East Anglia & South East Cold Spell Discussion

[Archie_Lewis]

Seems as though everywhere east of High Wycombe is Rain/Sleet.

High Wycombe/ Amersham reporting Heavy Snow.

[saint]

Seems as though everywhere east of High Wycombe is Rain/Sleet.

High Wycombe/ Amersham reporting Heavy Snow.

We are in West Herts too, so no where in Herts will see snow if we and Hemel don't see any.......

[Paul Sherman]

Places to the West of the Front have a Northerly element to the wind which is surpressing the temps to around the zero degree mark, also now West of the system the temps are dropping, the problem is in the middle and to the east of the system where a Milder wedge of air has increased the temperature by as much as 7c since first thing this morning, I chose High Wycombe as My sweet spot late last night in the last thread and this looks like being the lucky place today,

Paul S

[Archie_Lewis]

Drizzle now

[nick sussex]

Judging by the bbc forecast they expect the front to pivot back nw'wards later in the afternoon, the ukmo had better hope this happens otherwise the weather warnings for further north towards the east midlands and further east are going to look very wayward, at the moment the precip seems to be tracking ene.

[Paul Sherman]

Yep, raining in Mid Sussex with a thick layer of Slush-Puppy everywhere on the ground. Just concerned that if this lot freezes tonight, the SE will stage the biggest ever live 'Dancing on Ice' contest.

Yes tonight is going to be dangerous and I would urge people to not drive if they dont have to!

[patrickshere]

Heavy snow in Great Missenden too. Temperature's shot up last 15 minutes or so, just checked again and at ~1.5.. Worrying!

Edit: Phew, light snow here, slightly south of Aylesbury. (Stoke Mandeville).

Edited December 21, 2009 by mituozo

[SussexmarkyMark]

The temperature has dropped from a peak of 5c just before noon to just 2.3c now. Heavy rain continues to be mixed with soft slushy hail, which is now being deposited on many surfaces.

[Archie_Lewis]

We are in West Herts too, so no where in Herts will see snow if we and Hemel don't see any.......

Absolutely we are west herts and seeing rain.

Members in the rest of herts and everyone to the east of us can forget snow.

[kold weather]

Rain melting everything away now but I can only imagine ice is going to be one again a very big issue once the frontal system clears through eventually...still cold but obviously not quite as cold as it has been, temps now at 2C.

[saint]

No PPN falling at all.

Yep ice will be a very big problem tonight......

[patrickshere]

Can report too that currently on the M3 there's very heavy snow, traffic moving very slowly. Looking very promising for a large amount of snow..

[Hammer]

Absolutely we are west herts and seeing rain.

Members in the rest of herts and everyone to the east of us can forget snow.

archie not strictly true, as the hours pass it will turn increasingly to snow. In a number of places.

[Archie_Lewis]

Can report too that currently on the M3 there's very heavy snow, traffic moving very slowly. Looking very promising for a large amount of snow..

That is just CRAZY......... M3 HAS SNOW AND IM MUCH FURTHER NORTH AND ALL I GET HERE IS RAIN

[saint]

Yeah Met Office warning is for sleet to turn to snow......

That is just CRAZY......... M3 HAS SNOW AND IM MUCH FURTHER NORTH AND ALL I GET HERE IS RAIN

Calm! Looking at cams on M3 there doesn't appear to be any snow......

[Archie_Lewis]

archie not strictly true, as the hours pass it will turn increasingly to snow. In a number of places.

Hi Hammer,

Hope your well.

So you expect it to change over to snow eventually then?

[chionomaniac]

The temperature has dropped from a peak of 5c just before noon to just 2.3c now. Heavy rain continues to be mixed with soft slushy hail, which is now being deposited on many surfaces.

Certainly very interesting here. Rain started with the temp at 3.7ºC which had reduced with evaporative cooling to 2.3ºC. Then the hail started for about 5 mins which has now whitened everywhere again. Currently raining with hail and sleety bits and the temperature has reduced further to 1.3ºC. If this continues then the possiblity of a full change to snow is not out of the question.

[tinybill]

just looked at my weather station temp drooped to 1.5 so any thing could happen later here in snow bound ipswich

[patrickshere]

Yeah Met Office warning is for sleet to turn to snow......

Calm!:smiliz34: Looking at cams on M3 there doesn't appear to be any snow......

It's Basingstoke northwards.

[Neilsouth]

Heavy sleet and snow flakes!! :smiliz34:

[chestnuts roasting]

Light shower here ....and its snow

[jdp80]

So will the sleety rain turn to snow as temperatures drop when it gets darker....

[Archie_Lewis]

Light shower here ....and its snow

Yes we had a light snow shower here before the main rain band. On the very edge of the rain band and its sleeting now!

[saint]

It's Basingstoke northwards.

Actually yeah!:smiliz34:

On the M4 near Reading (Which is directly north of Basingstoke) Snow is falling.........

Edited December 21, 2009 by saint

[Paul Sherman]

C London Heavy Rain turned to Sleet with big Snowflakes interspersed :smiliz34:

Was not expecting that at all!