London And Southeast - Cold Spell Discussion

[john mac]

cheers tamara

[Guest North Sea Snow Convection]

well.... a week tomorrow im travelling from the west midlands down to your neck of the woods, tunbridge wells kent to see mum and dad! im thinking there could be a possibility that i may run into some heavy snow on the way down! would i be right?

There is too much uncertainty about the pattern next week at this stage. The models are trying to work out how far north west high pressure migrates towards Greenland and at the same time what direction low pressure over Scandinavia takes towards us. There are hints that it might track southwards far enough east to keep the winds in the north over us and perhaps provide some snow for parts of the Uk next week. Northern areas look more favoured at this stage - but if the low pressure gets far enough east then any part of the Uk could see snow. There is also the small chance that low pressure might try and move up from the opposite direction and if this engages favourably with the cold air over us then that could be a source of snow down here in the south and south east as well. However this looks an outside bet atm.

In short it is too early to know about next week - a case of watching the models over the coming few days

Edited February 10, 2010 by North Sea Snow Convection

[loopydreamer]

There is too much uncertainty about the pattern next week at this stage. The models are trying to work out how far north west high pressure migrates towards Greenland and at the same time what direction low pressure over Scandinavia takes towards us. There are hints that it might track southwards far enough east to keep the winds in the north over us and perhaps provide some snow for parts of the Uk next week. Northern areas look more favoured at this stage - but if the low pressure gets far enough east then any part of the Uk could see snow. There is also the small chance that low pressure might try and move up from the opposite direction and if this engages favourably with the cold air over us then that could be a source of snow down here in the south and south east as well. However this looks an outside bet atm.

In short it is too early to know about next week - a case of watching the models over the coming few days

your right its just too early to know whats gonna happen! thanks for replying tamara

[Guest North Sea Snow Convection]

Time to turn in, but the radar is showing more showers appearing in our area of the north sea now and although the wind is northerly atm and these are just going to be steered past the east kent coast for a time yet, it will be interesting to see what happens when the winds start veering more east of north during tomorrow. I think we might be seeing the very early signs of that initial instability showing up to our north east as the upper cold pool comes in from Scandinavia and europe during tomorrow.

Convection from the north sea is hard to predict, so an interesting day hopefully tomorrow

Edited February 10, 2010 by North Sea Snow Convection

[Neilsouth]

WEATHER UPDATE - BBC LOCAL WEATHER CAROL

Canterbury to Eastbourne

2-5cm with a possibility of Double that tonight !

[jojobut]

WEATHER UPDATE - BBC LOCAL WEATHER CAROL

Canterbury to Eastbourne

2-5cm with a possibility of Double that tonight !

Cool! Have you had any snow showers overnight neil?

[Neilsouth]

Cool! Have you had any snow showers overnight neil?

Nope , bad wind direction ( North/north west )

[jojobut]

Nope , bad wind direction ( North/north west )

My weather station not positioned well for the wind Mine says NE-E.

Temp 2.1 and Dew Point -1.0

Where is the best place to get a wind reading?

It's quite blowey outside, clouds are whizzing across the sky!

[Neilsouth]

http://xcweather.co.uk/

Sorry no idea lol

[jojobut]

http://xcweather.co.uk/

Sorry no idea lol

Thankyou!

it's lightly snowing here atm

[essex coast matt]

just had modarate sleet and snow shower for about 20mins nice covering now

[Neilsouth]

Snow showers coming in now , looks good on radar as the wind switches to the north east

http://www.meteogroup.co.uk/uk/home/weather/radar/united_kingdom.html

[debbie_summer]

Snow showers coming in now , looks good on radar as the wind switches to the north east

http://www.meteogroup.co.uk/uk/home/weather/radar/united_kingdom.html

Neil,

You are very close to me Nothing here yet, do you think we will get anything today or not until later tonight?

x

[davehowe]

Just had snow shower in Margate.

[Neilsouth]

Neil,

You are very close to me Nothing here yet, do you think we will get anything today or not until later tonight?

x

Well according to beeb as you are further west than me you are less likely to see the heavier snow later

Snow here now

We have a covering!!

Edited February 10, 2010 by neilsouth

[wchris_uk]

just started here but more like sleet

[Met4Cast]

Light snowfall just started here in N-Kent - Looks like theres some slightly heavier snow not too far away from me now.

[kentsnow]

hi all nice & white in sheerness now snowing lightly still

[Neilsouth]

all gone! , heavy snow isn't due till this evening

[White Christmas]

blizzard conditions here, layed already, despite the strong winds blowing it

[Snow Cat]

Light snow here.

Carol Kirkwood just said south of Canterbury to Eastbourne for snow later, that includes me.

Edited February 10, 2010 by Snow Cat

[The Weather Yoda]

Anyone else think think that 'heavy' snow showers and depths of 2-5cm is a bit rubbish. Two inches!!! My wife gets more than that...

[SussexmarkyMark]

Just had a very short-lived graupel shower. Only lasted about 10 minutes and gave the lightest of dustings.

[Neilsouth]

Light snow here.

Carol Kirkwood just said south of Canterbury to Eastbourne for snow later, that includes me.

This is the general idea of the models red being the highest risk

I feel eastbourne will be too far west and south !

Edited February 10, 2010 by neilsouth

[Weathizard]

None for Brighton...