chapmanraven

Managed to get down to -6.6c here on the edge of Hinckley last night, current temp is -2.4c I see that met office have the whole of midlands under an advisory, shame its just for icy roads. I think it should be for snow, those bands seem to go straight over us. Well its fingers crossed again.

Temp here 1.8c a few grains of snow on the ground, I've seen it whiter under a frost lol The canal was frozen over this morning but the ice has been broken up by passing boats but not melting. Getting depressed now at lack of snow, stupid I know as is such a lovely cold and sunny day.

Those of you getting snow, did you see a much temp rise before the snow arrived? If you did how high did it go and what did it drop back to? I'm so pleased for you all, what a brilliant start to the new year.

Where are you flying out from? Where ever it is take a packed lunch and thermos for that long wait at the check in.

I know I'm a bit late but Happy New Year. We actually had some snow yesterday evening, only a dusting but its is still on the ground. We have clouds coming over but nothing falling from them, have a current temp of 3c when the sun comes out. Had -3.5 last night and the canal is frozen over. Watched the swans walking on the ice this morning. Looks like the band is going to miss us not dropping quite this far down. Excellent winter so far lovely and cold.

weather09 & Shiny_bottom_1 thanks for the info and thanks for putting it in plain English. I actually understand what your saying, reading the model thread has me scampering all over the internet trying to fathom it all out, thanks again.

I've just been reading the model thread and people seem to be getting excited about the latest runs. Weather09, you seem to have a good grasp of the model outputs are they really as unusual as is being suggested?

Well we got nothing when it was forecast for us, so maybe as its now not forecast we will get some . It really is clouding up quite nicely even if it is a tadd warmer than I would like it to be.

All pigs fed and ready to fly. Just hope they are not to fat for take off

Just cut & Paste this from Met Office site. Fingers firmly crossed. East Midlands: Derby Derbyshire Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Rutland Heavy Snow & Widespread Icy Roads Thu 31 Dec Snow showers are expected to affect many areas but especially coasts and hills exposed to the north. The showers may be heavy and give fresh accumulations of 2-5cm in some places and locally 10cm. Icy patches on untreated surfaces may become widespread. Issued at: 1458 Wed 30 Dec

Hugs and passes the valium.

Got up in the night after over indulging on baileys and mince pies, I was so pleased to see heavy snow hurtling past the window and starting to stick on the grass. It was really magical with just the soft noise of the snow and wind. I went to back to bed with dreams of waking to a snowy scene this morning. When I went back to bed the temp was a steady 0.5c. Got up this morning to 3c, rain and mud, but hey ho I'm still delighted that I actually saw some snow both falling and on the ground. Is there any chance of some more or is that it for the time being?

I'm off to cook dinner. Hopefully things will have changed by the time I get back online. I do still think that despite the temps etc as they are at the moment, it will change and we will get snow.

LOL where did I put that passport

It is going to snow. good job there's nothing on the telly, lamp post lit and ready to be watched.

Temp 3.6c and falling, but as someone commented earlier my weather station reads a little high. I have just been out for a ciggy, there is the odd spot of rain being carried in the wind.

I'm waiting and waiting Ok were's my snow I do think we will get some this time.

Snow damn it snow.

Temp has started to fall here, dropped 0.5 last in the 10 mins

Just watched the East Midlands forecast, the maps on screen showed us to get quite a bit of snow, so here's hoping Temp at the moment is to high at 4.0c but I'm dearly hoping its going to start to drop soon, there is a stiff breeze which makes it feel a lot colder. The canal is almost totally thawed though there are still large blocks of floating ice. The ground is damp but there is still some frost in places and there was black ice when I took the dog for his walk.

Just watched the BBC 12.20 weather report online, why did he only forecast up to 13.00hrs?

I think they are as confused as us. With the wide variations from the models I'm not surprised Think we should put the words snow and rain on a coin and flip it :lol:

I really don't know what to make of it. BBC weather has me down for heavey snow from 9am tomorrow, netweather has me down for sleet/rain, the Met Office just have an advisory. Woolly hat and snow boots or a brolley and wellingtons? I've been reading the posts from both this thread and the model threads, to be honest I thought the model thread people where going to come to blows Beautiful sunny day here after some fog mid morning. Temp down to -2.4c last night and hovering about 3.3c at the moment. The canal refroze last night after partly thawing with floating chunks of ice yesterday. Boats that broke the ice before it started to thaw were struggling through over 1 to 2 inch thick ice. Most boats gave up and moored. It was only a working boat with full load of coal and diesel on board manage to break the ice.

Merry Christmas all....sorry I'm late saying it, to tired to come on yesterday after all that cooking and eating and hic! Hope santa brought you all you asked for. It was great to see your posts with the hope of snow on the way, as you know we didn't get any snow that stuck here in hinckley. Do you really think it going to come off and not be a wash out?

Poor things having a nervous breakdown.... I'm getting 1.1c then 1.3c then 1.1c again.