I'm wondering it there's been a slight dip in upper air temps with the associated increase in wind that's fired up some convection across the East?

Shower activity seems to be picking up a bit over Essex and across London into Berkshire. 

It isn't in the south but looks slightly better north of me. I owuldn't get your hopes up though because what was showing on the radar yesterday was falling as moderate snow. Now the same echo is producing nothing visible. DP down to -4.3C. Could it be sublimating before it's reaching the surface?

It won't happen but it would be good if the snow now over Le Havre carried on marching N.E. It's already a bit further north than expected I think but I can't see it making much more progress.

Looking better for snow showers in East Sussex tomorrow according to BBC latest weather talk of a line of mire persistent showers affecting parts of Kent and Sussex

Yes, there is the potential for a sweet spot to attain up to 7cms of fresh powder on exiting powder here in Kent.  The focus of the showers will shift towards this corner then pivoting and getting sent back westwards by winds veering from NNE to ESE as the controlling high pressure moves.

All non marginal.  Every flake counts. Anywhere in Kent East Sussex and Essex in with a shout.

 

Yes, there is the potential for a sweet spot to attain up to 7cms of fresh powder on exiting powder here in Kent.  The focus of the showers will shift towards this corner then pivoting and getting sent back westwards by winds veering from NNE to ESE as the controlling high pressure moves.

All non marginal.  Every flake counts. Anywhere in Kent East Sussex and Essex in with a shout.

Only that it's been fairly sunny and with temperatures pushing towards 4C any snow that will fall won't settle. 

 

Only that it's been fairly sunny and with temperatures pushing towards 4C any snow that will fall won't settle. 

I have to disagree.  But I suppose it depends on your location.  Snow on snow is a no brainer.  Almost all surfaces are snow covered here, so no stress!

 

I have to disagree.  But I suppose it depends on your location.  Snow on snow is a no brainer.  Almost all surfaces are snow covered here, so no stress!

Snow on snow will stick, but for those areas that have no snow it will struggle. 

 

The convergence seems to be pointing directly at Leysdown...

...and it did indeed! The 12z analysis from the MetO showed it grew somewhat too....

http://old.wetterzentrale.de/pics/bracka.gif

Looking at the radar it's decaying rapidly as it sinks SE'wards, but should still give a bit more snow to much of the SE half of Kent as it slides away.

A feature off the E coast of Yorkshire is visible on the satellite.

Not sure what happens when it hits the coast in about an hour. Shower activity intensifying ahead of it.

Here it is on the radar, not that interesting now but will it develop when it hits the coast?

It looks like it has a circulation. Showers are 'waterfalling' over it. Its moving ESE whereas showers ahead are moving NNE. Currently weak precip but it could really burst into something interesting when it hits the coast.

Snowing quite steadily now, but surface is still "too warm" to settle but is on existing patchy snow cover. 

-0.1 c & -2 dp and winds are light.

A serious streamer has developed and although 5 cms has already been laid down here since 3pm, more is quite possible that more will be added.
fax chart for 18z shows a convergence zone that means business. Chucking out snow at a rate of 1cm per 10 minutes in the intense blobs

https://www.meteociel.fr/modeles/ukmo2.php?ech=0&carte=2000

5cm in an hour. Quite possibly the heaviest I've seen since the Feb 1983 event. Huge flakes, truly remarkable.

-0.7c / -1.7c.

Calm.

5cm in an hour. Quite possibly the heaviest I've seen since the Feb 1983 event. Huge flakes, truly remarkable.

-0.7c / -1.7c.

Calm.

5cm in an hour. Quite possibly the heaviest I've seen since the Feb 1983 event. 

That is some statement! At its heaviest I recall that piling up a cm every few minutes. 

5cm in an hour. Quite possibly the heaviest I've seen since the Feb 1983 event. Huge flakes, truly remarkable.

-0.7c / -1.7c.

Calm.

You have another shower incoming! 

Looks great down in Kent. :-)