Wintry weather next week?

[petunia]

Metmonkey are forecasting this for next week. We'll see ~ probably a bit early to say for certain whether this will happen or whether it'll just be cold and frosty.

pah that's ages off isn't it.
I just hope we get some as I smugly bought a sledge right at the end of last winter so I'd have one ready next time it snowed!

Newcastle loooked amazing on bbc news just now - huge fat flakes.

Am not sure where wellies are

it'll be sainsburys bags tied round your feet (witnessed a group of elderly walkers waddle into a pub with carrier bags on their feet the other week [grin)]

am off to bed - need sleep!

OYBK - just wanted to say thanks. I check with you before the weather sites now!

well according to the met office it should be snowing in cheltenham right now! just looked out the window and nothing

Have found my wellies and DD's wellies.

Has stopped snowing now

:) you are very welcome Belledame.

How is everyone this morning? I see there are a good number of showers off the NE and also over eastern Scotland and some potentially snowy showers over Cornwall and the far western tip of Wales. A rogue shower around London too.

Well looking at the warnings for today they broadly reflect where the showers are now. They are coming further south and more inland than was shown in the forecasts yesterday and also affecting more of the west coast.

A clear demonstration that much of snow forecasting is more of a 'now cast' and realsitically you can only highlight possibilities and probabilities.

Morning all.
We've had a hard frost again ~ temp gauge on the car said it was -3 when I went to defrost it at 8am and that had risen to -1 40 minutes ago. It was quite cloudy so I was hoping that we'd get the odd snow flurry but now the sun's coming out so don't think that'll happen.

OYBBK ~ Seeing what you posted yesterday about weather forecasters not being able to say "we haven't a clue" when it came to snow, I thought the national forecast after the 10pm news last night, said just that! For the weekend, they said that snow showers could crop up anywhere and that really it was a case of 'nowcasting' and to listen to local radio for travel updates. It'll be interesting to see what happens, especially as metmonkey are still going for the 'heavy snow for all' theme.

nothing here

A flurry has made it over the Pennines, tiny flakes to show us what we are missing!

I'm now praying it gets no worse, as I have lunch duty to do, and heavier snow means wet play....

Hi from a bitterly cold Bedfordshire.

Woke up to a tiny sprinkiling of snow on the cars and fence tops. Was cold, bright and frosty this morning, but has increasingly clouded over in the past hour.

Pressure's dropping and it's still on 1.5 here.

All ready for it here, however would like it to wait till tonight, Dp is in London with work this afternoon , and would like him home .

woke up to snow in north cornwall!

WHat about Herefordshire? Close to the Malverns? Will I need to stock up on longlife milk? Bread? Tinned goods? Will I be justified in moaning at dh for not getting some snow weather boots yet?
Where should I move to if i want snow more often? .

It was bright and freezing here, lovely really. However at the moment it is clouding over...

Nothing in or around Huddersfield/Holmfirth (yay) and I'm in Rotherham now and nothing here yet. My car was actually less frosted up this morning than it has been for most of the week.

I crossing my fingers (pointlessly) that it will avoid us until the weekend. I have a day off tomorrow and will be extremely miffed if snow stops haircut!

Something I've noticed today-

The birds are going crazy for the birdfood, I've put out today. Not just at my birdfeeders but at neighbouring ones too.

It's a bit of a birdfeeding frenzy here today, wonder if they know there's bad weather on the way?

WE have had approximately 15 flakes and the shelves in my local tesco express are empty of bread

My weather station temps don't tally with the really local 'proper' temps - it's showing a bit higher. But it has had a "high" of 3.4 so far today. ANd thats without the wind which we have off and on.
Are you on twitter OYBBK? If you use the hashtag #uksnow you help to update this site (i think it's already been linked)

We've got all the cloud but none of it is falling here. Gutted.

In Horsham... from memory OYBK isn't that far away?

I've not tried twitter yet - I could do now I have a phone that could manage it - will look into it :)

Maximum of 1.5C here. GFS had us at 3C max so it so far is overcooking the temps enough to make a difference.

Herefodshire - yeah you'll get some. As to whether to stock up? depends on whether you need the car to get in supplies.

BTW - if anyone genuinely needs rock salt our screwfix depot had big buckets for £20 (which I thought was jolly expensive)

Glitter - not too far away. Wait until the weekend and beyond. our turn will come.

Squeeeeeeeee

hope its not too bad up there- you always get it worse than us.

Woke up to snow and all thawed now. Local radio says it has just started again.

No one is laughing at my purchase of snow shovels and salt now!

Just started snowing in Norwich. Lovely.

hmm, we don't very often get good snow here . Last winter was great though. It has gone very dark though now so we'll see.
I never know which weather map to look at and end up looking at west midlands, wales and south west and making an un educated guess. It doesn't help that Hereford isn't usually on the maps either.
Am in awe of the weather gurus here.