otleygas

A Blizzette?

What's the eta of the snow please? Am due to be travelling back from London to north Somerset on the train later today at about 6. Should I try and get out earlier or will the snow arrive over night? Thanks

Yep. Think we'll just see some transient light snow, thawing before midnight. Need to be further east (say swindon east) to catch the real stuff. still, there's always next week

Latest Met Office warnings are available in PDF at: http://metofficenews.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/warnings-issued-thu-2-feb-2012.pdf

Thanks for the explanation - much appreciated. Here's hoping for an exciting winter - half the fun is in the anticipation!

I am a very infrequent poster on here, but enjoy reading what others - expert and otherwise! - have to say on the weather. Like many others, I am most interested in the winter weather and look forward to reading others forecasts - from very long range to nowcasts - about winter. What I would like to know is why did moderators feel the need to close the winter discussion thread? Yes, I appreciate is it mostly speculation and guess work at this stage, but it is fun to read non the less. Surely those deeply offended by the lack of scientific basis or general off topicness of the thread could just not read it, and let those of us who want to speculate away to our hearts content get on with it in peace and quite if we promise not to disturb the in depth and more serious forecasting threads? anyway, I've had my say - but it does seem like this forum is somewhat over moderated to me (but saying that I do appreciate the personal time that mods put into the site and that it is a difficult balance)

I'm about a mile up the road from Yatton and only a icing sugar coating here on the pavements

up near filton is looking good http://www.trafficengland.co.uk/trafficcamera.aspx?cameraUri=http://public.hanet.org.uk/cctvpublicaccess/html/48418.html just wet pavements for me though

Just up the road from you and our v light dusting has been washed away by rain

I'm in the same boat. The latest "raintoday" radar shows a thin stream of PPN to our south. No idea how acurate this is though

I have a horrible feeling you might be right. however, I live in hope. This one any better for 6am Friday ? :o I'll be happer if the charts are still looking like this same time tomorrow! (and the grey toe has now been coloured in!)

I'm liking the look of the snow risk charts now for Thursday evening.

Please forgive my ignorance here...but what is the parallel run? (Have been reading this forum regularly since last winters snow 'event' and slowly starting to understand bits of the conversations! Thanks

Yep, just starting to stick to the roads now in Wrington a mile or so south of you. Had a nasty feeling we were going to miss out again...here's hoping the heavy stuff keeps tracking up the M5

far enough NW to give just west of Bristol airport a good dumping?

all quiet here in North Somerset (Wrington) since getting a light dusting around 10pm...here's hoping

now now, don't spoil our dreams :o