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Evening all. Hadn't realised it was an ice day in central London today...can't believe it...think we had over a decade (1997 - 2010: please correct if wrong) without an ice day in the capital proper and now we're getting them in late March. And from what I can make out this month will likely have a lower CET than any meteorological winter month between Jan 1997 and Jan 2010!
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For those of in London who've felt a tad let down today, Raintoday seems to show a reasonably organised train of showers heading toward London. A bit more promising that I could see!
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Amazing just how strong the sun is. Though the cloud hasn't broken, when the snow lets up, it melts on pavements and roads very quickly.
It's noticeable isn't it. I was thinking...it was around ~2nd October 2011 that we had a shade under 30c, 10 days after the autumn equinox. The sun then was exactly as strong as it now - makes the fact that it settles in the first place seem all the more unlikely!
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Snowfields of Leytonstone e11: 14-15cm of fresh snow fell here yesterday
Speaking with a friend in Edinburgh they have sleet at the moment! looks like it's got a little marginal in places as the system travelled North - we did bloody well all things considered, certainly no marginality anyway in this region - even Central London in the daytime managed to clock around 10cm of snow! fantastic!
Feels like East London was a bit of a 'sweet spot' yesterday! Not often that happens to us!
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soft to the touch?
....you tried the little blue pills???
Perhaps like snow it tends to harden overnight...
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Can I "come out" in the London & South East thread?
I moved here specifically to increase my chances of snow in the winter. I was born and brought up near Portsmouth and rarely saw good snow events but was lucky to live near a lamppost, one of those garish Orange ones that councils loved in the 80s. They were hi-tech, they had a light sensor on top and switched on, initially red, when the light deteriorated.
I lived in central London for years but always got frustrated when cold spells rarely resulted in decent snow, and yet 20 miles to the South East were finding roads blocked and trains cancelled.
I remember an Ian Mcgaskill weather forecast in the early 80s referring to Kent. I was living near Portsmouth, where it was drizzling, and he referred to "snowing like billyho" down in Kent, off a strong easterly. Definition as below:
billyo - an unimaginably large amount; "British say `it rained like billyo' where Americans say `it rained like all get out'"
I need to live near London for my job, but I tried to select the optimum place to increase my snow chances. Persuading my wife to move here was a long-term project that involved descriptions of country walks, dog walking and fresh air. She doesn't know the real reason, and I hope she never will.
Can you snow lovers keep this secret?
I'm sure many of us on here have thought wistfully about moving to snowier climes!..I for one miss being a little nearer to the true suburbs rather than zone 3 in London...just a few miles and I can notice the difference in temps and longevity of lying snow and it annoys me! So I definitely empathise with you!
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Yep i noticed that!
Not clear what path he took from there to sci-fi horror but perhaps in some way 1963 was formative..
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Not sure if anyone has posted this already, but did anybody else notice that Ridley Scott was credited as designer on the "The Big Freeze" film from 1963?!
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The most recent MO forecast said the snow for the east/south east will be dry snow! Not good for making snow balls...
I'm sure that's "the wrong kind of snow" for the rail networks as well!
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For North east and east Londoners - what's your current temps?
-0.2c here in E11...the decimal place suggests a high degree of accuracy but that I can't vouch for!
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The forecast on BBC breakfast just now just showed that the front WILL NOT reach the south east at all. All fizzled out before it gets 1/2 was spy across the country.
I really hope that is not correct.
Haven't seen the BBC forecasts this morning but I do often find them frustratingly at odds with the MetO detailed forecasts which are updated hourly and presumably should be a reasonable representation of what's to be expected..they show no such thing at the moment!
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er no murk south east of the m4 with temps well below freezing.....
Also this is now teh chart at T96 where we could see -10c widespread across the south & midlands
with sub -15c in prone areas- benson etc
http://www.meteociel...M1-96.GIF?16-12
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Morning Steve. Interesting how low those temps are....very far from an expert myself but struggling to reconcile such a cold night followed by suggestion of "rain" by MetO in London and the SE on Sunday. Wondered what your thoughts are on that?
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Hi everyone. I don't post here too often but think it's encouraging/uplifting (for Londoners at least) that the MetO website was showing sleet for London for Monday afternoon and this has now switched back to snow, heavy for a time in the evenig. Temps also a degree suppressed, so to speak.
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Agreed, for us or most of us in the SE it's been none too bad, and looks like we have an impressive month shaping up. On the verge of 4 winters in a row with some decent cold...although it'd be pushing it get a 4th with below average temperatures.
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MetO forecast for Saturday looks VERY impressive, temperature-wise....-10s and -11s mentioned...
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Sorry I'm in wimbledon. Home is ne london, wanstead..tks
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Hello all! I'm a NE Londoner but in the SW of our town...how's it going back home? Lots of snow?!
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Hi All. On the 3-5 day forecast on the Met Office site (updated 1515) it only mentions snow...encouraging! And the snow symbols have moved west as well...
South East & East Anglia Regional Discussion 24th March 2013 22:00hrs>
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Anyone think 5c (what I see MetO/BBC forecasting for East London, for example) for the back half of the week is actually slightly overdone? We have a cloudy easterly or nor'easterly, with the continent still cold for the time of year, plus an increasingly frigid North Sea..down to 3-4c off north EA!