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Developing a website like the meto's with lots of caching would mean their hosting costs would be minimal. There's no excuse for any site like that to crumble under large page views with today's cloud based technology - you might expect it from a small business, but not something like the meto.

If that happens, it would pretty much sum up this winter.

From an IMBY sense I think I'm in one of the best parts to see a fair bit of the white stuff from this - the only question will be whether it turns to rain or not on the back edge, leaving us with a slushy mess. I think whether it tracks a bit further east or west, we'll at least get some snow here. I think some people down in Kent etc will be left disappointed - previous experience tends to show that the front's all but dead by the time it reaches that far - if it even reaches that far, and things usually end up a bit further west than predicted, too.

The +384 is absolutely hilarious. Superlow vs Russian high. Round 1, fight.

Yeah, sat/sun/mon looks nice. It's Thursday into Friday I'm looking at, it's changing run to run though, looks like almost anything could happen.

Be thankful you're not heading to Download tomorrow! All my stuff is in carrier bags, inside a case. I'm taking so many bin bags.

Yeah, looking through the precipitation forecast on the parallel it's always kept east and south.. Just a very lucky skirt around in that instance I guess. Would love it to be true.

http://91.121.94.83/modeles/gens/graphe_ens3.php?x=306&ext=1&y=141&run=12&ville=Londres&runpara=0 Not sure if any of you noticed the parallel run, for this wed and thur suggesting very little rainfall? Is the parallel run completely innacurate at the moment? Seems a bit bizarre to me. It's completely out on its own.

No secondary low at +108 which is nice on the 18z GFS. Perhaps this'll be a bit more inline with the ECM with a quicker return to more settled weather.

Well, towards FI on this run is looking like it could turn out well. There's hope for june 9th->14th/download yet!

Eh? http://charts.netweather.tv/ensimages/ens.20100601/12/prmslBuckinghamshire.png That's quite conclusive to me. Dry spell up until ~6th/7th, then rain/wind to come. It's just a degree of how bad it'll be. The ensembles aren't exactly spread until 9th/10th. ~4 of which go for something warm/sunny appearing.

I'm going to download festival in Derbyshire next week from wednesday, if the forecast is correct I might sell my friggin ticket.

Haha, for the first time ever in winter I don't actually care what happens. I'd quite like some sunshine actually, maybe a bit of frost. We had so much snow over christmas etc that I'm not bothered if we don't see any until next year.

Is it me or is there a bit of a streamer starting up?

That part of northern france (north west of Caen) is really getting hammered tonight!

I think the wind needs to go in a more Easterly direction... (Not that I'm being selfish at all...)

Was -7 at half 9 this morning here! Does anyone know what temperature it got down to in Benson in the end?

That maps showing -17 in Benson!?

There's at least 5 meters of snow here in Aylesbury. Cats are having problems in the garden, can't see out of the downstairs windows.

Very similiar story here. 3" or so.

Snow here's become a bit less constant, breaks where it stops for a bit etc, seems to have intensified a bit recently though. Hopefully the new precip. coming in from the channel will make it up here.

Just wondering guys, is the low progged to move north at all? (the one in the channel) The northern extent of the ppn seems to be dying out with the stronger area closer to the new low.

Very unlikely, it's below freezing here. (ay, bucks)

I thought the snow had stopped.. Then I realised that the snow on the tree was obstructing the street lamp I was watching! Haha.

http://www.fileden.com/files/1/CIMG0700.JPG just realised I made a mess of posting it in the last post, haha! Still coming down heavy here, looks to be weakening on the radar though? edit: oops, bit big.