The windy winter and occasional snow thread 2017/2018

[993kimbo]

Sun in Tunbridge Wells.

[LivingTheDream]

Plenty of the white stuff falling in Central London

[sc0tt]

mitzy said:

sc0tt said:

Snowing in upminster.

Who cares

Who let you out of the kitchen?

[Bill]

Welshbeef said:

Lol nope reports from one of our offices.

Ha! I missed the change in location. Still, it made me chuckle far more than it should have done.

[Chris Type R]

Amazon.co.uk next day delivery is coming up as Thu 1st.

A few small flakes earlier this morning Beds/North Herts borders. Mostly blue skies now.

[Teebs]

Snowing in York, need to drive to London later!

[98elise]

A few flakes in Chatham this morning, and a few flurries around the M25.

Nothing in Watford yet

[mickk]

I'm working in Sunbury at the moment had a flurry, not risking it I'm going home.

[Puggit]

Concerned about Melman Giraffe if this extremely light fluffly stuff continues in the Windsor area.

[TCEvo]

Just stopped snowing in central Chelmsford & the sun's now come out. Little bit of settling but nothing much.

[Andy-SP2]

Seen a few snowflakes in Salisbury but the weather's ok.. Time for my wooly hat

[Melman Giraffe]

Puggit said:

Concerned about Melman Giraffe if this extremely light fluffly stuff continues in the Windsor area.

Keys gangling

[FiF]

The Dangerous Elk said:

Blib said:

THREE SNOWFLAKES !!!!!

North London.

There are a lot more Snowflakes in North London than that

This deserved more recognition.

[hyphen]

LivingTheDream said:

Plenty of the white stuff falling in Central London

Snow shovel finally out of shed, some of the grit I bought years ago now covering the outside path and pavement. Fridge and freezer stocked. Kitchen bin emptied so hopefully oh doesn't fill it up in evening when -10 and already in pyjamas.

Think I'm set met office showing nothing serious though, Suspect this beast from the east wk just be cold temperatures rather than serious snow here.

[hyphen]

FiF said:

The Dangerous Elk said:

Blib said:

THREE SNOWFLAKES !!!!!

North London.

There are a lot more Snowflakes in North London than that

This deserved more recognition.

[The Dangerous Elk]

FiF said:

This deserved more recognition.

thank you Sir

[Puggit]

ICON (a not very well thought of model) predicts this for Friday. This smallish area of low pressure would mean snowmeggeddon for the South. No one is calling it yet, but it's certainly getting interesting.

[LivingTheDream]

hyphen said:

Snow shovel finally out of shed, some of the grit I bought years ago now covering the outside path and pavement. Fridge and freezer stocked. Kitchen bin emptied so hopefully oh doesn't fill it up in evening when -10 and already in pyjamas.

Think I'm set met office showing nothing serious though, Suspect this beast from the east wk just be cold temperatures rather than serious snow here.

Having seen the impending snowmaggedon I decide on Sat night (after the rugby and associated drinking) that I needed a snow shovel delivered asap via Amazon Prime.

Oh how everyone laughed on Sunday when a perfectly normal shovel arrived - it seems I couldn't see my phone very well Sat night

If it comes down heavy we're staying at home!

[dirty boy]

We saw a brief (2 mins) flurry here on the very east of the east.

Looks quite nice and bright out there now to be honest

[schmalex]

Puggit said:

ICON (a not very well thought of model) predicts this for Friday. This smallish area of low pressure would mean snowmeggeddon for the South. No one is calling it yet, but it's certainly getting interesting.

What's interesting, though, is that both UKMO & ECM hint at the secondary low (although, they have it further south and west), so there is something in what ICON has picked up on.

IMO, GFS is far too progressive in moving the low to the West on Thursday. In all the years I've been looking at the charts, GFS bolts too early and moves everything too far west, as that's what it's programmed to do, being a North American based model. It then backtracks to, generally, align with what UKMO & ECM show (I normally figure that a hybrid of those two is pretty much bang on the money)