Snow Watch London, Se England & E Anglia

[tinybill]

looks like part 2 is here fron france steady snow in ipswich

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

Edited February 2, 2009 by tinybill

[Spanner]

Still snowing in Milton keynes and has been since about 7am. Its lighter now and brightening a bit...hope the big stuff dumps on us tonight....lol

[PureOcean]

Gives you a taste of current conditions in downtown Folkestone...

Laz

Thanks that what we have now as well, its just nice to see what you have before we get it so as we can establish the potential.

[knightstorm]

I've just looked on Met Office and the amounts of snow forecast by the moduels for later on is rather scary lol

[danm]

sleet/snow in gravesend at the moment.

sleet? this early?

[janetmh71]

Temp 0.8 and rising

Starting to melt slowly under blue sky

Please say there is more to come?????

[barrybcm]

Snowing steadily in Maidstone town centre now.

Just started in medway too

[Timmytour]

It feels strange coming on here without a reason to complain about the snow we've got...so let's try getting things back to normal.....

Ok, it's been snowing all morning and we've got over six inches....but why has it been falling so lightly for the last hour or so?

Gee. that feels more like it

[Flash Elvis]

Temp Risen to 1.1oC...but heavy snow

[KT]

Hertford Hertfordshire. Pic taken 02nd February 11.00am 3 1/4 inches or 8cm.

Still snowing lightly.

Edited February 2, 2009 by KT

[Kent Snow]

Snow increasingly becoming heavier. Temp 0.4C and staying steady.

[Baynesey (snow chaser)]

heavy fine snow falling here in canterbury!!!

flakes are getting bigger, and its only the start of the front !!!!

[knightstorm]

There is a High Risk of a Severe Weather event affecting much of England and Wales on Monday. Periods of snow will continue to extend northwestwards through the day, with heavy falls likely in places. Although marked variations will occur from place to place, 5-10cm is likely in many areas with as much as 20-30cm possible

This was from the Met! 30cm = 12 inches WOW

[Jayces]

Couple more pics from me, something I haven't seen since the 80's......ICICLES!

[Tom Quintavalle]

Morning all,

Well has been coming down steadily for the last half hour again and sky looks full of it, here in Lee SE12.

Still concerned for areas east of the Greenwich Meridian late aft/early eve, might turn to sleet or rain before it clears, esp. the further east you are.

A few charts to illustrate.

http://212.100.247.145/gfsimages/gfs.20090.../h850t850eu.png

Low centred just to the east of the meridian and in middle of channel with 850s at -5 ruunning up the Meridian.

http://212.100.247.145/gfsimages/gfs.20090...ctypeuktopo.png

With sleet/rain being forecast east of the Meridian.

http://212.100.247.145/gfsimages/gfs.20090.../h850t850eu.png

By midnight -5 850s moving back east into Kent.

With attendant ppn trending towards sleet/snow from the west.

http://212.100.247.145/gfsimages/gfs.20090.../h850t850eu.png

-5 850s sweep back east through the whole of the SE by 3 AM.

With remnants of ppn turning more wintry as it dies.

Will be interesting to see Metos take on this. We seem to have a window of dodginess of about 6 hours east of the Greenwich line.

As KW states, surface cold in our favour though, which may prevent transition from snow-sleet-rain from happening away from coasts.

Anymore thoughts on this KW, think we need that low not to track to far west from the Meridian.

Looks a good shout from Steve re. Surrey Downs having most accumulated depth but I'm sure my fav place Biggin Hill will be ok and will stay as snow.

Further afield looking good for N/W Midlands for some nice totals come end of the week.

Regards,

Tom.

[Chris_19]

sleet? this early?

it was really light precipitation and has now turned back to snow now that it is heavier.

[Kay]

Snowing heavily now in woodchurch, small flakes but starting to lay on the cars and road. Does anyone know wot itme it is going to turn to rain or sleet???

[PureOcean]

Snow increasingly becoming heavier. Temp 0.4C and staying steady.

You getting any depth in the City yet? WIt the fresh fall.... Its seems to be heavier just towards Whitstable and Boughton but wondered if you have anything significant coming on in Canterbury?

[tinybill]

round 2

[Charltonkerry]

Still snowing in Dartford, been steady for the last half hour, nothing special but adding to the 5" we already had at 7.30

[knightstorm]

heavy fine snow falling here in canterbury!!!

Well yes makes sense, you guys in Kent well get the heavy stuff from France a couple of hours before us Londoners do!

[PureOcean]

Morning all,

Well has been coming down steadily for the last half hour again and sky looks full of it, here in Lee SE12.

Still concerned for areas east of the Greenwich Meridian late aft/early eve, might turn to sleet or rain before it clears, esp. the further east you are.

A few charts to illustrate.

http://212.100.247.145/gfsimages/gfs.20090.../h850t850eu.png

Low centred just to the east of the meridian and in middle of channel with 850s at -5 ruunning up the Meridian.

http://212.100.247.145/gfsimages/gfs.20090...ctypeuktopo.png

With sleet/rain being forecast east of the Meridian.

http://212.100.247.145/gfsimages/gfs.20090.../h850t850eu.png

By midnight -5 850s moving back east into Kent.

With attendant ppn trending towards sleet/snow from the west.

http://212.100.247.145/gfsimages/gfs.20090.../h850t850eu.png

-5 850s sweep back east through the whole of the SE by 3 AM.

With remnants of ppn turning more wintry as it dies.

Will be interesting to see Metos take on this. We seem to have a window of dodginess of about 6 hours east of the Greenwich line.

As KW states, surface cold in our favour though, which may prevent transition from snow-sleet-rain from happening away from coasts.

Anymore thoughts on this KW, think we need that low not to track to far west from the Meridian.

Looks a good shout from Steve re. Surrey Downs having most accumulated depth but I'm sure my fav place Biggin Hill will be ok and will stay as snow.

Further afield looking good for N/W Midlands for some nice totals come end of the week.

Regards,

Tom.

I think it will stay as Snow for Kent and west of Kent but possible sleet for Essex.

[Lazarus Long]

Thanks that what we have now as well, its just nice to see what you have before we get it so as we can establish the potential.

Flake size dropping, intensity increasing. Temp 1.5C and dropping slowly. Even wet surfaces now starting to get covered.

[Tom D]

Well we got about another centimetre here between 8 and 10. It stopped breifly but it's snowing again now. -0.3c so it could start thawing soon.

[barmybint]

Throwing it down now, in Maidstone!