South West/Central Southern England Regional Discussion 18/01/13 16z ------>

[A.J]

light snow here for the past hour.....I would guess looking at the hi-res modelling and radar that it will probably be on and off throughout the day

[Gleno-South Coast]

Snowing here,already got a cheeky little dusting and -0.6C,bring on the heavier stuff ;-)

[-uksnow-]

Got much heavier here now, 5/10 with medium flakes.

[khodds]

Ah - apologies - I still have the old Met Office radar bookmarked. I see the new one is indeed updated every 15 minutes and is not an hour behind. That being the case, I have no idea!!

I have NW Extra radar ( couldn't be bothered to look at it earlier! ) and there is def more precip around on that than the meto one.... Don't think us Somerset folk will be lucky today somehow. Good luck to all you eastern counties

[john w]

Can someone help me here? How come the meto radar shows no precip over our area? Yet numerous people are reporting snow?

Three main reasons.

1. When precipitation that falls is quite light in nature (such as what we have now) it can be difficult for radar to exclusively pick it up as a shower.

2. Sometimes when precipitation is falling that is quite light (e.g. for arguments sake less than 0.5mm/hr) the organisiations providing the radar may decide not to show such low rates of precip. It can clutter the map and detract from where the main precipitation is.

3. Radar lags realtime by up to 15 mins depending on which service you use (e.g. its not realtime) so places will report precipitation before it is seen.

[windseeker]

steady, light snow here, already given a fresh dusting

[isleofwightsnowgal]

I can now confirm its snowing in Newport iow! Took an hour to get here from ryde but it's here it's light but it's laying! Woooo wasn't expecting any today!

[Severe Siberian icy blast]

I'm using a radar I down loaded an ap onto my idad, it's every 10min update to our reall time , and I can say for a certainty that there is a finger developing and pointing its finger at us , also it's pushing well toward to Southampton , and we no that's very centrally based so its already further west than it was forecast .

[lettice]

started snowing again in gosport and a bit heavier now, after a half hour lull

-0.9c, -4.7c wind chill, 996hps, 93% humidity and -1,9c dewpoint

[offerman]

Morning everyone, nice to see lots of you getting some snow, now snowing in frome, very fine at the moment but bit better than yesterday. Maybe the eastern snow might shift west a little?

[Wilxy]

I'm using a radar I down loaded an ap onto my idad, it's every 10min update to our reall time , and I can say for a certainty that there is a finger developing and pointing its finger at us , also it's pushing well toward to Southampton , and we no that's very centrally based so its already further west than it was forecast .

Yet at the same time its weakening as it pushes west.

[Bobafet]

Looking at the app now on ipad from meteogroup now has the snow hitting iow at about 1145, lets hope it keeps pushing west!!

[Fred Sykes]

Snizzle here in Warminster, wilts. Hoping it gets heavier later!

[karlos1983]

come on baby, move west, you know you want to, all breathe in and it might make Dorset

[Severe Siberian icy blast]

Yet at the same time its weakening as it pushes west.

Go to the bbc web and look at the predicted snowfall at 9am then at 12pm, there is about double the amount of ppn showing up already to what there should be , infact it's looks more like the 12pm one already, there will be supprises today now I know they have this wrong

[Andy hoyland]

I'm using a radar I down loaded an ap onto my idad, it's every 10min update to our reall time , and I can say for a certainty that there is a finger developing and pointing its finger at us , also it's pushing well toward to Southampton , and we no that's very centrally based so its already further west than it was forecast .

Hi, could you tell me what that app is called please and how much it costs?

Andy

[o0herbie]

Coming down nicely and consistently in West Berks. Everything refreshed on the ground

[jtay]

Mother dearest saying it's snowing in Fawley on the South Coast.

[Coast]

come on baby, move west, you know you want to, all breathe in and it might make Dorset

[jessandjon]

Am I still in for snow Tom???

[TheHumph]

Light powdery snow in Petersfield. Forecasted duration was between 10am and 3pm. Started at 09.30 so not bad even for the BBC!

[Coast]

Am I still in for snow Tom???

http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=will-it-snow;sess=

[Fred Sykes]

I know a few people have mentioned this, but please feed the birds. They really do suffer in this weather. A wren for example has to eat about half it's own body weight per day to survive!

[offerman]

Andy, its called weather pro hd.

[fromey]

Morning everyone, nice to see lots of you getting some snow, now snowing in frome, very fine at the moment but bit better than yesterday. Maybe the eastern snow might shift west a little?

glad you noticed, thought i was seeing things

fromey