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I think the ground/snow is too wet for it to settle. Few degrees lower and it would be perfect. Seems to have stalled over Northampton for a bit according to the radar

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Snowing nicely atm, a bit heavier and it may begin to settle as temps drop

I think thats on track to hit us. How long has it been snowing there?

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Light snow started here. Seems to be sticking ot me car, but it's only a few flakes so it's not going to amount to much.

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Dew point has dropped for 1*C to 0*C in my area recently. Temp drops slightly to 1.2*C, but wind chill has significantly changed - from -8*C to 1*C Though that could be the fact the wind has dropped slightly.

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But my weather station says the winds are NE so won't all that lot will just go down to SE/Kent again?

Hope not - my local weather station is saying ENE winds though. It doesn't look like the system is heading south-ish, yet anyway. Perhaps it will glide in on Easterly winds then start to veer South as it gets close to us.

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Looking at the area over Holland now, should the winds stay easterly over the next few hours this could happen. Very bad drawing in mspaint, but you get the idea.

http://www.meteox.nl/gmap.aspx?soort=loop3uur&zoom=6&lat=52.908902047770255&lon=-1.845703125

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PLEASE can people stop whineing about incorrect forecasting, it's been said time and time again that these conditions at the moment are incredibly difficult to forecast

Why don't you leave this thread if you can't stand people being unhappy about the forecast being slightly wrong?

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Hm, the system coming across the North Sea does seem to be fading away fairly fast. At this rate the showers will be light and widespread.

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Nearest weather station saysit's 1.6*C. Completely overcast, I'm surprised there aren't a few flakes in the air really. And that system coming over from the Netherlands...how slow is it?! Though I suppose that's a good thing when it hits us

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I'm guessing it was pretty bad then :blush:

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Hmm, to me it looks like it's going to die out before it reaches anywhere near us.

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I blame Eddie Blizzard myself.

( Shall I get my coat? )

...and your scarf, gloves, hat...

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Looking at the radar, I expect the snow to arrive just SE of Northampton at 4pm latest. Bear in mind that statement is only observational, as I used a stamp book against my monitor to measure how far it had travelled in 15/30 mins.

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If its falling as snow on the coast then its suggests there is no problem with marginality due to the higher upper air temps.

Met check good for a laugh as usual, one day next week has "Temp -7" "feels -4"!!!!!!!!!!! Not a patch on thier forecast of 240mph winds the other week though.

They constantly go wrong haha. I was a bit worried the other week when they were forecast 300mph winds with -200*C wind chill

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Nice big beefy cloud coming over West Northampton now. Looks like it should drop some nice stuff!

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Few moderate flakes in the sky here. Unexpected I have to say.

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Looks like it's a slow moving system though...could be waiting for a while

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If you look at this radar then the two blobs (1 off the Norfolk Coast and 1 off the Suffolk/Essex coast) may join together - that would guarantee a shower for Ipswich!

http://www.meteox.co.uk/gmapstatic.aspx?zoom=6&type=zoom&x=267&y=202

If that's the case we should get some right after you then :unsure:

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Radar showing most off the showers are to my north couple coming down from the wash but look small and will die a death before they get to Northamptonshire.

Just waht I was thinking...will have to hold out to see what happens tomorrow and into early next week

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Current temp dropped from -1.2*C to -1.6*C in the 30 mins...blue skies currently. Still waiting for those showers!

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That system coming from the SW looks promising for us - should the cold hold out

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Woke up at 6am for a brief moment to see it was snowing quite moderately outside. Got a slight covering on the cars, probably 0.5cm. Keeping an eye on the showers coming in the wash, they've got our name on them!

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Snow stopped in Northampton. That's my lot for tonight I think. Bed time!

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Snow has eased here now to a moderate fall. Heavy snow was brief, maybe 5 mins, but nice while it lasted. :lol:

Snow virtually stopped now. Damn it!

Oh no

Got a mini blizzard in Harpole nice big flakes teehee

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HEAVY SNOW!!! Yes! Really coming down here at the moment.

You're only down the road, started to snow moderately here - hope to get some heavy stuff now!