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Given that here in Ealing none of the roads have been gritted and we had a short thaw before the temps started plunging, I actually think a bit of new snow in the early morning might make it slightly less treacherous! Maybe we will get 1cm more snow on top of that we have and sheet ice in time for my brother and his wife arriving from Denver, Colorado at 0905. They are probably sick of snow by now and looking forward to some mild weather

Darren Bett on News24 has just backed up Peter Cockcroft's London forecast, says the snow will move back across London between 0500 and 0700 before fizzling out to the SE by 0900. Then I think he forecasted a sunny, very cold day for tomorrow.

Rob mcelwee is the only BBC forecaster who has put his balls on the line during this period. All credit to him, hope all his mild ramping colleagues buy him a drink or two at the BBC weather teams Christmas party. Pleased to see a nice covering preserved in Ealing. Total slush just 5 mikes away and a few feet lower in Hammersmith

Hi Andy, live in London, parents in Oadby. It's a potent front, just dumped an inch and a half on west London in warm air and on wet ground, before turning to rain and easing off. I reckon it's heading for you, looking at the radar. Should saty as snow outside the urban heat island of London. Hope so, because I want a decent amount of snow to play with when I get up there on the 23rd for the holidays.

Yup moderate rain in Hammersmith now. Oh well. Nice while it lasted! <_<

Snowing heavily and everything now white in Hammersmith London W6 :

Only just realised. Gave up on the snow but... heavy snow in Hammersmith London W6, but very ground so not (yet) settling.

Thankfully the snow cum rain has now gone and hopefully it will get colder now. Still a pink sky in nw 10 so who knows we may pick up a snow shower later. This band mild!

Me too. It's been freezing cold all day and now rain, thankfully it should pass through quick sharp.

Very wet snow turned to cold rain in London nw10. Hoping it will pep up and turn to snow but not sure it will

Cheers Andy H, hammered at a party in NW London, your post claims the prize as the funniest of the night.

Exactly what I was thinking. It has remained below freezing all day in Ealing, west London. Probably be minus 3 again under clear skies by 0100. Glorious winter's day with the sun glistening on the modest, but largely unmelted 1" snowfall on the parks and gardens from Thursday night. Hoping for something better tonight. The BBC are confidently forecasting heavy snow at 0300, moderating to light snow by 0600. In my heart I don't believe it. What are people's thoughts? We in west London missed most of the Chiltern band and the SE band, do you think we may squeeze another inch tonight? Then heading up to Leicestershire on 23 December for Christmas, maybe a better location there...

they did. PC is well into his snow too, unlike some. Deakin looked positively irritated on the national forecast earlier. I hate the way he says 'the numbers doing a bit better in northern Ireland, they might manage four degrees.' what is good about 4 degrees and cold rain?

Moderate snowfall in Hammersmith London W6 now. Snow has really pepped up. London, Snow City.

light snow in Hammersmith London w6 becoming moderate

But is there any sign of the Pest from the West actually coming back any time soon? From what I read on here, there's not. BTW, Chris, I'm from Nottingham, the red half. You can't blame a 5-1 defeat on the ref old chap!

Decent summer all in all here in London. July was terrible yes, but June was OK, August hot at times. September my yet give us some more warmth, it can often be good down here. I guess the north and west fared a lot worse than the SE. But in the end I just think it became de rigueur to moan, even London journalists (usually in the fashion pages) were moaning about the "awful" weather when it was mid August and 25 degrees. I can only wonder what they classed as good weather.

I'd like to second some of the posts by those who say "what's wrong with the weather?" Here in London, I've been happy with our lot since the infernal heatwave disappeared to give way to more classic condistions. Last night I walked home, it was sunny and the temperature at 6pm 21--22 degrees. I thought "I wouldn't want it much more than this in the July sun". It was lovely. The showers have meant I've not had to trudge around the garden every night with a hosepipe and as such have been able to get plenty of DIY done. I very rarely post but I lurk every day and I cannot understand some of the posts on here calling this weather "autumnal". The truth is we have had decent classic English summer weather, the plants are healthy and happy and it's usually t-shirt weather. Sunday was really rather warm, the car thermometer said 27 degrees in Ealing centre, so it may well have been 24 away from the traffic. Despite the excessive ranting from some on here we've only had one properly wet day in 10, and even that one was warm. Oh to be in England in the summer. Spanish dustbowl dry and 35 degrees? No thanks. I've got stuff to do.

Still moderate snow in Ealing. Any idea about when this so-called "rain" as forecast by the BBC is going to fizzle out. It's very cold and snowy outside now and everything is turning white.

Moderate to heavy snow in Ealing, west London. Settling now. I have a lot of time for the BBC but Peter Cockcroft got it wrong tonight. Was forecasting rain only 90 minutes ago. Actual weather: heavy snow.

She said is was not settling but was "flurrying around". I have just seen a couple of flakes in Hammersmith - but nothing much. Now it is dark so it's hard to see.

My wife tells me it is snowing "quite hard" in Ealing. How it can be snowing in Westminster and Ealing but not Hammersmith is beyond me. Perhaps the superb forecasters at the BBC can tell us?

BBC 24 hour forecast updated to light snow in London starting 1800. Turning to heavy snow overnight before a period of light rain. http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/24hr.shtml?world=0008

Yes it seems to be. Looks like areas to the east of London such as yourself may actually get a decent fall now as they are no longer forecasting it dumping in the North Sea. Here in west London I'd be delighted with a pretty inch to see off the winter...

http://www.meteox.com/h.aspx?r=&jaar=-3&soort=exp Yes looks as if the front is shifting back west - all of London covered by 1900......? <_<