snow, come from a very reliable pro-standard weather station at Reigate Grammar at c.95m asl, slightly lower than where I am at 110m. I'm not expecting anything other than a bit of sleetiness, although right at the top of the North Downs at 230m it might be a different story, at least for a while.
Thursday has, to use some popular NW terminology, potentially more potential......
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5 hours ago, stevofunnelcl said:
i got some weird altitude info on the Met O website
Princetown - Dartmoor - 412m above mean sea level
Okehampton - Devon - 408m above mean sea level
No way, i've walked up onto Dartmoor from Okehampton.. it's a steep climb
I've seen a lot of snow on Dartmoor, and back in Okehampton, they had a lot less, with a wintry mix
That info doesn't seem right
Okehampton is c. 150m so that Met Office info isn't accurate.
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Stopped now near Harefield. Tiny bit of desultory settling on the grass but it's dissppearing fast. The snow, that is.
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Snowing near Harefield office.
SE and East Anglia general weather discussion 07/11/2018
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Can confirm as shown by recent radar shot that it is dry in Reigate. Suggests to me that there is some fragmentation, although possible the gaps will fill in as it continues to push this way.