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  1. Reefseeker
    Surbiton at 8am had 'easy scrape' ice on the car but the back door was stuck shut for a while! Here in Uxbridge the clouds are grey with a hint of fluff and 1c on the car temperature reading. Have a nice day everyone.
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    Yep same in Surbiton:(
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    Lovely sunset from M4 at Heathrow and car temperature showing 2 degrees all the way back to Surbiton. Thanks to all the nice posters here who take the time to do excellent summaries of their well-informed views. At times like this when we get the actual cold in place I spend much more time in this regional thread trying to work out what will happen in the next few days - obviously hoping for snow! - rather than take on the exhausting emotions of the MDT some of whom seem to be waiting to tell me when it will all break down at +300!
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    Yes cars in school car park still have a bit of snow. I do hope the next band delivers something more substantial.
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    This weather is rubbish. Nothing but rain from Surbiton to Uxbridge; brightening a little in Hillingdon.
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    Surbiton to Sutton and back again yielded snow showers, sleet and rain, with car temperature resolute at 0 degrees. Now raining here in Surbiton with only odd flakes. Off up to Uxbridge soon for school run; can't imagine it will be that different there judging by reports.
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    Yikes, just driving to Sutton hospital, confused, what do I wish for??!!
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    Very light dusting this morning by the way, but I emphasise 'light', none on pavements or roads, just cars, garden furniture, roof tops etc.
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    Wish I had a crystal ball to know exactly how it will pan out today. Live in Surbiton, have to drive to Sutton Hospital for 11am, 13 y/o's school is in Uxbridge (special school for autistic kids hence distance, and he gets very anxious if I am ever late), and from the BBC maps and Yamkin and others on here, I can see it may well be a 'snow day'... and I don't like driving in snow. (Although goes without saying I LOVE the snow, as does my son, who is gutted not have a snow day already!) Ah well, will just have to slither around the burbs, as I just cannot bring myself to hope for rain!!!!
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    The really heavy snowfall I remember also around 3 or so years ago - Ewell Road was completely snowed-up and it was like the whole road got cosier with everyone out walking:) Still hoping, but it feels rather against hope right now! Of course that was from a Thames Streamer which we don't have now:(
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    Kingston/Surbiton, but in these sorts of set-ups it's easy to feel alone in SW London/burb/Surrey and so on:)
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    The signs on the M25 between j10 A3 and j13 Staines are proclaiming, very knowledgeably, 'Snow Forecast Today'. Hmmmm... Car temperature thing showed 3 degrees, odd drops of light rain, and we got well and truly gritted coming up the A3 at Esher. However, the clouds have that fluffy look and the air has got that slight 'feel' of snow, so I live in hope. And best of all, the dogs at Old Windsor very much enjoyed the cuddles on offer from me and my son.
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    Yep, seagulls and cats - MUST be a good sign!
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    Just about to put up the bird feeder in the garden - hope the neighbour's cats don't get too interested! Also off to Battersea at Old Windsor with some food and blankets, it always seems freezing there for the poor doggie residents:(
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    Well, if it's true that seagulls mean snow is on its way, then all signs were very good on Kingston riverside yesterday as we were swamped during our 'let's feed a bit of bread to the ducks' outing!
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    Hope so, want my son's school in Hillingdon closed and also the uni where I work. Nothing worse than snow down here in Kingston and trying to convince work and school in Uxbridge that really we can't get there!
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    Kold, I have been waiting for you to give your view on this. In previous years I have always respected how incredibly close (if not spot on) you are when you make a forecast. FWIW I agree with you, but I know b****r all:)
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    Only if you post that photo of shirtless 'you' again when you do!
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    It is always nice to get your sensible analyses, as the model thread just throws way to much at the non-model reader at the moment - and I say that as a long-term lurker around the MDT and Strato Temp Watch. So thanks:) Trying not to get excited, as snow is getting tantalisingly possible as each day passes; attempted to convince husband to buy a super-duper sledge in Clas Ohlson this afternoon but he was having none of it. But at least a change to colder and frostier now looks pretty certain, which as posters have said will be a welcome change from damp and grey.
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    Oh dear oh dear, the model thread seems to have gone a bit bonkers; high conflict threshold required:/ And there's me back from a week in Cyprus hoping for calm and confidence in an approaching cold spell upon my return. Ah well. Cyprus had every weather type as usual at this time of year - 21 degrees, 3 degrees, mostly melted snow on Troodos, fantastic beach walks, relentless rain, thunderstorms, cloud, fog, sunshine, and almost the same temperature upon arriving back in Heathrow as the one we left behind in Larnaca! Anyway, some pics....
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    Well, we're off to Cyprus in the morning to try and get our snow from this place - just 30 mins drive from our house. Fingers crossed it doesn't melt before we get there: http://www.skicyprus.com/webcam/
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    Merry Christmas everyone:) First Christmas ever to be woken up by three incredible claps of thunder; as they say... if we can't have the snow, the thunder will do... Kingston Bridge being festive Keep eating;)
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    The River Pinn running through campus is very high indeed today; one of my students living in halls that border the river was a bit concerned!
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    My son was doubly depressed when we left Uxbridge at 8 this evening in 0 degrees and light rain.... all the way down the M25 and up the A3 to Surbiton... still 0 degrees and light drizzle. Don't think he'll get his dreamed of 'snow day' out of that:(
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    What lovely weather. Last night I walked the frozen streets of Surbiton in thick fog and frost, woke up this morning to ice so thick on the windscreen I could barely clear it and then everything white and crisp for the drive through Heathrow, which was aglow with the orange lights of the lorries trying to keep the runways clear, and on to Hillingdon with the temperature never rising above -3 degrees. Like I said to my son last night, it's proper winter:) This is one week after we played snowballs before school and 10 days after tramping through frozen woods and finding iced-over ponds. I know we're disappointed about another failed easterly, but I am really loving the start to winter. I do also understand the hardship such weather can impose on both people and animals - the ponies out in the frozen field at Hatton Cross this morning looked very fluffed up in their winter coats:)
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