Three Counties & East Anglia Regional Discussion - January 16th 2013 19:00hrs>

[saint]

BBC weather showing continuous light snow from 11am Friday to 12am Saturday night. Is that reliable? Highs of -1 on Friday too! Nice.

At the moment, a period of light to moderate snow is very possible Friday-Saturday.

[mishy]

Might be time to panic buy baked beans and a camp stove

Edited January 16, 2013 by mishy

[JennyJane1]

Yea, maybe we should call it a neigh and concentrate on the weather !

do stop nagging

[Wayneywoo]

These horse jokes are getting boring now!

Why the long face?

The odds are definitely stacked in our favour

[tinybill]

BBC weather showing continuous light snow from 11am Friday to 12am Saturday night. Is that reliable? Highs of -1 on Friday too! Nice.

well i see we got a yellow alert for Friday that should be fun!!!

[Gary_R_Walker]

in all seriousness, someone i know who has had a tortoise for over fifty years said this year tortoise has hibernated as deep as it can go so you can't see it at all.In milder winters it has hibernated before with half its shell still exposed.So maybe it knows something?

It might be just hiding from the Tesco meat buyer's.

[JennyJane1]

It might be just hiding from the Tesco meat buyer's.

i "tortoise" much.

[Shere Khan]

I know fridays snow system is a long way off yet but is anyone picking up on the possibility of it stalling around the london area.

Any thoughts on this? Looks like during friday night.

[Snowman.]

BBC london DOES state it turning to rain although the actual forecast doesn't support this and looks like a older version anyway.

As I am near london I have to use this one as peter is a all time favourite and honest forecaster

[Sweetdream]

Well I had a quick nose in the model thread a lot of the the posters in the west going on about the south & southeast having rain sat, a lot of ramping saying it will pivot and and they will get more also regarding next week we miss they get hit. I don't mind cold but would like to see some laying snow for more then a day.

[Me & angel fiance]

my metoffice update at 7pm is even better than the 6pm prolonging the snow even more

[Steve C]

Well, the horse jokes made me laugh. Better than getting overly stressed with model watching. I see the SE thread were stressing about Peter Cockroft earlier.

[saint]

I know fridays snow system is a long way off yet but is anyone picking up on the possibility of it stalling around the london area.

Any thoughts on this? Looks like during friday night.

There are suggestions it could stall, however, at this stage, I would not advise concentrating on that too much,

[Sweetdream]

Well, the horse jokes made me laugh. Better than getting overly stressed with model watching. I see the SE thread were stressing about Peter Cockroft earlier.

Do you think he was horsing after a visit to tesco.

[Long haul to mild]

I can't see any problems with Friday/Saturday's ppn being rain, the far bigger problem for this area is whether it will reach here at all. Personally I think it will stall to the west and south of our region. The yellow warning pretty much covers the country so cannot be yet said to indicate accurately where the snow will be.

However, the outlook for next week brings many more possibilities for snowfall!

[Steve C]

Well I had a quick nose in the model thread a lot of the the posters in the west going on about the south & southeast having rain sat, a lot of ramping saying it will pivot and and they will get more also regarding next week we miss they get hit. I don't mind cold but would like to see some laying snow for more then a day.

If the SE had a chance of rain then it'd be way higher for the SW. I won't bother going to look at those posts - they seem pointless to me. Edited January 16, 2013 by Steve C

[Snowman.]

i "tortoise" much.

Wonder if those are in the Hamburgers?

[Dan the Man]

Personally I think it will stall to the west and south of our region.

Sounds good to me!!

[scotteboi]

Sorry....I can't help it

Edit - Thats the last one...(I promise)

Edited January 16, 2013 by scotteboi

[Snowman.]

Sorry....I can't help it

Edit - Thats the last one...(I promise)

I'm actually laughing so hard right now!

[Tim Bland]

BBC london DOES state it turning to rain although the actual forecast doesn't support this and looks like a older version anyway.

As I am near london I have to use this one as peter is a all time favourite and honest forecaster

Lets not forget that London (central) very rarely sees significant lying snow. This is due to the heat affect so unless its -2 or below with low dps it will be sleet for central areas. On sun outskirts will still be fine for snow but central London could have rain.

Still varying timescales for Fri. I've looked at most of the models including high res and it could reach herts anywhere between 6am and 2pm and we could have 2cm or 15cm by sat morning. It will come down to looking at the radar fri morning

[m1chaels]

Did snow for a couple of hours in central London on Monday but didn't lie.

[tinybill]

http://www.meteorada...uk/forecastloop

were did i put that spade might need it friday

http://www.meteoradar.co.uk/home/maps?bg=0&lat=54.5

are we expecting any snow to-night

Edited January 16, 2013 by tinybill

[Dan the Man]

http://www.meteorada...uk/forecastloop

were did i put that spade might need it friday

http://www.meteorada...s?bg=0&lat=54.5

are we expecting any snow to-night

You can see quite a pronounced pivot there around early Saturday - more snow for this area!

[Snowman.]

http://www.meteorada...uk/forecastloop

were did i put that spade might need it friday

http://www.meteorada...s?bg=0&lat=54.5

are we expecting any snow to-night

I have been marked down for a snow shower later tonight and tomorrow so they must have seen this one coming.