London & The South East Regional Discussion - Part 12

[steveinsussex]

Well my friend who works at Heathrow Airport, has just told me they have just gone code red! Which means severe disruption certain.

Its moving SW not due south

[Djmiles]

Can confirm it is snowing in Mid Sussex.

[john pike]

just starting snowing here

20p flakes

moderate not heavy

[swash]

Joydens Wood near Bexley, moderate snow, back garden white again, cars covered, roads and pavements just wet

[winter watcher]

where in surrey are you?

Wimbledon mate and its got a lot heavier since all cars and roads dusting over..

[bobbydog]

Well my friend who works at Heathrow Airport, has just told me they have just gone code red! Which means severe disruption certain.

that'll be why i had the text from the driving agency this afternoon for urgently required snow-plough drivers!

[gazb21]

light dusting on the cars here now

[polarlow2]

Still fairly light here, big flakes blowing around. Still not expecting much, London will certainly not get 'hammered' as some seem to be predicting. A dusting widely, perhaps a covering in western parts of our region - pretty much what the Beeb have been saying.

While I'm at it, let's top slating the BBC for what was a hugely difficult forecast. They nailed the weekend's event, this was a far harder call.

[Choggy]

Just sttarted snowing In Worcester park surrey 😄

[Helvellyn]

[Isolated Frost]

700hpa Wind vectors atm are pretty much nne, turning gradually ne as we move on tonight, and so the main counties in your region affected tonight should be Surrey, Berkshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire and Norfolk. London, Suffolk, Essex, Kent and Sussex should see some snow early on tonight before the main action shifts towards the west of the region. The regions in bold should see anything between 2-10cm lying, most likely 2-5cm around the London area, with the areas un-bolded seeing small accumulations or around nothing.

Best place to be is Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire, Dorset imo.

[Whereisthesnow?]

Gotta love this weather, all rather unexpected but loving it all the same! Interesting developments in the North Sea.

[EML Network]

OK I've spent so long staring at the lamp post that I'm beginning to hallucinate , time for a coffee break me's thinks

[dubmuffin]

Proper snow now, light to moderate, decent sized flakes, starting to settle

[andreas]

Light snow now in Crystal Palace, SE19.

[Robbie Garrett]

And for those moaning at Netweather about the radar, someone who did proper meteorology training just told me it's spoking. So it's not Netweathers thought really? http://www.aea.net/AvionicsNews/ANArchives/Aug06WeatherRadar.pdf

[winter watcher]

Still fairly light here, big flakes blowing around. Still not expecting much, London will certainly not get 'hammered' as some seem to be predicting. A dusting widely, perhaps a covering in western parts of our region - pretty much what the Beeb have been saying.

While I'm at it, let's top slating the BBC for what was a hugely difficult forecast. They nailed the weekend's event, this was a far harder call.

London does not have to get hammered 1-3 cms is enough to cause chaos

I will slate the bbc as since around 11am this looked very simple to me and i come home to view the 18:30 forecast and them saying no snow in the south east it was pathetic forecast looking at the radar.

[bobbydog]

i demand it snows here immediately, if not sooner!!!!

[SnowBorder]

Must be 5 or 6 on the Murr scale. Settling on cars and grass

[Marie]

OK I've spent so long staring at the lamp post that I'm beginning to hallucinate , time for a coffee break me's thinks

me too starting to go nuts now,bloody everywhere apart from us ,WHY?

[Lauren]

Snowing in Dartford and Bluewater, but not here in Rochester.

So close yet so far.

[nanu]

Light snow now in Crystal Palace, SE19.

light in c.palace just up the road??? you should pop down here.. enough to start throwing snowballs from the parked cars

[Swave Snow]

The radar is suggesting this area is barely moving at the moment, perhaps slight motion to just west of south (185 degrees or so)

Very much a nowcast event...I'm not fully expecting much of the SE to get 1-3cms...

what do you mean it looks like it is moving rapidly

[NO LONGER POSTING]

I love making maps lol! This is my next one..Based on the radar XD..Im a novice XD

[Natalie Collins]

Moderate snow in Plumstead for about an hour now.