Snow Watch: Midlands & C Southern England

[hammerb32]

Light snow now in Walsall, 2 hours earlier than I thought!

[tom_f123]

Few snow grains in the wind here now

[Vanian]

Very Light snow over the last hour.Sledge is being refurbished in anticipation!

[Nick L]

Moderately heavy snow, starting to settle :lol:

Edited February 1, 2009 by nick2702

[weather_it_will]

Light snow flurries here in Banbury at the moment.

Radar shows we are sandwiched between main bands of snow either side of here.

Snow bands are running parallel with the M1 and M40

One band running just north of Cheltenham and the other across Northampton Leiceser, Rugby.

[Nick L]

Snow starting to settle here now, much more to come! Temperature falling rapidly, approaching freezing now.

[kold weather]

Get ready for this eveing, whilst the east will get the heaviest the instablity looks easily strong enough to send the showers into this zone and in quite a big amount, I wouldn't be at all surprised to see widespread reports of an inch before the main snowfall comes up from France...

[andy_leics22]

Amazing here now, this pic was taken half an hour ago...

[conor123]

Light snow has made its way across to here already, somewhat earlier than expected.

Most of it isnt reaching the ground though, just blowing round.

Temp 1.9c

[toonarmy32]

it has been lightly snowing here for the past 1/2 hour

andy thanks for the pic earlier i cant wait for those showers to come now lol

cher

x

[kold weather]

Not surprising Coner, still probably got another 6-9hrs before the main thrust of showers comes in from the east, models are suggesting this flow will be very unstable indeed, possibly a colder version of Feb 05 event where the showers packed way inland.

[phantom]

Why have the Met Office now gone green for almost all the country tomorrow?

[tom_f123]

Still light snow blowing around here with more to come looking at the radar, a flake landed on my jumper and it was a perfect snowflake not just a clump of slush lol

[katemart]

Hopefully the met office thing is while they change the warning to orange for more counties.

Us on the south coast need that stream to veer more northerly - it is just not fair if it all streams to the north! :lol:

Kate

PS - can new members please put their locations in their profiles, please - no point reporting if we don't know where you are!

[cyclonic happiness]

We are having a very very heavy shower of soft hail which is starting to pile up now , melting a little but just a taster of the fun to come i hope? :lol:

[kold weather]

Looks like a sort of streamer has set up in the near the Wash as is quite common in these set-ups, places west of this even quite far inland as the current radar is proving could well get a fairly decent dumping of snow before the main event comes up.

[cyclonic happiness]

Still light snow blowing around here with more to come looking at the radar, a flake landed on my jumper and it was a perfect snowflake not just a clump of slush lol

Hehe that's my though too, these are proper, old fashioned snowflakes!!!! I'll try and get some pcs of them later as they are less likely to melt .

Also the snow is coming down really heavily now!!

Edited February 1, 2009 by cyclonic happiness

[Turnedoutniceagain]

Whiteout here for about 30mins now !! Where's my car/garden/greenhouse gone ??

[tom_f123]

Great stuff kold, flakes getting a bit heavier and thicker now here, warnings back up for monday on metoffice now..

[Barometer Obama]

Looks like a sort of streamer has set up in the near the Wash as is quite common in these set-ups, places west of this even quite far inland as the current radar is proving could well get a fairly decent dumping of snow before the main event comes up.

Hi KW, please let us know if it starts your way as it will give me a warning that I need to raise my excitment levels even higher!

[kold weather]

Yeah, the only issue for us is that there may not be much south of the streamer but given how unstable the airflow is we should get some snowfall, just not as much as say a line from Essex through London, Guildford and along the M4 roughly, wouldn't be surprised to see several inches in those places, as well as places W/WSW of the Wash.

Just as I say that it starts to snow!

Edited February 1, 2009 by kold weather

[toonarmy32]

getting a bit thicker and heaveir here to

cher

x

[phil nw.]

We are having a very very heavy shower of soft hail which is starting to pile up now , melting a little but just a taster of the fun to come i hope? :lol:

Yes it`s been trying for a couple of hrs and now seems to be pepping up.

It`s looking very good for more according to this

http://www.meteox.com/h.aspx?r=&jaar=-...;soort=satradar

Like a large Wash streamer.

Edited February 1, 2009 by phil n.warks.

[weather vain]

Wow - look at the explosion of showers in the last hr. This is much better than expected

[Crockel]

Hi KW, please let us know if it starts your way as it will give me a warning that I need to raise my excitment levels even higher!

It's snowing lightly in Stubbington- about three miles away!

Edited February 1, 2009 by Crockel