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Been a gorgeous day here, not a single drop from the sky and pretty much unbroken sunshine all day.
Bring on spring and storms I say!
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Well it's absolutely hammering it down outside under this squall line! Really windy!
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Heavy rain here in swindon now.
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Oh my f-ing God - my partner and I have just missed being hit by a bolt of lightning at our side door whilst having a fag. It hit the wall in front of us 2 feet away - it's burnt the wall - it was like someone switched all the lights in the world out for a nano second except for one single blindingly bright thin line. I usually stand on that stop - I have escaped death by 2 feet! Never seen anything like it - can't believe it - in shock (no pun intended). Anyone else experienced anything like it?
Jesus! Glad you're alright. What part of Swindon you in? Must have been the flash I saw here in Covingham.
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Just had a flash of lightning and a rumble of thunder here in east swindon
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What an upgrade for Swindon! This morning was saying about 4 hours of snow, and now we're in for about 12, with some of it being heavy!
That's if it gets here, seems to be slowing down on radar. Bit worried about it only scraping us.
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Not looking good here currently even this far North. Currently AT 0.3c, DP -0.1c soon to go above freezing and everything will melt.
There is clearly going to be a lot of rain out of this, at least at first, sorry folks.
All IMHO but this band of precipitation is simply arriving at the wrong time and we need something to change in the uppers, wbfl etc. before I will start feeling positive about things again.
I'm pretty sure that I remember that yesterday, people were saying that the system should drag the cold air in with it as it rotates.
Or am I imagining things?
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Just been out and its only very light rain... is any off the heavy stuff moving towards me? Cant get my NW radar to work, having a hard job just keeping my PC working at the mo dont know whats wrong...
kaz
I am EX32
The red blob is heading straight toward you:
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dam my radar has just gone down.. Any of that PPN likely moving towards Barnstaple ??? or should I just call it a night?
Just checked EX31 for you and I'd stay up as it's heading straight for you!
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Just got back home from my walk. My school had to be the only secondary school in Swindon open today, and after a 40 minute walk getting there, it was open for a grand total of 20 minutes before we were all booted out and then another 40 minute walk home. I wasn't too happy with that. Nothing around here has been gritted, and roads are impassable. I'd advise you don't travel through or near Swindon unless urgent. Busses are running, but very slow and behind timetable, and I wouldn't be surprised if they stopped running altogether in the next hour or two with a couple of hours of Heavy snow still to come. Stay safe all!
Currently about 4-5 Inches of snow here, with drifts in exposed areas of about 10 inches.
Just been out to take the missus to an urgent hospital appointment. Very nearly got stuck in the hospital car park! As Sainsbo says, most roads are gridlocked with cars skidding all over the place. The roads HAVE been gritted and they are continuing to do so (I know because one passed me in the other direction and sprayed my car
) but it's coming down so quick, it's not really having any effect.Good fun though in a rear wheel drive car! Since mine is lowered and has a front lip spoiler, it's turned into a snow plough!
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Pictures people!
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IT'S OFFICIAL - ANDY NOW HAS A BLIZZARD - WINDY AS ******** - SNOW IS NOW SETTLING AND CREATING THAT LOVELY BASE LAYER - HERE WE GO - IT'S BLIZZARD PILE ON TIME - SPOSE I'D BETTER GET ME 12 MP CAMERA OUT SHORTLY - WHOSE FOR A PICCY THEN?
I believe you promised us a picture! It's been 21 minutes, where is it?! haha so excited!
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Hello all from the excited south west! Anyone got any pictures of the blizzard? Something to salivate over while we're waiting for it to arrive
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Anyone notice the great big hole that's opened over the channel islands? haha
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I've got a University assignment in for 4:30pm so I'm staying up whether I like it or not!
Should be fun watching it come in.
Any idea what's going to happen when the main front joins up with the stalled occlusion that's over us right now?
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BBC updated the forecast for Swindon 40 minutes ago - Still going for a snowy theme with no rain in sight yet.
Netweather's local forecast also has us in the snow for at least 24 hours as well!
It's definitely a case of I'll believe it when I see it, but still quite excited!
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If I remember the 2010 event correctly, in swindon it was supposed to be a snow to rain event as there was supposed to be a mild sector mucking things up, but it never happened.
Then I remember that 3 days later there was supposed to be a mild breakdown, and that didn't happen either! Instead it was just more snow which then stuck around for several days before a very slow and gradual warming up.
So even at T0, things can be considerably different from what's expected.
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Well it's definitely snowing lightly outside. Just took the dog out for a loo run and there's a thin layer on cars and grass now.
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For the benefit of everyone here, this is a screenshot of the current radar
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Thanks - actually, interesting thought struck me re snow grains and whether we'll see some anthropogenic generation of this from hot outflow off power stations and the like into areas of freezing fog.... hmmmm
I remember when we had freezing fog in Bath in 2009 and seeing such heavy snow grain showers coming from factories in Bristol and Avonmouth. Really really surreal stuff.
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Well according to the radar it snowed here last night at 4:55am (so I certainly didn't see it) and only went on for half an hour.
All melted now of course though! You'd never have known it did at all!
Never mind, onto next week!
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Because it activates with shortwave trough from W later and that's part of the forecast complexity
Cheers for that Ian, as already said, always interesting and an advantage to have your input!
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You can see the cold air digging in behind the occlusion over Scotland here;
We want the cold air to dig behind as quick as possible to get the most snowfall as possible before it clears away.
Is there a reason that the front isn't showing up on Netweathers radar as anything other than showers?
This is the current image:
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I know this is from swindon but this is showing -2.5c http://swindon.weather.me.uk/
I can confirm this. Just been out to take the dog for a walk and there's ice all over the place and it's chuffing freezing!
) but it's coming down so quick, it's not really having any effect.
South West/Central Southern England Regional Discussion 08/02/13 00z ------->
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Rain with a few sleety bits here in swindon.