No need to wait for that as we've already had that for the past three days and indeed much of the past four weeks 

The upcoming filth will just confirm what I've been saying: this late autumn/early winter has been the vilest since 2002. Even then we had a brief respite in the form of a frosty high just after mid-December whereas this year is just beyond hopeless.

I swear down here south of the m4 we're living in another England.

Some places south of the M4 had settling snow in November, we haven't had any.

I think so too. Warned a friend who is planning to travel back from Manchester to Sheffield later on Saturday afternoon! 

Think areas above 200m might see a transient covering with low-lying areas seeing nothing settling with sleet, wet flakes at best.

True but I tend to forget that kent - especially east Kent is part of the South. 

I wasn't sure whether to post this here or in the media thread, but the MetO has issued a yellow warning for Snow and Ice for Scotland and Northern England on Saturday: https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/warnings#?date=2018-12-15&id=079ad488-120f-4d8f-aec2-0a9f1fed083b

I'm surprised that I'm the first to post this - others on here are usually ahead of me on this sort of thing...

I'm south of the M4. It was below -6 just down the road this morning (and we've already had a bit of wet snow in Novermber).

As at midday (today, Friday) here, there is still frost on the ground in shady parts

I'm guessing if this happens tomorrow, possibility of freezing rain / ice for a while which could be more slippery than any snow

Have to wait and see

I can actually give a further update here, as that has now been upgraded to an amber warning for snow in Central Scotland, and for ice over southern and Central Scotland as well as northern England. Meanwhile, the yellow warning is for both snow and ice, and covers almost the whole of Scotland along with central and northern England., and NE Wales 

The ice warnings are due to the risk of freezing rain (Gavin P. mentioned that risk of freezing rain in last night's snow watch video). That is happening because there are slightly milder upper air temperatures moving in from the west and it wouldn't surprise me if we ended up with a similar situation to what we had just last week when it started raining here, despite the temperatures being below freezing at the time and any snow only really falling over high ground.

While I get to have southerly gales at this end.

Again.

You could well be right there, as I have noticed that a large part of NE Scotland including Aberdeen and parts of Aberdeenshire, aren't even in any of the warning areas.

As a result of that, I wouldn't be surprised to see Richard from Aberdeen being quite active on the winter moaning thread over the coming few days.

In the forest just to the north of Portsmouth and we've just had a spell of light snizzle with the odd bigger flake thrown in!! 😯😯

Looking at the radar it appears that it's moving in from the southeast.

It's currently snowing lightly in parts of Kent!

Can report light snizzle here 

I've not heard of such a video from GavinP before - is it viewable anywhere?

Angus

Just stopped at Liphook services A3 and I do believe I saw one blob of ‘mini graupal’. Mind you it was just 3C up there so I wouldn’t be surprised to see the gritters out 😉😂

https://www.gavsweathervids.com/

I saw grit on the roads of pompey yesterday. .. Not sure how long it had been there or quite what it was spread for in the first place - I guess there was a changing frost mentioned in the forecast 🤣

Frost never lifted from here today and now it will start reforming so tomorrow could be very interesting depending on when the precip gets here?

If the block proved stronger than forecast ( as it appears to have been all week?) then we could end up with a 'stall line' of heavy snow down the country tomorrow?

Yes, the video in question can be viewed from here.

I assume that is because the NE of Scotland "sticks out" into the North Sea so the SE winds are blowing over a relatively warmer sea track.    Most of the rest of the country will be wind blowing over land.  I have a sneaky feeling I might see a few wet flakes.  Richard will be apoplectic!