South Central England Regional Discussion Thread Part 4

[smoggyjester]

snow in waterlooville now

[gottolovethisweather]

Some of you guys in the sweet spot tonight,Oxford south n west looking good, good luck.

Thanks David. It does appear so!

[divadee]

Whats all this 6/10 or 4/10 or 2/10 business?

Roughly how heavy it is snowing! Give it a grade out of 10. 1 being v v light snizzle type stuff. 10 being a blizzard!

[Pompski!]

Snow in Waterlooville! Laying too. No idea what temp but standing water is frozen and snow laying on top so assuming sub zero.

[Polar Bear]

What is everyone going to do when councils start turning of street lights late at night??

sleep I should imagine. Snow and lampost - late nights of curtain twitching

[windseeker]

windseeker, what did the GFS timeframes at 0300 or 0600 suggest with regrads to snow? Did you get a chance to look?

After midnight light snow right up to lunch time tomorrow is possible

[*Stormforce~beka*]

Hi Stormforce. Big flakes tend to occur when the temp is just above freezing point, so the flakes melt slightly then re-freeze and stick together. Yes if the temp were well above freezing and it was heavy rain, then near freezing, heavy snow and big flakes!

I can't click the thank you. But thank you lol

[Dean E]

Snowing here, already have a dusting and that only took 10 minutes!

SM

[Polar Bear]

Whats all this 6/10 or 4/10 or 2/10 business?

thanks GTLW I kind of got it but didnt really take it to it. Sorry chaps. I prefer slight, light, moderate, heavy and OMG or GBOF

[Theresnoway]

Hi All,

Nothing settling in Poole yet, 3 miles from coast.

But hoping it will when precip intensifies.

[cazbym]

Temp still 1.6 though! Very light snow

[gottolovethisweather]

Having a good look at the satellite and the surface charts, quite a complex - and developing - situation. I've a feeling there may be a small LP somewhere near, perhaps over N Hampshire/Berkshire, not enough data to be sure. In any case, it's clear from the cloud motion that the cold continental air is pushing back again. The 2 frontal zones seem to be very close together or even merging, which may account for the intensification we've seen in recent hours, that together with that possible LP.

This situation is different from the weekend in that we don't have a slightly warmer airmass coming in from the NW behind the precipitation as happened then, but the very cold, dry air coming in from the E instead.

Our region is well on the cold side of the fronts so rain or snow will largely depend on local wind shifts (onshore or offshore)

Most interesting and no doubt giving the forecasters a hard time!

Excellent analysis OMM.

[slb97]

Hello all its snowing in copnor Portsmou th tiny flakes but snow all the same

[jtay]

Whats all this 6/10 or 4/10 or 2/10 business?

Postcode + Snow rating via twitter gets posted on this mashup http://uksnowmap.com/

[gottolovethisweather]

Roughly how heavy it is snowing! Give it a grade out of 10. 1 being v v light snizzle type stuff. 10 being a blizzard!

Why Thankyou Diva.

[*Stormforce~beka*]

What is everyone going to do when councils start turning of street lights late at night??

Torch!!!!!!! Or flood lights in the garden LOLOL. Poor neighbours ;-)

[liam300]

SNOWING YESSSS !!

[divadee]

If I go on met office recent for Bournemouth. It says 21.00 rain! It wasn't rain it was definitely snow! Silly meto

[SunnySouthCoast]

Very light snow now falling in Southsea

[lynnsim]

Still light snow for me. A dusting on the grass and car roofs, but not settling at all on roads or pavements. I can't see it getting much heavier tbh. The radar is showing it right overhead but the snowfall hasn't got any heavier since it started. I won't complain though because there was a decent amount for me last weekend!

[cazbym]

Postcode + Snow rating via twitter gets posted on this mashup http://uksnowmap.com/

Where trolls put in every postcode and rate 10/10

[gottolovethisweather]

After midnight light snow right up to lunch time tomorrow is possible

OMFG, anybody remember what I said about hoping the whole region could get SNOW, well if these were to verify?

Thanks very much for doing this, windseeker.

[*Stormforce~beka*]

Building up to a good covering now in Micheldever Station, cant understand the BBC News forecast, it showed no snow for the coast and most that does fall is north and west of here still and most places no more than a centimetre or two.

Ye must be around a cm here now

[Dean E]

If I go on met office recent for Bournemouth. It says 21.00 rain! It wasn't rain it was definitely snow! Silly meto

Computer based for more local Forecasts. In these events, the chief forecaster overrides

SM

[Purplepixii]

Very light snow now falling in Southsea

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!