Badkitten's 'Will it snow at Christmas?' thread.

[OhYouBadBadKitten]

Well, the moment has come

The 19th December - when many kids break from school has appeared in the GFS charts.....

I'm going to do my best to update this at least once each day, but bear with me if life interferes a bit. My usual disclaimer: I'm only an amateur and I get things wrong. I dont say this out of false modesty but because its true and for important forecasts and for making decisions please refer to the met office.

Also at this range the forecast will be complete crap anyway and will change daily. As we get closer to the Christmas holidays other models will come into range and things will start to become more accurate - hopefully!

So:

Friday 19th (GFS) - The day starts off cold with temps around freezing. Some precipitation but it looks to err on the wrong side of frozen (ie not). Europe isnt looking cold for this time of year and so we are looking to our north and north west for the cold at this point.
That's as far as the model goes but later in the day I would expect it to end up in single fig temps. Might update this on the next model run.

v frosty just a few miles down the road from you manky.

Thick frost down here on the Downs just outside Brighton

It was very frosty and sunny here - south Cheshire - earlier this morning. It's now gone cloudy and actually looks like it could snow, but I don't think any rain/snow is forecast here today.

Frosty here (West Manchester) and getting ver ydark, but not quite a "snow sky"!

Frosty here in East Anglia and a bit of ice in the garden. I don't know whether to hope for a white Christmas or not; the DDs would really enjoy it, but DH is Canadian and is insufferably smug at the UK's inability to cope with a couple of inches of snow.

The cloud I reported an hour ago has actually brought in warmer temperatures and everything is now defrosting nicely. The sky isn't as heavy as it was and now I think I can safely forecast that it's not going to snow here today!

Naeko I live in that remote cottage on the North Wales hillside. Veryvery cold here.

There is snow forecast on Snowdon for Sunday night and then continuously for next week.

We have the gritters out everyday now.

Marks place.

PanISAButterfly - DS1 has trained on the 4G pitches there as part of City in the Community - he was really impressed by the facilities!

Manchester was cold today - Gluhwein was very welcome.

Im in East Scotland and we have snow weather warnings for tomorrow.

There is a thread covering the snow warnings for tomorrow here :)

Milli my family are also in that remote cottage on a north Wales hillside! Perhaps not the same one though....

Just hold off till the end of term, then deep snow please.

Silent haha

Depends if you keep sheep I guess milli :)

I have sheep!!

But I know that we are not family. :)

Yes milli, same here. I'd know !

Morning all!

friday 19th (GFS) Mild, damp, perhaps some snow over hilly parts of Scotland.

Saturday 20th (GFS) Windy mild and wet

Sunday 21st (GFS) cool, windy wet.

Monday 22nd colder, wintry showers away from south and west coast

Tuesday 23rd early wintry showers away from the south. (but mild air looks to be on the way again)

Thanks Kitten

You are very welcome :)

Good morning Kitten
It is so interesting how forecasts change so much, I wonder who will get snow today..wet and windy in N Derbyshire, only cold place is Buxton, which seems to have it's own weather system
An unhealthy breakfast of and hot chocolate to keep you going today

Snowing here already!!