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

[AWD]

If the ECM verified, then those of us with snowcover, would still have that snowcover this time next week.

A cold run with further snowfall next week. Lurvely Jubbily!

[chris55]

How did rest of forecast go roughly? Still don't have tv

Dry sat, maybe the odd flurry, Sunday "watch the Low over France" this will give good acum over south east "but watch out for the side edge, westward extent uncertain, but east Wiltshire prob a "dead cert"

Beyond into Monday snow threat from south west but Ian said " I'm going to worry about that later, I have had enough stress as it stands"

Great stuff!!!

[Mapantz]

I read that in Shropshire, the Telford ski centre had to close due to snow.

I cracked up!

[DanDorsetUK]

If the ECM verified, then those of us with snowcover, would still have that snowcover this time next week.

A cold run with further snowfall next week. Lurvely Jubbily!

yes souh today weather hinted at this too

[cerneman]

Ohhhh as in maybe a snowman for me :-)

He said colder Cornwall could be snow showers has far down as Lands end,,,,,,,,

[chris55]

Not too bad.

Probably about as deep as a normal pint glass..

Say 3 inches maybe.

It wasnt very heavy most of the time and was mostly small fine fakes.

Would of been better with bigger flakes.

Most of the heavy PPN went north and south of here..

Yet still good.

Could of been better.

7/10

Exactly the same here, always small flakes, but the persistent nature allowed some decent accumulations. 13cm this evening (70m asl).

[tomhow]

0.4C just east of southampton and finally STOPPED snowing. No sounds of thaw that we here can hear. Except for the bit around the Chimney!

[kaz]

Snowing here at the mo started settling on cars ect, wet snow here but i bet further up the road it is quiet bad.

The BBC today showed snow for the SE only on Sun, has this changed then?

[TropicThunder]

Fantastic weather here today, started snowing just after 4am and continued for a good 7-8 hours, and it is now snowing again! Feel for anyone who missed out, but looks like there could be more opportunities in the coming days.

Shame my day was ruined by the ridiculous goings on at my football club lol.

[littlemissy]

Snow stopped and now melted.

[jethro]

Evening All, been out and about today generally messing around and taking pics up here on the Mendips. The roads weren't as bad as I thought they may be, but there were still quite a few jack knifed lorries and abandoned cars around. We ended up with about 7 inches, there's no sign of a thaw and it's started to snow again . When this lot freezes tonight, the roads will be treacherous and if the wind picks up a bit, it'll drift quite badly as it's so powdery. Here are some pics, me, hubby, the dogs, preferred style of mendip transport and some strange snowy bumps on the horizon (Bronze age burial mounds at Priddy) oh and some cheesed off looking sheep.

[Andy Pepler]

ians forcast is now online http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/ba13

[That ECM]

Nice to see the snow falling again. Light but persistent. Not sleet or rain!!

[Blizzardof82]

Wow if the ECM verifies today is just the start

[SunnySouthCoast]

Well the south coast snow shield failed today?

Heavy snow this morning, though it did turn sleety in lighter bursts & ended up raining this afternoon. Only had about 1inch & because of proximity to the sea it was quite slushy wet snow that has already been melting, but first snow here for 2 years so very happy

Temperature is now 2.1C with a dew point of 1.2C & can hear a steady drip drip.

[Blizzardof82]

BBC news special starting now on todays snow event BBC1.

[liam300]

Well the south coast snow shield failed today?

Heavy snow this morning, though it did turn sleety in lighter bursts & ended up raining this afternoon. Only had about 1inch & because of proximity to the sea it was quite slushy wet snow that has already been melting, but first snow here for 2 years so very happy

Temperature is now 2.1C with a dew point of 1.2C & can hear a steady drip drip.

Im just in Havant and we never had rain or sleet. Alot of snow, surprising what a few miles makes.

[chris55]

As AWD pointed out earlier ECM is a great run for us lot tonight, once we get Sunday AND Mondays potentail out of the way, look at what ECM does on Wednesday,

Front approaching from the West,

Disrupts (and disappears) by Thursday, with the front no doubt bringing in some snowfall to our region.

And the cold still in place

Worth pointing out that GFS not on board, but both the Euros hold the cold pattern, and with GFS of late, I'd put my money on the ECM/UKMO.

[liam300]

How far do we think the front is going to get then??

[John88B]

Varying depths of snow in my back garden but I would estimate 14cm of snow fell in Patchway, North Bristol today. 16cm recorded a mile down the road at Filton Airport. Great depths at relatively low levels and no signs of any great thaw in the foreseeable future. A fantastic day and I feel like a kid again!

[windseeker]

Moving into my new house tonight, built today

[Nights King]

How far do we think the front is going to get then??

Dorset and wiltshire I think may be it's western limit but you never know we may get odd flurry from it further west

[isleofwightsnowgal]

Absolutely delighted with how much we've had on iow, Ian ferguson spot on last night so thanks v much to him lol shame I had to work th morn so missed the heaviest fall but made up for it this aft built a snowman n had snowball fights with th kids hoping for more but not too worried if we don't as I'm at st Mary's mon night to c my beloved Everton hopefully hammer the saints

Anyone know if we're likely to c anymore??

[Dampdorset82]

Absolutely delighted with how much we've had on iow, Ian ferguson spot on last night so thanks v much to him lol shame I had to work th morn so missed the heaviest fall but made up for it this aft built a snowman n had snowball fights with th kids hoping for more but not too worried if we don't as I'm at st Mary's mon night to c my beloved Everton hopefully hammer the saints

Anyone know if we're likely to c anymore??

See any more everton supporters?...............i doubt it

[SunnySouthCoast]

Im just in Havant and we never had rain or sleet. Alot of snow, surprising what a few miles makes.

Yes we were out & about earlier & much more snow just north of Portsmouth, the A3 near Waterlooville was at a standstill. The seafront in Southsea had hardly any snow, just a slushy dusting.