South West Of England Regional Discussion Thread Part 3

[NickSomerset]

Take a look at BBC Weather radar animation and hold it at 12 midnight tonite.... that should give us all some encouragement!!!!

Edited February 9, 2012 by NickSomerset

[Andy Bown]

A right mish mash this evening with light snow that settled on cars, then ice pellets which sat on the top and now a sleety mixture.

Everyone is getting worried about the band to the East - that front is going to pull Westwards overnight bringing the heavier precipitation

and most probably snow with it.

[Bristawl Si]

I don't think we quite watching the movement of the precip properly... it's coming our (my) way!

Doesn't seem much westwards movement to me - more like down thru' Berks, Hants, E Dorset in next couple of hours - could be wrong.

[snow drift]

Snowing in Bournemouth.

[gloucesterlad]

k. Well im signing off.

The radar isnt anything like the charts and going by the radar, Its gonna be clear and dry here soon... Not sure what happened lol.. laters

http://uksnowmap.com/

oh ye of little faith.... basically it is heading our way in an uncertain fashion lol .. and it could linger if it stalls....

apart from the 'snow/rain' area being further east than predictedit has a south west movement and may even spread more west.. meto said earlier could linger in south east wales so that suggests it'll pivot northwest even ?

We shall see

John (ever the optimist) in Quedgeley, Gloucester

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A right mish mash this evening with light snow that settled on cars, then ice pellets which sat on the top and now a sleety mixture.

Everyone is getting worried about the band to the East - that front is going to pull Westwards overnight bringing the heavier precipitation

and most probably snow with it.

For the sake of the 97 users viewing this thread (including me), I hope to god you're right!

Seriously though, how could the hi res models be so far off so close to the event?

Edited February 9, 2012 by RAIN RAIN RAIN

[divadee]

Snowing in Bournemouth.

Where??? *toddles off to lamp post watch*

[Mark]

Snowing in Bournemouth.

That's hope for everyone!

[snow drift]

Where??? *toddles off to lamp post watch*

Christchuch.

[Bristawl Si]

Latest BBC news24 graphics, right now, look feeble for us in BTL - maybe midnight to 3.00am -

but east of our region, SE Cotswolds, Swindon, Dorset looks good

[Cleeve Hill]

Well, it's .9c outside and snowing again. Was 1.3 at 7.00 so heading in the right direction.

[dryjoy]

Snow in Wimborne (not much though)

[Will Farkin]

Snowing in Bournemouth.

Oh yeah, where's that......the snow dome!

[Wilxy]

Failed forecast wow cant belive it ahh well kind of used to this by now

[alijoe]

Well just over the bridge into south wales I have heavy rain and FOG lol.

[gloucesterlad]

Lynxus, on 09 February 2012 - 20:22 , said:

k. Well im signing off.

The radar isnt anything like the charts and going by the radar, Its gonna be clear and dry here soon... Not sure what happened lol.. laters

http://uksnowmap.com/

oh ye of little faith.... basically it is heading our way in an uncertain fashion lol .. and it could linger if it stalls....

apart from the 'snow/rain' area being further east than predictedit has a south west movement and may even spread more west.. meto said earlier could linger in south east wales so that suggests it'll pivot northwest even ?

We shall see...

John (ever the optimist) in Quedgeley, Gloucester

p.s. I'm siding with Andy B's viewpoint on the westward movement...

[snowgenesis]

still nothing on salisbury plain looks like its going to go either side of me :lol:

[khodds]

What I want to know is why the models handled it so badly?

[devon lad]

19.30 update

Rain

Air temp 1.6C steady

DP 0C

dl

20.30 Update

Moderate Rain

Air Temp 1.4C falling slowly

DP 0C

dl

[Iceberg]

temp 0.4

precip has just started falling and its snow !! just light grains but settling on stuff atm.

[Lynxus]

Lynxus, on 09 February 2012 - 20:22 , said:

k. Well im signing off.

The radar isnt anything like the charts and going by the radar, Its gonna be clear and dry here soon... Not sure what happened lol.. laters

http://uksnowmap.com/

oh ye of little faith.... basically it is heading our way in an uncertain fashion lol .. and it could linger if it stalls....

apart from the 'snow/rain' area being further east than predictedit has a south west movement and may even spread more west.. meto said earlier could linger in south east wales so that suggests it'll pivot northwest even ?

We shall see...

John (ever the optimist) in Quedgeley, Gloucester

p.s. I'm siding with Andy B's viewpoint on the westward movement...

LOL,

I dont buy it.

I do hope im wrong and wake up to the 10+Cm that was being forecast lol..

Edited February 9, 2012 by Lynxus

[Wynn D Woo]

The real clue today was the lack of an Amber warning, my head picked up on this but my heart said it was still on.

Radar shows everything still headed south so its going to take one hell of a pivot to pull this out of the flop bucket.

[Bristawl Si]

temp 0.4

precip has just started falling and its snow !! just light grains but settling on stuff atm.

Think you could be in a sweet spot, Iceberg.

[snow drift]

temp 0.4

precip has just started falling and its snow !! just light grains but settling on stuff atm.

moderate in christchurch. Settled on pavements.

[Mark]

Failed forecast wow cant belive it ahh well kind of used to this by now

Why failed? It's way too earlier to write this off yet. Plenty of opportunity to come. From past experience, these things can come back to bite us when least expected (please don't quote me later haha)!