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  • Location: Longwell Green, near Bristol
  • Weather Preferences: Storms, Gales, frost, fog & snow
  • Location: Longwell Green, near Bristol
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Looks like the coldest night of the season coming up for me.

Currently -1.1c and falling.

Car completely frozen over.

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khodds Experienced

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  • Location: Work: Near Glasto Home: near Puriton
  • Weather Preferences: Hot and sunny or cold and snowy. Nothing inbetween.
  • Location: Work: Near Glasto Home: near Puriton
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-2.3c here now!

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Chris K Rising Star

Chris K

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  • Location: South Gloucestershire BS35
  • Weather Preferences: Severe weather enthusiast
  • Location: South Gloucestershire BS35
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Cold, frosty sunny mornings. Brilliant. Rather beautiful when driving into work during sunrise. air_kiss.gif haha

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  • Location: Longwell Green, near Bristol
  • Weather Preferences: Storms, Gales, frost, fog & snow
  • Location: Longwell Green, near Bristol
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Cold, frosty sunny mornings. Brilliant. Rather beautiful when driving into work during sunrise. air_kiss.gif haha

As long as you don't drive into the sunrise and get blinded by the glare as the sun is at its most awkward position at 8.30am on my main commute road.

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divadee Enthusiast

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  • Location: Poole
  • Weather Preferences: Snow and Hot Sun (but not at the same time!) 57m asl
  • Location: Poole
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-2.1 here now and freezing but at least it's not raining.

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katemart Enthusiast

katemart

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  • Location: Southampton, UK
  • Weather Preferences: Hot, hot, hot! Or cold, cold, cold!
  • Location: Southampton, UK
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Still 0.5 C above freezing here in Southampton. DP -2.4C. Bit of a shock to the system.

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Nights King Accomplished

Nights King

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  • Location: Shepton Mallet 140m ASL
  • Weather Preferences: Cold, snow and summer heatwaves.
  • Location: Shepton Mallet 140m ASL
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Drop in temperature has slowed up here now with some high level cloud floating around. House is freezing though I can feel heat being leached away through every wall and window! cold.gif

outside -4.3c and inside is a chilly 12.8c

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pinkertonsurly Rookie

pinkertonsurly

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  • Location: Winchester, Hants, UK 68m asl
  • Location: Winchester, Hants, UK 68m asl
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-3.3 in Winchester. Temps fell below zero around 6pm according to www.winchesterweather.org.uk. DP is -4.6 with humidity at 91%.

Hmmm - winters have the potential to be rather interesting in Gurney Slade I should imagine.

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fUnKy Apprentice

fUnKy

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  • Location: Gloucestershire [prev. Bucks and Devon]
  • Weather Preferences: Snow deprived so anything white.
  • Location: Gloucestershire [prev. Bucks and Devon]
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2.8C here at mo.

2.4 here in plymouth. But is Portsmouth really the mildest? Find it hard to believe when I live in Plymouth.

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Somerset Squall

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  • Location: Taunton, Somerset
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, thunder, strong winds
  • Location: Taunton, Somerset
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We saw that report on BBC Points West, one of my wife's aunts lives at Curry Rivel so we've driven through Muchelney.

Hope it's receding compared to what the news report showed, imagine if we had a sudden deep freeze - you could open a grand skating rink!

Haha, now there's an idea! Unfortunately, it has not receded at all, unfortunately the river is still very full so they can't start pumping the water away yet. We've had donations from people in Taunton and the supermarkets by boat, which was greatfully received as we were all running low on supplies. It looks like I may be cut off from civilisation for another week at least though. I really hope it isn't too wet next week.

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SunnySouthCoast

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  • Location: Southsea, Portsmouth on the Costa Del Solent
  • Location: Southsea, Portsmouth on the Costa Del Solent
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2.4 here in plymouth. But is Portsmouth really the mildest? Find it hard to believe when I live in Plymouth.

The record low in Plymouth (-8.8C) is slightly lower than Portsmouth (-8.0C) & Portsmouth has a higher annual mean temperature, with warmer summers too. The average absolute minimum in Plymouth is -4.1C, compared to -3.4C in Portsmouth.

Here are how the winter months average out:

Plymouth:

Dec: Max: 9.7C Min:4.9C

Jan: Max: 8.8C Min: 3.8C

Feb: Max: 8.7C Min: 3.6C

Portsmouth:

Dec: Max: 10.0C Min: 6.0C

Jan: Max: 9.6C Min: 5.2C

Feb: Max: 8.8C Min: 4.4C

Plymouth is mild but Portsmouth is on an island so I guess that's what makes it a bit milder.

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divadee Enthusiast

divadee

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  • Location: Poole
  • Weather Preferences: Snow and Hot Sun (but not at the same time!) 57m asl
  • Location: Poole
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Well it reached -4 here at 5am bbrrrr lovely ground frost

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Aaron Community Regular

Aaron

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  • Location: Whitkirk, Leeds 86m asl
  • Weather Preferences: Anything but mild south-westeries in winter
  • Location: Whitkirk, Leeds 86m asl
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The record low in Plymouth (-8.8C) is slightly lower than Portsmouth (-8.0C) & Portsmouth has a higher annual mean temperature, with warmer summers too. The average absolute minimum in Plymouth is -4.1C, compared to -3.4C in Portsmouth.

Here are how the winter months average out:

Plymouth:

Dec: Max: 9.7C Min:4.9C

Jan: Max: 8.8C Min: 3.8C

Feb: Max: 8.7C Min: 3.6C

Portsmouth:

Dec: Max: 10.0C Min: 6.0C

Jan: Max: 9.6C Min: 5.2C

Feb: Max: 8.8C Min: 4.4C

Plymouth is mild but Portsmouth is on an island so I guess that's what makes it a bit milder.

I believe Southsea is the mildest place in the UK after the Scilly Isles, even outstripping central London. On another forum, there is a Southsea user, and he said last winter, his first and last air frost were both in February!

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fromey Experienced

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  • Location: frome somerset 105m ABSL,
  • Weather Preferences: cold snow, thunderstorms
  • Location: frome somerset 105m ABSL,
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morning all, -3.0c here over night cold.gif

fromey

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  • Location: Longwell Green, near Bristol
  • Weather Preferences: Storms, Gales, frost, fog & snow
  • Location: Longwell Green, near Bristol
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Cold & frosty this morning with the sun starting to rise above the houses.

Lovely winters morning.

Temperature currently -0.9c

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A.J Maestro

A.J

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  • Location: Sunderland
  • Weather Preferences: Hot Summer, Snowy winter and thunderstorms all year round!
  • Location: Sunderland
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we must have had a short flurry at some stage during the night, and there's a few snowflakes on the cars and paths

just to add, had a quick zoom on the NW radar and indeed it was showing a light flurry near Swindon around 7am

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  • Location: Longwell Green, near Bristol
  • Weather Preferences: Storms, Gales, frost, fog & snow
  • Location: Longwell Green, near Bristol
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I think snow over the next week is being written off too quickly.

Don't get me wrong, there is unlikely to be any widespread, lowland snowfall for the south, but I can see brief transient snow (probably wet) as the cold air to the east & less cold/moist air to the west are never far away.

Watch this space, over the next week or so, my punt is that some of us will see a bit of transient snowfall at times.

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Wynn D Woo

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  • Location: Longlevens, 16m ASL (H)/Bradley Stoke, 75m ASL (W)
  • Weather Preferences: Hot sunny summers, cold snowy winters
  • Location: Longlevens, 16m ASL (H)/Bradley Stoke, 75m ASL (W)
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-2.1C the over night low, but had risen to 0.1C by the time I awoke.

Nice surprise to see we had a few light snow flurries as well with the cars and the top of the garden wall in particular showing the evidence.

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gottolovethisweather Accomplished

gottolovethisweather

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  • Location: Newbury, Berkshire. 107m ASL.
  • Weather Preferences: Summer:sunny, some Thunder,Winter:cold & snowy spells,Other:transitional
  • Location: Newbury, Berkshire. 107m ASL.
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I think snow over the next week is being written off too quickly.

Don't get me wrong, there is unlikely to be any widespread, lowland snowfall for the south, but I can see brief transient snow (probably wet) as the cold air to the east & less cold/moist air to the west are never far away.

Watch this space, over the next week or so, my punt is that some of us will see a bit of transient snowfall at times.

Indeed AWD, did you see Ian F's post from yesterday and I did a post saying exactly the same thing. The confusion being added to, by the many knee-jerk jumping on each run type posts from the MOD thread. Yes, there has been a relative downgrade but at the same time, the model suites are very varied in their output so that should tell us all, nothing is nailed at a very short range. I call the MOD thread, the boiling cauldron, I simply stay out of the conversations, but take note of a select few posters, in order to determine a general trend. help.gif

Each to their own of course. acute.gif

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