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Was just looking at the rain and nostalgically thinking back to that Sunday in Feb 12 years ago when it clouded over in the afternoon and we got buried with that direct hit from the east. Better snow depths for us that day than during the BFTE. Although still didn't match the snow of Jan '87 or Feb '91. Anyhoo, onto the 12z with optimism...

‘Pointless model output’?

Wondering if the person in the model thread who boldly announced less than a week ago that this winter would 'be historic' and rank behind '47 and '63, is still standing behind their claim...? That thread, year after year, is still chock full of people BOOMing and BANKing on models 7 days out as though they are actual forecasts, who then throw their toys out when things don't verify

Steady icy rain here. Delightful

What a day. Happy to accept what’s thrown at us now. Once again September delivers.

Yep, likewise. Love both seasons and the extremes they can bring, but absolutely hate their last knockings when you know the inevitable slide into spring or autumn is just around the corner. Takes me ages to get over their passing knowing how long it will be before they come around again.

If you’d read my earlier reply of 24th Feb I don’t actually know EXACTLY when it was. But I do know it was early nineties because I remember my youngest - born in ‘91 - being in the car with me when the forecast was on and I told her she’d wake up to snow. Maybe in future read the thread before jumping on the caps...

31st December 1978? Epic snowstorm.

Great bit of nostalgia there and remember it well, but that’s not the event in question which was definitely early nineties.

Properly unpleasant out there. At least the more recent rain was accompanied by mild, this is just properly cold and wet. Any sign of the HP that was mooted last week to dry things up from next Sunday?

Am pretty sure that was the event when Michael Fish said on the 5:55pm Radio 4 forecast that evening, ‘if it’s not snowing now where you are, it will be soon.’ Was a nailed on event yet woke up to the usual green lawn and wet roofs. So disappointing.

Sun continually hazy, being interrupted by strips of high-ish cloud acting like the sun’s a magnet... yet acres of blue sky surrounding it. Anyone know the meteorological reason for this?

Minus 3 inches and counting... Have been so close to the action both Tuesday, Thursday and today, yet close but definitely no cigar. Frustrating times for us south-east Londoners. Bring on a proper long-fetch easterly!

Looks to be heading to the north-west, anti clockwise from the SE. According to the NW radar.

Confrontational? Not so. Am merely balancing out your comment as to why there's been so many SE posters in here.

It's the capital. It's bound to make news. Having said that, the news always report on notable snow events around the country. And come on, what do you expect when there's a channel low forecast?

Not defensive at all. And yes, I did read that. But your comment implies we were somehow skewing the models simply because of our location, which is not the case. The models have consistently shown a channel low giving widespread snow to the south. And people have merely commented accordingly.

The models are showing snow for the south. It's a channel low. What else do you expect to read?

Sadly, Exeter have nearly always proved spot on in these type of set ups.

Was the famous Dec 79 storm a channel low?

So true. Remember well the Radio 4 evening forecast (95?) that said ‘if it’s not snowing where you are now, it soon will be.’ It was that nailed on. Woke up to nothing but miserable drizzle here in London.

3.5 flakes so far...

Totally agree, John. One of the main skills required on here, as well being able to interpret the models and almost as tricky, is reading between the lines and the subsequent filtering required of certain posters. Nine years in and think I've just about got the balance right. Anyhow, looking at the models going forward, hoping the high does build back in as suggested, which will make the current influx of polar maritime air more tolerable. Not quite ready for autumn just yet.

So the low on the 00z that Ice Cold shows being 'bang slap' over us for Sat 1st is gone by the Sunday?

Beautiful late afternoon and evening now that pesky mid-level cloud has disappeared and just a few cirrus line the sky; feels more like an evening on the Med. Happy for a cooler spell - difficult to work at home with no air con and the added temptation to get outside and make the most of the amazing weather. On a literary note, heatwaves always have me reaching for The Go-Between, a fabulous novel written in 1953 and set in the UK summer of 1900 about a young boy in love with the heatwave who, for those of you who haven't read it, is desperate to see temperature reach 100°F. Can only assume that LP Hartley, who wrote it, must have been something of a weather obsessive, so interesting to see that it's East Anglia, where The Go-Between is set, will probably get closest to 100°F tomorrow.