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Ally Pally Snowman
07 January 2026 07:18:32
Yes I can join the black ice crew. All snow gone here but temp got no higher than 2c. Skidded on black ice on way to work this morning.  V unpleasant much worse than driving on snow 

 

Bishop's Stortford 85m ASL.
doctormog
07 January 2026 07:18:43
Much milder now (3.4°C) with easterly muck and significant thaw. Lots of overnight rain and strong winds.
Aberdeen

Current conditions (personal WS) 

NMA
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07 January 2026 07:29:07
I've just bought in the bins and the hard surfaces are lethal or will be for some people who haven't noticed. Cars going past too fast. I think there will be a few incidents this morning on the roads around here. My daughter's planning on taking the train back to Cornwall today but she's just asked if she should delay. She's had a text from GWR with a travel warning starting today. I said travel today because the big storm mentioned by GWR won't arrive today. Tomorrow and Friday I told her could be the tricky travel times with trees, floods and embankment issues.

I hope my advice holds true. 

Vale of the Great Dairies

South Dorset

Elevation 60m 197ft

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Roger Parsons
07 January 2026 07:44:41

I've just bought in the bins and the hard surfaces are lethal or will be for some people who haven't noticed. Cars going past too fast. I think there will be a few incidents this morning on the roads around here. My daughter's planning on taking the train back to Cornwall today but she's just asked if she should delay. She's had a text from GWR with a travel warning starting today. I said travel today because the big storm mentioned by GWR won't arrive today. Tomorrow and Friday I told her could be the tricky travel times with trees, floods and embankment issues.

I hope my advice holds true. 

Originally Posted by: NMA 

Good advice I'd say. I'm about to unlock the village church and will judge the safety of our road then. It's not been gritted and is likely to be dodgy. Friday is our bin day, so that looks like being entertaining. Local kids were snowballing on The Green yesterday when they got off the bus. That particular group always seem to need to let off steam - racing about and being silly. I'd rather that than see them buying vapes or glued to their phones! Good grief!

RogerP

West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire

Everything taken together, here in Lincolnshire are more good things than man could have had the conscience to ask.

William Cobbett, in his Rural Rides - c.1830

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DEW
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07 January 2026 07:50:11
2.5C, clear after overnight rain, but more cloud lurking to the SW
War is God's way of teaching Americans geography - Ambrose Bierce

Chichester 12m asl

johncs2016
07 January 2026 08:16:21
Last night was a night in which the temperatures refused to drop as a result of there being too much cloud and too much wind. For a while, it had even become very windy although that wind has now died down.

The end result of this is that the temperature at Edinburgh Gogarbank dropped no lower than 1.6°C, thus ending the run of five consecutive air frosts which we had this year up until then. Even with that, a slight ground frost was still recorded but last night was actually our mildest night of the year so far.

Meanwhile, this morning has started off on a rather dull and overcast note with a temperature of around 3°C which isn't even all that cold any more.😡

The north of Edinburgh, usually always missing out on snow events which occur not just within the rest of Scotland or the UK, but also within the rest of Edinburgh.

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07 January 2026 08:49:00
Very icy here too this morning. Whatever fell in the early hours - probably a mixture of rain, sleet and light snow - has frozen solid. Ungritted roads are white with a mixture of frozen light sleet and hoar frost, pavements have patches of the same with some black ice here and there. The car has a thick line of frozen wet snow that slld down the windscreen and landed on the wiper blades before it froze. I've nothing essential to go out for, so I think I'll stay in until it has thawed later!

I remember reading on the MO thread a few days ago someone commenting on the likely ice risk this morning. I can't remember who, but my thanks to whoever it was, as I was primed to look out for hazards when I got my first sight of conditions outside. 

Angus; one of the Kent crew on TWO.

Tonbridge, 40m (131ft) asl

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Roger Parsons
07 January 2026 09:00:41

Good advice I'd say. I'm about to unlock the village church and will judge the safety of our road then. It's not been gritted and is likely to be dodgy. Friday is our bin day, so that looks like being entertaining. Local kids were snowballing on The Green yesterday when they got off the bus. That particular group always seem to need to let off steam - racing about and being silly. I'd rather that than see them buying vapes or glued to their phones! Good grief!

Originally Posted by: Roger Parsons 

Update - tried to cross our car park and it was so icy and dangerous I gave up. I'll give it a try again in an hour or two.  Snow here disappeared overnight.

RogerP

West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire

Everything taken together, here in Lincolnshire are more good things than man could have had the conscience to ask.

William Cobbett, in his Rural Rides - c.1830

Crepuscular Ray
07 January 2026 09:15:08
We've just had a 20 minute hail shower which has left a slushy deposit on the cars and still frozen ground

It's +2.5 C with further showers on the radar coming in from the NNE

Jerry

Edinburgh, in the frost hollow below Blackford Hill

Crepuscular Ray
07 January 2026 09:38:24
https://thisiseastside.com/pentland-hills-webcam 

Our recent hail shower has moved inland and turned to snow over the Pentlands

Jerry

Edinburgh, in the frost hollow below Blackford Hill

marco 79
07 January 2026 10:15:15
Fairly bright with sunny spells...alot of black ice out on country roads earlier, feeling damp in the air ..Min 1.3c....currently 3.8c
Home : Mid Leicestershire ...135m ASL
fairweather
07 January 2026 10:19:13
No ice or frost here overnight. Max 4.8C at midnight and dropped to 1.8C by dawn. Currently 3.0C and bright. 8mm of rain overnight! Was this amount of rain forecast. Welcome all the same after another two dry weeks.
S.Essex, 42m ASL
NMA
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07 January 2026 10:40:25

Update - tried to cross our car park and it was so icy and dangerous I gave up. I'll give it a try again in an hour or two.  Snow here disappeared overnight.

Originally Posted by: Roger Parsons 

Daughter is safely on the train and I can now stalk her all the way back to Cornwall using Signalbox.

I've noticed though that on this app, trains have a habit of trying to take short cuts across fields and whatever but it's good enough.

But the roads were icy earlier here. As she got out the car in Dorchester to buy some snacks that was a close one...

Luckily she's using GWR because there was a line side fire yesterday near Moreton. At the level crossing, watched workers packing up chainsaws and other tools. What was that fire? Certainly not bankside vegetation at this time of year.

https://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/25745423.train-disruption-fire-dorchester-moreton/ 

Vale of the Great Dairies

South Dorset

Elevation 60m 197ft

johncs2016
07 January 2026 11:31:06

We've just had a 20 minute hail shower which has left a slushy deposit on the cars and still frozen ground

It's +2.5 C with further showers on the radar coming in from the NNE

Originally Posted by: Crepuscular Ray 

There's been no showers here in NW Edinburgh this morning though and now, the clouds are breaking up with the Sun even coming out as well.

The north of Edinburgh, usually always missing out on snow events which occur not just within the rest of Scotland or the UK, but also within the rest of Edinburgh.

Crepuscular Ray
08 January 2026 07:39:49
Clear and very frosty this morning with the stars and moon shining brightly. Ice is a problem after yesterday evening's showers. My thermometers went down to -5 C

Colder at the Airport @ -6.  -10 and -12 further north over the deep snow

Jerry

Edinburgh, in the frost hollow below Blackford Hill

DEW
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08 January 2026 07:41:35
4.4C overcast. Calm before the storm

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography - Ambrose Bierce

Chichester 12m asl

Retron
08 January 2026 07:43:18
Drizzly and calm. Interestingly the ground has become more solid than yesterday - clearly still frozen just below the surface - even though it's been above freezing above ground for over 40 hours now.

2.4, dew 1.2. The overnight low was 1.2 and yesterday's high was 6.0.

Leysdown, north Kent
NMA
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08 January 2026 07:44:45
4.9C cloudy and near enough calm.
Vale of the Great Dairies

South Dorset

Elevation 60m 197ft

Tim A
08 January 2026 08:15:15
The black ice yesterday, hung around all day, shows how cold the ground must be. 

It's now cloudy and -1.5c with ice. 

Tim

NW Leeds

187m asl

 My PWS 

roadrunnerajn
08 January 2026 08:31:34
The calm before the storm.. overcast with moderate rain and a light SW breeze, temperature has dipped to 6.2c from an overnight high of 9.3c.
Germoe, part of the breakaway Celtic Republic. 80m asl
noodle doodle
08 January 2026 10:01:02

Clear and very frosty this morning with the stars and moon shining brightly. Ice is a problem after yesterday evening's showers. My thermometers went down to -5 C

Colder at the Airport @ -6.  -10 and -12 further north over the deep snow

Originally Posted by: Crepuscular Ray 

Yeh, had to get the salt shaker out, could go curling on the decking :-(

Both xcweather and the metoffice website were about 5C too high on the temps for Edinburgh overnight - god knows how you can put any trust in a model for 2 weeks out 🙂

johncs2016
08 January 2026 10:08:20

Clear and very frosty this morning with the stars and moon shining brightly. Ice is a problem after yesterday evening's showers. My thermometers went down to -5 C

Colder at the Airport @ -6.  -10 and -12 further north over the deep snow

Originally Posted by: Crepuscular Ray 

Yes, last night was our coldest night of the winter so far as the temperature at Edinburgh Gogarbank dropped to -5.3°C to finally give us our first temperature of the winter, of -5°C or below at long, long last!!

As I write, there is still some high cloud around but today is generally starting off on a bright and sunny note with the temperature here in Edinburgh still at around -4°C as I write.

The north of Edinburgh, usually always missing out on snow events which occur not just within the rest of Scotland or the UK, but also within the rest of Edinburgh.

four
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08 January 2026 10:34:41
Colder here than was forecast but bit of lying snow had largely gone yesterday.

We only had 2" or so unlike nearer the coast where there was up to 1ft + drifts.

-3 overnight but still only -2 despite continuous sun.

North York Moors weather 
marco 79
08 January 2026 10:44:00
Overcast and damp slight breeze from N...2.6c after a min of 0.5c...DP is 2c 
Home : Mid Leicestershire ...135m ASL
Arbroath 1320
08 January 2026 10:47:03
After a slow thaw yesterday and temperatures peaking at ~+3C in the late morning, we quickly went back in the freezer in the afternoon/overnight. Temperature is currently -4.1C with low cloud. Still healthy snow cover and looks like it's going nowhere until Monday at the earliest. While I like the snow and cold in Winter it does become a bit of a pain; no general waste or recycling have been emptied since before Christmas and there are bare shelves in the local shops. 

Not an unusual experience for a rural Highland community though and I'm sure folk in the Northern Highlands/Aberdeenshire are worse off. Everything is relative.

Kenmore, Highland Perthshire, GGTTH

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