South East & East Anglia Regional Discussion 23rd March 2013

[Gary_R_Walker]

Thanks for all the birthday wishes. If you are fed up with snow come to Beccles, Great Yarmouth or Lowestoft.

[paulmary]

2 inches of snow and it's still comming down heavy

[snowking]

Snow picking up here again, lots of snow incoming from our East, don't look South!

Yep spot on

I was saying earlier about it coming in swathes today, well the next swathe is now lining itself up in the Thames estuary, and the flow is beginning to align more East to West

Note that generally for East Anglia 2-5cms expected through to this afternoon (this has proven pretty accurate here so far, about 2-3cms)

Its then later this afternoon and into the evening that we are expected to push towards 5-10cms

Whether this proved correct or not we shall have to see, but expect a bit of a lull for the next few hours before it starts to pour back out of the Thames Estuary

SK

[Lampostwatcher]

Light covering of 1cm

Slowing thawing and stopped snowing

[Coast]

If you are fed up with snow come to Beccles, Great Yarmouth or Lowestoft.

Or Eastbourne....

[Tom Jarvis]

How much snow have You got snowbob??

[Hotspur62]

Snow now turning sleety here in petts Wood/Locksbottom borders and think the snow will slowly thaw over next few hours as temp risen to 1.1 degrees and looks to rise to about 2 here.Oh well, it was a nice surprise first thing this morning!!.Good Luck to those who get a good covering,looks like Hertfordshire and counties North of London will see some good accumulations today.

[Coast]

Definitely sleety now rather than just rain.

Hmm, I think it's tomorrow or not at all Jules

[JennyJane1]

We now have horizontal fine snow here in Lowestoft..

Hope it starts to settle and drift !!!!.

Tiny flakes stopped here

[Eskimo]

The wind has dropped markedly since last night, only getting the odd gust at 20mph, compared to lat nights 45mph.

Edited March 23, 2013 by PerfectStorm

[A Wintry Mix]

Yep spot on

I was saying earlier about it coming in swathes today, well the next swathe is now lining itself up in the Thames estuary, and the flow is beginning to align more East to West

Note that generally for East Anglia 2-5cms expected through to this afternoon (this has proven pretty accurate here so far, about 2-3cms)

Its then later this afternoon and into the evening that we are expected to push towards 5-10cms

Whether this proved correct or not we shall have to see, but expect a bit of a lull for the next few hours before it starts to pour back out of the Thames Estuary

SK

I don't like the look of these at all Lol

stopped snowing

temp falling a bit 1.5c

[Tom Montalbano]

Hi Tom,

Starting to melt so my measurement on my bin lid is 2.4cms although less on the path

Hi Jan,

Well done hun!

Er, no more attempts at idiomatic phrases that have an unintended iffy innuendo type slant!

Sorry again, Jan.

Yours, suitably embarrassed,

Tom.

[Lampostwatcher]

The light covering this morning was just a little taster from the south , the main course is coming from the east in around an hour

[Kent Snow]

Snow stopped. Drip, drip now.

[MarcB]

A few pics from the garden.

Temp 0.8 and rising, dp -0.3 and rising.

I could hear the snow falling off of the trees.

As a big kid that i am when it comes to snow, I really have had enough now. This weekend last year we had a bbq at home with 20 family and close friends with us, we had a great night, the fire pit glowing until midnight and plenty of beer and wine, o hum.

[bluearmy]

Yep spot on

I was saying earlier about it coming in swathes today, well the next swathe is now lining itself up in the Thames estuary, and the flow is beginning to align more East to West

Note that generally for East Anglia 2-5cms expected through to this afternoon (this has proven pretty accurate here so far, about 2-3cms)

Its then later this afternoon and into the evening that we are expected to push towards 5-10cms

Whether this proved correct or not we shall have to see, but expect a bit of a lull for the next few hours before it starts to pour back out of the Thames Estuary

SK

the problem, sk, is that those accum charts assume that what fall sticks. as precip has so far been light in south herts, even through there may have been several mm worth of precip (falling as snow), only a cm has stuck and now its very light and that is now melting. unless you can get an hour or two with decent intensity, you cant get a decent base down. without a good base, whatever sticks will thaw before the next band of heavier stuff arrives. i'm fairly pessimistic for our part of the se. so far this year, we've been too far east, then too far west then too far north, then too far south ....... the okey cokey of snow depth avoidance !!

[Jason T]

Really coming down now, wind picking up also. Lots more to come and heavier later.

[Jan_Bromley]

Hi Jan,

Well done hun!

Er, no more attempts at idiomatic phrases that have an unintended iffy innuendo type slant!

Sorry again, Jan.

Yours, suitably embarrassed,

Tom.

No apology needed Mr. Tom,

You weren't offensive in the least.

[Tom Montalbano]

Hi Tom,

Starting to melt so my measurement on my bin lid is 2.4cms although less on the path

Yes, I think those south of the river might want to take their lead from Jan and take a measurement soon, if they're in the Snow Cup!

Regards,

Tom.

[lawrenk]

"kind of" snowing in Hailsham

[essex coast matt]

Light snow here now turning slushy on roads.

[Hemelgeographer]

Snow through the night in Hemel Hempstead (149m). About 3 to 4 cm cover at 9am. Still snowing but only lightly and melting on roads. Good cover on fields and still being blown but wind not as strong as it was at 6.30am. Could be causing some trouble on higher exposed roads in the Chilterns.

[blackprince]

Snow stopped and temp now 0.9C,when are we due to be getting the very cold air over us because what we have is thawing now?

We have not had many days below zero this winter and I have only had to scrape ice off the car a handful of times,but we have had a lot of days between 3c and 5c.

[hernebaylooby]

well it snowed grass covered and some pavements, slush on roads bit different from the 21c this time last year!

[Andy H]

Been snowing most of the morning, getting a good covering on everything apart from roads and paths, they are just a slushy mess