London & South East Regional Discussion 18th January 2013, 12z onwards

[Coast]

You can see the lil heavyer clump just off the coast Coasty, but also another heavyer bit out down brighton way, hopefully that will make it here too, almost looks like that one is beefing up a bit too........

Fingers crossed Jas!

[kold weather]

On behalf of ALL South Essex/N&E Kent members:

Congratualtions to the rest of you that have the snow. Enjoy.

But...

"WTF"

Had I been in S.Essex I'd be with you. Still I'm sitting here in Guildford with a pretty good covering, I'd say we are upto 10-12cms now...

[mulzy]

Snow easing off after 2 hours of moderate falls. Est accumulation 6-7cm. That heavy radar echo near bognor regis seems interesting...heading London way?

-1.4c

[West Sussex Kate]

snowing on and off now, been a fab day! :-)

[craigore]

snow getting heavy in downtown bexley.

1.5cm.

Moderate 7 on the scale. Full 20p flakes.

Steve what are the pedictions for amount of snow sunday? no snow here today in sunny dry east kent.

[Gandalf]

Just started up again here. It's on and off, on and off!

[Damp and dreary]

I concur. The front has weakened for the past few hours now and clearly evident on the radar. Latest BBC forecast has also confirmed this. All eyes now on the track of the depression on Sunday in France.

No probs matey!

There is a chunk of heavier precip just leaving Brighton way now, isnt that quite near you?

[winterfreak]

Considering the hype yet again it's a truly feeble snowfall event here. I have to laugh because as rain, today's system would have been a very high precipitation rate but as snow, oh no.. I think we've struggled to attain 10mm of snow.

[Tamara]

You can see the lil heavyer clump just off the coast Coasty, but also another heavyer bit out down brighton way, hopefully that will make it here too, almost looks like that one is beefing up a bit too........

Its trying to start snowing again here - but very fragmented and sporadic so it it isn't amounting to anything. Eyes on 'The Clump' it is then

[LeeRoyxD]

Seems to be increasing due to the winds

[EML Network]

Dew point is now at 0.0 :-(

so here's the best image I could get to show the snow depth here, it's about 3 inches

Edited January 18, 2013 by EML Network

[Honey]

Still random flakes - the radar is clearly lying !!!!

[gremlin]

Its the gift that keeps on giving here in Bushey, Hertfordshire.

[Kent Blizzard]

I can't help but think the best bit for the SE was wasted over Central London

[emg]

had slowed a lot in Bognor with tiny flakes but just pepped back up and falling faster with big chunky flakes now

[Snow Shoes]

Here in West Twickenham we now have 4-5 inches of level snow (and still snowing moderately) so much for Simon Kings prediction on Radio 5 live breakfast show this morning that snow "would peter out by the time it reached london" ..!!! .

Edited January 18, 2013 by Snow Shoes

[Lauren]

Me too

Me three.

[Tom Jarvis]

noooooooooo it has stopped snowing here !!!!!!!!!

[london-snow]

Looking sw the sky is really dark and heading this way up to 13cms now and still snowing

[Southender]

Had I been in S.Essex I'd be with you. Still I'm sitting here in Guildford with a pretty good covering, I'd say we are upto 10-12cms now...

Enjoy mate.

Cant festering believe our luck. Again.

Let's hope we are rewarded with a tasty streamer tomorrow or something.

Gutted and now I have to go up the school and explain to my boy why I am such a doofus, when it comes to forecasting snow.

[tight isobar]

Still persistant, mod, falls, at Around 12cms, now...

[Tamara]

Suddenly a burst of large flakes appear - for the first time.

[damp patch]

Been snowing here at Charing for last 2 hours - mostly light stuff with occ heavier burst but all pretty insignificant really.

You can't help but feel a bit disappointed when you see others getting far more snow - but there was always a decent chance the precipitation wouldn't really get to mid / east / north kent today.

Oh well - at least it is snowing here and we still have snow left from earlier in week which never really melted so can't complain too much. Perhaps things might pep up later this evening or another chance over weekend.

Current temp -2.5c and maxed at about -2.1c earlier.

[manutdmatt1986]

It's not just east Kent missing out on the snow. We've barely a dusting here. Absolutely pathetic. The 2nd massive let down this week.

[london-snow]

Omg big big gust of wind just passed through must have been 40mph