Met4Cast

You're right in saying it'll be feeling warm this week. But thats due to a weak area of low pressure building Northwards into the North Sea. The Mild Spell will be short lived because as we move through into the weekend, colder air will return from the N/NE before high pressure builds in across the United Kingdom bringing some cold nights with fog and frosts likely away from coastal areas.

Please, quote me where I said "It WAS going to happen" because I don't remember saying it. I simply posted some links which could tie in with what others have been talking about. P.S. Check your spelling for "Centuries"

It seems Iceland has had some, too.

I've just come across these links. Perhaps not 100% relevant, but it all ties in all the same. http://www.rightsandwrongs.co.uk/climate/95-general/2511-climate-little-ice-age-forecast-for-northern-europe http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1267757/Britain-facing-bitterly-cold-winters-drop-solar-winds.html

Because my bedroom is a converted loft with a window that doesn't shut properly. The temperature ranges in here are huge. During the summer it can quite easily get up into the 30's, during Spring and Autumn its usually around 15-22c but during the winter I've known it to get down as low as 1c, yes, 1c. I have a heater which heats it up perfectly, but one day last winter I decided to turn it off to see just how cold it could get. Its currently 19c in here and I haven't had the heater on. I'm generally fine if the temperature is between 17-24c. Any higher or lower I get uncomfortable.

Can anyone give me a brief overview on how to forecast a streamer during the winter, and what types of charts I should be looking at to do so? My current understand is that it has something to do with convergent lines? Thanks in advance.

It's definitely interesting. With all the articles recently about the Gulf Stream stopping, the sequence you posted above does make me quite excited. Maybe someone more experienced can voice their opinion about it, because I don't really know too much about the gulf.

Wasn't it the Jet Stream that was further South? Even so, those images are remarkable.

Light snowfall just started here in N-Kent - Looks like theres some slightly heavier snow not too far away from me now.

You might see a few snow showers tomorrow which could give a light dusting, and perhaps a couple of CM through Thursday and into Friday. I shouldn't think it'd be too severe though Its hard to tell which areas will see the snow showers - I think your best chance will be on Thursday. Its looking likely that we'll see a convergence line setup feeding in frequent heavy snow showers across the South-East from about Mid-Morning onwards.

There was a snow shower while I was on Chatham earlier today, didn't last very long though. I think just about anywhere across our region could see some snow showers tomorrow, forecasting snow showers is very annoying, because some places could get loads whilst other places get none The Northern half of the region definitely more at risk though. I wouldn't be surprised if some areas wake up to a light dusting come morning, theres quite a few showers brewing in the North Sea, these will begin to push Southwards over the next few hours. Most of them will probably weaken and die out, but I wouldn't be surprised to see a few of them making it down.

The models arnt usually very good with predicting showers. During the last cold spell the models were predicting light snow showers for Eastern parts only, these turned out to be heavy, and pushed fairly far inland in reality.

Just watched the latest SE today forecast on the BBC website, and Michael Fish was calling for a period of heavy snow Thursday into Friday, and said some areas could see upto 15cm, obviously this being over higher ground though.

Possibly. Personally I'm siding with the UKMO and ECM this time around.

Just got back from driving down a country lane, the snow was drifting over 5 feet of snow in places, i'm not exagerating, the wind was picking up the snow from the fields and blowing it around, the snow was about 1 foot level on the roads in places and we had to dig a ladies car out of the snow to get her going again. The snow is incredible here in North Kent, i'm home and away from the fields now, and we have an easy 6-7 inches of snow on the ground

I know I'm not really in the main zone - But how much can I expect here in North Kent tonight and tomorrow? Is it worth me staying up? Thanks

I agree - Perhaps passing just to the North West of London. But then we could see a minor change in wind direction that would change all that, all we can do is watch them to see where they go.

I hope so, this area of London usually does very well in Thames Streamers scenario's. I can't sleep so I'm glad theres a little weather excitement to stop me dieing of bordom.

Yeah its certainly good news, what better way to start the new year than to see a covering of snow :lol:

Snowing lightly here in SE London (I really wish I was at home tonight, looks like they'll be seeing some heavier more organised snow shortly, although saying that the showers do appear to be making it inland into the London area, so I might be lucky and get a light covering, we'll see)

Shame - I'm heading here from very snowy Kent down to London a little later today, would have been nice to see some snow there too

About the same as you - We had a heavier spell of snow at around 2:30ish which started to settle on the grass but then it stopped, we had another heavy spell of snow around 4ish but that quickly turned to sleet and then rain. Robs forecast was fantastic last night, although this morning I think there are fears that the worst of the show will shift Westwards slightly, I think we'll only really know when we see it developing on the radar

Yeah I live practically right next to it haha, how much snow did you see yesterday? The radar showed snow for you yesterday but it seemed to break up as it crossed the Thames which was quite annoying.

Blimey small world - Chattendean is a little further inland than I am so I'm sure that area will see plenty of snow. I was down in Strood a little while ago and there was a fairly heavy snow shower there.

Haha yes it does, but surely the warmer sea temperatures will mean its more likely to be wet snow? On the Isle of Grain