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A nice HP dominated summer will do me fine with a few heatwaves thrown in (30-35C) for up to a week. Followed by convectional thunderstorms to bring the temperatures down and allow a nice warm reset.
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If we have a whole week with the temperature barely above freezing, then that is a 'real' cold spell from the old school. This week has achieved that without, and this is the only caveat, any very low temperatures. By that I mean minus 10 or below. last night was forecast as a possibility, bit did not make it I fancy.
-13C in Scotland last night.
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Been raining for about 30 minutes in Surrey.
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Very nice pictures (and ruler :w00t: ) , you would normally expect that much snow in a mountain resort!
B) The parks in London did temporarily become mountain resorts for a few days - there were people skiing and snowboarding in the royal parks.
I like!
I had about the same amount in North Birmingham.
Theres a towel on your washing line
Sadly the towel has a severe case of hypothermia, but still wants to battle on despite the conditions.
Has a lot of that melted now? I ask as i drove up the other side of London from the Channel Tunnel up the M11 onto the M25 and then onto the A1(M) and although it did snow going over some hills on the M11 before i got onto the M25 i saw no snow at all down there, it wasn't till after Cambridge i really saw a fair bit of snow before it was more of nothingness again until i got up into Yorkshire(South and West) where i picked up some real depth again.Full cover lasted until early wednesday i.e. over everything.
The grass had 100% cover until Thursday/Friday. The side roads still had ice on Thursday, pavements on Friday.
Even some pavements had ice left on Saturday (6 days).
There are still the smallest of patches of snow ice left in sheltered areas in the garden and on the pavement outside (but they will have melted by tomorrow)
WOW! An awesome amount of Snow!Certainly was, the wind direction (ENE) definitely helped, being directly in the path of the streamer (I am about a mile south of the Thames)
great photos and certainly a good depth thereIt's certainly the most snow i've ever seen in my life, unless a small snow patch on the Swiss alps in mid summer counts.
I haven't seen snow like that since Inverness got a pasting in 2003...Two days or so after Banchory reached 18C!Sounds like a heatwave, anyone looking forward to a nice warm April?
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Is it just me or can anyone else from the greater London/ Surrey area confirm temperatures of around 8C. Any reason of such high values?
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Very nice, looks like you were treated to similar amounts as we got down in the south east.
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Hi all i've posted a fair number of photos in this thread: http://www.netweather.tv/forum/index.php?s...p;#entry1458487
Can I recommend http://tinypic.com/ as a good website to upload photos - it's quite fast and allows you to resize photos for message boards.
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What no arms[tch,kids these days]
haha the one with the pink glasses made me laugh
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Enjoy - Snow depth was slightly over half a foot.
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I think there are 3 issues,
1) The main event started earlier, around lunchtime instead of late afternoon.
2) The main event didn't give as much precipitation as espected.
3) The mild sector had a bigger effect on the midlands then forecast.
Also I believe as the cold air swings round the low that there is a chance of more snow coming to the South tonight but not sure how much or where.
So there is still the chance of something unexpected? and if so what sort of quantities to be expected.
Just a general question, how long is the current snow cover expected to last - how much depth could we expect to lose tommorow?
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Does anyone know what has happened to that supposed snow event for the south east tonight. The forecast just this morning suggested a major front moving in giving another 10-15cm. I don't see how a forecast could be so innacurate within such a short timeframe.
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the current view out my front door! a rather chilly -3.1 with a light breeze.
can i work for you?
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Paul is it me or has the wind direction actually changed to ENE looks that way from here..
I can confirm that - it has changed from a NE direction to an Easterly wind in the last half hour.
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Just had a 5 minute blizard here in south west London - the anvil cloud looked stunningly orange in the sunset. There were massive orange columns of snow on the leading edge.
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2.7C please
1st-7th Feb
I'm predicting a mild to cool phase with widespread average conditions at the beginning of the week gradually giving way to cooler conditions with highs of 3C in Scotland and 5C in England and Wales by the 7th. I expect the week will begin with unsettled conditions bringing snow to higher ground, this will gradually give way to drier conditions with high pressure building over Scandinavia allowing for night time frosts.
8th-14th
This week will begin with a brief continental flow with winds generally from a SE to ESE direction. This will allow for significantly below average temperatures with overcast skies bringing occasional very light snow showers. On the 10th or 11th the Atlantic may briefly begin pushing in from the South West giving a return to average temperatures for south west england and southern wales. The weather front will weaken considerably and not progress particularly far inland. On the 13th, high pressure will begin to reassert itself with the potential for a NE to E flow beginning to rise. By the 14th, a number of rural spots in south east england may begin to see ice days.
15th-21st
This week will see a rapid cool down of the British isles and diversion of Atlantic weather systems to Spain and southern europe as blocking takes hold. Maximum temperatures of perhaps 2 or 3C by day, with minimums of perhaps -5C in urban areas and perhaps as low as -15C in rural locations where cloud cover dissipates. For the most part this week will see a return to conditions similar to those seen at the beginning of January.
22nd-28th
This week is where I see the uncertainty - I think that a continuation of the continental flow is possible with perhaps the shift to a more ENE to NNE flow allowing for low pressure systems to dive in from the Arctic bringing widespread heavy snowfall across most areas. The west and south west may hold on to slightly milder conditions depending on the severity of blocking. Where skies clear, very low night minima may be seen although not likely to be record breaking.
I'm probably hopecasting and I know there is probably very little data to back this up, however, this is what I am seeing based on what we have seen so far this winter and what we are likely to see again.
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Just thought i'd mention that it's silly to compare temperatures with the more snowy cold spells - we would have certainly had much lower temperatures if we had lying snow throughout the spell.
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Still the smallest of patches left over from Mondays event - I expect this will have melted by the end of today. Snow lasting nearly a week at near sea level - not bad for the London area.
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To be honest, I am most surprised by the fact that we are colder than both Berlin and Warsaw based on current temperatures.
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Was this weather predicted, because I certainly don't remember seeing the models forecast such low temperatures - could any of the more experienced members correct me if im wrong.
Has anyone got the temperature charts for today and last night?
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Looks like the BBC are going for an ice day having just reduced temperatures for todays forecast:
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Still got some very small patches against the bottom of my brick wall.
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Having driven this morning, i'm quite surprised that the metoffice didn't issue a weather warning for southern england - all non gritted roads were covered in snow.
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It's amazing how long this cold spell is holding on for. It looks as if the final day of it is actually going to be the coldest, especially for southern areas of england.
I live in south west London and woke up to find a winter wonderland with a severe frost, a thin blanket of snow, as well as thick freezing fog. Temperatures got down to around -5C last night here and it is looking as if there is going to be a widespread ice day - perhaps the coldest day for many years.
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Temps dropping like a stone here, now down to -0.5c which is only 0.4c higher than the lowest temp I've recorded all this autumn/winter. I don't get the really low temps here due to being almost city centre so am surprised how low it is already. A very harsh frost tonight indeed.
What is most noticable is how little ice/frozen surfaces there are compared to the early Dec cold spell. Back then, even with temps +1c in early evening there was often a frost on everything making, for example, the bin lid stick solid. This time with temps -0.5c not much is frosted up and the lid of the bin lifts fine. Is this just down to how dry it's been for so long now or are we experiencing a much drier air flow? Any thoughts?
Perhaps it could be the presence of wind, however weak it may be - in the early December cold spell, the air was extremely stagnant. With a breeze, it is more difficult for condensation to build up? Just a thought.
looks that way from here..
Scottish Met Office
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TBH it doesn't really matter that the data is processed in Exeter - as long as the weather stations in Scotland are in good order then there is no reason to spend millions on another supercomputer if there is already one available.