Snow Watch: London, Se England & East Anglia

[Kay]

Well PPN on the radar is aleady into the London area, 3 hours early! The forecasters yet again aint got a clue!

Yes if it gets down here to early then it will just fall as rain due to the temp being at 6C. My weather station is forcasting just a sun for the first time in days!!

Just great.

[snowray]

Bl*ody typical! Echoes of forecast last Thursday for Friday night with lots of snow for London, for it to get completely downgraded by tea time

This is going to be the other way round I think!

[Kay]

This is going to be the other way round I think!

Not according to south east today at lunch time, slushy snow up to 3cms but thats on the downs.

[Essex Chelle]

OH just phoned me to say, Essex FM just announced on radio that there is a severe weather warning for Essex to have heavy snow from 4pm tonight!!!!!!

[snow raven]

Have I missed something? I didnt know snow was a possibility for the SE today?

[snowray]

Yes if it gets down here to early then it will just fall as rain due to the temp being at 6C. My weather station is forcasting just a sun for the first time in days!!

Just great.

I wouldn't want it down here too early, no, but I think as the heavier stuff moves in it will readily turn to snow and stay as snow to the East of London, some will see heavier falls right through this evening maybe.

[angel]

OH just phoned me to say, Essex FM just announced on radio that there is a severe weather warning for Essex to have heavy snow from 4pm tonight!!!!!!

Ooh I so hope they're right!!

[Essex Chelle]

Posting temp now so can see how it changes in the next couple of hours:

14.40pm Temp 5.5 Dewpoint -0.9

[spayne]

Due to drive back from Brentwood bang on rush hour tonight, this could be interesting as there are still some pockets of frost on the grass!!!! Sky looks very grey.

[Hammer]

Warning states

Snow will become heavy at times this afternoon and evening giving up to 6cm in places especially over higher ground. The snow will clear southwards during the early part of the night.

Due to drive back from Brentwood bang on rush hour tonight, this could be interesting as there are still some pockets of frost on the grass!!!! Sky looks very grey.

[huntso]

Now snowing in St Ives, but not settling as yet.

Severe weather warning out for Cambs so here's hoping. Think I had better try and contact my daughter as she was off to a Maths seminar in Cambridge this evening.

[Michael Fishermans Friend]

Bare in mind the Dewpoint is great, and here in Colchester last night at 5.30pm it was sleeting at 4C so it wouldn't have to fall mega amounts but would have to snow heavy to settle!

Edited February 12, 2009 by Timmy H

[donna-m]

According to NW radar its turning to rain and thats the bit heading for me,,

Hopefully it will halt for a few hours to let my temp drop at the moment its 4.6 ,dew point is 0.6.

[spayne]

This all seems like a bit of a surprise to many, has something changed direction as I thought yesterday morning there were no warnings for anywhere in the UK???

[Hurricane Debby]

Have I missed something? I didnt know snow was a possibility for the SE today?

Neither did I ! And this morning I would have totally disagreed as we had blue skies and sunshine....But it is starting to cloud over here now......Will be just my fricking luck that it does because I have to drive to Gatwick tomorrow early hours 5am...

[Alpine glow]

The temp and dewpoint are dropping rapidly here in Brighton.. 4.6C and -0.5C respectively...

If there is hope for me there is hope for you guys..

[Radiating Dendrite]

Latest Radar seems to suggest that is now heading South and not South East, is also building towards the west and getting wider.

The Dew Points are nice and low, so I would expect snow even if the actual air temps seem to marginal.

It is certainly getting interesting!

[jimbo36]

Woudln't build your hopes up for London and the SE. Looks like the worst of the PPN will be over North Sea by time it reaches us and all we'll be left with is some snizzle apart from the far eastern counties

jimbo

[Essex Chelle]

What do you think of this:

http://www.meteox.com/h.aspx?r=&jaar=-3&soort=exp

[Greyowl]

Light to Moderate snow for a while. Turned a bit sleety at the moment.

[Severe Blizzard]

Bl*ody typical! Echoes of forecast last Thursday for Friday night with lots of snow for London, for it to get completely downgraded by tea time

I agree.

Haven't seen a single snowflake since last FRIDAY.

It's another marginal situation - the usual curse in our area - either precipitation intensity dies off / fragments before it reaches this region or the temperature / dewpoint profile is too high. So we probably won't see much in the next few hours.

This spell is turning into a big dissapointment - it started off well enough with the fantastic 13 hours of heavy snow overnight 1st~2nd February with 29 cm snow lying but every situation since has just become more marginal with increasing downgrades and less snow. The usual areas which are favoured in this type of set up have done much better this week (Midlands, East Anglia and Lincolnshire).

[spayne]

Just spoken with a mate in Standon, Herts and it's just started snowing there!!!

[Blizzard_of_Oz]

Not snowing in this part of Hertfordshire.

[whatever1]

Light snow just starting in Cambridge...

[jimbo36]

What do you think of this:

http://www.meteox.com/h.aspx?r=&jaar=-3&soort=exp

fantastic radar graphics......you're beautiful by the way!!