Bring your ruler - Snow chat part 2

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As requested by our snow guru OYBBK heres the new thread as the other one is almost full.

And I have no idea why I'm still getting involved as we had no snow

OYBBK, any idea what's going on with Friday's forecast ? I have to drive down the M40 through Oxon and Bucks, and on the Met Office 5-day forecasts for that area, heavy snow has appeared.

It was -2 at 4pm here... The dcs and I came out of the local soft play place and gave a collective gasp! Wasn't expecting that so early in the evening/afternoon.

ooh we're broadcast snow Thursday night into Friday....

I did the M11/M25/A3 run again tonight. At the London end of the M11, it was very cold, after a mild day, all the remaining slush and puddles had frozen very hard and crunchy. The main roads were otherwise very clean and dry, there was some good sun today so a lot will have melted, there there was still snow on north-facing slopes and under hedges.

The only thick snow I saw was on the Hampshire Mountains near the tunnel.

South coast is not very cold.

weather.co.uk now saying it's -6. Have had to turn the heating up another notch on the boiler and am sitting here wearing three layers and a dressing gown, thick socks and slippers and my hands are still cold! That usually only happens when it's -3 or below, boiler has only ever been on this level three times.

I want to get a log fire built up but I'm running low on logs and want to save them for when i have a visitor on Friday. Brrr

Metoffice are giving us here in Leicester 'heavy snow' for Friday on their 5 day forecast.
Just been to check the temperature outside and the car's temp guage is saying it's -5! Must be another very dry night though as there's no frost on any of the windows.

No frost here either it's veeeery very dry.

Heavy snow Friday - I hope so that would be excellent for the weekend. Long as it doesn't stop my daughter going to her dads, or stop my guest getting here, or both. Any indication what time it might be? Through the day or evening/night?

doh, go out one evening (to a meeting) and the weather decides to be all interesting thursday night/friday. Typical. upper air temps are forecast to be cooler than they showed this morning. central and eastern areas look most vulnerable.
My brain is fried tonight (could cry with tiredness), so will try to update tomorrow afternoon (fraid it wont be in the morning)

broadcast doh! FORECAST.
Bloody fibro fog.

thursday night into Friday lubey.

Thanks

:) will try to make more sense tomorrow!

I can't see any heavy snow forecast on the Met Office website?

here LEG, not looked in detail at other areas....

right, g'night all. shiver sleep well

Ok, right. That's my region too. It says 'a few snow flurries'-I thought someone said heavy snow!

Ha! 1am check in, -7c

So we were far more right than weather.co.uk's caffiene/LSD/whatever fuelled projections of -13 and also more right than the met office more conservative -4.

BBc just said maybe up to 20Cm for some Thurs in to Friday!

Official met office temp was -7.1C

LEG - the pictograms were of clouds with 2 snow flakes - now down to 1 snow flake but for a looong time.

So, we start again on the snow forecasting! Not much time this am but will be able to look in depth later on Once again though mostly an eastern and central affair I think as rain moving south encounters the colder air in these regions. Starting thursday night for Midlands and reaching southern areas pretty quickly. Snow accumulations could be significant in many areas that saw snowfall in the last round.

So we await the met office warnings

OYWWQ :o yeahhhh hi five!

I seem to be just on the edge of the cold air... sandwiched between predictions for heavy snow/snow and minging 'orrible sleet.

I seem to squeeze in on the right side of the cold air but light snow all the way through.

some light flurries possible again today for central and eastern parts.

Looks like the usual cold but rainy for me. How come it still manages to rain at -3 here and others get snow at 2 or 3 degrees?

Tis generally down to the upper air temperatures inmysparetime.

Please could you tell me if there is any chance of snow in Somerset sometime soon? DDs are still disappointed that they didn't get to go sledging at the weekend!