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I remember 91 well. It actually started much like this. Showers on and off all day. Thawing in the sun and then more showers. I was thinking earlier how similar it had been. However, it did turn heavier later in the day and overnight it really came down. I guess some parts have experienced that this evening (some of us haven’t) but I’m sure, as someone else posted, we had fronts crossing over rather than convective showers awesome seeing all your photos this evening.

I think we are all just hoping that this will explode and we get huge convection over us that takes everyone by surprise. Thats what really made the main events for 2009 & 10 so exciting

I’ve really no idea what to expect. Makes it exciting but nerve racking, especially come Friday. More to the point I don’t know what later tonight will bring if anything?

Moderate snow in south Croydon. Sticking quickly. Just as wellness Yamkins gritters were out last night

Flakes blowing about here.

Cloud building here.

Hello everyone. Thought I’d login rather than watch from the outside! I was looking at my photos from 2010 earlier. I knew at the time to make the most of it as it’d been a very long 19 years waiting to get that kind of snow fall. I hardly slept from the Tuesday to Friday! My point was that I was surprised. We were due snow but at max 5-10cm. That night started with snow grains and I was gutted. However, a couple of hours later it turned into flakes, getting heavier and heavier. I recall Steve Murr posting snow bomb and he was right. The convection kept going over our heads. I ended up with a foot or slightly more of snow by morning. A far cry from the max 10cm forecast just a few hours before. Thats the pro and con of this set up. You just can’t be too sure. Fingers crossed and feet on the ground. It’s about time we had some snow!

Was literally 5 mins up the other end of my road and it was snowing quite moderately. Plus a decent dusting. Can back to mine and it's a few flakes and wet. Crazy how even just the slightest elevation here makes a difference

I'm on the wrong end of my road. I can see just 100m up the road it's settling and over on the hillier part but here it's just damp with a few patches

Turned more to sleet here with the odd large flake

Colder now so the big flakes have become smaller. Quite slushy though but more of a covering than I expected. That rapid rain to snow along with how quickly it stuck was pretty special. Can't recall the last time we had near constant rain all day turn like that. Even the infamous thundersnow only briefly started as rain.

Impressed how quickly the rain turned and the snow settled. Even the pavements have a dusting now

Snow!

Changed to sleet about 5 mins ago in south croydon

Flurry at the moment. Not thawing as rapidly as I expected whatever happens this winter we are 1 day closer to seeing the below again. It may well be another 4533 days but it was 4534 yesterday!

Nice to see a very slight cover and fairly large flakes falling. At least it won't be a 2013/14 snowless winter. Do miss my old cottage when it snows though, the photos were always much prettier than my more suburban location now.

I've been watching old snow videos online too! Inspiration for this was trying to remember how well forecast feb 09 and Dec 10 were. From what I can tell they were forecast but in 09's case, their main focus was very heavy snow falling on the Monday night. They (BBC) do show the snow along the Thames Estury on the Sunday but saying max of 10-15cms. It looked like we were expecting a front to move eastwards over the monday evening that would bring more heavy snow. Correct me if I'm wrong ( I was living in St Albans at that time so missed most of the streamer fun but still managed about 12cms from what I thought was the initially forecast snow and not the streamer??) but I thought the Sunday snow was quite a surprise in that the famous streamer set up and deposited up to a foot of snow that night? That streamer wasn't really forecast and took people by surprise despite the warnings for heavy snow? I also recall that the Monday night snow didn't materialise so if it hadn't been for the streamer, it'd not have been that great - well, still decent but nothing like what people ended up with. Dec 10 I remember better as I was back in Surrey. Snow was forecast and indeed we had a slight covering on the Sunday night/Monday AM. Then quite a bit of snow on the Monday night with light snow falling non stop Tuesday. Tuesday night was forecast for more snow but a few cm's. In the end it was really heavy snow that suddenly intensified over the region and left me with just over a ft of snow (combined settled total since Monday) - what was the cause of that? Is that correct? Or were the forecasts pretty much spot on?

Stopped now. I've said it before but the new white lamp posts are so much better for desperate snow watch.

No. Might be on the hillier parts as there are still a number of cars driving around with a cm or so of snow on them!

Turned to sleet. Didn't settle but some people are enjoying tormenting me by driving past with snow on their cars. Must have stuck close by.

Thanks Paul. Was convinced it started snowing on a Sunday.

87 was my first detailed memory of snow as I was 7 at the time. I still remember how cold it was with the windows freezing on the inside and the enormous icicles. We all slept in the lounge as it was too cold upstairs as our heating packed up. I'm not sure how much snow fell in Coulsdon but it felt like a huge amount. Might be wrong but think this was a time when I'd got to bed knowing the next morning I'd have more fresh snow to play in. Was a great time. (Did it start snowing heavily on a Sunday morning or is that my memory playing tricks?)

Pretty sure it raining lightly here!

Woke up to have a look. A cm of snow in Croydon. Yamkin up the road probably has a foot!

Ha I came on to post about the moon halo! Impressive stuff.