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Schmac Rookie

Schmac

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  • Location: Emersons Green, Bristol
  • Location: Emersons Green, Bristol
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I'm just so jealous now. The whole country has had decent snowfall and all we have had in West Cornwall is a brief dusting. Just what needs to happen for a decent dumping down this far west?

I know how you feel! I used to live just outside of St. Ives (until 2000) and the only decent snow I can remember was 1991! :blush:

Maybe you'll get some on Sunday, if things pan-out as hinted to on here!

Currently clear skies over Trowbridge... Does anyone in this area know how cold it is at the moment?... Unfortunately I don't own any "weather gadgets"!

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winger

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  • Location: Wincanton, South Somerset
  • Location: Wincanton, South Somerset
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Apart from the ice threat tomrrow morning, which is clearly a real danger, the degree of cold expected tonight is perhaps a little over dramatised. Exactly 12 months ago, night of 6-7th Jan the low was -10.1 C here.

-4.0 right now, falling at 1.3 C/hr

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  • Location: Portishead
  • Location: Portishead
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I'm just so jealous now. The whole country has had decent snowfall and all we have had in West Cornwall is a brief dusting. Just what needs to happen for a decent dumping down this far west?

Showers tomorrow for you (Attache)...if you dont get snow in -8uppers, i dont know when you will ever get snow!

Here

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snowking

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  • Location: St Albans, 95m asl
  • Location: St Albans, 95m asl
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Some rather tasty fax's at 96 and 120

http://www.meteociel.fr/ukmo/fax/fax96s.gif

http://www.meteociel.fr/ukmo/fax/fax120s.gif

By the way, for anyone worried about marginality, dont be

850 thicknesses looking fine, 850 temps looking fine and dew points away from the coast should be supportive of snow

Now you can see why the Met Office are concerned - snow going nowhere for 24 hours

SK

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biggiemauls

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  • Location: Boscombe Down, Wiltshire
  • Location: Boscombe Down, Wiltshire
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It was -6 here an hour ago.. wonder how much colder it can get.

Edit; From Boscombe Down

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jethro

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  • Location: Cheddar Valley, 20mtrs asl
  • Weather Preferences: Snow and lots of it or warm and sunny, no mediocre dross
  • Location: Cheddar Valley, 20mtrs asl
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Anyone still online from the Trowbridge area?...

I'd love to know how cold it is here!... :lol:

Here's a couple of links for you, XC are stations, The Weather Channel one you can type in your postcode.

http://www.xcweather.co.uk/

http://uk.weather.com/weather/today-Radstock-BA3?fromSearch=true

Remarkably, Benson, Oxon is currently -15c!!!!!

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LostInABlizzard

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  • Location: Melksham, Wilts
  • Location: Melksham, Wilts
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Anyone still online from the Trowbridge area?...

I'd love to know how cold it is here!... :lol:

This is what it says for Trowbridge right now:

Fair: -5 °C

Feels Like:-5 °C

Barometer:982.05 mb and steady

Humidity:91 %

Visibility:9.99 km

Dewpoint:-6 °C

Wind:N 22.53 km/h

Sunrise:8:12 AM

Sunset:4:15 PM

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Schmac

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  • Location: Emersons Green, Bristol
  • Location: Emersons Green, Bristol
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It was -6 here an hour ago.. wonder how much colder it can get.

Edit; From Boscombe Down

Hmmm, that's pretty chilly (and not a million miles from here), so the temperature here must be somewhere in that region too, if I had to guess.

I think it's got down to as low as about -8.5 here in recent weeks, so tonight could beat that :lol:

I'm getting sorely tempted to buy myself a basic weather station... Should have asked for one for Christmas, with hindsight! :)

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littlemissy

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  • Location: Taunton Somerset(term time ) Sudbury, Suffolk weekends and holidays hoping to make Suffolk permanent soon ) . .
  • Weather Preferences: thunder/lightning ,gales and warm sunny weather
  • Location: Taunton Somerset(term time ) Sudbury, Suffolk weekends and holidays hoping to make Suffolk permanent soon ) . .
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only -3.9 here in Wellington.

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LostInABlizzard

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  • Location: Melksham, Wilts
  • Location: Melksham, Wilts
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Hmmm, that's pretty chilly (and not a million miles from here), so the temperature here must be somewhere in that region too, if I had to guess.

I think it's got down to as low as about -8.5 here in recent weeks, so tonight could beat that :)

I'm getting sorely tempted to buy myself a basic weather station... Should have asked for one for Christmas, with hindsight! :)

I just posted your figures for Trowbridge at the bottom of page 13.

Fiona

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Schmac Rookie

Schmac

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  • Location: Emersons Green, Bristol
  • Location: Emersons Green, Bristol
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This is what it says for Trowbridge right now:

Fair: -5 °C

Feels Like:-5 °C

Barometer:982.05 mb and steady

Humidity:91 %

Visibility:9.99 km

Dewpoint:-6 °C

Wind:N 22.53 km/h

Sunrise:8:12 AM

Sunset:4:15 PM

Thanks for that!

Will we get into negative double figures by the end of the night?...

The morning rush-hour could be "interesting"...

I just posted your figures for Trowbridge at the bottom of page 13.

Fiona

Thanks for that Fiona.

Are those figures available on Netweather, or from another source?!

Thanks.

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kumquat Seasoned

kumquat

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  • Location: Winterbourne, South Glos
  • Location: Winterbourne, South Glos
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Thanks for the pics and vids everyone - Nelly, Dogs, Martyn, James, Steve and everyone else. A day to remember I think.

And the JTrickey video was excellent - showed off some real depths there .... and the depths to which one can sink to look a right wally LMAO clap.gif

Only joking! All excellent!

Roll on Sunday and all eyes down to the radar! smile.gif

ps thanks again to Ian for unprecedented input.

And Kris Surtees who seems to predict everything spot on - I remember him mentioning the wrap-around first.

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anvilhead

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  • Location: Cirencester
  • Location: Cirencester
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lol I just went to get a coffee with the lady, then droped my front door key in the snow. she sat in the car, i felt around in the dark for 20 minutes rifling through the snow with bare hands. lol. i think my fingers will fall off

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Iceberg Seasoned

Iceberg

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  • Location: Dorset
  • Location: Dorset
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Current temperature at Yeovilton is -14C and likely to get a touch colder yet.

Benson at -17C,

Here in n.Dorset it's a barmy -11C.

Lots of people saying that at this temperature the grit will not do much at all, so the roads are lethal.

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Evening thunder

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  • Location: East Devon
  • Location: East Devon
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Well I didn't expect it to be quite this cold, -10.3C here although its stopped plummeting and levelled off for the last hour after a low of -10.6c!

I guess it shows what a nice 6cm's of snow cover can do!

Actually as I type its risen to -10.2c.

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SteveB Veteran

SteveB

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  • Location: Weston-S-Mare North Somerset
  • Weather Preferences: Hot sunny , cold and snowy, thunderstorms
  • Location: Weston-S-Mare North Somerset
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-4.7c and still falling here in weston.

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Iceberg

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  • Location: Dorset
  • Location: Dorset
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A few other temperatures which arn't as headline grabing much still just as unusual.

Culdrose -4

Exeter -9

Temps are likely to be negative double figures tomorrow night.

I suggest that that it's too cold to keep animals outside such as rabbits, g.pigs etc, unless well protected.

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  • Location: Taunton Somerset(term time ) Sudbury, Suffolk weekends and holidays hoping to make Suffolk permanent soon ) . .
  • Weather Preferences: thunder/lightning ,gales and warm sunny weather
  • Location: Taunton Somerset(term time ) Sudbury, Suffolk weekends and holidays hoping to make Suffolk permanent soon ) . .
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according to Dunkeswell weather station -5.6c

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dogs32 Aficionado

dogs32

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  • Location: south London
  • Location: south London
Posted (edited)

Could be major Snow,as SK is picking out.

Also another worry is salt doesnt really work well in very low temp's,so even IF the road's are gritted they are still deadly.

Salt might become a major problem if this carries on..

There is a National problem evolving .

Winter folk's is here for quite a while yet!!

thx for the pic's Jame's..

Lecky nearer to me,so I often walk up to Devil's chimney.

Did you know you can see the Severn Bridge on a clear day like today from Cleave

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