Bring your ruler - Snow chat part 2

[youarekidding]

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

The Met Office site now saying 'heavy snow' for us in Essex tonight if I put in my postcode, but it doesn't say that on the more general forecast.

Guess we'll have to wait and see. Though I won't be staying up to watch as DS2 had me up at 3am.

CM - dont give up!

(though I fear CM as you may be a bit out of luck with the whole thing having seemingly shifted eastwards. So some snow but not the amount that it looked like before)

Can report snowing heavily back home at Stansted

OYBBK, hope the meds settle down soon.

Still raining here.

manky, - thats a bummer for you.

Well my met office weather forecast has changed... 3pm-9pm light snow, 9pm-3am heavy snow and then 3am light snow.

Haven't seen a flake yet so perhaps their light snow is so light it's invisible.

I think the air is so dry that a lot of the light stuff is evaporating before it reaches the ground.

Just started snowing here (Leicester.) They've just said on the East Midlands news to expect 1-5cms overnight. The amounts forecast gets less as the day goes on!

Hurrah! DH has just reported that it is snowing outside! Only an hour off schedule (very south-west of the East Midlands)

My forecast with the met office has changed from no snow 1 hour ago to heavy snow (2 blobs) through the night (near Crawley). This was at the same time Kaddy le Preston on BBc said only a little if any snow tonight

Looked at met office site and brighton is now down for heavy snow. That will please some here :)

But is the Met Office change reflected in what you've seen in the models? Hoping it isn't some big mistake!

Am suspicious because they haven't changed their weather warnings.

all the towns around me have different amounts of snow flakes for different times. I think its all a bit hard to tell. I think its going to be a case for 'look out of the window'.

it is not reflected in the weather models mostboring! which could mean they are all wrong!

(ok, I am going for a bath and when I emerge I expect to see snow out of my window

Aren't the forecasts based on the models then? [clueless here]

I have a special outdoor light I put on when it's snowing after dark as I love watching it. Ds calls it 'the snow light' .

I know nothing about anything but that left hand side of the splodge looks a lot further east than met office warnings and if it keeps on course tracking west london and surrey will get a lot more than forecast, surely?

I mean on the raintoday radar

It's stopped here now. I want a snow day tomorrow. I am tired. Please

Has stopped around York as well. Children are with XH - I think I just felt bad that they have a two minute walk to school when they are with me and then a rather longer car journey when they're at his house. And DD hates it if they are late (but with the snow they have been going in when they get to school which eases the feeling of missing "the line" going in)

We have nearly snow in NE hampshire
Looks like sleet coming down but seems to be settling on car roofs

Finally have micro flakes here. Can see this being another let down!