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A lovely warm day here with some high cloud now making for a golden sky as the sun starts to set - isn't it fab now that it is well gone 5pm, nearly 6 actually, until darkness falls. @TomSE12 I am so, so sorry to hear of the loss of your son, you and all around you must be absolutely heartbroken; my thoughts are with you all.

Sitting in my attic, it was absolutely stunning, as the sun made the beautiful feathery flakes all golden, so gorgeous, but I was lecturing at the time and couldn't take a pic, although I did keep saying to my students 'Ooooh, the snow looks AMAZING'!

As others are finding elsewhere, it's rather splitting around us in SW London. Beautiful blue skies morning to start, a bit of snow still holding on in shaded bits and bobs but it all kind of feels over now snow-wise.

Indeed, the rooftops, roads and pavements have lost at least 50% of their snow in the past hour and the sun is now trying to come out. As noted elsewhere, the heavier areas of precipitation from the streamer headed north of here. The local park has no one even attempting to sledge as it is muddy underfoot and little settling snow is left. A bit puzzling after such a good start. Here is the Wunderground site from Braggs of Surbiton showing 0 degrees and sub-zero dewpoints with a NNE wind.

Yessss, the Thames Snow Streamer is truly up and running in Surbiton?️ Long may it continue in SW London and beyond into the home counties - Kold, hopefully your time has come

Indeed, our icing sugar is definitely being topped up with chunkier looking flakes, although as I type they are the wee ones again but plenty of them. Walked around Southborough earlier and thought the bigger flakes were due to elevation but apparently not. As you say, the Estuary has come into life in the past few hours on the radar so let's hope it keeps going.

In excess of 12 hours of tiny flakes blowing in the wind yesterday finally yielded some icy deposits on cars and garden furniture last night once the temperature fell low enough. Overnight the mini streamer also left a slippery covering on the roads and pavements. As @Nick F @kold weather and @snowking have mentioned this morning, the chances of disturbances and streamers are improving, so fingers crossed Meanwhile, the snizzle looks more promising than yesterday, and here is a pic of our dandruff covering.

Same here in Surbiton after 8 hours of ahem 'snow'. It's just wet on all the surfaces, flakes flying around, polystyrene balls style for a while and fairly cold outside but not what I was expecting in temperature terms as I was kind of anticipating a freezing cold fierce wind that did not materialise. Sorry if I sound a bit down!

Reigate Hill is our usual go-to place for snow in marginal set-ups, but even there I'm not sure there's much going on. We had hoped Nonsuch Park would become an Alpine wonderland to go sledging!

Tiny flakes of varying intensity and rain-like-ness (made up word!) falling for 4 hours now on the SW London/east Surrey border. Absolutely no chance of settling. And I'm losing the faith frankly. It's just wet and cold out there. So disappointed.

Tiny little snowflakes started here in Surbiton around 8.45am, blowing around in the wind as reported elsewhere. I woke up at 6am to nothing, checked radar, nothing, woke again at 8am, still nothing so it's nice to have the little flakes now at least - they're the type that bounce off the surfaces. Fingers crossed for later for everyone.

Hmmm, so this particular snowy weather enthusiast is getting the cleaning, tidying and washing all done in order to fully concentrate on the incoming beast and what it's likely to bring (hopefully)! It's like getting the house ready for Christmas! Husband has noted the flurry of housekeeping on a non-housekeeping day, but knows not to ask. He has long accepted this wife's membership of a clandestine group of snowy weather fanatics who operate according to the rules of Fight Club - what we see, know and do must never be mentioned to outsiders for fear of ruining everything

Agreed. Each snow map I look at puts us right on the edge in Surbiton so it's difficult to get excited about it for now. As @Mark wheeler said last night, our hopes are more from the potential Thames Streamer overnight Sunday to Monday IF one sets up. We could do very well should that come off. A grey cool day here. What a difference 24 hours is about to make!

SOOOO much pinning my/our hopes on a Thames Streamer like the 2009/10 ones. I keep trying to rein it in, telling myself just a bit of snow will be lovely, a cold week is in the offing, isn't that exciting etc etc, when all I really want, just like most of us on here, is a good 10cm minimum of snow, drifting in the hedgerows but of course all the roads clear so everyone can be safe who needs to travel! I'm old enough to remember the late 70s/early 80s snowfalls in the west country with enormous drifts long the country lanes and fields. That started with what I thought was a complete waste of time as the snow just blew around wildly in the winds while my father told me we would see drfiting in the morning - he was right and our cul-de-sac remained ice-bound for 2 weeks IIRC and my aunt out in one of the local villages (Holcombe for anyone that knows the west country) was cut off for days. I know that's probably too much of an ask, but it really sticks in the memory when you experience that at a young age. For those experiencing this weekend's event as youngsters, it may set up a lifetime of snow addiction!

Well, I've jinxed it now, ordered a little coat for the dog to keep him warm on his snow walk;)

I remember that analysis by @Paul Sherman so well, it's what got me into the forum as it impressed me so much. We got an amazing snowfall in SW London out of the 2009 event but it didn't last that long on the ground, however the 2010 event was fantastic and stuck around for quite some time, with supermarket car parks looking like something out of an American film with snow piled up everywhere. One of my favourite memories is of my son running on the frozen snow to his trampolining class at 8am on a Saturday morning pretending to be Mario dashing across the ice. The 2018 BFTE didn't deliver much locally, so I'm hoping this year's offering is more akin to 2009/10. One thing that's niggling me is @kold weather has had some concerns a streamer might not deliver snow that far west, but I thought a Thames Streamer could reach as far as the west country in the correct conditions, or have I got that completely wrong? Also, I agree with @TomSE12's list of people he pays attention to in these set-ups for good quality information, including Kold - stick with them to know how it's going to go (as much as we can). Actually I can't wait until we head into our regionals ready for the big event now that the MAD is so overflowing. Grey and coldish today with rain about; the park was unbelievably wet and muddy. Good luck everyone

We are under blues on the radar and looking outside it's light drizzle. Temp is 3.4C and dew point 1.5C so definitely rain for us. Solid grey skies all around.

Yep, absolutely appalling day here of what feels like non-stop rain with the temperature dropping as the day progresses. The woodlands have streams where streams aren't supposed to be and our garden has a pond where we shouldn't have one - as @alexisj9 says, the water table is getting very high now.

Yes indeed @Surrey and @Badgers01, very high levels here too, the 'new' garden pond, ie the flooding over the lawn, is even bigger this morning and there are streams in the nearby woodlands where there are usually none. Warmer for the time being, but we need to dry out for sure. Re: Covid, the only post I plan to make on this is to say the father of one of my son's college classmates died of it on Sunday and even though we didn't know him, it has knocked me for six as my son asked me to explain the messages his classmate was posting in their Discord group, and it's heartbreaking to read the timeline. This lad posted mid-December that his 52 year-old father had tested positive for Covid and they were working out the rules to isolate, then his brother got it, come Boxing Day the dad collapsed and waited while the ambulance operator said they currently had 400 people waiting for an ambulance, 10 days later it was good news the father was moving to a closer hospital as he was improving, his son was looking forward to him coming home as there was a film they were due to watch, next message the father is on oxygen, then a ventilator and the son is upset by seeing his father all covered in tubes, the final message last Sunday as we all enjoyed the snow was that his father was about to die from major organ failure and the family had been called. The father was a custody sergeant for Surrey Police at Staines and was incredibly well-liked with 1000s sharing, liking and commenting on the Facebook page following the announcement of his death. He is not the first person in my orbit to die - one of my neighbours, a 69 year-old lovely care home worker, died back in April and my next door neighbour is suffering long covid. But I so feel for that poor family and all the others reeling from the shock and horror of this terrible disease. I won't discuss covid again here, but I wanted to share this as it really does tell the story of how it plays out for so many.

I will definitely check it out:) A really pleasant temperature to walk the dog this evening, with a slight cooler breeze.

Oh my goodness @moogyboobles, I know what you mean about diary planning! It's an uphill struggle. And @Blazerblue, the same here, walking is kind of our life saver but similarly my lad at the grand old age of 21 is very germ phobic so we end up spending half the walk obsessively discussing if that person was too close to us, do we need a shower and why are we walking on the road again. The muddy parks and woodlands result in narrower pathways for people to walk on and in a recent panic he ruined some trainers in a deep mud puddle. Roll on drier weather (but some snow too, please....).

Thank you so much, that is very kind:) Join in on the channel any time with a comment as I try to respond to everyone (the nice ones anyway!). It's a great hobby actually and there are people from all over the world that watch the videos - it's almost like an international pen pal club, for modern times! It's grey and raining here.....:(

We've had to give up on most of the commons and parks due to deep mud and flooded areas, which is frustrating as my son gets very anxious at all the packed pavements when out walking (he has autism) and is constantly asking if he needs to shower when he gets home. As I mentioned earlier, we now have a pond covering the grass in our back garden which always signals a very high water table. Still want the snow though....;)

This morning's walk was in a jacket in honour of the warmer temperatures, although there was a definite keen breeze as we set off. Our garden has the pond of doom in it this morning - basically we know when there has been prolonged rainfall as the water table rises so high that we develop a pond across half of the lawn. One year the water also crept up some of our inside walls, cue anxious checking over breakfast. We just about made it into the 'proper' snow fall last Sunday in Surbiton judging by the snow photographs from space I've seen on Nick F's Twitter. This weekend feels a lot more marginal so I'm not holding out hope and will be happy if those who missed our last week get some snow, but it currently seems a bit of an ask. Agree with others that last Sunday's correction north seemed unusual and we are all now crossing our fingers for a correction (by the right amount and type!) south/south east.

That's a lovely video Zak, watching the snow get ever deeper; adored the doggies playing together - are they frenchies? We have one but he can't go out as he's recovering from spinal surgery. I put up a video of Surbiton in the snow on my very small YouTube channel. you know, in case snowy days become a thing of the past, in the SE corner anyway! Uniform grey skies here this morning but feels very cold. The pavements that got sun on them yesterday are clear while the ones that didn't are icey and slippery; our garden is still covered in partially melted then frozen snow. Dare we snow chase for the weekend? Carol just mentioned 'uncertainty' around it on BBC Breakfast, hmmm, could it be true.....?!