South East & East Anglia Regional Discussion 24th March 2013 22:00hrs>

[anything-but]

Well,it WAS sunny here,clouding over nicely now.

[MarcB]

Following on to my picture posted yesterday of a Green Woodpecker and then a subsequent conversation about other Woodpeckers,

This is the female Great Spotted Woodpecker sharing a suet block with a Blue Tit.

[snow raven]

Well,it WAS sunny here,clouding over nicely now.

Snap - same here. It was nice whilst it lasted

[Coast]

Well,it WAS sunny here,clouding over nicely now.

Doesn't look too bad out there?

[Mark Neal.]

Morning All! Just a few hours and the long long weekend begins!

[Guest archiesmummy]

Snap - same here. It was nice whilst it lasted

Ditto here, cleaned my windows and was even going to get some Sun on my washing but its gone in now and turned very cloudy! Typical!

[Kent Snow]

A bright and windy morning with the sun shining through a layer of altostratus. A few cumulus around too. Temperature 3.3C.

[damp patch]

^{Had a brief flurry at around 8.30am this morning but nowt since. Temp slowly rising and now at +3.4c}

Edited March 28, 2013 by damp patch

[Mark Neal.]

Have to say it may well be 2.5c but with the sun out,it does feel much nicer! Yesterday afternoon walking home and the sun came out, it actually felt bearable, even though temperatures are low, strength of sun getting stronger now!

[alexisj9]

Not sure why but I'm liking the look of these clouds, they've bubbled up very quickly, on a warmer day I would be expecting some very lively showers soon, The way the weathers been recently though I haven't got a clue on what these clouds will do.

[Jan 87]

Not sure why but I'm liking the look of these clouds, they've bubbled up very quickly, on a warmer day I would be expecting some very lively showers soon, The way the weathers been recently though I haven't got a clue on what these clouds will do.

They do look a bit "snow laden" and it feels really bitter now the sun has gone. Still nothing much on radar though

[Guest bjaykent]

Not sure why but I'm liking the look of these clouds, they've bubbled up very quickly, on a warmer day I would be expecting some very lively showers soon, The way the weathers been recently though I haven't got a clue on what these clouds will do.

Suddenly starting to look really quite dark out into the estuary now, but can't see much on the radar, time will tell! Edited March 28, 2013 by bjaykent

[anything-but]

Suddenly starting to look really quite dark out into the estuary now, but can't see much on the radar, time will tell!

Funny you should say that,just this second looked out my window here towards you Bj and it`s defiantly looking darker cloudwise.

[Mark Neal.]

Not sure why but I'm liking the look of these clouds, they've bubbled up very quickly, on a warmer day I would be expecting some very lively showers soon, The way the weathers been recently though I haven't got a clue on what these clouds will do.

Suddenly starting to look really quite dark out into the estuary now, but can't see much on the radar, time will tell!

Yes, starting to cloud over here in Oxford too,the clouds look very cumulus like, could spark off some showers later!

[Jan 87]

http://91.121.16.5/modeles_gfs/runs/2013032806/6-574.GIF?28-6

GFS hi res says we will get some showers today but the channel low feature has gone for tomorrow

[anything-but]

Seems to be getting darker quite quickly now,only 30 mins ago it was cloudy but bright.

Oh well,time to get the multitude of thermals on and head on off to hernia bay to start the day.

[Methuselah]

It's unusual to see the mares' tails tracking westward for so many days...

[Coast]

It's unusual to see the mares' tails tracking westward for so many days...

Must be on their way to Tesco's?

[Mark Neal.]

Yes definatel darker skies... Perhaps some of us will see scenes like this later...

Perhaps Headington High Street will be like later, as the schools break up for Easter...

[Kentspur]

My friend said it's snowing in gravesend, one of the precipitation models didn't have the snow flurries over us until between 10am and early afternoon

[anything-but]

Just up the road from there and it`s looking dark over Gravesend so not surprised there`s a flurry mentioned.

[Guest bjaykent]

Following on to my picture posted yesterday of a Green Woodpecker and then a subsequent conversation about other Woodpeckers,

This is the female Great Spotted Woodpecker sharing a suet block with a Blue Tit.

Hi MarcB, Another great photo, Green woodpecker has been yaffling all morning here, difficult to liken it to anything, I suppose it's a bit like somebody laughing. We get Great-spotted here too on the peanuts, but not very often as we lack mature trees being on the edge of the marsh. Never seen Lesser spotted in the garden but when I have seen them before always surprised how small they are, only about starling sized.

On the weather front definitely darker here now, in fact just started snowing very slightly, clearly something is building up.

Edited March 28, 2013 by bjaykent

[Methuselah]

Nothing here!

[whitespike]

Just starting to see some light flurries here in Bexhill

[TheGate]

The sun earlier seemed to trigger some thicker clouds. Temp got up to 3.3c earlier, now down at 2.5c with light snow flurries