Hmm, as the highest maxima so far today are listed as 7C I'd be very dubious about your 9C - dodgy exposure, perhaps?

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/weather/maps/current?LANG=en&CONT=euro&LAND=UK&KEY=UK&SORT=3&UD=0&INT=06&TYP=tmax&ART=tabelle&RUBRIK=akt&R=310&CEL=C&SI=mph

(My own Oregon station's thermometer, which was reading a steady 4-5, has shot up to 8 in the sunshine. No, it's not 8C out there - more like 5C!)

Indeed Darren.

My car thermometer was at 2c before midday when out and about and it maxed at 4c half an hour ago.

9c my foot!

Neil: Why on earth go to Fratton Park?!! Old Trafford is the other direction and kicks off tomorrow  And... you need to fix your car thermometer 

My Met Office phone app now says:  

‘By the end of Wednesday, more than 20cm of snow may have accumulated in Eastern counties of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland from a culmination of Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday’s snow showers.’

Yellow warnings for snow now posted for 

• Mon, E counties of England and Scotland


• Tue, England and SCotlandexcept W fringes


• Wed, repeat and include NI

Wales misses out. But MetO forecast for eg Chichester is only for occasional episodes  with 50% chance of pptn, which wouldn't seem to justify a warning,

Next week

Disruptive snow

Bitter winds

Frost and Ice

Some sunshine

https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/43184987

 

Hmm, as the highest maxima so far today are listed as 7C I'd be very dubious about your 9C - dodgy exposure, perhaps?

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/weather/maps/current?LANG=en&CONT=euro&LAND=UK&KEY=UK&SORT=3&UD=0&INT=06&TYP=tmax&ART=tabelle&RUBRIK=akt&R=310&CEL=C&SI=mph

(My own Oregon station's thermometer, which was reading a steady 4-5, has shot up to 8 in the sunshine. No, it's not 8C out there - more like 5C!)

8.5C this afternoon.. 🙂 Officially though down here the warmest in this region was Hurn @7.4C - but there are another sites which the met use but I don't have access to.

20cm of snow in Eastern areas by the end of Wednesday 

Next week

Disruptive snow

Bitter winds

Frost and Ice

Some sunshine

https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/43184987

 

What a stunning forecast 

WOW

 

What a stunning forecast 

 

WOW

Yes a great forecast but luck of the draw with who the forecaster is. If this had been Susan Powell or Darren Bett it would have been very low key

 

yes but it wasn’t 

 

yes but it wasn’t 

Long long way to go yet.

I know. Which is why it was one of the classic forecasts. But totally at odds with the models (GFS and ECM) at the end of the week. 

Long long way to go yet.

But it’s not is it? It’s looks in line with the GEFS 12Z set up to Friday and the recently issued EPS mean which shows the OP was a significant warm option.

It frustrates me how some people seem to be blinkered to basic analysis.

 

But it’s not is it? It’s looks in line with the GEFS 12Z set up to Friday and the recently issued EPS mean which shows the OP was a significant warm option.

It frustrates me how some people seem to be blinkered to basic analysis.

Some people seem to be looking at a breakdown that may not even happen based on one 12z op run its ridiculous tbh.

 

Some people seem to be looking at a breakdown that may not even happen based on one 12z op run its ridiculous tbh.

It isn't one run though the GFS ens mean has shown a rise in 850's for a few days now around the end of next week UKMO started to wobble this morning along with ECM and GEM was starting to wobble last night

Remember the UKMO was steadfast in predicting this upcoming spell ( maybe not it’s probable severity) for a long time before the visible output (to us) fell in line ....especially the GFS/GEFS, but also the ECM

Indeed, therefore it would be somewhat unwise IMO for any of us to question what the MetO are saying at the moment about prospects for further into March.

 

It isn't one run though the GFS ens mean has shown a rise in 850's for a few days now around the end of next week UKMO started to wobble this morning along with ECM and GEM was starting to wobble last night

But we don't see the ensemble data available to the Met Office. I question anyone who wants to make a call based on a selection of operational runs. I do agree that GFS has trended towards LP pushing in from the south west and that ECM has also moved in that direction but it's still five days away and a lot will change before then. Experience tells us that entrenched surface cold is difficult to shift: warm air will ride up over the cold.

Just saw the BBC weather forecast by Helen Willetts on N24 @ 2325 - She was really ramping up the snow Monday night into Tuesday and went on to say that this could potentially be the coldest spell of weather we have seen in some 10 - 12 years!? Well I guess she missed December 2010?

Just saw the BBC weather forecast by Helen Willetts on N24 @ 2325 - She was really ramping up the snow Monday night into Tuesday and went on to say that this could potentially be the coldest spell of weather we have seen in some 10 - 12 years!? Well I guess she missed December 2010?

Without bothering to check I think next week will be colder than 2010 spell? Perhaps not as snowy or lengthy.

Met forecast now goes out to Saturday and it shows a high of 1C and low of -4C here, with light snow. Interesting - but will almost certainly change (for better or worse).

Interesting!

Met has just updated too @01:54 (25/2/18)

Which also includes Saturday now/

If anything it's an upgrade in snow for Exeter/East Devon, with weather warnings for Tuesday and Wednesday and then after for Thursday - A Min of -3c and max of 0c during the day on Thursday and for it to snow from Thursday evening onto Friday evening and to stay as snow with temps only rising to +1 or +2c.

A long way off but the Met still seem bullish about this cold and snow lasting all this week into next weekend with no back tracking at all. As for whether or not it will end in a blizzard!? Who knows!?

From Radio 4's 07:55 am forecast: "blizzards in the south at the end of the week"