Just noticed those! Wonder if Edinburgh could join in! Probably rain here. It's -1 C just now

I hope so, if just to cover over the layer of glaze that is now forming on the pavements. Met office says current condition is "mist" and they're not wrong, freezing on the ground, making other things wet. Be dreadful in the morning if it freezes overnight like that 😱

Did you see i posted this on 17th Dec?

I was very impressed by the 2019 documentary I started watching yesterday: "The Divided Brain" - examining the relationship between left and right brain function and differences. It goes some way to examining the differences between data and belief in the process of thinking and perception. 

I missed it in 2019 as I was "out of it" for weeks in intensive care in Leicester with time to experience and explore exactly what Dr. Iain McGilchrist was on about. I'll spare you the details.

It's available on Prime. Strongly recommended.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9196658/ 

half an hour ago it was 6.0c then 10 mins ago there was a sudden icy sleety rain squall and I just looked at temperature it is now 2.5c outside here in Okehampton. - Quite a drop in less than a couple hours. Wouldn't surprise to see a few flakes in the wind soon. 

Those blokes on the bench look cold.

😉

(Good to see you post again, mate)

I've heard Buxton & surrounding areas are getting buried.

Just a degree or two colder here and we'd have been quids in for a decent fall.

Yes it looks wintry there:

https://www.jamesgphotography.co.uk/peak-district-webcams/ 

What's annoying is that feature on Monday/Tuesday that both washed the lying, frozen snow away and ushered in mild temps.

If this current feature would have been moving into that cold air and snowing on an established and frozen base...

It's so frustrating that we always seem to need multiple factors to all align in order to get snow.

I hope so as well because surely at the end of the day, it surely can't possibly be asking too much even for Edinburgh to get at least a little bit of interesting weather at some point in time, especially given everything which has been happening elsewhere just lately.

Ideally, it would be great to actually see some snow here but that is something which is never guaranteed here even with sub-zero temperatures at the surface.

Even if it's just rain though, I will still happily take that because at the end of the day, all I want to see is just something actually happening here in terms of our weather and with this storm remaining well to our south, this is once again depriving us of some very badly needed rainfall which is required in order for our rivers and reservoirs to be replenished in such a way that this then prevents us from having to experience any serious issues with water scarcity in the spring and summer.

At the end of the day, anything at all will be much better in my books for that particular reason than the almost constant bone dry conditions which we've become all too used to just lately, and which I'm now just becoming really sick and tired of now.

1.1c with heavy sleet now in Okehampton.

after 5 minutes of huge wet flakes falling horizontally in the wind here in Okehampton and the temperature falling to 0.8c it has now risen to 1.8c with sleety rain again. - That's it I think? oh well. Was interesting how the temperature rose so high to +11c with drizzly rain today then dropped to 0.8c in a matter or hours with heavy sleety snow and now rises to 2.0c again and continues to rise with sleety rain and perhaps soon becoming all rain!? :/ Uppers are -2.6@ 850hpa perhaps!?- Which I guess is why we are seeing more rain than snow? the weekend snow which did fall here in Okehampton at night and those dustings was drier snow and powdery snow with -9c to -10c uppers.

I'd suggest contacting TORRO, as they'll know - the only thing I can imagine that would cause that would be a tornado! That'd match your description of an intense wall of wind and the power lines flashing too.

https://www.torro.org.uk/contact 

The stingjet here in 1987 didn't, as far as I recall, lead to a massive lowering of pressure - there was a rapid fall and rise, but nothing like that. (Here's a barograph reading  from Surrey - not Kent, but I suspect it would be similar here). When the power went off here in 1987 there was no sparking either, just a "pop" and pitch blackness - and that's despite all the roads having overhead power lines, and some high voltage lines in the distance. 

Google's "AI" says:

Yes, air pressure drops dramatically in the center of a tornado, creating a low-pressure core that contrasts with the higher pressure outside, driving the intense winds and forming the vortex, though the extreme winds and debris cause most structural damage, not the pressure change itself. This rapid drop causes ears to pop and can be significant, sometimes hundreds of millibars, with the lowest pressure often coinciding with the strongest winds

Updated account of BBC account of Storm Goretti:

Storm Goretti brings 99mph winds and snow as 57,000 properties lose power

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgdezxj617o 

Looks like we dodged a bullet here in terms of the wind plenty of vile cold rain here to come ahh well it’s as good as it gets thankful we didn’t get the bashing of parts of Southern  England and France.

Hope everyone stays safe.

Must say ecm was spot on with the track even a few days out.

Edit: there are patches of slush on the ground. I'll post photos later. 

Yep, another total BUST in our neck of the woods. It is nigh on impossible to get lying snow here, and if we do, it's usually less than a cm which goes very quickly.

The wait for a significant snow event here in the Witney snow desert goes on and on and on. The cold spell as a whole has largely been a bust here too. A few days of temps around 5-6c in late December and January is nothing to write home about.

Ah, just saw DEWs post on the snow reports, we’re on a steep back lane so might be more tricky but sounds okay. 😂