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Tim A
09 January 2026 08:10:06
Hardly a flake here and warmed up to 2c quickly after the precipitation arrived after being -1c and cloudy before it arrived. Wasn't expected anything here as no models showed snow.  Warm air from the North Sea influenced being part of the problem. We were also too far North for the main precipitation that is more understandable. 

Where is the deepest snow from this event in England?  See Birmingham has a far bit and higher parts of Derbyshire and Leicestershire perhaps .

Tim

NW Leeds

187m asl

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Gandalf The White
09 January 2026 08:11:16
We had a mixture of rain and snow last night. I had to go out and up here it there was quite a lot snow mixed in the heavy rain. By the time I got onto the M11 it was mostly rain: a drop of about 100 metres.

This morning it’s snowing again and we have a light covering.

Location: South Cambridgeshire

130 metres ASL

52.0N 0.1E



moomin75
09 January 2026 08:19:21

Storm Goretti makes its presence felt in the Chilterns. 

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Originally Posted by: Brian Gaze 

😅😅😅 Quick Brian, call for the snow plough. Honestly, what a bust in most areas. I wasn't expecting much, and I got even less!

Witney, Oxfordshire

100m ASL

overland
09 January 2026 09:47:42
The amount of snow didn't quite live up to the expectations of some of the model runs over the preceding days but I think the Met Office played a blinder with their warnings and other output , in what was a very marginal situation. 

Edit: I've had reports from colleagues in the higher parts of mid-Wales of snow depths of 30cms so the forecasted amount of snow were also relatively accurate.

Mumbles, Swansea. 80m asl
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idj20
09 January 2026 10:01:43
While the wind wasn't that bad (we've had far worse) last night, seems a 970 mb low pressure centred right over the Channel and storm force wind towards the French side coincided with spring high tide had caused a tidal surge/swell and pushed shingle onto the road between Sandgate (Folkestone end) and Seebrook (Hythe end) during the night. The force of the surge was strong enough to shift parked cars along there, so as a result that route is currently closed. Some of the beach huts are also damaged or got shifted, although to be fair they are nothing more than wooden garden sheds.

Home location: Folkestone Harbour.
tallyho_83
09 January 2026 11:47:05

Storm Goretti makes its presence felt in the Chilterns. 

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Originally Posted by: Brian Gaze 

Snow way haha! Well least you saw some last weekend but for the south, we had a period of heavy wet snow last night between 21 30 - 22:o00 before it turned back to rain- let's face it. It has been a poor cold spell for the south despite is longevity of it.

Home Location - Vixen Tor Close, Okehampton, Devon (221m ASL)

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marco 79
09 January 2026 12:00:54

Hardly a flake here and warmed up to 2c quickly after the precipitation arrived after being -1c and cloudy before it arrived. Wasn't expected anything here as no models showed snow.  Warm air from the North Sea influenced being part of the problem. We were also too far North for the main precipitation that is more understandable. 

Where is the deepest snow from this event in England?  See Birmingham has a far bit and higher parts of Derbyshire and Leicestershire perhaps .

Originally Posted by: Tim A 

We had roughly 6cm here, tbh I wish it hadn't bothered as it's a slushy mess this morning.

Home : Mid Leicestershire ...135m ASL
Brian Gaze
09 January 2026 12:25:26

Snow way haha! Well least you saw some last weekend but for the south, we had a period of heavy wet snow last night between 21 30 - 22:o00 before it turned back to rain- let's face it. It has been a poor cold spell for the south despite is longevity of it.

Originally Posted by: tallyho_83 

Yes. I'd much sooner have had the <2cm we had between Thursday and Wednesday, than today's slush fest which part of the Midlands have experienced. Goretti has been exactly like I expected because it wasn't a classic Channel low by any means. The strong winds were probably more notable than the "snow".

Brian Gaze

Berkhamsted

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Chichesterweatherfan2
09 January 2026 12:58:02

Yes. I'd much sooner have had the <2cm we had between Thursday and Wednesday, than today's slush fest which part of the Midlands have experienced. Goretti has been exactly like I expected because it wasn't a classic Channel low by any means. The strong winds were probably more notable than the "snow".

Originally Posted by: Brian Gaze 

Indeed,,, I was very surprised with all the Amber  and yellow snow warnings…whereas the red wind warning was absolutely justified…unless we’ve reached the stage where any fall or potential fall of snow justifies a warning? 

Boardshark
09 January 2026 13:11:30
To be fair. The amber warning was justified here. Snow started after heavy sleet and it stuck fairly rapidly. Roads were horrible. Took a friend 1 1/2 hours to do a 4 mile journey. 
449ft Sutton Coldfield, West MIdlands
Quantum
09 January 2026 13:17:21
There was so much potential, its kinda annoying what happened in the end. Tuesday's system advected just enough warm air into the north sea to keep the environment really too warm for snow everywhere (except Scotland) in time for yesterday. The only reason it did snow quite widely was evaporational cooling downwind of intense precipitation. But relying on evap cooling means when the precip eases you are left with the same 'slightly too warm' environment so it turns sloppy anyway. And heaven help you if the wind direction changes even slightly in the wrong way and the snow pretty instantly changes to rain (the opposite can ofc also happen)

The really frustrating thing is that we actually had a near consensus at one point that the Tuesday low would not mix any mild air in west of Ireland and keep the north sea under subzero dewpoints. Had that happened we would be looking at something quite a bit more spectacular. In the end this cold spell was fairly run of the mill for everywhere apart from NE Scotland.

25/26 (850hpa temp) 11 days snow/sleet falling

18/11 (-4) 19/11 (-6) 20/11 (-6) 01/01 (-7) 04/01 (-10) 10/01 (-7) 11/01 (-3) 30/01 (-1) 13/02 (-6) 15/02 (-4) 18/02 (-6)

24/25 10d

18/11 (-6) 19/11 (-6) 23/11 (-2) 22/12 (-5) 04/01 (-5) 05/01 (0)14/02 (0) 15/02 (0)12/03 (-6) 13/03 (-6)

23/24 8d

29/11 (-6) 30/11 (-6) 02/12 (-5) 03/12 (-5) 04/12 (-3) 16/01 (-3) 18/01 (-8)08/02 (-5)

22/23 7d

18/12 (-1)06/03 (-6) 08/03 (-8) 09/03 (-6) 10/03 (-8) 11/03 (-5) 14/03 (-6)

21/22 12d

Gandalf The White
09 January 2026 13:27:33

We had a mixture of rain and snow last night. I had to go out and up here it there was quite a lot snow mixed in the heavy rain. By the time I got onto the M11 it was mostly rain: a drop of about 100 metres.

This morning it’s snowing again and we have a light covering.

Originally Posted by: Gandalf The White 

The light covering was patchy and gone within a few minutes; we must have been fortunate with the brief spell of snow we had.  It’s now just grey, unpleasant and drizzly.

Location: South Cambridgeshire

130 metres ASL

52.0N 0.1E



Steve
09 January 2026 13:41:56

Storm Goretti makes its presence felt in the Chilterns. 

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Originally Posted by: Brian Gaze 

Wow, that's pretty bad Brian. Hope you've got enough supplies to get you through

four
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09 January 2026 13:47:33
Complete non event here with some drizzly showers this morning and now sleet/hail flurries off sea - not even windy in fact near calm a lot of the time. We were in warning area for snow too but only just.

It has warmed up slightly to 3C but ground still hard frozen with slimey layer on top.

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fairweather
09 January 2026 15:27:49
Nothing here either other than 30mm of rain which could well be the highest 24 hr total for over a year. (Over 8th and 9th)
S.Essex, 42m ASL
fairweather
09 January 2026 15:36:34

😅😅😅 Quick Brian, call for the snow plough. Honestly, what a bust in most areas. I wasn't expecting much, and I got even less!

Originally Posted by: moomin75 

It has led to a lot of the public saying how bad the forecast was. This is the danger of not emphasising how localised things would be. SO the Scilly Isles and extreme SW coasts got the wind and parts of Wales, Scotland (would they have noticed?) and the NW Midlands were the only areas with shortlived significant snow. So in terms of the population a massively overhyped event. Probably less than 5% of the population affected. 

S.Essex, 42m ASL
NMA
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09 January 2026 16:04:42
Plus the BBC balls up with Stav Danaos stating that the red danger to life warning has 'now expired! Before it had even begun. A canned mistake that should never have gone out at that time. I wouldn't like to be the one in the office who did that posting.

Vale of the Great Dairies

South Dorset

Elevation 60m 197ft

tallyho_83
09 January 2026 17:20:50

Plus the BBC balls up with Stav Danaos stating that the red danger to life warning has 'now expired! Before it had even begun. A canned mistake that should never have gone out at that time. I wouldn't like to be the one in the office who did that posting.

Originally Posted by: NMA 

Even overheard people in supermarkets talk about storm goretti and saying we are expecting blizzard. And I am thinking 🤔 NOPE!!

Home Location - Vixen Tor Close, Okehampton, Devon (221m ASL)

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Boardshark
09 January 2026 17:23:09

It has led to a lot of the public saying how bad the forecast was. This is the danger of not emphasising how localised things would be. SO the Scilly Isles and extreme SW coasts got the wind and parts of Wales, Scotland (would they have noticed?) and the NW Midlands were the only areas with shortlived significant snow. So in terms of the population a massively overhyped event. Probably less than 5% of the population affected. 

Originally Posted by: fairweather 

We are just north of Birmingham. So not nw midlands and still snow on  the ground and side roads slippy at best. Thought the warning area was spot on. 

449ft Sutton Coldfield, West MIdlands
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roadrunnerajn
09 January 2026 20:09:16
Storm Goretti will be remembered down here…majestic 200 plus year old Monterey pines lying on their sides in rows. Every main road this morning at day break was blocked. This afternoon I have passed several houses with no roof and that includes the A frames, their loft insulation decorates the trees that are still standing.

The main damage in west Cornwall happened in two minutes when we went from a relatively calm situation to 90-100mph gusts in 1 minute. The initial gusts lasted almost two minutes before subsiding. It was akin to the blast from a nuclear explosion we went into darkness straight away as the junction box on the pole exploded in a blue/white fireball. We live in a dark area at the top of a vale, the valley to our west was full of blue flashes as trees took out power lines.

We have no power and no water the earliest we might get power is Sunday or Monday. As for the water we’ve heard nothing.

At the height of the storm there were 40,000 homes without power at the moment it’s close to 20,000.

Wind like this was terrifying we have suffered little damage but we do now have a selection of telegraph poles and associated cables lining across our garden.

Germoe, part of the breakaway Celtic Republic. 80m asl
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tallyho_83
09 January 2026 20:57:45
How do you PM another member?
Home Location - Vixen Tor Close, Okehampton, Devon (221m ASL)

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Magical Moon

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DEW
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09 January 2026 21:07:19

How do you PM another member?

Originally Posted by: tallyho_83 

You can't - Brian has suspended the PM service.

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Chichester 12m asl

DEW
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09 January 2026 21:14:58

Storm Goretti will be remembered down here…majestic 200 plus year old Monterey pines lying on their sides in rows. Every main road this morning at day break was blocked. This afternoon I have passed several houses with no roof and that includes the A frames, their loft insulation decorates the trees that are still standing.

The main damage in west Cornwall happened in two minutes when we went from a relatively calm situation to 90-100mph gusts in 1 minute. The initial gusts lasted almost two minutes before subsiding. It was akin to the blast from a nuclear explosion we went into darkness straight away as the junction box on the pole exploded in a blue/white fireball. We live in a dark area at the top of a vale, the valley to our west was full of blue flashes as trees took out power lines.

We have no power and no water the earliest we might get power is Sunday or Monday. As for the water we’ve heard nothing.

At the height of the storm there were 40,000 homes without power at the moment it’s close to 20,000.

Wind like this was terrifying we have suffered little damage but we do now have a selection of telegraph poles and associated cables lining across our garden.

Originally Posted by: roadrunnerajn 

Apart from the explosive onset, it sounds very much like what we experienced in an exposed position in the Great Storm of 1987. No water for two days, no electricity for four, neighbour's chimney stack blew down through the middle of his house and the wind then lifted off all the tiles, we had a tree on top of our house. So I can sympathise.

As for widespread tree blow-downs, the railway from Hastings to Tunbridge Wells had a tree blown down across it every 20m for a distance of some 40km.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography - Ambrose Bierce

Chichester 12m asl

tallyho_83
10 January 2026 01:23:38

You can't - Brian has suspended the PM service.

Originally Posted by: DEW 

Oh I did wonder  - I had a old messages on there dating 2013 etc ....why was this??  -Thanks for letting me know - i thought it was my account or something not working!?

Home Location - Vixen Tor Close, Okehampton, Devon (221m ASL)

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Magical Moon

www.magical-moon.com

The Beast from the East
10 January 2026 02:08:35

Storm Goretti will be remembered down here…majestic 200 plus year old Monterey pines lying on their sides in rows. Every main road this morning at day break was blocked. This afternoon I have passed several houses with no roof and that includes the A frames, their loft insulation decorates the trees that are still standing.

The main damage in west Cornwall happened in two minutes when we went from a relatively calm situation to 90-100mph gusts in 1 minute. The initial gusts lasted almost two minutes before subsiding. It was akin to the blast from a nuclear explosion we went into darkness straight away as the junction box on the pole exploded in a blue/white fireball. We live in a dark area at the top of a vale, the valley to our west was full of blue flashes as trees took out power lines.

We have no power and no water the earliest we might get power is Sunday or Monday. As for the water we’ve heard nothing.

At the height of the storm there were 40,000 homes without power at the moment it’s close to 20,000.

Wind like this was terrifying we have suffered little damage but we do now have a selection of telegraph poles and associated cables lining across our garden.

Originally Posted by: roadrunnerajn 

Sorry to hear that.  Disappointing to hear so many commentators on social media and in the press saying how this was all hysteria. 

Purley, Surrey, 70m ASL

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