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We certainly did lian ... and it's the heaviest snow I have witnessed here in a long time, since the eighties in fact

Just had a total whiteout for the last hour with the island gridlocked. All bus services suspended and total gridlock in and on the outskirts of town due to heavy snowfall. If you know our island, our town centre is situated in a valley so getting out of town for most involves going up a hill one way or another. This snow couldn't have come at a worst time for commuters. And looking at the radar, there is more to come (excuse my little ramp there)

Hi all...anyone been following the streamer that's been hammering the Cherbourg area for most of the day? It's been such a tease for us here in the Channel Islands having to watch all this monsterous convection fly by from our North East to South East. At approximately 13:45, my partner collected me from work in the North East of the island and whilst driving along the South East coast, we witnessed the most amazing funnel cloud we have ever seen. No pics I'm afraid It looks as if the axis of the streamer is shifting slightly now in our favour so fingers crossed that we get a good pasting this evening and tonight. Our local forecasters are going for snow showers becoming more frequent tomorrow afternoon and evening but somehow I think this might apply to us this evening too ... here's hoping and here's looking forward to the Saturday evening all day Sunday event

Light snow shower here in Jersey...an unexpected early surprise ;-)

Stopped snowing here in Jersey for the time being and the shower activity seems to be diminishing somewhat. For the last 2 hours we have had gridlock...all flights currently cancelled to and from the island and all bus services cancelled. Thundersnow reported at the height of our whiteout too!

We have a whiteout!!!

Just started snowing here in Jersey!!! and having just had a look at the radar, lots more to come too

Have a word please mods! This is the ramping thread afterall... The synoptics we are seeing now all add up to a classic 70s and early 80s severe cold spell with the build up starting this week with air and ground temperatures gradually falling, laying the foundations for the dumping of snow and major freeze immediately after the foundations have been layed And if you haven't witnessed one of these classic set ups and events and think you have seen the best snow ever to fall on the United Kingdom since the "classic era", in the words of Ronald Reagan (I am showing my age now ) "you ain't seen nothing yet"

The model runs just keep on getting better and better and better! Listen to this, Global Warming 1 - Big Freeze 2009 5! Pinch yourself please I think my sanity will definitely be questionable if this cold spell doesn't materialise now ... :blink: :blink:

Could we be seeing a similar forecast to this next week??? The Beast from the East returns ...

Recent autumns and winters have generally been full of cold "snaps" with snow teasers, but with nothing of any significance materialising. I can't help but "feel" that due to our lack of cold snaps this autumn and what we have had of winter so far, something "major" has been brewing (since about 1987 in fact!). Get your Blue Peter sledge instructions out, lag those pipes and hold onto your pom poms for the Beast from the East is ready to rise from the grave :lol:

Storm, what storm? I think some of us Southerners need to get a grip

Good evening all...bright flash of lightning just witnessed to my South accompanied by distant thunder :-) ... Had a fair deluge of rain this morning and judging by the Meteox radar, we've got more on the way...

Your geography is spot on... :lol: ... been watching the storm develop on meteox too but it is not sure which way to go at the mo ... place your bets now ...

Hi all I am hearing "growling" distant thunder (totally unexpected I might add) just to my South East as I type this. Feeling rather muggy here in St Helier this afternoon... :lol:

Hi all...just had a nice thunderstorm here but with no visible lightning and the thunder being the type that growls regularly in the distance with a few louder rumbles thrown in for good measure...good luck to those on the South coast and in South East this evening...could be very interesting <_<

Hi all...here we go again...a few cells have fired up over NW France during the last hour so fingers crossed they make it my way :-)

Cheers for the tip weather09. To be honest, I was monitoring StormVue which at the time was showing strikes from that particular cell moving in a NNE direction before dieing approximately 35 miles to my South...will know better next time

So close and yet so far with that cell that was heading our way I won't bother cranking those turbines up just yet Harry...

LOL...lets hope it makes it to us first...looking good so far on StormVue and starting to sound good now too...will do my best to crank up my wind farm and point the turbines NNE if it makes it

Frequent "growling" distant thunder heard to my south ... bring it on

According to this: http://www.cwgsy.net/private/pagea/StormVueJ.html we are on for a collision course Good luck to you during the next 24hrs or so...

No no no...it's got our name on it ... NNW please with no talk of dieing

Now that's what I'm talking about :lol:

Hi all...not often I post on here and should do more often really. Only seem to do so when we have our weather extremes. Just wanted to say we had a lovely if not short lived storm here yesterday evening followed by isolated torrential downpours around lunchtime today. And having just checked the latest Sat24 output, there is a humdinger of a storm that has developed rapidly in the last 2 hours just to my South East...if it could only just shift a little further North and Westward...