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Oh dear tried to edit it as I'd attached the wrong pic from last time but just made it worse. Why can't we delete uploads?

Errr Yeti... it's dark. But here's one I took 5 hours ago when it was just getting started.

Errr Yeti... it's dark. But here's one I took 5 hours ago when it was just getting started.

I'm about 10 miles south of you... in the line of snow showers that go east to the coast. Here's the latest radar...

If that comes off will this winter class as one of the greats? Got to be the best of the century so far at least. Still chucking it down here... :unsure:

If you are due W or SW of Cambridge, you should get mine (when I'm finished with it ). But it'll be a bit less if you're N of Cambridge, where it's more ragged and less clumpy on the radar.

I checked my Net Weather radar and it's looking pretty sparse for Norwich for a while. There''s an area currently just off the hook of Holland which could come your way, but not for a couple of hours I'd imagine, although if convection happens in the N Sea, you might get lucky. Why not invest in a month's NW Extra Lite? We might be needing it this month :lol:

We've got about 5 or 6 cms here and it's been snowing steadily for the past hour... we'll easily have 15 cms if it keeps this up, maybe more, by morning and not bad when the main snow was only supposed to start after midnight (?). Just let the little dog out for his night patrol, at least I'll be able to track him if he's out too long, that's if the snow doesn't cover his tracks :lol: P.S. Would like to say thanks to all the wise owls on here for keeping the faith and informing everyone so brilliantly. :lol:

Why don't you PM TEITS? He calls most things right. :lol:

Ace forecast on Anglia ITV... 5–10 cm and could be 15 cm for S Essex and high ground (that's me ). Likely to stay cold all week with another reload or battleground on Thursday/Friday with our region on the front line. Lots of remarks like "heaviest snow for 5 years" and "coldest winter for 12"... hard core weather porn Just popped my head out the back door with the camera and it was snowing like crazy, the grass is covered and drifting against the door — well if an inch or two is a drift. Just great.

Should be on IPlayer in a couple of hours. I watched it and they forecast the snow to extend to middle of Wales later this week with a N/E'ly later on in the week Wednesday/Thursday so you should be ok eventually.

Not a single mention of rain/sleety mix/wintry showers by Jay Wynne on Countryfile just snow, snow showers and more snow for the week I do wish the BBC wouldn't use phrases like "truly awful" to describe weather which to most people of flesh and blood (on here at any rate) is the Holy Grail of winter weather and only comes around once or twice a decade. They all look so po-faced and concerned. I know it inconveniences people and I feel for the emergency services, police and all, but a lot of people can work from home nowadays using the internet and a bit of forward-planning. Even in '63 we all went to school as normal.

Snowing here... snowflakes are beginning to buzz about in the wind and sunshine like demented white bees. Dark clouds to ENE, temperature 1.3 ° C, wind E 16 mph. I'm going to forget about the mild sector and just enjoy it :lol:

Maybe my location doesn't class as high ground nationally, but it is the highest point in EA (we're nearish to Highpoint prison ) and the MetO warning for EA says, 'higher ground"... there isn't any higher ground in EA than where I am. So I'm going to keep that straw firmly clutched. Plus the fact there should be lying snow and it'll be dark when the warm sector arrives which should mitigate it a bit.

Apart from the usual orange level 'be prepared' alert for the area from the MetO = snow There's this at the end: "During Tuesday, snow is likely to turn to rain from the east, except over higher ground." My location is 110 metres asl extreme west of Suffolk (about 60 miles inland from coast). Does 110m count as higher ground? Clutching at straws, I know, but I can hope

On BBC Look East just now: No white blobs for our area, just London (Thames streamer?), BUT no mention of rain either, the summary was just snow and wintry showers right through to Thursday... I just don't believe that the depths of the countryside, on higher ground than London, will not get some serious snow tomorrow onwards, perhaps we don't exist in BBC-land.

I don't believe the GFS, I really don't. It's flip-flopped around causing angst and despair on here all week. Here's the UKMET for Wednesday doesn't look milder or rainy to me: http://91.121.93.17/pics/Rukm961.gif

Could be a few weeks... we were without power for no less than 6 weeks in 87, it took them that long to fix every substation when hundreds had been knocked out by falling trees. This storm seems on a par with that. We had a Burns Night dinner tonight and two of our guests didn't turn up, I was a bit miffed with them until I remembered they have a second home in France and that might be the reason — something's happened to it or they've gone there to see if it's ok. Nick sounds sensible enough to have battened down and stayed inside — I hope he filled his bath so he's got drinking/washing water for a few days.

Lol You are same age as me, or just 6 months older. You've reminded me of my very strict boarding school in winter '62/63, we weren't allowed to wear tights until we were up a year and so went around in uniform of a skirt and socks, shirt and jumper... of course after a few weeks of us nearly getting knee frostbite they grudgingly allowed trousers due to the "exceptional circumstances, but no, I repeat, no jeans will be allowed". Jeans were considered subversive in those days. One girl got into terrible trouble for wearing a poloneck instead of the shirt, they were subversive too. Returning to the charts, I do wish they'd reinstate those pressure contours, instead of the vague rainy bits or light effects they do now. It was much clearer and you could see the direction and origination of the fronts.

The wind's is starting to gust just now (the local weather station says 18 mph). Temperature's 7.1 ° C. I hate wind! :o

Lovely satellite images/loop here... http://www.sat24.com/Region.aspx?country=g...r&type=loop Being the coward I am, I'm glad I'm not up there. Is that the cold front/snow following with those raggedy clouds behind?

Just 1.2C, raining slightly through the fog... great. Whatever were these people on wanting the 'boring' high to go away? And next week we've got gale force winds and cold rain... super, can't wait, hang out the flags.

Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday were bright sunshine (+ snow) here. Thursday was milder and grey, not nice, but Friday and Saturday were freezing fog/mist with the sun trying to make an appearance and very very cold, giving us a spectacular hoar frost, so I rate at least 75% of last week no less than brilliant. Now all the tracks have turned into a quagmire, it's not particularly warm but at least I've got the rest of the hornbeam hedge in now the ground's defrosted. PS the frost did a marvellous job on breaking up the solid clods of clay into crumbly soil making planting a doddle.

Seems to be stuck on 7.1C — just one degree warmer than last night :lol: . Raining a bit, but not much (touch wood), but enough to turn the tracks around here back into their default quagmire mode. I was going to resume planting a bare-root hedge, but the soil's still frozen up beneath a surface layer of mud. How anyone can prefer this dross to last week beats me! Tomorrow's forecast to be drier and brighter so the hedge might on the cards again.

Bright sunshine and 5.4C (my fingers went on auto and nearly typed the 'minus sign/–' before the temperature , shows how cold it's been over the last few weeks). This cold spell has been superb, I don't understand those who've said it's boring (expensive maybe), it's what winter's about, different seasons, different temperatures. The worst is living, as we have been for some years, in a country where the temperatures only differ by 10 degrees from season to season... But looking out the window I see we still have lying snow from Monday, ground temps must still be very cold. Honestly here's the picture