South East and East Anglia Regional Discussion 19th February 2013

[Methuselah]

Still no weather warnings on the met office site, I would imagine they will be going up today or early tomorrow for this weekends snow

Wouldn't warnings, at this stage, make the Met seem extraordinarily 'flaky'?

[shaky]

Has anyone seen on sat24 theres a swirl of cloud out in the north sea thats got the shape of a developing area of low pressure!!anybody think it could be an unexpected polar low developing in the frigid 850s?

edit:and theres a batch of heavier showers coming into the north of east anglia from the north sea according to raintoday!

Edited February 21, 2013 by shaky

[Coast]

Wouldn't warnings, at this stage, make the Met seem extraordinarily 'flaky'?

I guess if you are concerned over a few cm's of light snow, then at the very most it would warrant a provisional 'watch' this afternoon. I guess they are still crunching numbers, doing charts and tweaking them to see what might occur?

[london-snow]

Has anyone seen on sat24 theres a swirl of cloud out in the north sea thats got the shape of a developing area of low pressure!!anybody think it could be an unexpected polar low developing in the frigid 850s?

edit:and theres a batch of heavier showers coming into the north of east anglia from the north sea according to raintoday!

Doubt a polar low as it rare as hens teeth & usually comes from a unstable northerly. I've never seen a polar low from a easterly.

[Met4Cast]

I'm not sure we need a weather warning for 2cm of snow to be honest. Certainly nothing other than light flurries being shown on the models. No need for a warning whatsoever

[Snowangel-MK]

I thought I saw something floating in the breeze earlier but I got a second opinion and we agreed it was dust !

[Stevieray1]

Maybe a warning would be relevant for any snow turning to ice? And you know what the trains are like, they seem to stop running with any very minor snow fall! I'm still hoping for bucket loads to land in Kent and if it doesn't, it's been fun building up to it

[Eskimo]

Showers are about to pound into East Anglia within the next hour.

[Stevieray1]

Showers are about to pound into East Anglia within the next hour.

Can you post a link to the radar please? Nothing showing on mine.

[Tim Bland]

Will be in the garden next to the security light tonight.. hoping if I squint and use the wall to block the glare I might see a flurry !

[NO LONGER POSTING]

Its an anaprop again dont panic yet..

[Average Joe]

That presumes that enough snow will fall to inhibit progress or cause other disruption which is currently not showing on any model, forecast, data set, opinion or guesstimate....

Yes, but we're going to see at least a foot of it remember.......

[Stevieray1]

Look what just came up on my Met Office app :) :)

[Met4Cast]

Look what just came up on my Met Office app :) :)

How weird - I'm in Strood and my app says light snow where yours says heavy

[chmape]

Look what just came up on my Met Office app

you should see what it shows for Eastbourne!

[Methuselah]

Showers are about to pound into East Anglia within the next hour.

There was definitely some 'lumpiness' out over the North Sea, earlier. So I'll let ya'll know how the 'pounding' goes!

[Stevieray1]

Mine says Strood has heavy snow too...... Ok that's weird!

[hardcj]

How weird - I'm in Strood and my app says light snow where yours says heavy

It shows light snow pretty much all day, but heavy snow at 09:00

[polarlow2]

Still no weather warnings on the met office site, I would imagine they will be going up today or early tomorrow for this weekends snow

Given most of the south east is going to have lying snow of varying depths and only hardcore fans read the models a lot of people will be caught unawares

Surely COBRA must be meeting today?

[Methuselah]

Surely COBRA must be meeting today?

Bozo the Mayor will soon be designating London a Disaster Area!

[Kentspur]

Mine says Strood has heavy snow too...... Ok that's weird!

I've always found a strait northeasterly is more beneficial from East of Rochester-Gillingham eastwards and down to Maidstone area wind flow off the sea but a more east to North East element and Strood gravesend even up to South East London benefit more from the white stuff

[john pike]

from ukmo 00z

still picking up saturday as the one to watch

will update the 12z later

[Richierich82]

Meto app has Gravesend under heavy snow from 12am to 9 am oh please be true!!!!!

[Tamara]

I like the placing of the double snow flake for tonight (if you can imagine where the coastline is )

Edited February 21, 2013 by Tamara Road

[fatyido]

Meto warnings...????

oh for goodness sake. Huh ? Do you really think we need a warning every time a light snow shower passes through.? I think we going alittle over the top dont you with these statements.