London & The South East Regional Discussion - Part 8

[warrenb]

Temp here up to Freezing, SW winds as well, might be the right hand corner of the triple point I guess

[Neilsouth]

Problem is with Raintoday it's VERY sensitive and can pick up what's not actually hitting the ground!

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/radar/

^ look here, you can see where the deep snow line is yet according to raintoday it should be snowing very well in most of west kent

[EML Network]

woo-hoo even the grass has a covering here now, were on the Steve Murr's snow riechter scale of a 7 :-) 5p size snow flakes :-) clearly visible with even the briefest of LP check :-)

[Met4Cast]

I HAVE LIGHT SMALL FLAKES OF SNOW!!!!!!

[abovefreezing]

Temp here up to Freezing, SW winds as well, might be the right hand corner of the triple point I guess

Yuk. Ties in with my observations over here in Ashford though. No PPN. temp still rising. Now 0.7 Degrees

[echodelta21]

There's a big old white return on Met Office radar that is in the Midlands now...seems to be heading straight for us...

[WinterSnow]

I HAVE LIGHT SMALL FLAKES OF SNOW!!!!!!

Me too just as I was getting worried too

[SMU]

20p flakes

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S

[A Winter's Tale]

Incredibly bizzare to read that the radar is showing precipiation but there is nothing!!! Has anyone here got heavy snow or lying snow?

[wintermaster]

This a keeper when it's heading our way.

Tried to post the met office rainfall radar but it won't paste oooooppppsss sorry it's a cracker though.

Edited February 4, 2012 by wintermaster

[SLEETY]

Wretched weather here on the Sussex coast.A wintery mix and a slight dusting.Temps+2c

[VillagePlank]

Confirm lightest snow I've ever seen in my life up here on Bluebell Hill. Not enough for settling, but, I think, this is the start of it. Will go out and have a sniff in a moment

[honey*]

Problem is with Raintoday it's VERY sensitive and can pick up what's not actually hitting the ground!

http://www.metoffice...ather/uk/radar/

^ look here, you can see where the deep snow line is yet according to raintoday it should be snowing very well in most of west kent

ahh make sense we are under very light here so no suprise not a flake falling yet

[glorious12th]

Look at the amount of people on Netweather now !!! Snow now getting heavier in Hornchurch a nice base going down on roofs and the grass

[Jason H]

Snow beginning to increase in intensity a bit.

[kold weather]

Steve, we are probably between 3-4 here at the moment, light snow but its going to take more than that to get things more interesting...its coming though.

Low dew points probably not allowing the true amount the radar is suggesting. For example here it only got going around 8pm yet radar suggested it had been going for longer that that.

[Whereisthesnow?]

I refuse to keep getting up from the couch every 2 mins to look out the window. Besides, the cat gets annoyed as he's sitting on my lap!

[Lauren]

SNOW! Tiny little flakes, but we have snow.

I may cry if this turns out to be a massive flop.

[cold snap]

any updates from west london?

[chionomaniac]

Level 7 alert here

[VillagePlank]

Incredibly bizzare to read that the radar is showing precipiation but there is nothing!!! Has anyone here got heavy snow or lying snow?

Ice is more reflective than water so even the smallest will give an echo. The smallest being stuff that's reabsorbed before reaching the surface hence the radar picks it up, but the close relations to chimpanzees who insist on drinking to much beer watching street lights do not observe it.

[Spur33]

Decent covering in Walthamstow and starting to get heavier now

[Gowon]

I'm at level 7 now...nice little layer building up.

[Mr Maunder]

20.40 Level 0 in Tunbridge Wells! Looking at radar and still hopeful we will get a covering. Temp = -1.2c.

MM

[Jezzer]

Seems to be picking up a bit here, winds also increasing and settling more on car windscreen!