Summer tyre

This interesting dog leg structure (the green 'river') running through Wales and dropping across Hampshire looks almost exactly like this morning's rain radar. Is there a reason this is persisting?

I'm not seeing warmth at all - it looks like while it may be sunny at times those nagging nor-easters will keep the east and southeast feeling unpleasantly cold all week.

Litte ray of sunshine for all of us

Tiny changes could make so much difference. The Met Office shows this deepening little low going into Northern France tomorrow, whereas ECFMG shows it tracking along pretty much the M4 corridor. That's going to make so much difference to the wind we get here on the south coast! Faites vos jeux...

Thank you for that. That's the clearest explanation of amplification I have seen. So while the AMPLITUDE of the waveform increases, this causes the lows piling in from the west to slow down and eventually, the pattern of the scandi high (in this instance, i recognise) blocks it so we get weather systems moving more slowly towards and over us, yes?

Foggy here today which was a surprise

Had a low of 2.9 overnight, but at least it stayed dry! The wind is still sinking from the northeast bringing ribbons of precipitation down, some possibly of sleet, although it's mostly in the north sea.

How can it have been a squall line unless there were thunderstorms? I thought the definition of a squall line was a line of storms? There was no lightning last night.

Haven't been able to do anything much in the garden either. Can't plant any seeds as they'll just drown, float away or both and the lawn is heavily infested with moss. I haven't scarified or fertilised it yet! Still, on the bright side, we have ordered a greenhouse

Forecast way off today. It was fairly fine until about 12:30 then a patch of drizzle came in and thickened and we had a cold drizzly afternoon. We had a hedge to clear away; we mananged half of it before we had to take the tools back in.

...and the sun has just made an appearance, here! It's 8.8 degrees with a gentle westerly breeze. We had about 5mm of rain this morning, but over 25 mm (an inch) over the last couple of days, so the ground is pretty saturated.

The one thing that has been missing from our location has been sun for weeks! Is there a sun recording website anyone knows of?

Has anyone taken a look at the live radar recently? Weather Radar - Live UK Rainfall Radar | Netweather WWW.NETWEATHER.TV Live weather radar for the UK including weather type to track whether rain, sleet or snow is falling. Updated every 5 minutes. The arctic air has met the westerly influx in the middle of the country - over and to the north of Bradford. And the whole thing has stalled! It must be pouring snow in Bradford - but lashings of rain in York and likely to stay that way for a while, I suggest.

None of note here at sealevel either. I can't explain why Saltdean got snow, though - it's not particularly high.

Quite a lot of ppn overnight; sleety rain rather than anything more hopeful with a temperature drop to +1.3 but the DP never went below zero. Bizarrely, we have a stiff breeze from the EAST, which doesn't make sense looking at the radar.

Here you go, Sammy - given you a clean up!

Question for the bright sparks please; we have a brisk wind at the moment 10 to 12 mph which is giving decent wind chill - but it's coming from the east! How is that possible?

We had lots fall overnight; the rain gauge saw just under 12mm from 2am. However, the temperature stayed stubbornly around 4 deg C so if any was snow it didn't stay snow. At 06:30 I could see a little very watery slush on the outside wooden table but nothing on cars or grass. However, at about 05:00 the air temperature suddenly dropped to about 1 deg C and we have a little snow in the air. It won't settle unless it gets much heavier and can freeze the sodden ground now. Like @lottiekent our DP is +1.2, so I'm not hopeful.

Astonishing. The nowcast looks as though it is tracking a line through Bangor to York; everything south of that will get something.The late shift pros are really earning their money tonight!

I'm afraid my money is on a sullen, cool spring unless, as the ever insightful experts like Nick F say, the limpet high can be displaced. Surely not another cold, drizzly Easter?

Don't be too quick to decide a Hebe is dead; they are remarkably resilient woody plants. Bend some stems; if they are dead they will snap pretty readily but live ones will be more resistant. I have just trimmed a large overgrown one back hard and was surprised how many live stems there were which should grow well. The main issue has of course been the extraordinarily dry summer which did for a lot of shallow and relatively shallow rooted plants. We have 3 200l rain water fed water butts and still struggled at the end of the dry spell especially with the hose pipe ban so late into early winter.

Temperature fell overnight in still air here to +0.1°C at 6am despite almost complete cloud cover.

Ooh; those 528s are really south!

Thank you very much for posting that pointer to a beautiful explanation of SSW - I learned a lot from it.

I didn't see any snow last night, but I did hear a lot of rain. According to my gauge we had 40.4mm overnight! Now THAT would have been proper snow. However, one person has already found the limits of his Range Rover the hard way!