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Snow watch 2017/18

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OhYouBadBadKitten · 02/12/2017 07:33

I wish you could have joint thread starters! Gloria and I will be hosting this years snow watch and tag teaming with amateur weather forecasts. When reading them, please bear in mind that we are both amateurs with busy day to day lives, but we will do our best.

Please remember snow is notoriously difficult to forecast in this country as it often falls under marginal conditions.
When a forecast matters please do check with the Met Office first.

After a taste of winter already for some in the east, this mornings GFS model sticks with the winter weather theme we’ve been noticing for a few days for late Thurs 7th onwards, with a significant low pressure looking to bring in some cold and potentially rather snowy weather. Indeed, there is the potential for this to be accompanied by some very strong winds.

At the moment GFS plays around with the exact location of this low pressure, so it is too early to say where any snow may hit, but most places away from the far west seem to be in the potential firing line at the moment.

If some of the charts come off, the weather could be quite disruptive next weekend.

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TheDonald · 10/12/2017 13:37

@unescorted we made it to the snow!

Thanks for the tip.

Still light snow here but it isn't "pitching" so dd has given up on a day off and agreed to do her homework.

Enjoy your snow everyone. I'm not bitter.Xmas Envyl

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BrizzleDrizzle · 10/12/2017 13:51

Nyx1 Bristol is a lovely place to live, I'd certainly recommend it despite it seeming to rain at the time at the moment.

Wiifitmama · 10/12/2017 13:57

This is or garden in NW London zone 2 (fairy central). It has been snowing heavily since this morning.

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SleightOfMind · 10/12/2017 14:07

Still at it here but not settling because the ground is so wet.
Wonder what we’ll wake up to tomorrow?

notsomanky · 10/12/2017 14:12

We are having a consolation snow shower at the moment.

OhYouBadBadKitten · 10/12/2017 14:14

Heading home now. Seen loads of snow Xmas Grin main hazard has been flooding, a downed tree and where we are in Oxfordshire right this moment the roads are a bit grim.

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BabyOrSanta · 10/12/2017 14:16

I saw snow!
Too wet to settle but... snow!

ACertainRatio · 10/12/2017 14:22

OYBBK you must live near me!!

oldsilver · 10/12/2017 14:22

I agree with Heman - tis a lovely place to live. It does tend to forget it's a city as there is an awful lot of green about!

And there is a quite specific dialect - I forgot 'pitch' is not in common usage.

oldsilver · 10/12/2017 14:23

Sorry meant Brizzle Blush

OhYouBadBadKitten · 10/12/2017 14:26

I never say where I live other than central southern England :)

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TisapityshesaGeordie · 10/12/2017 14:28

Lots of snow in Hertfordshire!

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Alwaysinmyheart · 10/12/2017 14:29

Here’s some pretty pics from Northamptonshire!

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goose1964 · 10/12/2017 14:32

It starting to think about settling here in Nailsea, near Bristol but only thinking

oldsilver · 10/12/2017 14:36

Being a city and a council - Bristol is huge. Not quite west or south, or even south west.

We aren't in CUBA anymore county used to be Avon

RhinoGirl · 10/12/2017 14:42

Finally here in West Yorkshire but it’s very fine flakes now after some big ones. Only settling on the stuff that was already here from the other day, no where near as bad as forecast for us.

BabyOrSanta · 10/12/2017 14:52

We've just had a yellow ice warning through for tomorrow morning which is a pain

Mrscog · 10/12/2017 14:54

17cm here in rural Worcestershire!

BrizzleDrizzle · 10/12/2017 15:09

17cm here in rural Worcestershire!

School closures galore then? My DB has just texted to say that nearly all the schools are closing up there.

Mrscog · 10/12/2017 15:11

Yes - looks like snow day tomorrow! Luckily it’s my non working day anyway, hoping normality Tues onwards!

WitchesHatRim · 10/12/2017 15:19

Only a couple of schools closed around here so far and they are the more rural ones.

Still snowing....

LadyFlumpalot · 10/12/2017 15:20

This is my garden.... We're having the occasional short sharp snow shower but seeing as it was raining for 12 hours before... I don't think it's going to settle.

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BarchesterFlowers · 10/12/2017 15:23

Nothing here in Nidderdale, Yorkshire Dales - not a flake!

Titsywoo · 10/12/2017 15:24

BBC and Met Office say heavy snow for us tomorrow which I'm dubious about. Its been snowing here today but not really settling. DH has to get to Heathrow so I'm hoping it won't be bad. I'm in East Surrey.

OhYouBadBadKitten · 10/12/2017 15:27

I'm home now :) just warm up and I'll take a look at whats happening.

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