South East and East Anglia Regional Discussion 11th March 2013

[abruzzi spur]

Just been out to move my wife's car (rear wheel drive, facing sharply uphill, seemed a good idea today to face it downhill) and I noticed that the North Downs have disappeared!

Let me re-phrase that to avoid undue alarm. The North Downs have disappeared from view. Heaviest snow of the day so far here, settling with a bit more enthusiasm, although not as widely as I would have expected given the temperature of -1.5c and a DP of -6.0c

Looks like fun on the Channel Islands....

AS

Edit: and with that almost immediately back to the lighter stuff here.

Edited March 11, 2013 by abruzzi spur

[Coast]

Looks like Sussex is the place to be today.

Enjoy all you lucky Sussexonians.

The rest of us will have to scrape as much as we can from any shower trains.

It's rare, but you could be right

http://www.bbc.co.uk/travelnews/sussex

Edited March 11, 2013 by Coast

[Essexfish]

Blizzard in chelmsford essex

[CrimsonSunset]

Starting and stopping here, not coming to much

[dallas]

Lull over and we are off again, all sideways too

[SLEETY]

Snow gone mad here, really being thrown around.

yeah gone crazy now lol,setting fast now temp -0.9c

[87 blizzard]

Just had a mini blizzard here in colchester, must be nearly 2 inches now and after slowing down a little its coming down heavy again wow !!

Edited March 11, 2013 by 87 blizzard

[Reefseeker]

Wow, we're actually having horizontal 20p flakes blowing snow right now. Husband says nothing from Uxbridge through to A3 junction of M25 when it started to snow. Have reassured him it's likely to just be a shower as I'm off to Sutton now and then it's back to Uxbridge for school run. Am enjoying it while it lasts.

[Tom Jarvis]

Not really uckfield has only got a dusting. It is very localise at the moment. I'm just a bit too far south for the train of showers

[Methuselah]

There was a nice wee Eddie at around 10:30 last night, but it's all a tad south of here today...

[Southender]

Just had a mini blizzard here in colchester, must be nearly 2 inches now and after slowing down a little its coming down heavy again wow !!

very

2" in Colchester?

WTF?!

[Kentspur]

Here we go again!:-) thou if only that system could move up 50miles north!

[weathertoski]

Odd flake in the wind here.

[kold weather]

Gurnsey shall turn to snow soon, if Jersey has then you can bet any money Gurnsey is probably a matter of an hour or so away from heavy snow.,

The front will pivot around them, so there is certainly a chance for a record March fall in the channel Islands I'd have thought, 6-8 inches quite widely by 12z Tuesday IMO.

[CrimsonSunset]

It looks like London is in an unfortunate dry zone, too far south for the trains of ppn coming in from NE and too far north for the channel ppn

[NO LONGER POSTING]

low pushing north slighty? Check out the cell in central london on the latest radar return...

[Shunter]

What's its like around Bromley/Elmstead Woods area?

Cold, windy a few flakes.....one or two heavy showers have passed but any lying snow has just blown away

[Essexfish]

And still it comes down in chelmsford...

[titchjuicy]

It looks like London is in an unfortunate dry zone, too far south for the trains of ppn coming in from NE and too far north for the channel ppn

full blown bona fide blizzard in the city of london right now- heaviest i've seen in london all winter

[abruzzi spur]

London to receive nothing apart from a few flakes as per my prediction last night.

Its at times like these where you feel like giving up you're hobby of weather watching esp snow.

But on your own analysis LS you believe your prediction is correct, so why would you give up?

[CrimsonSunset]

Yeah? Only snowing on and off here in Clapham, the heavy bursts dont last long

[antonispav]

Heavy snow, Westminster bridge London

[Frostbite80]

Lmao you couldn't make it up! I must be in the worst place for any snow at all! Slap bang in the middle of the snow to the south and snow showers to the north! Damn Stevenage!!

[Tom Jarvis]

Lmao you couldn't make it up! I must be in the worst place for any snow at all! Slap bang in the middle of the snow to the south and snow showers to the north! Damn Stevenage!!

I'm in exactly the same boat lol

[Jayces]

The sun has just come out in South Norwood ;-)