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Temperature in Bognor is now 1.1C and we also almost saw the sun, just a hazy shape in the gloom. Snow still falling but very light indeed and with the rise in Temp it is melting anywhere without snow cover already. Really need this system to creep 30 miles westward so we get a more significant fall rate.

Snow is VERY light here now, not sure if the heavier stuff will move westward but it is looking unlikely at the moment. But then we weren't forcast to get any her until midday so who knows.

Wishing you well with a house move and the area you are looking at seems much better for snow that Portsmouth. I thought Bognor was the worst place to live for snow but Pompey is worse. Still very steady snow here and it IS moving slowly west so I reckon you will see some soon, and the I.O.W. Haha, you got it as I was typing!

Hi slb, I am doing fine now after a horrible year. This year seems to have started well with all this snow for me! Looks like some will be hitting you very soon and it is very steady and stronger that what we had Friday even.

Steady snow here in Bognor. I looked out the window at 8:30am and just a dusting, now 20 minutes later and everything is well covered. Temp is -0.3C

A slow thaw happening here now. Temperature has risen to 1.7C and when I open the window I hear dripping sounds. Still it was fun while it lasted.

Far, far more than expected! 5 inches/13cm. Really sorry if that answer increases your frustration. Not seen this much snow for a good many years.

Believe me I more than understand your frustration, last winter was yet another snowless one for me too. Hoping you get some sometime soon!

Many thanks for clarifying that matter, so does the Netweather 7 day forecast that says sleet for me on Sunday ring true or do I have a chance of another amount of snow. Or perhaps too early to say yet?

Also Portsmouth News newspaper said last night that the METO had told them sleet for the area.

That is what the netweather home page 7 day forecast was showing for Bognor area. It is still showing sleet for me. Type in Location Bognor Regis and you can check it out. It is usually very accurate too.

Hope it keep going long enough to reach my area. I know I am greedy but it is so rare to get snow half a mile from the sea here that I hope you can all forgive me. .

I also noticed the showers seeming to almost curl back around Southampton too and thought perhaps the wind had changed direction, no such luck.

Well perhaps nearly all forecasts were correct. The forecast for Bognor and for Portsmouth was just sleet. As you can imagine I was over the moon to wake up to it snowing and to eventually get 5 inches settled. Dog loved it too, racing round and round the garden like a mad thing. Then he realised he had bare feet and ran indoors. Now I am hoping the sleet forecast for here tomorrow will be snow showers again.

4:00pm here in Bognor, just getting darker and it has snowed since 7:30am. Heavy at times and we have had 5 inches of snow in my garden and out on the fields. The last half hour the sky turned black and I thought that would mean rain. Instead we got ice pellets and the temp is currently 1.1C I have never known it snow non-stop for so long before and I have lived here in Bognor since 1965.

Hi my fellow Bognorian. So wonderful to see this unexpected snow!! I watched the radar until midnight and went to sleep expecting nothing.then woke at 8:00am (I am retired. ) to see this wonderful covering of snow. Fantastic!! Now hoping that the band of forecast rain this afternoon will turn out to be snow. Perhaps unlikely but would be heaven if it did. Temp here 0.5C

What temp and dew point is required for it to snow as opposed to sleet/rain please?

Hi Goto, I think it is more a case of IF those channel lows pay a visit! Still I live in hopes, but as for tonight? This will be me

Thanks gotto, been volcano forum watching through the summer but now winter draws on so I am back lurking here again. As expected, as the showers get closer to me the temp is slowly rising. Now 3C so may get a bit of drizzle!

Well I for one hope you see something. Currently the temp in my garden is 2.3C and as I am only half a mile from the sea no chance of any snow here tonight. Newbury could get something perhaps. I will check on here tomorrow to see if you got anything.

And they said that wasn't a hurricane, well around the IOW area it had higher wind gusts than Sandy anyway. I was lucky, our house was on the same grid as the local hospital so ours was on in 12 hours. Other places had awful waits for power. The worst devastation from Sandy was that tremendous storm surge.

Thanks for that info Sainsbo, I didn't realise they were still around low tide as the tide hardly seems to have dropped in some places. This looks to be very bad for coastal and river areas. I really hope this area is well past low tide otherwise they are going to be in big trouble. Just look at those waves on the video!! OOPS Link http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9639915/Hurricane-Sandy-live.html

LOL Gone again now! Maybe weather causing even them problems with video streaming.

Conditions really deteriorating in NY now. Here is the view from the cam showing Brooklyn Bridge. http://earthcam.com/usa/newyork/brooklynbridge/

High Bobbydog, thanks for the warning, you are right too, the river is now higher than last night and at high tide times is flooding onto the cricket field. No reall rain today thankfully but still most of the flooded areas in Felpham are still flooded even tonight as the river and streams are so high the water has nowhere to drain too. They can't pump it as it would just flow staight back as that is the lowest area, some below sea level. The video in this BBC article - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18405823 shows at the end the fire brigade trying to pump the river into the sea, note the concrete covered structure through which it flows on the beach. Before that was covered they never had the flooding but since it was installed around 10 years ago there has often been a problem with the river backing up. Never this bad but then never this much rain in such a short time. They really need to install larger pumps as that piddly hose the fire fighters are using will never cope with what is coming downstream. Still Butlins is next door to the river and is getting flooded and money talks so they may install more pumps. Before Butlins was built in the early 1960's the area was marshland. Nature always answers back. Amazed it is still flooded though and the road STILL impassable.