Yes - the consistent prevail of such shower clusters, (this one is nicely curled into a polar low type formation), is that in recent years they have always been subject to this propensity to shoot off to the east as they near the northern coast of the “ear” of east Anglia. In times past the winds would be northerly and track the showers due south, clipping Kings Lynn, and Swaffham would get deluged, and the last fizzles might make it to bury st Edmunds. Since 2010, the trend is for these shower clusters to veer off to clip Dereham and paste Norwich, and latterly, certainly the lest few yeas, it has just been the east coast - Stalham and Wroxham getting pasted, with a dusting from Cromer to Caister.
This underlying NNW or NW air-stream is ever more present, in direct contrast to the frequent. East Anglian snow showers of times past (how they are missed). The second phenomenon is the fizzle. Whenever such shower clouds get near the EA coast, they suddenly collapse and fizzle to virtually nothing.
Its a bother. I am sure this cluster will both fizzle and shoot off east, just clipping Stalham with some sleet, being 6m ASL.
Yours most miffed
B
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09 January 2025 18:16:41
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Brecklands, South Norfolk 28m ASL