London & The South East Regional Discussion - Part 11

[lottiekent]

Already down to -3.5c here with the sun not yet set and a DP of -9c

[Steve C]

A car drove through a puddle 7 or 8 minutes ago here at work. The surface ice was broken. It's already reformed! :o

Puddle watching is pretty sad though!

Edited February 7, 2012 by Speed67

[craigore]

Incredible Temps at the moment

Southend nearing -3c / -7c

Manston is at -4c / -9c

Wattisham is -3c / -10c

This all with sun out - Cloud is building out to my east now so temps might rise a little bit when that comes over

guys chill, its pretty cloudy here now in ramsgate and its -2.5 and falling ,and thats wth a stiff east wind off a fairly mild sea , i fully expect temps to drop inland significantly lower.....

[lottiekent]

Just taken a look at the Euro radar at the precip heading NW across Luxemburg and just coming in Belgium - might that not have this area's name on it later? And would the stuff coming out of Holland be heading onwards Norwich?

[teddy]

LOL Ashford slapper !!!!

i've met a few of those.

[Azores Hi]

Some nice low temps being reported, even before sunset! Thanks for those that have kept us informed. It's gonna be cracking flags out there tonight and here's me having to walk to the pub, the walk home could be interesting with 4 pints of wifebeater in me. Prehaps I should book my ambulance early?

[Coast]

The cold is coming - but will it do us any good, other than keep the utilities companies in business?

[chionomaniac]

Some nice low temps being reported, even before sunset! Thanks for those that have kept us informed. It's gonna be cracking flags out there tonight and here's me having to walk to the pub, the walk home could be interesting with 4 pints of wifebeater in me. Prehaps I should book my ambulance early?

It'll be far safer to drive.

[Jo S]

A car drove through a puddle 7 or 8 minutes ago here at work. The surface ice was broken. It's already reformed! :o

Puddle watching is pretty sad though!

Lol yep but we all do it,even though we may not admit it,youve got ----- to admit that i take my hat off to you.

[craigore]

Just taken a look at the Euro radar at the precip heading NW across Luxemburg and just coming in Belgium - might that not have this area's name on it later? And would the stuff coming out of Holland be heading onwards Norwich?

hope its got east kents name on it ,really dark clouds now over ramsgate

[WheresTheSnow]

Is this cold set to be around for the rest of the week?

[Jimmyh]

interesting little loop http://winter.buienr...neeuwradar.aspx

[Kentish Kiwi]

Temps are reacting to the bitter surface feed coming off the frozen continent-

just shows give the right conditions- even in bright sunshine & NO snowcover we can get sub zero maxima-

S

But we DO have snowcover?

[Southender]

Air Temp: -3c

Dew Point: -9.9c

Humidity: 59%

Wind: NE @ 3mph

Conditions: Calm, scattered clouds.

Snow Cover: 7cm (grass)

Edited February 7, 2012 by Shrimper

[moogyboobles]

- 4 in my garden already!

[Eskimo]

-4.2 :o

[lemonslap]

For Ashford:

Temp -5C and dropping fast

Dew -12C

Humidity 62% and rising

[craigore]

manston is currently reading -6 dp -11 wth cloud pretty amazing..

[john mac]

-3c here

dewpoint -8c

windchill -7c

love it

[Met4Cast]

[john mac]

Is that a little streamer setting up?

Edited February 7, 2012 by john mac

[Kay]

interesting little loop http://winter.buienr...neeuwradar.aspx

Looking like its gonna miss us and head in to EA instead!

[Lazarus]

I'm sure lots of us know of Will Hand (Eskimo Will) of uk.sci.weather fame. Met Office bod down in Devon.. Anyway, here is his latest summing up cut and pasted from Usenet.

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This is the way I see it with no reference to models etc. Extremely cold

boundary layer air is flooding into the SE now with dewpoints falling

to -15C in places later. Very dry air and clearing away the fog and cloud,

lowering the wet-bulb and will preserve remaining snow cover. One or two

snow showers possible. In the next two days this air will spread quite

quickly west and north covering the whole of England And Wales (even

Cornwall). Then it gets interesting later in the week and next weekend as at

least two upper trough disruptions take place to our west. There will be a

strong and warm conveyor in the SW'lies probably bringing a lot of rain to

Ireland and Scotland, especially the west, despite high pressure. As the

troughs disrupt this front will edge SE'wards and on its forward edge there

will be freezing rain leading to widespread ice. Clearly the location is

uncertain and my best guess will be SW England to Midlands to NE England.

Mixed in will also be sleet and snow but main emphasis initially will be on

liquid precipitation. As the weekend progresses it is all likely to get very

messy with cold and warm air entrained producing a mixture of rain, sleet

and snow. The SE could stay dry and in the cold air. Then early next week

we get a change of type as this messy mix comes south as a cold front

bringing in some sort of N or NW'ly with pressure re-building in

mid-Atlantic. It could end up as a benign anticyclonic NW'ly or go the whole

hog and build pressure over Iceland putting us into a snowy Ne'ly! I guess

the answer lies in between somewhere? We shall see.

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[Southender]

Temp dropping 2.2c an hour at the moment. Currently -3.4c here on the Essex Riviera.

Hope this cloud out in the N.Sea stays away. Don't want any dandruff type stuff, whats the point.

I want to go for some local cold records tonight!...about -6c to go, to beat last December!...Then we're talking a long, long way back to beat the previous.

Edited February 7, 2012 by Shrimper

[Kent Snow]

-4.2C and dropping fast here!