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  1. I saw them too, first ever time i've seen them and I think it was a very good show as well. Here's one of the better pictures I just took (I think I need a tripod to be honest)

    The setting on my camera has made the sky look orange, when in fact it's actually a green sunset/horizon.

    11i22yw.jpg

  2. Has anyone else seen the noctilucent cloud display over London tonight? it's absolutely stunning and the first time i've ever seen them. They are fading now, but were extremely clear about 10 minutes ago.

  3. For all in the London area especially that are worried because they haven't had much, don't worry, just look here:

    http://www.raintoday.co.uk/

    The current band of PPN is quite thin, but you can see that near the Brighton it is thickening to the east so as it moves north we will be in the firing line. I'd guess it will hit us by about 9pm in SW London

    I hope so! How much do you reckon we could expect (I am around Hampton Court near Kingston)

  4. I'm still not convinced that my location (on the edge of south west London) is going to get much out of it. Looked at the London 5 minute radar, and my location is under the lightest precipitation category which is all broken up in itself and the front is moving NE to NNE which will just result in me remaining under that very broken very light snowfall!! Can anyone convince me that I am going to get anything decent from this?

  5. I'm really peeved off now. The big snow event in December did not go to plan. 20 miles East of me, 20 miles west and 10 miles north got pasted the whole night through, we had the odd flurry in comparison.

    Now we have one of the most brilliant cold setups for the SE in years and who is going to get the snow? The WEST and SOUTH WEST???????????? diablo.gifdiablo.gifdiablo.gif Why can't this weather lark be straight forward and just make sense? I hope you enjoy it western folk.

    Unless an easterly pulls off at some point, anything interesting here looks unlikely as wind directions seem to stay mainly nne. We don't tend to do well out of these due to the huge track of land to the sea. It's unfair and disheartening to think that such brilliant synoptics wont deliver.

    And for the love of god, I wish people would stop mentioning the south east when they only mean Kent. It is very misleading for us London folk. Those rascals should change their county name to snowtopia.

    This is my rant over. Expect more south easterners to join this thread unless the weather gods hear my sorrows.

    I feel your pain, it seems like this winter there has been a very localised snowless region around west London.

    Here in south west London, i'd be pushed to say that we've exceeded 1cm cumulative snowfall so far this winter. Whilst inner areas of London, only 5 miles away have been pasted with a number of 3-4"+ events!!!

    Where's the hope when there are people ramping on about a 1963 winter, repeat of 1987, 1991 etc yet all we get is a marginal pasting of heavy rain!!

    Infact I would easily take the April 2008 snow event over any 'potential' that is being shown now. How is it that we can get 4 inches of snow in April 2008, but get less than 1cm of snow over 2 weeks at the coldest part of the year and with some of the best synoptics in decades!!!!

    Could someone explain what is going on here?? We are predicted sleet for about an hour tomorrow how can this be!!!

  6. Somehow, I can see the next week or two being another let down for us snow deprived SW Londoners. So far this season, despite having some of the best synoptics in many years, i'd be pushed to say that we've had any more than around 1cm cumulative snowfall.

    I think that all those who have been stating comparisons to 1963 etc should take a step back for a second. Whilst so far it has been very good for people on the far east coast and a select few further inland, I think it would be wise if some of you lowered your expectations a bit, because i'm sure there will be loads of people who will get disappointed. I don't think this will even come close to 1963, 87 or 91. In fact I think we would be lucky to even get a repeat of last February.

    So what i'm saying is I think that other than a lucky few, it will be a pretty much dry and cold couple of weeks so don't raise your expectations too much!

  7. http://www.natice.no..._asiaeurope.gif

    Check out the European snow cover, not often that you see pretty much all of Europe covered like that....

    What's even more impressive is the near 100% snow cover of Russia with the snow even working it's way down the eastern black sea coast!

    Infact there is nearly continuous snow cover north of the 45th parallel!!!

    http://www.natice.noaa.gov/pub/ims_gif/DATA/cursnow.gif

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