The official winter 2013/2014 snow thread

[ManaghGB]

Not again?!

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/449815/Snow-warni...

"And even former BBC weatherman Michael Fish declared confidently: “It WILL be a White Christmas."

Oh because he's got a great track record

[Puggit]

There's an excellent chance of a technical white Christmas, with the imminent storm due to suck cold air in behind it. But the chance of snow settling is low, apart from on hills and mountains up north.

[mcelliott]

Our latest weather report from Guernsey is that they have slightly downgraded the intensity of the storm to gusts only up to 75mph but it will be accompanied by up to 40mm of rain through Monday into the early hours of Tuesday. The weather presently is very squally showers with the wind probably gusting up to 45/50mph. It's due to drop through the day before picking up again later tonight and through tomorrow.

[Puggit]

Amber warning for 26 hour period of rain along the south coast mon/tues.

No wind warning

[tenohfive]

My definition of a white Christmas must be out, I thought flakes had to land on the roof of the Met Office (London) but that Express article refers to anywhere in the country. If that's the case Fishy's comments aren't anywhere near as unreasonable, but the Express twaddle about traditional Yuletide scenes across the country is their usual fayre - and surprisingly, the quote from Powell doesn't support the Express' assertions.

[FactHunt]

Very wet snow falling as we speak in west yorkshire.
Not a prayer of it settling but if it was a couple of degrees colder it would be a full on blizzard

[Wills2]

I wish I could concur for my part of WY, nasty wet rain here.

[onyx39]

tenohfive said:

My definition of a white Christmas must be out, I thought flakes had to land on the roof of the Met Office (London) but that Express article refers to anywhere in the country. If that's the case Fishy's comments aren't anywhere near as unreasonable, but the Express twaddle about traditional Yuletide scenes across the country is their usual fayre - and surprisingly, the quote from Powell doesn't support the Express' assertions.

That's how I remember it too.

[FactHunt]

Wills2 said:

I wish I could concur for my part of WY, nasty wet rain here.

Went from blue skies to rain to sleet to wet snow within about 20 minutes and it has stopped completely now.
(near J27 of the m62)

[Wills2]

Just nipped to the shops and it started wet snow mixed with hail if that's possible comign across in showers.

Not nice though.

[schmalex]

It's been a lovely, benign day here in North Hampshire. It felt a little odd to be bringning tables and chairs in and battening various things down through the garden.

This storm is going to be a whopper. Winds will be pretty close to those that St Jude's brought, but the rain will be biblical.

Drive safe everyone

[edo]

Snowing in Haslemere

[530dTPhil]

I have been watching this thread and the speculation with interest; good frosts increase sales by around 20% almost immediately (vehicle glass).

The weather today to the north of Bristol has alternated between clear blue skies and heavily overcast skies with heavy showers. In the last hour we have seen a halistorm and the temperature drop from 7C to 2.5C in about five minutes. Once the hailstorm finished the temperature recovered very slowly and we have clear blue skies again.
Some spectacular rainbows today too.

[GetCarter]

This is a very sexy weather website I just discovered (Hebrides I'm afraid) http://www.hebwx.co.uk/wxlive.php

[Stuartggray]

GetCarter said:

This is a very sexy weather website I just discovered (Hebrides I'm afraid) http://www.hebwx.co.uk/wxlive.php

Fairly similar http://www.dunfermline-weather.co.uk/weather/wdl/i...

[schmalex]

Apologies for getting all serious for a moment, but the rainfall levels forecast for England tomorrow are very concerning indeed. If you live in a flood prone area, I would strongly suggest you do what you can to get flood defences in place.

If you are in Scotland (particularly NW), you will have blizzards to look forward to.

Either way, the next 36 hours are going to be pretty stty for many people.

[kamilb1998]

Haven't checked this thread in a few days but was hoping for better news than that as a friend has reported snow in Edinburgh a little while ago.

[Bill]

Is it just me or are the predicted wind speeds not as high as they were earlier?

[Puggit]

Did someone mention stratospheric warming?

[shocks]

Snow gates shut on A93 north of Braemar at Spital of Glenshee

Was snowing for a bit here in Edinburgh but very wet snow at best