Almost there now. Temperature now down to 0.9c and the rain has finally turned to wet snow.

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How to soften the responsibility slowly:

Sleet and snow stalling overhead but becoming lighter and more intermittent with time. Southern coastal districts are more likely to see rain or sleet, whereas inland areas may see some snow accumulations. Drier by dawn, but with icy stretches possible. Minimum temperature -3 °C.

Where? Does that mean it's just not reaching the ground? Snowflakes in a perpetual gravity defying armada.

How can it be lighter and more intermittent than not falling at all?

Drier by dawn? Ha ha!

 

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Heavy band over Channel seems to have stopped pivoting and is sliding East. Not sure anyone is going to get the benefit of that now.

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Even if the precip makes it here, (the heavier stuff usually find it very difficult to much more than graze the coast) its just gone up to +1.8c so Im a bit doomed, either no snow or rain and sleet.

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How to soften the responsibility slowly:

Sleet and snow stalling overhead but becoming lighter and more intermittent with time. Southern coastal districts are more likely to see rain or sleet, whereas inland areas may see some snow accumulations. Drier by dawn, but with icy stretches possible. Minimum temperature -3 °C.

Where? Does that mean it's just not reaching the ground? Snowflakes in a perpetual gravity defying armada.

How can it be lighter and more intermittent than not falling at all?

Drier by dawn? Ha ha!

 

Stalling overhead as in stopping its northward movement, not stopping falling!

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The main band is still to your south, according to the radar. You are currently in the gap between the two.

 

...and reverting to old fashioned forecasting, after midday, high cloud came in from the south west, lowered to become slate grey, flurries of snow on the wind, the temperature continues to fall, pressure 985hpa and still falling and the wind continues to increase from the East. Ignoring the radar, tweets and the digital forecasts for a moment, what would that have suggested to you, and your long beard, in January 1881??

 

Edit: erm, forgetting any climate change malarkey for a moment..

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Heavy band over Channel seems to have stopped pivoting and is sliding East. Not sure anyone is going to get the benefit of that now.

Yes it seems to be heading for France rather than moving northwards into southern counties 

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Not sure what the fuss is about, Euro 4 is modelling This exactly perfectly atm, snow not expected here until midnight.

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Heavy band over Channel seems to have stopped pivoting and is sliding East. Not sure anyone is going to get the benefit of that now.

Agreed, I wasn't sold on it anyhow, learnt from bitter experience. Quite often in these scenarios the dry air dries out the front and the stuff evaporates before it hits the ground, I think we can see which way this one is going. The heavier stuff usually stays offshore.

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Between shear, energy pulses and talk of stalling... radar showing it all dissolving whilst my useless metoffice app shows 5 hours of continuous snow, I almost forgot to look outside!

It’s all gone white.

(I know it’s the wrong thread, but can I suggest you look out the window between checking the models)

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Between shear, energy pulses and talk of stalling... radar showing it all dissolving whilst my useless metoffice app shows 5 hours of continuous snow, I almost forgot to look outside!

It’s all gone white.

(I know it’s the wrong thread, but can I suggest you look out the window between checking the models)

Unfortunately I'm still in London so there is nothing falling here. I think it has started back home though, in a pathetic dandruffy way.

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I see the London snowshield is working a treat. None the less patience is vertue and to be fair the METO app does suggest late on the evening. But the decaying nature does worry me somewhat.

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Unfortunately I'm still in London so there is nothing falling here. I think it has started back home though, in a pathetic dandruffy way.

 

It's coming down pretty well and sticking in Basingstoke 

Good news, it is snowing at +1.8.  Must be partly due to -1.5 dp.  Only light and grainy.  Will keep you posted.

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Loving the precariousness in here.

Meanwhile Up North it's still -4c, and there's a showers a-brewing in the north sea...

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The radar just looks a mess. It’s hard to tell if some gaps are real. It looks distorted in some places as well

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Good news, it is snowing at +1.8.  Must be partly due to -1.5 dp.  Only light and grainy.  Will keep you posted.

 

Surely any intensity will lower the temp WI?

 

 

Surely any intensity will lower the temp WI?

1.4 and dandruff now, maybe around 10-1030 we might see an uptick.  Don't bet on it though.

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sleeting here just north of eastbourne after light snow earlier

NOW it is properly snowing, but that strong SE wind streaming straight in from the Strait of Dover is just . . . urgh! Too wet to settle, just need to properly bomb it down to put down a base layer.

1.8 c but the 90% h had brought the dewpoint to above freezing.

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