South West & Central Southern England Regional Discussion 18th January 2013, 06z Onwards

[Nights King]

Brother just had phone call from work in evercreech saying he should be ok to come to work later today as its going to turn to rain!? I laughed and said do they know where we live!?

Steady light to moderate snow here. -0.4c

[toby]

Plenty of snow around callington

[PompeyFC]

Blizzard conditions now in petersfield, horizontal snow

[Mapantz]

This snow beats 2010! About 3 inches here, probably lost an inch last night to melting before it settled properly.

[Caroline Weymouth]

Still snowing, lost sky tv now,

We have lost DB radio

[egret]

Borderline sleety snow here now. 11 to 12 cm lying on lawn away from the drifts. About to go up to the head of the valley tobogganing and expect it to be somewhat deeper and drier there, maybe a bit too deep for good tobogganing!

[Dean E]

Happy Snow day everyone!

I woke up at 6am this morning to see nothing, was disappointed so went back to bed as I knew it was early. Woke up at 8 to slight blizzard conditions, now we've probably got around 4 inches on the ground and still coming down!

The Occluded front responsible for this has now stalled and hard moving at all!

Temp here is around 0c dew point -3c. I have no wind data as the wind sensor is frozen!

SM

[littlemissy]

snowing quite heavily in Callingon, SE Cornwall and wondering if my school is going to shut!!

Ours has in Somerset.Yaaay.Not that I am happy you understand...........

vey light snow here atm, but if Cornwall is getting more snow then I guess we could be in line for more too.

It's the wind that is so bitterly cold.Brrr definitely a day to stay in doors and sort out a bedroom or two!

Edited January 18, 2013 by littlemissy

[tomhow]

Still feels quite warm. Thermometer said 0C at 8.30am and walking across the field it was a layer of snow over slushy bog, most odd.

[snowphie]

The sun has just come out here! Very jealous of all those with snow, particularly my hubby who drove to work at Launceston to find snow!

Love the beautiful pics though :-)

[jtay]

Well my 7am inch is now about 3.

Checklist completed before 8:30am.

- Bacon and Egg bap - Done

- Snowball fight with kids next door - Done

- Snowy house snaps taken for the GF to put on facebook (and me to put on here) - Done

Can't go sledging until tomorrow, as working at home means I can get to work. Rubbish.

[snowdon]

Gone from showing sleet from around 3 onwards to snow largely until sat

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/forecast/hurn#?tab=fiveDay

[DanDorsetUK]

Gone from showing sleet from around 3 onwards to snow largely until sat

http://www.metoffice...rn#?tab=fiveDay

Problem is looking at radar it looks like we only got 2 hours top left unless it stalls

[Mark Neal.]

Upto 2.5cm here in Headington,Oxford :-) Coming down with big flakes, Yes!!!

[coxxy22]

Problem is looking at radar it looks like we only got 2 hours top left unless it stalls

was thinking that it dosent look like its stalled it just looks like its gonna march on through ???

[SNOW CRYSTAL]

Plenty of snow around callington

Wow glad to see that some in East Cornwall have snow. Just stopped here on South Dartmoor, looks to be thawing, but lucky to have got some at all. Could you send some more from Callington, that's of course unless you want to hold onto it :0)

[dancing daisy]

MetO says that I now have snow all day until 9pm tonight. That wasn't forecast was it?

[snow drift]

Just shows how marginal it is. Ferndown snow till 9. Bournemouth, rain at 3.

[*Stormforce~beka*]

Megasnow in Winchester now. Kids off school, Wife off work. I have my laptop home and I am "working from home" hahahaha. 2 e-mails before lunch, 2 after, job done. Going on my sledge later.

Paul

Hahaha oooh where are you? I'm in Harestock. No buses here we are cut off! lol.

[lettice]

Just measured a good 2 inches and 5cm here.

Snow still coming down but fine flakes now.

Leaned out and poured water over the sky dish, all back now.

Have no Dab radio either.

Using iPad to listen to radio is fine.

Seen a plough going up and down the bus route, never seen that here before. All buses here have been cancelled.

[Coast]

MetO says that I now have snow all day until 9pm tonight. That wasn't forecast was it?

Yep, pretty much DD!

[liam300]

Are they predicting it stalls because apparently met office says its snowing till late tonight?

[Wilxy]

Looks to be easing now to are SW not that im complaining very deep snow here

[snow drift]

Heaviest it has been all day here at the moment.

[gottolovethisweather]

So, just tallying things up, as I haven't had a chance to read 998 posts in the last 8 hours.

Has it snowed in................................

Coastal Dorset regions, such as Poole, Bournemouth, Weymouth etc.

Coastal Devon

Isle of Wight

Other regions of the Costa del South Coast

Lastly, how much rain has fallen in parts of Cornwall and Devon, for example.