London & Se England Cold Spell Discussion

[dubmuffin]

OK, just watched Rob the Ramp's forecast - he specifically mentioned the worst hit areas - but does look like Gtr London remains in the firing line... phew

That's good news, I'm saving myself for the 10 o clock news forecast

[maidstone weather]

Thanks Nick, no barely a couple of inches up to now but I feel I've been spoilt a bit as I was on the isle of wight on Wednesday in their biggest snowfall in 20 years! What can I say, I'm a snow magnet

move house to this way for the night

Edited January 8, 2010 by maidstone weather

[Paul Ashford-Kent]

Now that's a better interface! According to the Highways Agency people are still doing nearly 50mph between J9 and J10!

Err they are doing 32 mph coast bound, and 60 mph london bound - remember they capture this speed by taking the first 5 digits of your number plate, when it snows sometimes only the first 2 or 3 register - thus wrong mph readings.

[SteveCoops]

Thanks Nick, no barely a couple of inches up to now but I feel I've been spoilt a bit as I was on the isle of wight on Wednesday in their biggest snowfall in 20 years! What can I say, I'm a snow magnet

Fancy popping round for a cuppa and dragging that snow with you? haha

[PureOcean]

Whitstable is very deep now, its been a contstant Kent streamer, its deep powder and a blizzard also on the beach, fantastic snow event tonight, just brilliant.

[Blackie]

That snow is in relation to the Low that tracked up from the Med, the snow for late Saturday into Sunday is from an upper warm front. The fax chart shows this.

http://www.wzkarten.de/pics/brack0.gif

Glad we kept Lourdes in the good ship London & SE, Nick. Welcome aboard. Tis a tighter ship we're sailing now after throwing the northernlubbers overboard, but the question is are we in for the perfect (snow) storm over the weekend?

And with all that snow being hijacked by the Kent crew members, I think we ought to bring out the cat o nine tails and do some keel-haulin' too. Now, you don't really want to upset a happy ship and keep it all to yourselves, do you, me hearties?

[Michael Fishermans Friend]

move house to this way for the night :p

that's his ploy to get into your house! I reckon he's homeless :lol:

[winterfreak]

Hello people, Ashford calling -This snow is starting to tire, its been 4 hours non stop tonight on top of the 3 hours we had this am.

;-)

Our hearts bleed for you......

[Vesuvius]

I think SE Essex should do well this weekend but we're only just getting the heavy stuff by the look of it

[jodaw84]

South-East Kent misses out again!!!!!!!????? So frustrating.

Location - Eythorne

Edited January 8, 2010 by jodaw84

[Tom Montalbano]

Evening all,

And especially to my fellow frustrated SE.London/NW Kent members, the radar is proving very annoying for us at the moment.

Really cant see much action for us in the next 12 hours or so.

I'm also a little concerned re. Rob McElwees' comments about tomorrow night into Sunday morning.

At the moment the Kent streamer seems to be affecting Herne Bay/Ashford/Rye and a little either side of that.

IMO come tomorrow night/Sunday morning the most affected areas will be Sheppey/T.Wells-Cranbrook/around Eastbourne-ish, perhaps. Either side of that we might have to fight over the dregs!

Later on Sunday the wind turns more towards the east and a more general area of snow could move through the region as a whole.

Perhaps I'm being too specific, I hope so but at the moment that's the way I see things working out.

Sweet spot could turn out to be high ground around that line, i.e, N.Downs, Sussex/Kent border.

I've based this on wind-stream charts (GFS 12z). I do hope I'm wrong and that the snowfall is much more widespread of course!

Regards,

Tom.

[SMU]

what's that for the weekend?

T24 - T42 18z >>> 18 hours of snow-

In a band from Norfolk across to Andover --

heaviest PPN - london, nw kent!!!,kent, suffolk,

rest essex,all greater London,all sussex etc....

S

[Snowdays]

I never saw it before it was forecast to be all over only heard about it. That's some change and backtrack/downgrade whatever you call it!

It probably won't be clear until this time tomorrow. From my point of view I can't really complain, still got 3.5 inches from Tuesday night and Wednesday which is more than a lot of London got!

[Discombobulation Man]

Its crazy that in a NE airflow, snow has just moved across the Midlands, through Birmingham into Gloucestershire and into SE Wales, and here in London we're getting NOTHING. Ok, the snow may be light over there but at least theyre getting something. In a very frustrating snow shadow at the moment. If the winds are switching to a ENE any chance of some of the making it westwards towards east London?

That's the problem they are not ENE, nor will they be switching to it anytime soon. They're NNE at the mo and unfortunately they won't switch around far enough east to have much of an impact on London at all over this weekends event. That's the reason why London has been downgraded in the last few hours - the direct Easterly kicking in for Sundays precipitation is now not going to happen, it's going to basically stay NE. The snow then clears north and we then get put in a direct Easterly feed but by then it's too late for London - by then the action is dead.

Seriously I can find no more straws to clutch for London now, unless by some miracle a major easterly component kicks in to coincide with the precipitation then we'll just have to make do with a 3 or 4 more cms from Sundays event.

A 2 week snizzly disaster for this neck of the woods looks like finishing in much the same vein.

Edited January 8, 2010 by Gulf Stream Hate Campaign Leader

[Azores Hi]

Fancy popping round for a cuppa and dragging that snow with you? haha

Ha aha suddenly I have friends! I'm afraid I've had too many beers but you are all welcome here, if you can getthrough the snow!

But on a serious note, I wonder whats going to happen tomorrow when tis all starts to blow around? Some serious drifting likely I think, and that really wll cause chaos...

[FatherOf2]

Photo of our Snowman while its quiter in here

I have heard before that Clacton men are ginormous!

[Michael Fishermans Friend]

T24 - T42 18z >>> 18 hours of snow-

In a band from Norfolk across to Andover --

heaviest PPN - london, nw kent!!!,kent, suffolk,

rest essex,all greater London,all sussex etc....

S

I should stand a chance on the SE Essex coast steve if the wind turns more into the east (a bit vague I know)- is it still marginal temps wise for the coastal regions as we lose the colder uppers?

[Mac_SE]

what's that for the weekend?

Yep. Still a cracker!

[Vesuvius]

T24 - T42 18z >>> 18 hours of snow-

In a band from Norfolk across to Andover --

heaviest PPN - london, nw kent!!!,kent, suffolk,

rest essex,all greater London,all sussex etc....

S

Steve, how comes Essex is in the lower tier when Suffolk to the North and Kent to the South get the heaviest snow ? - I could understand if it was clipping the East coasts but the fact G. London gets it suggests otherwise.

(I'm not disagreeing just trying to understand)

Thanks

[twells00]

been snowing heavily in Ashford for quite some time now. really looking bad out there.

[cjwardy]

T24 - T42 18z >>> 18 hours of snow-

In a band from Norfolk across to Andover --

heaviest PPN - london, nw kent!!!,kent, suffolk,

rest essex,all greater London,all sussex etc....

S

How confident are you in that Steve?

[SteveCoops]

Ha aha suddenly I have friends! I'm afraid I've had too many beers but you are all welcome here, if you can getthrough the snow!

But on a serious note, I wonder whats going to happen tomorrow when tis all starts to blow around? Some serious drifting likely I think, and that really wll cause chaos...

Right ayone got a 4x4? Not sure my Escort will make it haha!

Even the small amount of snow we had here today has been blowing around in the slightest gust of wind so can't imagine what it's like under this band now.

[maidstone weather]

Yes, definitely a westward movement evident now on this stream.

Expecting it to arrive here around 22:20 ish, perhaps a little later

[Snowdays]

That's the problem they are not ENE, nor will they be switching to it anytime soon. They're NNE at the mo and unfortunately they won't switch around far enough east to have much of an impact on London at all over this weekends event. That's the reason why London has been downgraded in the last few hours - the direct Easterly kicking in for Sundays precipitation is now not going to happen, it's going to basically stay NE. The snow then clears north and we then get put in a direct Easterly feed but by then it's too late for London - by then the action is dead.

Seriously I can find no more straws to clutch for London now, unless by some miracle a major easterly component kicks in to coincide with the precipitation then we'll just have to make do with a 3 or 4 more cms from Sundays event.

A 2 week snizzly disaster for this neck of the woods looks like finishing in much the same vein.

Hi mate, I'm just up the road from you and we've got a pretty decent covering - have you really had that little?? It's been frustrating yesterday and today, an easterly wind is ideal for us but north-easterly useless. The winter is young though!!

[Michael Fishermans Friend]

Steve, how comes Essex is in the lower tier when Suffolk to the North and Kent to the South get the heaviest snow ? - I could understand if it was clipping the East coasts but the fact G. London gets it suggests otherwise.

(I'm not disagreeing just trying to understand)

Thanks

its not in tiers - Steve is just generalising I think!

Edited January 8, 2010 by Timmy H