suffolkboy_

Quite an exciting start to this cold spell. I was driving up the A140 as the squall line moved south over Suffolk. I could see the front on the horizon and then as I came over the brow of the hill I could see a wall of rain blowing across the road. The wind was very strong for a short while (causing a branch to fall on my roof, luckily no damage) and the temperature dropped for 10C to 4.5C in the space of about 15 minutes. A lively start to this cold spell

New Weather Warning out from the MO for Sunday for coastal parts of Norfolk and Suffolk They mention the possibility of other disturbances possible that are difficult to forecast.

You're all lucky you get lamposts. My £1850 council tax bill only empties my bins haha Well plenty to look forward to over the next week.....for all those despairing....where would you rather be, looking at an upcoming cold spell with the possibilty of snow, or where we were last year? I know what I choose! I wonder whether February will come in with the goods and save the much talked about OPI? It would be a shame for it to be dismissed this early in its life! I don't think anyone would be using it as an indicator next winter if this winter fails to deliver.

Bloomin Heck....someone pass the Prozac! I don't get why some people are so downbeat! The old rule still applies, get the cold locked in and the snow will come. Granted, Wednesday to Saturday we aren't in the most favourable location for anything out of the ordinary, although I imagine a good few will at least see a flake or two. It's from Sunday when things get more exciting, the northerly looks to be strong, with good uppers and impressive lapse rates. This in turn could (and probably will) mean plenty of troughs and more organised bands of showers pushing well inland and south. The lapse rates are also supportive of polar lows (which are difficult to forecast at T6 and best picked up nowcasting by radar). Plenty of other little disturbances and surprises are sure to come up. For the time being I'm looking more at the cold, not the precipitation. Worry about that later. Just think back to your best snow events in the past.....how many were forecast days ahead. Not many.

Just phoned home and apparently it did settle earlier today and is still snowing very lightly now. Melting though. Going to be very icy underfoot tonight when the sky clears!

Was snowing on and off when I left home with a temperature on 1.0C and depoint of 0C. I'm now at work in Yarmouth and we have sleet on and off, but I'm watching the radar and my home has had bright echoes over it for the past 2 hours. I can guarentee it's snowing and I'm missing it all!! I just wonder if any is settling!?

If you have temperature, relative humidity and pressure you can use this converter http://www.srh.noaa.gov/epz/?n=wxcalc_rh

Just took the dogs out for a walk and it started snowing for a few minutes, followed by sleet as it became lighter. Now stopped. The temperature had risen since 5pm but it's just started dropping again.

Showers currently heading up the Essex/South Suffolk coast are still building. Keep an eye out over the next hour or two all those in East Suffolk, and maybe East Norfolk in an hour or two. Sometimes the best snowfall comes when it's not forecast.....always keep the hope! And as Steve M said......don't panic Mr Mainwaring!

Answers on the pack of a postcard? I can fit it on a postage stamp. No. Temperatures still rising here too, now 1.3C. I wouldn't be surprised to see bits and pieces of precipitation coming and going over Suffolk, but nothing very heavy. The problem is that we ideally need it to be as heavy as possible to aid any evaporative cooling. It's just a case of lamp post watching (except I live in the middle of nowhere so don't have a lamp post to check)

Temperature continuing to rise here. From -1C at 5pm to 1.1C now. Dewpoint at 0C. Keeping my eye on a few showers South of Essex at the moment making their way NNE; they seem to to be intensifying.

That's the general thoughts at the moment. Looking like it's started to weaken already. Be interesting to see what the Euro4 shows. Should be out now?

The forecast stated wintry showers in the east possibly for Thursday as we get a very brief easterly. I will let you know, but I would put a lot of money on them not being correct BBC always over-do temperatures for my location.

The BBC forecasts really are pretty misleading with the maximum temperatures they show - they tend to use city centre maximums which are hardly representative of what is really happening. With one breath he is talking about how the cold will win out with wintry showers around, the next the graphics are showing temperatures of 5-7C.

Temperature dropping like a stone. -1.4C now. Going to be a cold one tonight unless the cloud rolls in again (which it may do, depending on what happens to the showers currenly tup north)

Cloud finally cleared here at around 3.30pm to a lovely clear, crisp end to the day. High today 2.7C at 1.15pm Currently -0.7C and falling quickly. Just come in from walking the dogs and the roads are already icy under foot.

It is looking as if it's going to decay later as it moves further south. Possibility of something in North Norfolk later tonight but likely the soon fizzle to nothing after that. You never know though, something to keep an eye on tonight.

2.3C and heavy rain at 8mm/hr......truly a day for staying indoors by the fire!

Well in the end here all we got was sleet for about 2 minutes (which beats last year I suppose!) The main problem here was the rain.....i'm flooded in today! (I was hoping to be snowed in lol)

Haha, seems they have messed up again, now it shows gusts around 40kph! (25mph).

For anyone who hasn't see it, here is pretty good at seeing temperatures realtime http://www.wunderground.com/wundermap/?lat=51.476860658824506&lon=-0.44461327999999867&zoom=8&wxsn=1 (quicker at updating than XCweather) They are all privately owned stations so the data isn't 100% reliable but it's a pretty good indicator.

Highest gusts at the moment shown as 64mph at Portland on www.xcweather.co.uk . Where are you getting your readings from? Especially the 109mph. Must say though, I think the wind has been a bit overlooked. Was really gusty earlier here. Quite calm now as the centre of the low moves over but likely to get quite strong again in the early hours and tomorrow morning as the low passes through. The wrap around is pretty evident on the rainfall radar now too.

Go here, scroll around and zoom in and out on the map. http://www.wunderground.com/wundermap/?lat=51.476860658824506&lon=-0.44461327999999867&zoom=8&wxsn=1

Occasional sleet now here in mid-Suffolk. Temperature still stationary at 2.9C and dewpoint 1.9C 13.2mm of rain now this evening. If only it had all been snow!

Temperature now starting to drop, was 3.5C, an hour ago, now 2.9C , dew point 1.9C. No sign of anything sleety yet here. What has been remarkable tonight is how heavy the rain has been and how gusty the winds are now! Quite a contrast to how calm it was this afternoon.