SE, London & EA - Weather Discussion

[Freeze]

-2.1c here the low and bright sunshine with a hint of mist around, perfect day off weather.

[Captain Shortwave]

Another spell of sunny days and frosty nights, this will probably mean that there is a good chance of another positive anomaly for sunshine amounts to add to December and January. In the end this will probably be the most notable element of this winter.

[MAF]

lovely froggy morning and still foggy in parts of SE london. there was a dramatic looking fog bank shrouding Lambeth Bridge as i crossed Westminster bridge this morning. 

[moogyboobles]

 This happened this morning and I have never seen anything like it before. I honestly thought for a moment something had gone seriously wrong with my eyesight. Sparkles everywhere!

It was only when other people walking down the street were noticing, I realised it wasn't just me, and we were all talking to each other about it.

[Crepuscular Ray]

It looks like Diamond Dust (wikipedia’s explanation is quite good), although I wouldn’t have thought it was anywhere near cold enough for it. 
 

 

[alexisj9]

7 minutes ago, moogyboobles said:

 This happened this morning and I have never seen anything like it before. I honestly thought for a moment something had gone seriously wrong with my eyesight. Sparkles everywhere!

It was only when other people walking down the street were noticing, I realised it wasn't just me, and we were all talking to each other about it.

Some small flakes of snow in the light mist/fog maybe.

[alexisj9]

2 minutes ago, Crepuscular Ray said:

It looks like Diamond Dust (wikipedia’s explanation is quite good), although I wouldn’t have thought it was anywhere near cold enough for it. 
 

 

I'm not sure, I've seen it happen in Dover a few years ago, but at night, I showed my kids and call it fairy dust lol. No cloud full moon, and small flakes of snow falling from nothing.

[lassie23]

Plutonium particles

[moogyboobles]

23 minutes ago, Crepuscular Ray said:

It looks like Diamond Dust (wikipedia’s explanation is quite good), although I wouldn’t have thought it was anywhere near cold enough for it. 
 

 

Exactly! I googled and it was the only thing that looks like this I could find... but it was only just below freezing.

It was the strangest moment, really beautiful. When I got home a neighbour came out and asked if I had just seen it too!

23 minutes ago, alexisj9 said:

Some small flakes of snow in the light mist/fog maybe.

They were definitely crystal like, not like snow. They reflected the light so much it was like little tiny flashes. 

[Iceman2606]

Cracking Late-winter's Day - 6 February 2023 Time-Lapse

 

[alexisj9]

38 minutes ago, moogyboobles said:

Exactly! I googled and it was the only thing that looks like this I could find... but it was only just below freezing.

It was the strangest moment, really beautiful. When I got home a neighbour came out and asked if I had just seen it too!

They were definitely crystal like, not like snow. They reflected the light so much it was like little tiny flashes. 

Possibly it did happen at night here, but the falling things were very small, just looked like small bits of shiny dust. I thought it was snow though. But the main thing was clear sky, no cloud at all, and it just looked magical, told my kids it was fairy dust, they were like wow.

[MAF]

1 hour ago, moogyboobles said:

They were definitely crystal like, not like snow. They reflected the light so much it was like little tiny flashes. 

take more water with it 

[Snowangel-MK]

Altocumulus (I think) clouds this evening -  it’s been a lovely day again

 

[Vortex3929]

3 hours ago, moogyboobles said:

 This happened this morning and I have never seen anything like it before. I honestly thought for a moment something had gone seriously wrong with my eyesight. Sparkles everywhere!

It was only when other people walking down the street were noticing, I realised it wasn't just me, and we were all talking to each other about it.

Perhaps you were in a fogbow.. rainbow made in fog

[moogyboobles]

1 hour ago, UKSnakey said:

Perhaps you were in a fogbow.. rainbow made in fog

Great point. That would make a lot of sense! The sun was pretty bright through the fog. 


Proper thick fog out there now too.

[alexisj9]

No fog here, but it's cold and frosty regardless. Can tell there would be fog elsewhere though, if you know what I mean, like it's trying to build but can't here, sort of thing. May be a slight breeze or something.

[Neilsouth]

It feels way colder lately than most of winter! Might be the freezing fog? :/

[Sparky68]

-3c on the commute  , looks like Winter is not quite done with us yet.

[lottiekent]

-3.6c here just now, far lower than the forecast 0c.

Can see a fair few -5c to -7c about across Kent too this morning so a very cold start

[Freeze]

-4.5c here thick frost. Much colder than expected!

[alexisj9]

Already 2c here, I blame the North sea lol. But we do have a frost again. Fog didn't want to build properly last night, just had a light mist.

[Hotspur62]

Got to -3.8 here and was -2.5 yesterday so two cold mornings but beautiful clear blue skies again and yesterday was 7.4 and today Will think something similar.Looks less frosty next few mornings as more cloudy so at least that will save 5-10 minutes clearing frost off the van!!

[lottiekent]

3 hours ago, alexisj9 said:

Already 2c here, I blame the North sea lol. But we do have a frost again. Fog didn't want to build properly last night, just had a light mist.

We’re in a small dip from the stations around us so mine will sometimes read lower. Very hard frost though, lovely to look at.

Currently 7.4c

[lassie23]

Saw a queen bee 

[snowblind]

-4.7 last night, coldest since 16th Jan. No fog this morning been a lovely sunny day. Felt pretty cold though.