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Was good fun in here this month so just like to say thanx to all the posters in here,stay safe thru the summer thunderstorms and see u all again next winter. PS Great job Mk Snowangel

Morning all,oh well snow is melting but can honestly say its been a great cold spell for us considering Dec and Jan have been poor for cold. Would not mind if I didnt see any more snow this year looking foward to longer days, warm sunshine and getting outside a bit!

Sure teits no problem u can save them.may I add we didnt stay out long,my kids who are 3 & 5 years old were frozen and didnt quite see the beauty of today lol

Went for a walk today, was a bit chilly! Never seen The River Great Ouse frozen over this much before.

Snow Easing off now, off to bed good night all :-)

Proper snow here now

Looks like winter is paying us back for missing out last year in the "dry slot".We are on the 2nd snow event of the winter and we are slap bang in the middle again :-) Enjoy the snow,we all deserve it!

Very impressive for the south coast!

Moderate nice dry snow here in godmanchester settling easily

Sky now starting to have that dirty white colour that you only get with frontal snow towards the west,wind picking up aswell

Yes its all set,2 fronts coming in from west with a short wave, stalling against cold and with nowhere to go. All of that nice moist maritime air can only go up,condense in to hopefully heavy snow. Seen many stalling front situations in the past grind to a halt 100 miles to our west or south so im amazed that this is still forecast to really happen. With so many near misses,in the past it will be well deserved for our region.

With very little people at work,dawn on sunday morning should provide some great chances for photos .Shall be charging the camera!

Its going to be a late night tomorrow for us in here :-) If it does snow it will be the 1st proper snowfall here since Feb 09.The last 2 winters have only been thin coverings here, along with parts of cambs and norfolk have been very unlucky.My 2 kids are 5 & 3 years old it would be nice for them to finally see some proper snow.Good luck to everyone in our region ;-)

God id love it if the front stalls over us . Its been a long time coming for our WHOLE region to get a pasting.The stalling front is a rare beast and a forecasters nightmare.I feel then this thread will go nuts.The only worry is 1 we need to see better alignment not the ne/sw alignment we are seeing at the mo, 2 hope the front actually reaches us!

Hi Lauren, It was very exciting but scary for me, i was 14 and lived in Braintree Essex at the time,my mother had gone to London because my Grandmother had passed away (ironic because grandmother was scared of the wind!) so it was just me and the dog at home.Went to the local petrol station at 22:30 with a mate to buy sweets, the weather was very mild,with light rain and just a light breeze. Fell asleep on the sofa but woke up at midnight to the sound of the wind and rain against the windows,went back to sleep,woke up at 03:00 am to the dog whining,the power going off and on,and the constant roar outside of the wind! could hear tiles falling sheds rolling around outside. Couldn't go back to sleep so in the morning as there was no school we went out and saw hundreds of trees uprooted but some were literally snapped in half,like they had been twisted off halfway up the trunk. A whole line of 5 garage roofs blown off laying 50 metres away in a field! Then we went to town to see roof tiles everywhere,overhead power cables hanging down in the road dancing with blue sparks shooting from the ends .Chimney stacks blown off roofs.Took mum the whole next day to get back from London. Was a once in a life time experience,and with the snow in January,the flooding in September,it was a great year for weather.

Fascinating thread this,Cambridgeshire and the fens are truly awful for snow,the sheer lack of any elevation means any easterly is just dry,northerlys miss us and end up in norfolk , suffolk and essex,many times have watched the echos on the radar have a hole in them over cambs ! Its good to hear all the places on here that get good amounts of snow,shall be re locating in the next few years !Lived in essex years ago and found that during easterlys,it can do very well for snow.