I expect that going from the start of the Aussie autumn (which will no doubt, still be far hotter than our own typical summer) to this extended winter which we are experiencing here during what is supposed to be our spring, will feel like quite a shock to the system whether you get those snow flurries up in Aberdeen or now.

 

Absolutely, hopefully i don't come down with a cold or flu.  Believe it or not it can actually get quite cold here. We had a night down to ~2c last winter and inland 20 miles it gets below freezing very regularly. There was snow about 2.5 hours from Brisbane inland twice in past 2 years. (quite heavy thick snow). Many of the houses here are fully tiles, single glazed and have poor insulation. So 2c-3c outside is very cold inside.

Charts look a little better for Aberdeen than the ones i looked at yesterday. They had most of the cold further south. Hopefully it continues to be nudged a little further north.

 

 

Absolutely, hopefully i don't come down with a cold or flu.  Believe it or not it can actually get quite cold here. We had a night down to ~2c last winter and inland 20 miles it gets below freezing very regularly. There was snow about 2.5 hours from Brisbane inland twice in past 2 years. (quite heavy thick snow)

 

Charts look a little better for Aberdeen than the ones i looked at yesterday. They had most of the cold further south. Hopefully it continues to be nudged a little further north.

Long time no speak. 

Never mind the snow bring some nice Aussie sunshine over with you! 

I'll be back in Aberdeen this Saturday for the next 3 weeks. Hoping to at least see some fluirries, but not enough to cause road chaos. 

It'll be my son's first trip to Scotland  (We live in OZ), so hopefully he can see a little snow. Don't get much of it down here in Brisbane, just endless days of boring sunshine with the odd super cell thrown in for good measure.  

Always rains when we play cricket there!  Love Brisbane, so bright and airy. But North around Noosa, even better.

 

Indeed,  but there has been a significant shift northwards in the convective zone through today IMO. Not by a significant distance per se, but enough to give more of the UK population a significant snow risk. 

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/maps/GFSOPEU18_84_1.png I’d imagine many central areas could also get in on the act with a profile like this. 

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Yet strangely the bbc update at 10 had the area of snow moving through the english channel just clipping the south coast.

 

Long time no speak. 

Never mind the snow bring some nice Aussie sunshine over with you! 

Yup it's been a while, in fact almost 8 years over here. I haven't been back to UK in a good 4 years. You get used to the sunshine and yearn for a bit of snow, or a cool rainy weekend every now and then! 

My partner hasn't seen much snow in her lifetime, so hopefully we can get a little snow fix 

 

Always rains when we play cricket there!  Love Brisbane, so bright and airy. But North around Noosa, even better.

Noosa is lovely isn't it. Much prefer weekend drives to the North of Brisbane rather than the more touristy Gold Coast. Mind you some of the tablelands around the Gold Coast are beautiful, and much cooler in the hills.

The cricket often starts around late November early December which is the traditional super cell season, so you'll usually get some cracker of storms during the ashes etc.

 

Yup it's been a while, in fact almost 8 years over here. I haven't been back to UK in a good 4 years. You get used to the sunshine and yearn for a bit of snow, or a cool rainy weekend every now and then! 

My partner hasn't seen much snow in her lifetime, so hopefully we can get a little snow fix 

Obviously, we all want to see snow, but I'd say most of us would particularly want you to see a bit. For most of us, even if we miss out this year, we know that we've got a chance next year. However, if you're based in Brisbane, then, this is as good as it gets. Best of luck 🍀 

Amazing tonight and just thought it will be a minor one but now it seem near serious repeat from last beast.  Was going to wash my hat and gloves but now put on hold as I will use it again.

Amazing tonight and just thought it will be a minor one but now it seem near serious repeat from last beast.  Was going to wash my hat and gloves but now put on hold as I will use it again.

Indeed! Also Darren Bett said there is a chance of more prolonged snow potentially affecting southern parts on Saturday night into Sunday!!

Great output this morning.

ECM at 72 is looking almost severe. Expect amber maybe even red warnings for the weekend

Talking of ECM, remember you can use weather.us to get all the parameters, including snow, dewpoint etc. Talking of which, here's the freezing level chart for 9PM on Friday. I think you can just about make out the arrival of the colder air if you look hard enough...

Upgrades all round this morning and a slight extension of the cold spell into next week.

It’s now almost nailed with arrival of frigid air at <T+36hrs.

Hard to imagine anything more than 5cm for worst hit areas at this time of year but didn’t Jersey get over a foot in 2013? Things could quite possibly upgrade further into tomorrow.
Crazy.

It’s quite possible to get more than 5cm of snow in March.... at just that it’s unlikely to hang around long and is almost always wet snow.  April 2008 saw 6 inches or so in quite a few places.  However, this time we may actually get powdery snow - truly remarkable for so near the equinox.  As for snow amounts and locations, I’m not even going to try and predict more than 24 hours out.

Fax chart for Sunday shows promise if you want 

The French model which was excellent for the last event doesn't really give a huge amount of snow , all the same it will be good to get one last cold shot

I always find the Icelandic weather service charts quite user friendly for events such as the upcoming weekend. They're based on ECM charts. They suggest decent levels of precipitation on Sunday for much of England and Wales and also reaching parts of Ireland too.

http://en.vedur.is/weather/forecasts/atlantic/#type=prec

The charts also suggest fairly high cloud cover. Ice-day on Sunday in parts?

Upgrades all round this morning and a slight extension of the cold spell into next week.

It’s now almost nailed with arrival of frigid air at <T+36hrs.

Hard to imagine anything more than 5cm for worst hit areas at this time of year but didn’t Jersey get over a foot in 2013? Things could quite possibly upgrade further into tomorrow.
Crazy.

We did get at least that, and some of the drifts were way over 6ft burying street signs. and blocking roads. I don't think this will be anywhere near that bad, however it acts as proof that it can happen in late March.