Three Counties & East Anglia Regional Discussion - January 22nd 2013 14:00hrs>

[The Snow Bulldog]

Severe weather warning signs now illuminating the m25

[Summer of 76]

and the East of England Met Office web pages says

Headline:

Snowfall developing Friday night.

This Evening and Tonight:

Icy conditions will develop soon after dark, with a hard frost for some rural areas, especially where any breaks in the cloud develop, and with some patches of freezing fog also possible. Minimum Temperature -7 °C.

Friday:

Dry with perhaps a few bright or sunny intervals. Feeling colder as winds strengthen. Thickening cloud is expected to bring increasingly heavy snow across the region later in the evening. Maximum Temperature 1 °C.

Outlook for Saturday to Monday:

Brighter, less cold and mainly dry Saturday, with lying snow thawing. Overnight strong winds and rain clearing to sunny spells and squally showers Sunday. Very windy Monday, with rain later.

Issued at: 1600 on Thu 24 Jan 2013

[Summer of 76]

Severe weather warning signs now illuminating the m25

Yes all those messages can be seen from the Traffic England web site, I do like the one between junction 22 and 23 about preparing for winter, a little late now

http://www.trafficengland.com/map.aspx?long0=-153.02732193009462&lat0=3107.724938251105&long1=16.731196588423927&lat1=3034.7776501155117

Hopefully the link works.

PS you need to switch the message board signs on

Edited January 24, 2013 by chris mantle

[Stuie]

Ah well, nice to see the mild air kicking in on Sunday.......

[Dexter29]

Severe weather warning signs now illuminating the m25

Yeh my sister text me about the signs!

Growing up round here, whenever those Severe Weather signs are out it usually means business!

[Gary_R_Walker]

We are going to be the last to see the snow disappear off the east coast which means by my calculations that Lowestoft will get 60cm of snow.

[suffolkboy_]

Yeh my sister text me about the signs!

Growing up round here, whenever those Severe Weather signs are out it usually means business!

The are on on the A12 aswell, and the A14 around Ipswich

[Summer of 76]

The are on on the A12 aswell, and the A14 around Ipswich

Come on which one of us has hacked in to the Highways Agency computer

[Heisenberg]

We are going to be the last to see the snow disappear off the east coast which means by my calculations that Lowestoft will get 60cm of snow.

IS that all??

[JennyJane1]

We are going to be the last to see the snow disappear off the east coast which means by my calculations that Lowestoft will get 60cm of snow.

[saint]

Herts Highways have just tweeted that there has been a change to the forecast they receive, and are expecting snow tomorrow night.

[Dexter29]

Herts Highways have just tweeted that there has been a change to the forecast they receive, and are expecting snow tomorrow night.

M25 already has the Snow illuminating overhead signs!

[Methuselah]

Magic clouds just appeared in the North Sea. One minute nothing, and the next this. Magic Clouds

We now have 'magic clouds' too, Gary...They've already precipitated 57cm of 'magic' snow!

[Gary_R_Walker]

We now have 'magic clouds' too, Gary...They've already precipitated 57cm of 'magic' snow!

They're wonderful aren't they. The snow has a special luminous quality too. Magical.

[Snowangel-MK]

M25 already has the Snow illuminating overhead signs!

What they really need are ones like this....

[Summer of 76]

I think a couple of you have been eating magic mushrooms

[Summer of 76]

What they really need are ones like this....

I wonder what would happen if they put one of them on the M1 or M25, A&E would be busy with injured road workers.

[Timmytour]

We are going to be the last to see the snow disappear off the east coast which means by my calculations that Lowestoft will get 60cm of snow.

But only 2cm of it will settle....and that will soon thaw along with the other 58cm

[Methuselah]

They're wonderful aren't they. The snow has a special luminous quality too. Magical.

Indeed they are. Ye cannae beat 'em!

[Ben_Cambs]

Tomorrow does look like a pretty tricky forecast to make. NAE and GFS at loggerheads in particular and perhaps at the extreme ends of the spectrum. Snow that does fall tomorrow night is going to thaw quite readily during the course of Saturday, though it's not until Saturday evening until a mild sector of air makes inroads into the region:

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Rtavn542.png

The wind really ramping up on Saturday and beyond, after what's been a very calm period of weather.

Next week dominated by LP to the north and HP to the south, though temperatures and conditions will vary from day to day.

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Rtavn1201.png

[Gary_R_Walker]

But only 2cm of it will settle....and that will soon thaw along with the other 58cm

The whole 60cm will settle, and it will only start thawing at 4pm on Saturday. I saw this written on a piece of ice which was floating in my glass of scotch. I would post a picture but sadly the ice has now melted.

[Methuselah]

There must be a chance of 14C come Tuesday?

[Iceni]

Saw a motorway sign on the M11 today saying "Severe weather expected tomorrow". What sort of severe weather would that be?

Edit: should have read the thread first, I'm not the only one to have noticed, but it sounds good — there's never going to be a severe thaw, is there?

Edited January 24, 2013 by Iceni

[Gary_R_Walker]

There must be a chance of 14C come Tuesday?

Actually it will be 13.8c.

[Sweetdream]

I will take anything but wind and rain mix seems all we had last year when the slapped a hose pipe ban on us is for it to be dominated by rain followed by more rain.