London & The South East Regional Discussion - Part 13

[craigore]

Dropped to -5.2 on ramsgates sunny coast , 8th day of good lying snow to boot ,off sledging now wth kids , should be nice and fast as it will be frozen solid..[i think this is the last 24hr period of proper cold mind]

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-7.3c here on the Essex coast which could be our coldest night for over 20 years!

Back of the net!

[jonboy]

well somewhere in surrey recorded minus 18.4 according to the bbc. Probably Wisley

[essex coast matt]

think we will get fairly low temps tonight before midnight too, maybe around -5 here,what everyones thoughts on the freezing rain, sleety stuff we may get later tonight?, looks like being a very icey mess out there in morning.

[Southender]

Met office has snow arriving around 8am tomorrow. Que?

[Pixel]

here it is ladies and gents - beautiful :

http://lance-modis.e...=02%2F11%2F2012

zoomed in:

[Continental Climate]

Hello guys in the south east i must say i didnt realise the extent of the cold and snow you guys were having down there!! A week of lying snow and minus 10 sound like heaven when compared to the snow free and tropical northeast, lol ENJOY!!!

[Sussex Jules]

That is a really cool picture.

[Will Padz]

Met office for Canterbury through to gravesend -1c and snow from 9am through to midday? Would be nice but I doubt it....

[sunny scunny]

That really is a couple of stunning images there pp.

[Pixel]

That really is a couple of stunning images there pp.

yeh.. I would have loved to take those photos myself but I'm far too fat, old and ugly to make it as an astronaut :lol:

I'm fascinated by those images tho... kind of puts us mere mortals into perspective

Edited February 11, 2012 by Pixel Precipitation

[Coast]

Been freezing out there all day and the -6°C we had locally last night was getting up to -8°C further North where we keep our horse. Thank god he was still warm and toasty last night as he isn't stabled - don't think I'd like to be out there in just a blanket tonight!

Must have been cold as the other owners in the feed store were talking about record breaking cold temps, were any records broken locally last night???

[Carol Frost]

Met office for Canterbury through to gravesend -1c and snow from 9am through to midday? Would be nice but I doubt it....

I'll go and check met office site for that!

[Southender]

-1.5c here. We got down to -8c last night, which is very cold for here on the Essex coast. I wonder if we can go lower tonight?.. Met and GFS go for something wintry around 8am tomorrow. Any comment?

[nimbus]

_{We recorded the garden going down to -10.2 in rural Petworth over night, it was still at -8.1 at 8am. Went up to a balmy plus 2 this afternoon but now dropping rapidy again and already at -0.7 so we are in for another cold one tonight. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrr.}

[Will Padz]

Well we shall see.... Are the models throwing a strop like after last weekends snow? Will we get anymore tomoz? Interesting times......

[Anthonyb]

Seems the latest beeb forecast and Meto seem to be keen on wintry precip over our region early tomorrow morning

[Helvellyn]

Has been an ice week here.

Pretty exceptional stuff by any standards.

[95 Degrees]

Crazy drop here in Hove, at 1640 it was 1.1C, in just 1 hour it has dropped to -1.6C!

[Mikel Nimbus]

I found an amazing little frost hollow in Hertfordshire last night. I got a reading of -15 on my car and that was while the engine was hot so it could have been lower! I was curious so I got outside the car and could instantly feel the snot in my nose begin to freeze. Can honestly say I've never felt so cold in my life.

As for tonight -2.2 atm after top temp today of 0.2.

[crazysnowcatz4]

Already back down to -3.2 in Canterbury,, which puts it 2 degrees lower than the Meto forecast , by the way have you spotted the new drizzle symbol on Meto and BBC, can't remember that before..

[totalhysteria]

Woke up at 7am ,and my weather station was reading -9.1c. That is the lowest i've recorded since having it (about 3 years). Already -2.8c now, os another cold night to follow.

[Ruthie]

Hello guys in the south east i must say i didnt realise the extent of the cold and snow you guys were having down there!! A week of lying snow and minus 10 sound like heaven when compared to the snow free and tropical northeast, lol ENJOY!!!

. Hello to you in the north! I just got back from ne England, Newcastle and then kielder observatory. Ne england is just wonderful. Was a bit of icy snow up at kielder very high up, and surrounding mountains, but clear at lower levels. The locals were remarking how snowless this winter had been so far! It wasnt too cold during our visit temp wide, but wed and thur had biting easterly winds. Back in London now, it's freezing already!!

[crazysnowcatz4]

Now a chilly -5.4 , temperature dropping about 1C per hour, so could be due a lower minimum than last night

[abruzzi spur]

Fabulous on Colley Hill this morning. The walk in was foot-compacted so the snow was like a high quality piste, cold enough to squeak underfoot. Got to the 'bomb hole' which was partially denuded of snow, where the slope faced the sun, but the lower half that had only a glancing blow from above was snow covered and incredibly hard and icy. Which meant (and here is the good bit) that it was as fast as anything for sledging. Me and the 3 children, interchangeable combinations of personnel, the cheap plastic sledges were transformed into luges, at least for the 40 metres we all travelled on each run (and 45 metres once when my daughter and I went right off the edge, heading directly towards Dorking 5 miles west). Being accompanied all the way down by the frantically barking and madly excited cocker just added to the fun. There were some fields off the beaten track that were utterly pristine, not a trace of anything on them, with ice crystals burning the retina as they leapt into life.

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