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The wintry showers promised for this afternoon have arrived...and its raining.
Very curious really as on my NW radar they are definitely pink... i.e. snow. There's a dark pink blob just about to hit, although the uppers are just about ok, the dewpoint's still 2° C, so I don't see how it can snow.
Why is the radar showing snow, it's never happened before, sometimes it'll show sleet or even rain and be snowing merrily, but showing snow and getting rain will be a first.
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Keep your eyes open for tomorrow afternoon, a fragmented occlusion will bring some scattered *wintry* showers southwards. They are more likely to affect Norfolk/Suffolk than anywhere else, because each time the models update they get shifted eastwards! Anyway T850's will be -5C, HGT500-1000 will be within the 528dam, so there is a reasonable chance of some snow flurries in the far east. Beyond that it looks mostly dry, so no snow unfortunately
Just had one half an hour ago, a snowy/sleet blizzard. The showers are quite intense, but very scattered and are coming down N/S from the Wash.
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Lol, Iceni if it carries on like this I might need to borrow your 4 x 4 for work in 3 hours
From a very cold and snowy SW Suffolk ~ over n out
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it's now officially snow... wish it was a tad colder, but the uppers are –4.5° C and even all that rain didn't get rid of the lying snow so it's settling.
Great fun
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Quite agree danm. The precipitation is easing in intensity now judging by the latest radar images. Still moderate here though and blowing around in the strong northerly wind.
Hoping the back egde re-invigorates as it's sweeps though East Anglia and Kent...............MetO predict heavy snow in SW Suffolk at 06:00 ~ maybe a few hours of this as we're only just past 3am
All about Nowcasting over the next couple of hours......
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A really driving sleet storm here, with a few snowflakes mixed in, if this turns to snow proper, even just for 15 minutes — OMG!!!
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Paul,
Last December was 2 inches of very wet snow, I am very suprised it lay on the ground and was gone after 2 hours.
Last Monday was just cold enough for snow, the lowest temp was 0.5 in the heavier showers. Problem was the feed was not cold enough, unlike Feb 91 when it was -2 in the showers. I got 2-3 inches here overnight which then slowly melted throught the day before the massive let down of the rain on Monday night.
Even this winter, which has been cold, isn't a patch on the ones I remember from my childhood.
They weren't all wall to wall snow, December to April... but there was a basic chill in the air most of the time. You always needed a warm coat and a warm jumper anytime you were outside, and there are details like the milk freezing in a the hour between the milkman delivering it and it being brought inside with the frozen cream pushing the cap off — you had to be fast in those days or the blue tits would be pecking at it
. If you consider how much more the average person and home consumes in energy and fuel compared to the 50's when washing machines or TVs weren't common and fridges were just about becoming normal household kit, plus less than half the UK population had a car. What's happened in the last 50 years is bound to have made a difference as scientists doing ice core samples have proved time and time again.
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Snowing moderately, but we're nowhere near into the main event and the night is yet young... hmmm a blizzard could be on the cards at some point.
It's times like this you love your 4x4.
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and Snowjoke that sounds like a great idea! LOL I have pictures of my beloved friend and I could put them into the league of fallen people thread I'm going to be like the kid on the snowman film tomorrow morning...
God I love that film... I even like the music, how sad is that?
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Lets hope so as its been frustrating missing much of the snow.
My only gripe is if the rain arrives this could thaw my lovely deep lying snow. I could technically have a blizzard tonight and yet have less lying snow in the morning compared to now. :lol:
Indeed. I'm getting to be a snow snob
, the powdery stuff falling a week ago was as good as it gets, I'd rather it wasn't ruined by slushy wet rubbish. I'm right on the blue to light blue border so I'm resigned to seeing it disappearing by morning. Might get lucky of course.As the low's tracking slightly more south, is that a trend or will it stay on course for the foreseeable?
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Im not suicidal either,just frustrated that Newmarket and Haverhill have it again, and we dont again. For now. ALtho many places reported rain/sleet at first.
Newmarket and Haverhill (I'm kinda in between them) are high up for Suffolk (and Norfolk too) my location's 110m asl.
Any elevation makes a big difference, especially for marginal occasions, for obvious reasons — you are a bit nearer to where the snowflakes come from
I really hope it doesn't get washed away tomorrow and the channel low's errr, lower. -
We've got snow now. Hope it'll give a covering to wake up to... best of luck tomorrow everyone — like putting everything on black, I've rather gotten used to seeing white fields instead of brown :lol:
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My radar says snow in quarter of an hour, the pink's just about got here, it'll be light, but enough to cover the slushy melt as there's a lot of it.
Uppers –6° C, dewpoint's –1° C and the temperature's around 2.7 ° C.
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I have noticed during past few years that a very reliable sign of severe weather (especially frost or snow) is that the wild birds simply disappear! Last Saturday hear in Kent there wasn't a bird to be seen in my garden, somehow they know that it's going to get bad, I don't know where they actually go? Anyway, they are back in abundance, so I imagine this heralds a change to much less cold weather for the next few days at least! Anybody else ever noticed this?
They are probably stuffing themselves with peanuts and seed at neighbouring birdtables... I'm getting through a 1/2 kg of bird food and fat balls a week atm and there's a sort of queue forming in the hedge beside it to wait their turn.
If everyone could put out some sort of food for them, we can limit the carnage severe weather brings, and I've left the door of my garden shed slightly ajar so they can shelter in there.
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looking good for some snow later tonight early tomorrow morning
Lots of snow falling atm (blizzards on the hills) and settling — even on the wet roads — another inch or two is on the cards for us tonight, especially if the temperatures drop away as forecast.
I want a beautiful snowy cold crisp w/e, please.
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After a few hours of light snow flurries, we now have some big fat flakes cascading down.
BBC forecasting -2C to -5C in Urban areas tonight and -7C to -10C in rural areas. Then went on to say 'COLDER' tomorrow night
(Very little thawing this weekend then).
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That might explain my unheated greenhouse thermometer reading 'Min –6° C' for last night or the night before, I didn't believe it.
Snowing merrily again here after an hour of sleet. Made my husband laugh when I said "ok dogs, we're setting of for our walk across the Suffolk tundra again"
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Someone mentioned a polar low...
is this it NE of Scotland? And if so where's it going to go? -
Well, you'll be pleased to know I caught the train earlier, they're all running fine.
I should get round to demanding compensation from Chiltern railways though, I fell over on Wendover station earlier and it's completely done my right knee in.
Hah. Snowing here again.. No sign of rain..
Compensation?
My mum would have bandaged me up and told me to look where I was going next time... hope the knee gets better.
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Ahh, fair enough. I don't think towards Amersham has been hit as hard so far as further north in the county. (at least in today / last night's event).. It's all health and safety, incredibly icy, people scared to drive etc.. Also, the main road near me was a car park at 9am this morning.. Would've been a waste opening the schools I think. People I imagine lived overall closer on average to the schools they attended in 77-83 than they do now I should think.. More likely to walk to school than have to drive 5-10 miles?
I don't think so, most of the Challoners boys used to come in by train (or Met line tube). Are they still running? Or have they packed up as well?
People have really got to confront their fear of driving in snow, wise up and learn how to do it... a few weeks ago our lane was as bad as I've ever seen it — solid sheet ice for a week. I didn't want to use the car but my husband went out with me and told me to pick a safe place and apply the brakes, so I did and found I was fine and the car's ABS worked beautifully.
We've become a pathetic gutless namby-pamby nation, is all. Not good.
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As some people have said on the news, it's our health and safety culture gone mad. Schools don't want to open and have the risk of being sued because some kid gets hit in the eye by a snowball or accidently falls over and bruises it's backside. Jesus they've banned playing conkers in most schools, so a little snow is going to cause mass closures. Very sad really, half the problem these days children are treated like idiots and wrapped up in cotton wool. Thing is getting a few scraped knees or cuts while doing something an adult may consider silly or slight dangerous is part of childhood and how children learn.
I agree with every word you say. If you treat a child like an idiot that is what you will get, furthermore as they're never exposed to any small consequences "because in case so-and-so happens", when they're let off the leash they do really something really stupid.
Those poor teenage girls in the Yorkshire sledging accident, for example... when we went sledging as kids we were taught to check the slope and most especially the bottom of the slope for obstacles and also people used proper steerable sledges. Similarly for skating, my dad or the heaviest person around would go out and jump up and down on the ice to check it was ok or make a small hole to check how thick it was (under 6" it was no good) and we kept to the sides of the pond skating around in a circle... unless we were sure it was really ok.
but the best bit is watching the authorities cover their backs when something truly dreadful happens... can't wade in a save someone because they're not authorised to wear wellington boots, wasn't it? :lol:
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Just watching the recorded forecast on bbc24 news weather, and they are still going for heavy snow to affect Cambs later in the night and during tomorrow morning. But im not lamp post watching til 1.30am tonight..!!
I'm about 11 miles east of Cambridge and the temps and dewpoints are almost an exact replica of last night at this time, temps 0.1 ° C, dewpoints 0° C and uppers –1.5 ° C (a degree warmer than last night).
I really didn't expect snow, but it still happened. I think tomorrow will be more interesting.
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Well, just heard that Bucks council have confirmed no school transport will be available for any schools in Bucks tomorrow. Every school in Bucks is hence closed tomorrow.. I've NEVER known that to happen..
I'm seriously getting puzzled by all these shutdowns. I used to live in Amersham and worked in Aylesbury in '77–83 and despite the several far more severe snow events of the time, none of the schools were closed, ever.
We used to live just over the road from Dr. Challoners which is just up from the railway station. What is going on?
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Wow!
I saw 7 inches on Monday, any chance I may see even more tonight and tomorrow??
I'm sure you will — if you go to the right clubs
Sorry couldn't resist
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Another Added and Facinating Hazard on my drive to work was patches of Fog and Low Visibility adding to drivers woes, this being caused by Much Milder air interacting with the Snow Cover and creating a 50-100 Yard High Wall of Fog. We get this scenario when we Chase the Supercells in the Plains. After a Strong Hailstorm we see the Storm Move away and the Sun Warms the temp up to 80F again, we then see the Hail Steaming and creating a dense Hail Fog (Not Particulary Nice to Drive Into if you are Unsuspecting)
As Nick Says Cold Air taking longer so possibly expect another Grim day tomorrow in London and Surrounding with bits and pieces of Sleet and Slops. Not going to be nice with temps around 3c
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I thoroughly agree, and at night headlights will turn it into whiteout visibility — white mist, white road with the kerbs obscured by snow... Janet's pictures of that unprotected riverside in Wisbech are haunting me today. Take care everyone and don't follow other drivers' fog lights, rely on your own judgements.
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A few pics . . . road runs alongside water with no barrier, compacted snow on the road so its pretty dangerous out there at the moment
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Lovely pictures Janet. But if it gets foggy later and/or icy tonight, it might be worth ringing the Council/Highway Authority to cone along the riverside for drivers... or at least put up warning notices (probably not that you'd get any joy). It looks like an accident waiting to happen to me.
Not a dig in any way, but when people post pictures, could they reduce the size to 1000 pixels width? Makes it much easier to have a look at them and doesn't slow down scrolling the thread.
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looking at the radar, the heavy precip yet again missed norfolk!
If I'd had a £ for the number of times I've watched snow paste Norfolk, but peter out 10–15 miles east of me over the years, I'd be as rich Bill Gates
We got about a couple of cms, but it's turned to a sleety/rainy mix now if that's any comfort, let's see what the w/e brings...
I'd better get some kip now 
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But not any old bankers... they have to be bankers trusted as Treasury advisors and FSA chairmen.
Could anyone tell me why my radar snow is rain? Doesn't the radar take into account the dewpoints? Or is it starting off as snow and melting on the way down?