Snow chat this way

[OhyouBadBadkitten]

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Can't promise that I'll be able to add as much as I usually do (not very well atm) so its quite likely I might miss stuff but I've added a few thoughts to that thread re the current set up and tis easier if I just keep it in one place.

Now we have some metoffice warnings!

Ooh exciting. Some for us on Sunday. Mind you dh has got to get in & out of central London on Sat & Sun so better not be too much.

Just watching BBC lunchtime weather - they're saying the cold air is winning. It's blue and frosty everywhere, but not terribly clear about likelihood of weekend snow.

metoffice site not working for me, keeps crashing

Teeny tiny snowflakes in north Yorkshire. Not settling though.

Lovely view across to the snowy Pennines from the school playground at lunchtime.

Not a sniff of the white stuff locally though!

Bloody met office warning page. I can see there are warnings, just not where!

MetOffice site still not working properly. Are they being overwhelmed by the volume of people wanting to know if it's finally going to snow?

ok, going to take me a few minutes to catch up. Gloria, can you remember where the warning areas were for?

Toby - it is exactly that, the air is too dry to give frosts. I have an outdoor humidity reading of 32%

Pesto, I think it is possible if it is heavy enough. Out of curiosity, do you have a thermometer? Would love to know how your local reading compares with official temps.

PPP - I think it is going in the direction of 'could last for a bit'. If GFS is right then yes it would hang around. I think the UKMO has it more marginal though.

Manky - I think you could be unlucky I'm afraid and end up with wet.

Thanks for looking.

Oh well, ther is always next winter...

awwww :( we arent over winter yet. Don't lose heart!

I am in Norfolk and completely failed to find a sledge in the shops this morning so no snow this weekend please!

Rain, rain come again, keep that nasty snow away...

Belle, rain would be quite handy for some, rather a severe drought down here!

manky - you might get a bit for a while Saturday as the front comes across.

OYBBK ~ think from memory, it was from the Midlands eastwards, covering Norfolk and Kent as well. Then there was a yellow splodge over Wales and Gloucestershire towards the West Midlands (think it was done this way to cover the front turning to snow and then moving eastwards over the 2 days. There was talk on the lunchtime weather that the front might stall over the midlands/east of the country and give snow all day.)

shhhhh Belle

It's all gone a bit wrong on the met-offices warning page!

Just one or two tiny bits of white fluff. Nothing proper. Sky the right colour though here in E Yorks.

thats sounds about right - thanks Gloria :)

the movement of the trough certainly is up in the air (as so to speak!) and a lot of the forecast accuracy will depend on predicting that.

No warning for here on the met site. (South East)

I was getting all excited, I shall be most miffed if it snows Saturday night and it's gone before I get up.

are you coastal MrsD? I still cant get on the warnings page....

Thank you Gloria, you've given me hope - we are up high on the Downs where we always seem to get hit worse than low-lying Brighton. In fact we seem to have our own little micro-climate

We do have an outdoor thermometer, but I don't think it's registering correctly - currently showing -10 degrees C!

Sadly no, OYBBK ! Buckinghamshire.

Which usually means we watch above get lots of snow, then below and to the right a bit, and it misses us completely !

I have loved the past few winters where we have had guaranteed snow. It feels wrong this season not to have had any.

-10!!!! thats not quite right I think shoreham (which I think is the nearest official station to you) is 1.5c