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Trouble is TS is that big 'blob' out of London is forecast to head sw towards IOW. Still think we'll miss any snow tonite. The BBC24 forecast now is confirming that, but tom eve looks better than earlier today.

How come it's forecast to head SW, when the radar sequence shows the shower cells moving somewhere between W and WSW?

I think this is the problem with FutureRadar, it seems to incorrectly guess the direction showers are moving by about 22.5 degrees.

[Snow Watch : Cymru And South West England]

It's getting nearer!

2240:

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Abolutely brilliant 18Z FAX from UKMO!

Looks like the triple-point is further west?

[Snow Watch : Cymru And South West England]

Will be interesting to see how tonights half-hourly weather forecasts on News 24 deal with this further-north-than-expected area of showers over East Anglia.

Looking good for many southern counties, perhaps even clipping into South Wales.

All it takes is just one heavy shower lasting one hour and - Voila! - we have an inch of snow on the ground in Bristol.

[Snow Watch London, Se England & E Anglia]

I must say i am rather impressed with what we have here snow wise. Pure powder snow about 1" here now in Colchester. It has stopped snowing but i suspect there will be plenty more showers in the coming few hours!!

Makes me wonder what on earth will tomorrow evening bring, bearing in mind that's

the 'extreme' event the weather forecasters are talking about?

[Snow Watch: Midlands & C Southern England]

still no snow in birmingham! getting annoyed

Just ENE/NE of B1 postcode is some snow I think. 1 to 4mm/hr rate rainfall equivalent?

[Snow Watch : Cymru And South West England]

Right, just posted this in the wrong thread, try again...

Hard to take all this talk of snow going on at the mo. All too often Hampshire is the most Westerly point for picking up decent showers and so it would appear this time around.

A North Easterly direction in this kind of setup is not a favoured one for me, by the time it reaches here it has normally all but fizzled out. Although, I will take 'all but fizzled out' right now as just a light snow shower will send me to bed a contented man.

Plenty of chances left though and I would say it looks like Tuesday will be my best shot for something over the next 4 days.

I tell you one thing though, I don't want to hear that lot bemoaning their lack of snow again on this forum for a while!!

Weymouth could be affected by that line of snow that's clipping along the south coast,

and roughly extending as far west as Portsmouth just now.

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Do you have an ETA for that snow, Thundersquall?

A very rough guess from looking at the one-hour animation on Netweather Extra 5-minute radar,

would be in four hours from now.

It's certainly shifting at a fair rate! Therefore somewhere around 2am?

However, this will certainly decay over land.

I'm not promising anything at all, just looks a direct hit to me!

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If that area of snow affecting as far north as Cambridge doesn't reach Bristol in the direction it's travelling, I'll eat my hat!

[Snow Watch: London, Se England & E Anglia]

Wow, lots of snow so far it seems.

Dread to think what tomorrow evening's snow's going to be like?

[Snow Watch: London, Se England & E Anglia]

why am i under bright pink echoes and nothing == co15

please explain someone ???

Sometimes, it's precipitation falling that's detected by radar but doesn't actually reach the ground.

[Snow Watch: London, Se England & E Anglia]

Heavy snow now falling

Pictures will follow~

From a very wintry scene

Rodger - over n out

So .... as it's snowing heavily in Cambridge, that surely bodes well for me in Bristol as I

assume the area of showers will keep moving in the same direction.

[Snow Watch: London, Se England & E Anglia]

Shower activity has definitely increased over Essex and Suffolk it seems.

This should slide ENE-WSW to the north of the band affecting London.

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Why does "FutureRadar" always appear to protract the movement of the showers wrong?

Cells are moving E/ENE - W/WSW, but Future Radar shows a cyclonically spinning area of showers over East Englia.

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*Definitely* worth keeping an watchful eye on developments over East Anglia now.

Reaches as far north as the border of Norfolk and Suffolk I reckon.

New area of ppn is really getting its act together - and moving our way?

[Snow Watch : Cymru And South West England]

Snowing now in Yatton. Only been going for five minutes and things are already going white.

It'll be over in a flash as it's a very small shower area.

I like the new area of showers over Essex and Suffolk. Wonder if these will move over the Greater Bristol area?

[Snow Watch : Cymru And South West England]

Rejuvenated area of precip forming over Essex and sothern parts of Suffolk.

Looks good at the top of this precipitation area is to my ENE, and I think the

precipitation is moving in a direction just east of ENE.

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Latest forecast with Peter Gibbs looked quite good. Showed the band of snow edging west and then pivoting over North Devon and Somerset

This looks good as well I think.

Just needs to nudge a teensy-weensy bit further west at 1800 and Bristol's in the firing-line for snow.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/broadband/bb_...rue&bbcws=2

Check out around 2m:00s on this forecast - Bristol is included for about 2.5 hours in area of more significant snow Monday evening.

This may be the triple point?

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Yep! Just started snowing in Stoke gifford. Very light. For those of you outside of BTL, this is North BTL.

Edit, 2 mins later: Blimey, that was brief!

Looks like there's a bit of heavier stuff mixed-in. Maybe you'll get a bit more in the next 15 minutes.

Then that's it until probably later in the night.

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Are the showers meant to have got this far west by now, or have they taken the weather forecasters by surprise?

[Snow Watch : Cymru And South West England]

I guess it's snowing or about to snow over north Bristol and surrounding area - Bradley Stoke / Stoke Gifford / Filton / Yate?

I am at a Stokes Croft Internet Cafe at moment but live in Henleaze, and this shower is getting perilously close to my house.

[Snow Watch : Cymru And South West England]

Just moved from basement of Internat cafe to ground floor so I can see outside.

It will be interesting to see what's left of that snow shower to our NE / ENE.

[Snow Watch: London, Se England & E Anglia]

Snow showers really ramping up in the eastern Thames, could well see a pretty long spell of snowfall along the thames Estuary heading into London as well it appears eventually.

Personally I'm watching the showers in Southern Kent right now.

Just wondered is there any chance these showers are more potent than forecast this early in the cold spell?

Could they perhaps be more widespread than that thin ENE-WSW line shown on the weather maps for Monday

(before the really serious stuff spreads in)?

[Snow Watch: London, Se England & E Anglia]

Must be some significant snow just SE of WC1?

[Snow Watch: London, Se England & E Anglia]

Must be some significant snow just SE of WC1?