[Day 3 - Reports & Pictures]

The photographs you did manage to capture are still very good considering the difficult conditions that you encountered on the chase.

Hope you have some better luck as you move into the texas panhandle, hopefully you'll be encountering LP supercells this time that are not rain wrapped and very photogenic

Looking forward too and waiting in anticipation to see pauls video of the anvil crawling lightning from chaseday 1

Keep safe though guys.

Snowjoke

[Tornado Fury Up Close]

Oh my days, i've seen this footage on the TV before on satelitte. Close escapes or some wierd program.

I'd seriuosly like to know what that guy was on, you just don't stand at your window with a camcorder filming a 2 tornadoes, then after getting hit by lightning simply stand up and proclaim " Urghhhhh, I got Struck! " then carry on filming the damn thing until the debris destroys your motor home and knocks you unconsious! LMAO

Do you think that was the real life cletus from the simpsons by any chance??? ROFL

[Snow & Cold Spell General Chat Part XI]

Heavy sleety rain now here. My lovely nice white blanket is developing green patches <_<

[Snow & Cold Spell General Chat Part XI]

Gotten darker in the last 5 mins. heavy snow coming down now. flakes the size of 5pence pieces. Very unexpected, supposed to be raining here now

[Snow & Cold Spell General Chat Part XI]

Light snow again here in MIlton Keynes. Been on and off since 12pm. Not thinking we will see alot as the main band of heavier precipitation is northwest of here. According to lookeast weather it should be raining here. very odd as all it's done is snow and people further west with higher elevation are reporting rain not snow... Think i'm lucky today or the poolution from the city is messing the clouds up. lol

Oh wait for it, getting heavier but the flakes are smaller. ( Igot myself a snizzle blizzard! ) lol

[Snow & Cold Spell General Chat Part XI]

How far are you from reading?? Meant to be travelling there tomorow for the Reading v Mighty Villa!! I hope its not too bad there.

But what im experiencing here means that i might not make it anyway, its that heavy, 4.5 inches now and growing very quickly!!

Im in north east bucks, sandwiched between northants / bedfordshire borders. Reading is a fair few miles from milton keynes, aboout 35-40 i'd think.

[Snow & Cold Spell General Chat Part 10]

What the hell happenned?? I went off to bed at 4am after playing about with a damaged computer for 6hrs, thinking it was going to rain today. Woke about 20mins ago to fins really heavy snow coming down and settling everywhere / fillinf in the melted spots

[Snow & Cold Spell General Chat Part 9]

Just started to snow lightly in Milton Keynes again Looks like a block of precipitation developing to my west towards oxfordshire and the A34 / M4 corridor

[Snow & Cold Spell General Chat Part 9]

Well after finally heading off to bed @ 9am and getting a few hrs sleep. I've awoken to a winter wonderland, was told it didn't stop snowing here until nearly 2pm, got easily 5 inches of lying snow and very little melt. Only problem is the wind has driven the powdery snow into my sky dish and now i got no TV

[Snow & Cold Spell General Discussion Part 7]

Has anyone noticed how the 00z gfs is way behind schedule, unless of course the front stalls over the areas its over right now for a few hours. Because the 6z-12z ppn totals are high and lie straight across where the ppn is right now. Perhaps it will stall and even rotate a bit more bringing the heavy stuff fractionally to my north back into play for me.

Looks like it is going to stall all day in a line from north wales all the way down to the south east, gradually petering out during the afternoon. Thats what has just been said by louise lear on BBC breakfast weather

[Snow & Cold Spell General Discussion Part 7]

Milton Keynes. 5 - 6 CM and climbing. I'm right in the middle of the city too. Would suspect further out towards bedfordshire having greater ammounts,

[Snow & Cold Spell General Discussion Part 6]

Can report heavy snow being blown about on a blustery easterly wind here now, about 0.5 - 1cm in 10 mins so far

[Snow & Cold Spell General Discussion Part 6]

Damn, i know that it was forcast here but been raining for last half an hour..... Anyone else have rain that turned in to snow?! (i soo wanted a day off work!)

Reports that is was snowing heavily in southampton after 4mm of rainfall earlier!

[Snow & Cold Spell General Discussion Part 6]

Holy S**t, check out the 4:00am radar on the MET site. Have you seen that huge area of intense precipitation now leaving france and crossing the channel in a NW direction. Someone is gonna get a blizzard me thinks, possible Kent!

[Snow & Cold Spell General Discussion Part 6]

I've put an example of virga in the attachment below.

Note: the non technical term for virga clouds, people often call them jellyfish clouds because of the striated downward wisps like a jellyfishes tenticles.

[Snow & Cold Spell General Discussion Part 6]

Wind has picked up now and I can just make out 1 or 2 flakes starting to blow in the wind.

Looking good, has that lovely cold freezer smell that you get before heavy snow

[Snow & Cold Spell General Discussion Part 6]

Started/been throwing it down for 20 mins now. Roads already covered with a couple of cms. Think I may be in one of the favoured spots tonight in the Chilterns.

Had to get up - rare event for my kids in this country - saw more snow when we lived in South Africa (until now I woud think).

Jonty

Halton (about 5 miles east of Aylesbury - for easier ID)

Bucks

201m asl

Awesome, glad to hear theres snow in aylesbury. Can't be to far from milton keynes now, 5-10miles minimum. I'm about half your altitude @ 98m ASL. Looking good for a good fall if your reporting that much at your height

[Snow & Cold Spell General Discussion Part 6]

Met radar for 3:30 out, shows the band of precipitation gaining in intensity as it moves northwards. Heaviest look like it's approaching my location. Band runs from the south coast all the way through berkshire and oxfordshire. Getting heavier all the while

[Snow & Cold Spell General Discussion Part 6]

Things are looking interesting now, snow not to far away from here according to the radar. Also worth noting the progression northwards has slowed ever so slightly in the last 30mins. So the front should start to intensify as it slows further

[Snow & Cold Spell General Discussion Part 6]

For those of us still awake and hoping for snow, remember it can be dangerous to your health!!

http://www.filecabi.net/video/ruffridingt.html :lol:

[Snow & Cold Spell General Discussion Part 6]

It's oncourse as predicted by the MET Office. Those of you who keep complaining just be a little patient hey!

I'm pretty sure your gonna see snow in the west midlands. probably starting anout 4am at this pace, although the precipitation has picked up pace in the last 30mins according to the MET radar. Probably down to the band encroaching into the lowest temeratures. You have also got to take into account the anti clockwise rotation of the low pressure center, the front will look like it's going to twist back on itself and give the appearance that it's stalling. The london area up through towards my location should be watching the band coming from the nothern france coast. Thats where our snow will come from lateron tonight into tommorrow morning.

[06z model discussion - snowing now and what after?]

Getting some very odd error when trying to view the site. ( IPS Drive Error ) - Database error. Either the site is pverloaded bigtime or the mysql database has gotten a bug

Anyway, heres hoping for another upgrade

[12z model discussion - did someone mention snow?]

I'm gonna be heading of to bed around 9pm tonight, just so i can set the alarm for 3 am to get up and watch the major snow event in the pool of dank mild dross winters... Plus i get to build a snowman and make my mark before the neighbours awaken to utter chaos. :wacko:

On a more technical note. Things are looking very very good synoptically. Everything i've been saying for over a week is now starting to fall into place. Keep watching the high over scandinavia build and keep the cold pool of air feeding into the UK.

I'm inclind to also think the beasterly isn't to far away, and tommorrows snowfall is going to be repeated frequently in the next 4 to 6 weeks.. The atlantic held at bay, any weather systems taking a southwards track along the channel and dropping copious ammounts of snow fall over the southern half of the UK.

Time to see how the UK's mild winter infostructure holds out in the sustained cold.

[18z model discussion - all aboard the snowlercoaster!]

Definately not warm in Milton Keynes. I now live bang in the middle of the city in central milton keynes. The main shopping complex is just accross the road. @ 02:00hrs the temp outside here is -4.4'c. Brrrrrrrrrrr.

[18z model discussion - all aboard the snowlercoaster!]

I'm still sticking with the UKMO charts. The 18z GFS is notoriuos for overdoing things when it comes to the breakdown of cold spells. I'd be inclined to watch the 00z and then the 06z GFS to see if they still differ from the 18z output.

I'm still going for the snow line to be: north wales, down through the midlands and onto the suffolk / essex border. Thats where i feel the most snow will fall and be lying. The MET must have a pretty good idea aswell as the BBC were mentioning heavy falls and disruption to the traffic system on thursday for the areas i just mentioned.