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But you can already see the M4 effect in action, so it must be about right!

Reporting for snow duty.....

although it does say... a more persistent spell of rain, sleet and and snow may affect the west and south of the yellow area during the early hours of Friday morning.

. I've asked. Cold rain by the sounds of it!

Steve. Could you clarify what you mean by "mixing zone" please?

The issue appears to be the tracking of the low down the country on Saturday. Get it right and we might see some snow in the south, although I'd imagine the further north and east of our region the more chance you have. That's my take on it anyway.

One to keep an eye on for sure. Likely to be latgely confined to higher areas I guess though?

Hi all. Currently camping near Wells and have limited battery life on my phone, so haven't been able to trawl all the threads! Can anyone give an update please on current forecast re heavy rain and esp any thunder threat for this region this evening through to Sunday please? Don't mind a bit of 'normal' rain, but might decide to pack up early if going to be thunder/torrential rain! ( we are due to be leaving tomorrow anyway). Thanks

...opens door...nothing to see here sir....move along now

I believe Ian f posted it up earlier in the regional thread.

What's it like up there. I live about 2 miles away but it's just slush down here in the valley. I guess it is carnage up on the a38?

strange how the v6 radar only appears to be showing rain and sleet and no pink snow, despite the many reports coming in of snow.

Can I check what the timing is for this potential event please? This evening into Tuesday morning, or later on Tuesday?

And he has an uncanny knack of being right!

I think North Somerset and Bristol and south glos were Broadly the Avon area. Other may know better. So, based on what I,ve been told bristol should be ok for all snow event. North Somerset a Bit more risky of snow to rain later in day (but still some good snow it the morning).

Expect red for parts of South Wales. Amber for south west. transition line of snow all day to snow to rain event thought to be east of what was the old county of Avon (ie Avon eastwards an all snow event)

5 minutes south of Yatton here...and just cold rain.

So...other than for those north and east of Bristol who should do well...is there any hope of any significant snowfall (ie settling snow) for those south westerners further south or east?

Extract below is from from met office advisor to local public sector resilence teams... Saturday ....a weather front will move across England and Wales bringing more rain, although that rain is likely to turn to sleet and snow during Saturday afternoon and evening. The area most likly to see snow on Saturday afternoon and evening is Gloucestershire, where there is a chance that snowfall amounts may be enough to give some tricky driving conditions for a time, especially on some of the more rural and higher roads. Across Avon Somerset, Dorset and Wiltshire there may be some sleet and wet snow around on Saturday afternoon and evening, but any snowfall should be quite sporadic, shouldn't stick, and is unlikley to give any problems. ... a chance we'll see some more sleet and snow again during Monday, but amounts don't look particularly threatening.at the moment...

Could you expand please AWD for the benefit of us more metrologically challenged. If that chart were to come to pass, where would any ppn fall as rain and where as snow?

We can only come up with the ideas... It's up to others to make them work! Still. Outside chance of a few flakes on thurs.

Maybe we could build a really tall tower to catch the snow and channel it down to us

looking to the future....once we get past this rain...it does look like we have an outside chance of some snow next weekend

I wonder if there is still any chances of backedge snow at the weekend which (if I understood his post correctly) Ian Ferguson rasied a couple of days ago

Latest communication received at my work from the Met Office below... "The very highest wind speeds are likely to be across parts of Devon & Cornwall ... winds will be very gusty and squally everywhere with the potential to bring down tree branches and damage some temporary structures/hoardings etc. " "Rainfall is going to steadily spread across the whole of Southwest this afternoon and evening - we will likely see some short lived bursts of torrential rainfall within the period of more steady rain. The risk period for the heaviest rain will be throughout the afternoon in Cornwall/Isles of Scilly, but throughout the late afternoon and evening across Devon, Avon & Somerset and Gloucestershire. " "For Dorset and Wiltshire the risk period for the heaviest rain is likely to be this evening." "...respite Friday, but another weather system is likely to bring more gales and heavy rain across Southwest England on Saturday/Saturday night and during Sunday"