Weather looks potentially *really* interesting Tuesday.

[OhYouBadBadkitten]

Looks (at the moment) like we will have a really interesting and potentially pretty active cold front sweep the country on Tuesday. looks like it could be an 'ana cold front' where warm air ahead of the front is lifted above the cold front. This can create really good convection - pretty clouds - squally storms - and possibly tornadoes

Will update as we draw closer.

So, will there be snow then in december? I need, need, need to travel from perth to newcastle on xmas eve and if I can't I will scweam and scweam and scweam

Marking place I keep forgetting to look in the weather topic and need to amaze my DH with your help op

Oh, I love your threads OYBBK. My geographer dad is always very impressed with my weather knowledge stolen from you.

Tuesday sounds exciting. I'm hoping for snow at some point but don't mind when. In the meantime a nice cold front will do nicely. How is the South West likely to be affected?

I want snow! I can't get Christmassy until we have some bitter winter frosts and snow. All this mild weather sucks. I cut my grass today, in short sleeves. It's wrong.

I've bought a snow shovel. There will, therefore, be NO SNOW all winter. Unless I lose the shovel.

It all sounds very exciting.

Tis looking possibly snowy for Sunday and Monday on high parts in northern England/Scotland and Wales.

(brr at the frost today)

Almamartyr - :) Unsure of the exact passage and time - but at the moment it looks like the cold front will be preceded by heavy rain and very strong winds (60mph gusts for a time by Plymouth) with the worst of the rain between midday and 3pmish

Will try to give a an update to timing across the country this afternoon when I'm back from work but if you look at:
surface pressure chart for midday tomorrow (currently labelled T+60) You can see how the two cold fronts are coming together off the west coasts at around midday.

ps - graupel is snow pellets - where ice crystals form in clouds and then water in the clouds directly condenses onto the crystals as ice. They look like little polystyrene balls when they land :)

Ah, I can handle crazy weather but don't want snow for another week or two.

that's exactly what I see when I look at those charts.

Tornado was very cool in retrospect, I don't know if I'd have been more or less scared if I'd known what was actually happening. There is something to be said for waking up in the middle of the night to lightening flashing ever few seconds whilst it sounds like a train is trying to fly past your window!

oh that's what the pellety things are called where it looks like a beanbag has exploded on one's front lawn. Graupel.

That's my day made, and it's not even 9am.

OYBBK
Any idea yet of what kind of winter we are heading for? Is it possible to predict so far ahead?

We have had no precipitation for weeks and weeks. Never known it so dry. Hope that it all falls as snow just before Xmas. (Near Geneva and we had such a shitty winter last year, hardly any snow even in the mountains)

snow in the midlands in ten days time whats that all about ? excited face hee hee

Nooo! No more interesting weather please!

We had 70 mph winds on Saturday night and half the guttering is off the house now, and the ladder blew half off the roof and was hanging by a thread.

Also do not want snow until Christmas Eve. Had too much snow last year and have stopped thinking of it as a Good Thing.

some warnings out but tbh I dont think they tell the whole story by a long way. Off to look at the models - back soon.

It won't snow. I'm prepared for it this year! :o

hmm, well, for the moment I'd stick with the warnings as given by the met office for the places most likely to see severe weather out of this. In particular, in the SW and Wales I would be prepared for severe gales in the morning and into lunchtime. The front will sweep eastwards and leave the SE by 6pm ish. Most will see strong-gale force winds as a minimum.

I am hoping for no snow on the weekend of the 16th/17th December as DH is away just now and that's the weekend he's due back. Perhaps a bit on christmas Eve enough to stop MIL arriving would be nice

Are there any good weather apps for the iPhone/iPad that anyone can recommend?

I always recommend the one that the people from 'rain today' produce: weather pro Meteogroup have a really solid repuation for forecasting.

btw - tomorrow still looks very interesting. Will be working in the morning so will look forward to coming back to your reports in the afternoon. Those of you in the west I'm relying on you for first hand accounts

When you say the west, you don't mean the actual west, do you? I can't see any warnings for tomorrow for Devon and Cornwall on your link......

Ah, ok, sorry, was looking at wrong day. Lands end and Sennen cove. But that's quite a limited area.....I've been in Sennen with gales before. It can be amazing, cos the sea comes right over the road and up to the houses. Bit scary if you're out in it, obviously!