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Chichesterweatherfan2
08 January 2025 13:47:45
Raining in Chichester and a chilly 2 degrees….the worst sort of winter weather! 
idj20
08 January 2025 13:48:28

Well over here is the west of the county it is currently 0.2c with a dp of -1c, so plenty cold enough for snow, but suspect temps will rise when it arrives. The wind coming off the channel will wamr the air and it depends how much mixing we get. But as you say the meto raw still showing rain for here.

Originally Posted by: warrenb 


5.6 C & 3 C DP and just started drizzling here at Folkestone. 🤣
Folkestone Harbour. 
idj20
08 January 2025 13:55:20

Why so silent about Friday snow, thought in the NW was buzzing and posting a lot about Friday which seem more better than today pointless low.  Have the goal posts being moved hoping we won't notice?

Originally Posted by: Jiries 


Most of the models (apart from GFS) shows the precipitation fizzling out resulting in mostly cloudy, murky and clammy conditions over Southern and Western parts before milder uppers in maritime-type airflow move in over the weekend.  I could see it being a non-event right from the start. 
Folkestone Harbour. 
Saint Snow
08 January 2025 14:06:34

5.6 C & 3 C DP and just started drizzling here at Folkestone. 🤣

Originally Posted by: idj20 




Just wait till the evaporative cooling kicks in 😉😄

Martin
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08 January 2025 14:14:42
More sleet than rain now and if I look carefully, the occasional slower falling flake of snow.
Vale of the Great Dairies
South Dorset
Elevation 60m 197ft
Rob K
08 January 2025 14:48:14
Radar shows rain/sleet here but nothing reaching the ground. Just been out in the garden chopping logs and can confirm zero precipitation but it's quite chilly!
Yateley, NE Hampshire, 73m asl
"But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand." — Jerome K. Jerome
sunny coast
08 January 2025 14:48:31

More sleet than rain now and if I look carefully, the occasional slower falling flake of snow.

Originally Posted by: NMA 


Same here miserable winter afternoon . Cold wind rain bit of sleet mixed in . . Maybe a period of wet snow later on ? 
Currently 3.5 c 
tierradelfuego
08 January 2025 14:55:48
Fingers crossed nothing changes on DP here, we are currently at 0.2c with a DP of -0.7c... less than an hour until the main band reaches us.
Bucklebury
West Berkshire Downs AONB
135m ASL

VP2 with daytime FARS
Rainfall collector separated at ground level
Anemometer separated above roof level
WeatherLink Live (Byles Green Weather)
NMA
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08 January 2025 15:01:01

Same here miserable winter afternoon . Cold wind rain bit of sleet mixed in . . Maybe a period of wet snow later on ? 
Currently 3.5 c 

Originally Posted by: sunny coast 


God forbid. Nothing worse than wet snow.
As many have pointed out ad infinitum, we need a long feed easterly off a frigid Continent for proper snow in this part of Britain.
One day again perhaps.
Vale of the Great Dairies
South Dorset
Elevation 60m 197ft
picturesareme
08 January 2025 15:04:56
Largely rain still but  the occasional flake mixed in now. 
Retron
08 January 2025 15:14:25
The radar shows a heady mix of light green and yellow over here, a fragmented band of rain ahead of the main front (and I suspect it's not fragmented at all, but it's so high-level that the radar can't pick it up). Not a single drop down here so far, which is good as it'd just be rain anyway.

Leysdown, north Kent
Bertwhistle
08 January 2025 15:14:28
Light rain started an hour ago. This started turning to the odd flake about 20 minutes later and the temperature dropped in that time from 3.6 to 2.2
Now still some rain (I can hear on the conservatory roof) but more flakes- big old penny-sized from coalescence. A similar synoptic set up when I looked after dark from my bedroom on Thursday 7th January 1982 was a huge dumping of NE blown snow. This is the modern equivalent.

Bertie, Itchen Valley.
Retire while you can still press the 'retire now' button.
southcoastmatt
08 January 2025 15:18:44
Air temp dropped to 1.5deg here in Poole and rain readily turned to snow. DPs must have changed in last half an hour or so. 
I'm only at 65masl so north Dorset will do well out of this
Matt in Poole, Dorset
65Masl
08 January 2025 15:21:23
Raining here
Jason
Salfords, Surrey
Retron
08 January 2025 15:31:30
Temperature and dewpoint both shooting up here - 4.2 / 3.0 respectively, and warmer than any of the models had. Not a great spell for them, really, considering the faff about whether the front would even make it here at all!


Leysdown, north Kent
Rob K
08 January 2025 17:28:55

Fingers crossed nothing changes on DP here, we are currently at 0.2c with a DP of -0.7c... less than an hour until the main band reaches us.

Originally Posted by: tierradelfuego 


The band on the radar is not actually there - or at least not reaching the ground. I've been under radar echoes for several hours and nothing apart from the odd spot of drizzle has made it to Earth.
Yateley, NE Hampshire, 73m asl
"But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand." — Jerome K. Jerome
sunny coast
08 January 2025 17:36:09
Rain turned to heqvy snow here near Eastbourne  covered roads very quickly 
fairweather
08 January 2025 18:53:00
Well as ever in the last couple of decades I seem to be caught in the London/Estuary rain shadow horseshoe effect.. Had some heavy rain and a bit of wet sleety stuff but with London heat sink just 20 miles East and the 8C Estuary water heater 8 miles south it is hard to see much happening here unless the front, which appears to have stalled, tracks East as it moves out into the N.Sea and traps some colder air on the way.
Anyway a big bonus for those in Central Southern England - a pleasant surprise for them judging by the radar.
S.Essex, 42m ASL
Gandalf The White
08 January 2025 19:24:08

The band on the radar is not actually there - or at least not reaching the ground. I've been under radar echoes for several hours and nothing apart from the odd spot of drizzle has made it to Earth.

Originally Posted by: Rob K 


It’s the same here: the radar map show very light snow falling but the ground is dry. There could be a flake or two in the air but it’s pitch dark and we don’t have any street lighting.
Location: South Cambridgeshire
130 metres ASL
52.0N 0.1E


tierradelfuego
08 January 2025 21:21:43

The band on the radar is not actually there - or at least not reaching the ground. I've been under radar echoes for several hours and nothing apart from the odd spot of drizzle has made it to Earth.

Originally Posted by: Rob K 


Yes it took a pretty long time to get going, and never exactly heavy. We have finished off with a cm of lying snow, which I'm sure will look "pretty" in the morning.
Bucklebury
West Berkshire Downs AONB
135m ASL

VP2 with daytime FARS
Rainfall collector separated at ground level
Anemometer separated above roof level
WeatherLink Live (Byles Green Weather)
Bugglesgate
08 January 2025 21:31:09

The band on the radar is not actually there - or at least not reaching the ground. I've been under radar echoes for several hours and nothing apart from the odd spot of drizzle has made it to Earth.

Originally Posted by: Rob K 


Yes, I noticed that.

I work in south Oxfordshire…..looked at RADAR before leaving work …was sure I would drive into snow driving south but nothing. We eventually got a light dusting here.


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Saint Snow
09 January 2025 15:09:13
There's still a bit of convective activity coming off the Irish Sea. 

Whereas this morning it was slightly west of NW'ly, and so driving the snow showers into NW England SW of a line from Preston to Manchester, the flow has swung round to more of a NNW'y, which sends the snow showers into NE Wales

Martin
Home: St Helens (26m asl) Work: Manchester (75m asl)
A TWO addict since 14/12/01
"How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics."
Aneurin Bevan
Bolty
09 January 2025 15:32:56

There's still a bit of convective activity coming off the Irish Sea. 

Whereas this morning it was slightly west of NW'ly, and so driving the snow showers into NW England SW of a line from Preston to Manchester, the flow has swung round to more of a NNW'y, which sends the snow showers into NE Wales

Originally Posted by: Saint Snow 


Yes, it's been sunny here today, but I can clearly see the anvils over the Irish Sea. Looks like North Wales are getting it all at the moment, with a very cold and clear night to come here.
Scott
Blackrod, Lancashire (4 miles south of Chorley) at 156m asl.
My weather station 
Saint Snow
09 January 2025 16:39:44

Yes, it's been sunny here today, but I can clearly see the anvils over the Irish Sea. Looks like North Wales are getting it all at the moment, with a very cold and clear night to come here.

Originally Posted by: Bolty 




It's been misty/foggy all day in city centre Manc (and, according to the missus, similar back home)



Martin
Home: St Helens (26m asl) Work: Manchester (75m asl)
A TWO addict since 14/12/01
"How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics."
Aneurin Bevan
Snow Hoper
09 January 2025 17:52:45
Anyone with any info/thoughts on the area of ppn travelling down the north sea towards EA?
Will it do it's usually about turn or fizzle away into nothing?
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