frostynikkers

Torn loyalties here, grew up in Suffolk but have been in Cambridge for a decade now, I class them both as being in East Anglia too. Hoping for more snow later tonight, had a lovely shower just before 7pm... Looks good for the weekend. In the meantime, more wine...

Greetings, long time no post for me. It has been snowing heavily in central Cambridge for just over an hour now, sticking to main roads, hmmm, may be time to leave soon..

Still very heavy here, not settling on roads atm though, but is on roofs/pavements

Been throwing it down with heavy snow in Cambs for last half hour, now settling on pavements

Snowing heavily!! Huzzah

Temp just hit 0.0

0.8C here now, still raining though, must be at the turning point for sleet/snow soon, but roads soaked with rain now. If this froze... Now 0.4 and sleeting...

Rain/sleet in Cambridge

Light snow, first since about 4pm

-2.4 here already

Heavy snow shower just north of Cambridge here atm, blizzarding.

He also said that the snow currently in north Scotland is moving away east across to the continent, not south. It really weasn't an inspiring forecast unless you live in a few specific areas.

Philip Avery's forecast now was fairly detailed, but the snow fall has been greatly reduced for sat and sun on his forecast. It looks like for Sunday the only area liable to see snow according to his forecast is the edge of Norfolk by the wash and a bit of Lincs, Northants. It excluded all of essex, suffolk, cambs and further south with a bit more chance in fact to the west. Looks like London will also miss out entirely. Can his forecast still be so wrong this close?

Yes I agree and this is mentioned in the book. However, nor do we have sustained cold, regardless of the river flow. Having weeks where the temp does not get above freezing day or night simply doesn't happen. I just that whatever is said, it's just not as cold at all anymore, people get excited if it dips below freezing for more than two nights in a row these days, it's a different scale entirely.

I bought a book co-written by Michael Fish and some other weather researchers and it seem that winters past were indeed far more severe than we will know. It includes a few old photos from 1895 showing the great ice floes in the Thames, it looked like the Arctic. There were also records, and enough from enough different sources I presume to be believed, that spoke of the Thames freezing solid for many weeks on end without melting, thick ice they used to have fairs on. We simply do not see that level of freezing over a large area of any river, letalone a coastline, at present. The reasons I know not but I think that regardless of having no central heating, winters could be terrible beyond our comprehension.