South East and East Anglia Regional Discussion 11th February 2013 18:00hrs>

[Stevieray1]

And to complete the set plain old rain at sea level here in Chalk!

Lol! It's stopped now. I reckon I've got 0.01 cm on my car and that's slush left from last night!

[SMU]

rain here at sub sea level - greenhithe is one giant submarine.

[Stuie]

Jonathan Powell will always refer the South-East as being in the firing zone for snow because he knows damn well that the civilian population is far greater with companies all begging at his feet for a sniff of his infamously sh*t weather forecasts.

Totally agree, I always sigh when they have a look at the front pages on Sky News late at night. What you have to remember though they are there to sell papers and plastering the front page with "ARCTIC BLAST" is unfortunately going to sell papers due to the weather being probably the most spoken about topic in daily life.

Shame everybody isn`t as clued up as the gurus around here hey

I will post something weather-ish but this was the first post I read, sorry.

[Methuselah]

Sleet in benfleet

Bugger-all in Beccles!

[Tom Montalbano]

Dont put your rulers away quite yet! Coutesy of the 12z ECM, a small tweak north would pay dividends. All very FI, of course.

Cheers,

Tom

[Tom Montalbano]

Tescos Spaghetti Bolognese now, as well. My selection last night, pasta post now!

Cheers,

Tom.

[Hammer]

Temp & DP still about freezing here. Which has meant the snow hasn't thawed as much as I'd thought it might I'm garden.

[Snowangel-MK]

Bugger-all in Beccles!

It could be worse....

...you could have droopy snow....

[Southender]

Well the latter stages of the ECM is interesting indeed. A decent EENE flow, uppers around -8/-10. That is streamer territory. Lets hope it verifies...

[Stuie]

ECM changed it`s tune for FI.

0z @192

12Z coming like a cold bullet at Anglia.

There is obviously 12 hours difference but a definitive easterly flow.

[Great Plum]

Flooding and Potholes seem to be the main issues here this evening. Where the Snow has melted if you walk on the mud you almost sink into the ground, the water table must be saturated to the top.

Some pretty impressive water run off as well, and the roads are ean absolute disgrace, btw you can sue your local council if you get damage to your car from these monsters, there is one on the inside lane of the A127 Between Wickford and Rayleigh Weir that is almost the size of the inside lane and is about a foot deep, one of my friends has already smashed his wheels up on his BMW! Claim sent to the council already! Mwahaha

Off topic but to be able to claim about a pothole, it has to have been previously reported to the council...

[Paul Sherman]

Off topic but to be able to claim about a pothole, it has to have been previously reported to the council...

Yes and it was 48 hours before he blew his front right tyre at 50mph! Right old Mess on the Rim

Btw I lied about the Rain in Leigh On Sea and we are having some interesting weather - Look Below

If you watch 1 timelapse watch this - Simply amazing, every 1 second of the timelapse is 30 minutes of the snowstorm

[Methuselah]

ECM changed it`s tune for FI.

0z @192

12Z coming like a cold bullet at Anglia.

There is obviously 12 hours difference but a definitive easterly flow.

Could be cold around Uranus, too?

[leemondo]

still snowing here, has been for a couple of hours, and according to the better half, most of the day too, but fairly light so not settleing, its amazing the difference a few meters make, was raining at work, 8 miles away, but snowing where i live!

Edited February 11, 2013 by leemondo

[Stuie]

Could be cold around Uranus, too?

No doubt, no doubt lol

[Snowangel-MK]

Btw I lied about the Rain in Leigh On Sea and we are having some interesting weather - Look Below

If you watch 1 timelapse watch this - Simply amazing, every 1 second of the timelapse is 30 minutes of the snowstorm

I had no idea you were living in a place between Cambridge and Worcester (MA)

Nice time lapse though

[Tom Montalbano]

Anymore snow depths to register for the Snow Depth Cup, out there guys.

Have had a few of you register an amount but still a lot to come in too!

Speak to you later,

Tom

[Stuie]

@ RP, see it wasn`t cold enough yesterday was it! Ironically the DP is 3 X below last night in Cambridge, meh.

[Methuselah]

@ RP, see it wasn`t cold enough yesterday was it! Ironically the DP is 3 X below last night in Cambridge, meh.

Amazingly, it did snow, SW...DB was 4.3 at the time, too...

[snowblues]

Really hope that ECM calls it spot on,with no downgrading this time.Every single snow flake will be settling from that setup.No slops

[Stuie]

Amazingly, it did snow, SW...DB was 4.3 at the time, too...

Shoves all the scientific data right up your wet bulb. Considering the WB level was nowhere near ground level, places like Barnet got 10cm.

Back to the drawing board.

[Vesuvius]

Snowing here. Nothing major though

[tight isobar]

Dont put your rulers away quite yet! Coutesy of the 12z ECM, a small tweak north would pay dividends. All very FI, of course.

Cheers,

Tom

yes ecm says write off winter át your peril...some good uppers showing along with plenty snowfall chance. Most certainly keep in mind. And has to be said compare to gfs thus far, ecm has out competed...thats a fact not a dig....

[Stuie]

Snowing here. Nothing major though

It is safe to post a link rather than a screenshot. you can safely put your sledge away for this evening (My neck of the woods especially). Pretty much zero precipitation tonight.

http://www.rain-alarm.com/?from=chrome2

[lawrenk]

Cracking end to the ECM tonight. Feel a bit stupid having given a "review" of the winter earlier.