South West/Central Southern England Regional Discussion 17th Januray 2013, 12z Onwards

[windseeker]

Wife has just got to work just north of M4 Newbury and claims an inch there already.

[festivalking]

Its 1.2c here.... Perfect for big snow!!

absolutely! think i'll book a house viewing up there soon....down to 4.1. Tis incredible the temp gradient in just a few miles. Incidentally the garden backs on to fields here and the princetown mast is shining bright. When it disappears I know you lot are in business

[Nights King]

Anyway everyone its been a long few days for me and probably many of you so I shall now retire to bed for an early night

Set my alarm clock for 3am.....what can I say I'm an early riser and its nothing to do with snowmagedon ariving at around the same kind of time

As my hero gandalf from lotr would say.... SO IT BEGINS!

[Beast of Plympton]

Uk.weather mate, type in your post code on that site

Thanks mate.... says -2 dew point on there... Its nearly with us buddy

[gottolovethisweather]

Anyone know where I can find the dew point temp for my area??

It can be calculated from your own AT and your relative humidity, can't exactly remember how though. Something like AT divided by 100 X pecentage humidity.

Edited January 17, 2013 by gottolovethisweather

[Beast of Plympton]

absolutely! think i'll book a house viewing up there soon....down to 4.1. Tis incredible the temp gradient in just a few miles. Incidentally the garden backs on to fields here and the princetown mast is shining bright. When it disappears I know you lot are in business

Haha!! You will be welcomed!! Is it with you yet??

[Slippery When White]

I would especially like to hear the reports from the South Coast and any subsequent Dewpoint readings and lamp-post reports are always welcome.

Weymouth 5.7c air, 2.5c DP

[AWD]

It can be calculated from your own AT and your relative humidity, can't exactly remember how though. Something like AT divided by 100 X pecentage humidity.

Subtract humidity from 100 and divide that by 5 and subtract that from current surface temperature I think.

[rowieboyz]

Thanks mate.... says -2 dew point on there... Its nearly with us buddy

Hmm it was -4 an hour ago, still good enough though

[dec10snow]

Apparently (according to wunderground) temperature still around 5C here

[sclarke]

Does anyone remember when the south coast central area got the Red Warning a few years back? Does anyone remember the circumstances around that, and why it was predicted to be so bad? (albeit it was downgraded to an amber within an hour or so)

[gottolovethisweather]

I am finding this remarkable. I can't recall ever seeing snow developing in this way - and that's saying something!

I can't wait to hear the effects of this either, there could some icing of boats in the solent at this rate, couldn't there?

You can imagine hearing the shipping forecast right now.

Dover, Portland, Plymouth, wind SE'rly force 4 or 5, snow, light icing.

Ha ha, you couldn't make it up.

[Beast of Plympton]

Hmm it was -4 an hour ago, still good enough though

Good enough mate... although the lower it is the better!!

[EGHH]

Here's the 18z NAE with the patent pending EasyReadYouSnowLevel colour changes for the projected snow depth at 18z tomorrow:

18z

And the 12z for comparison.

[o0herbie]

Does anyone remember when the south coast central area got the Red Warning a few years back? Does anyone remember the circumstances around that, and why it was predicted to be so bad? (albeit it was downgraded to an amber within an hour or so)

Wasn't that the Dec 21st (Monday) streamer that brought Reading and Basingstoke to an utter standstill?

[Sungirl]

Anyone know where I can find the dew point temp for my area??

I use weatherfamily.org with my location. I think if you googled weatherfamily and your location, something will come up?

[gottolovethisweather]

Once again guys n gals, if you're unsure about the timings surrounding this event, you won't go far wrong by having a read of the links on the following.

http://forum.netweather.tv/topic/75613-south-westcentral-southern-england-regional-discussion-17th-januray-2013-12z-onwards/page__st__300#entry2519970

[Paul T]

Yay! the first bit of Sleet from the incoming front - FIRST ONE TO SPOT SNOW from the SW front wins a mars bar!

[LeeB]

Here in Okehampton:

Temp: 3.6c

Dew point: -1.5c

[festivalking]

Haha!! You will be welcomed!! Is it with you yet??

It has arrived young sir!! sleety rain and thats being kind! Temp has dropped to 4. Just have to convince the wife to move and I'll in the prince of wales belittling the lowlanders.....

[wallopweather]

Temp +2 dew -1here in the Wallops according to xcweather looking good

[farmer2555]

4 deg in Yeovil looks like an all rain event for me tom :'(

[Beast of Plympton]

I use weatherfamily.org with my location. I think if you googled weatherfamily and your location, something will come up?

Thank you kindly!!

[karlos1983]

this 5.1C temp in poole is driving me nuts, when has the temperature ever stayed at 5.1 for example for like 2hours?

[Beast of Plympton]

Yay! the first bit of Sleet from the incoming front - FIRST ONE TO SPOT SNOW from the SW front wins a mars bar!

Watching the lamp post!!