Snow watch part 3 Feb/March 2018

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old thread lots of space on there at the moment, but I'm off out for a bit. Please fill that one first :)

I've given up.We're in the amber warning area for tomorrow but not actually showing much snow happening on met office. I don't think we'll ever see good snow down south again. Maybe I'll start taking holidays oop north every winter. DS loves the snow so much - he can play outside for hours in it which is saying a lot as normally he is inside on his PC.

TitsyWoo same here. We have an amber warning for tomorrow but the Met Office is saying there will be apparently less snow than we’ve had today with no warning!

We have an amateur local weather forecaster who posts on Facebook and he's expecting, at the moment, 10-15cm here on Friday. If so I'm really hoping college will be closed for my son. It's a 10 mile bus ride away and when it snowed before Christmas myself and my husband were stuck for over 2 hours coming from the town where college is, on the same A road. He's got a very short turnaround from getting home from college to going to his part time job, it's only his third week there.

Delatron my husband was once asked to drop a colleague off at Heathrow, it was just before Christmas 2010 and we had heavy snowfall. He left home at 10.30am, a little earlier than planned due to the weather and his colleague was staying in a hotel before an early flight the next day. The drive to Heathrow usually takes 2 hours from here; he eventually reached there at 2.30am after being stuck on the M40 for hours on end. He had photos of snowmen built on the outside lane.

angstinabaggyjumper great story! I can imagine my DF doing the same!

MadisonAvenue I remember the snowfall of 2010 causing chaos! I think people ended up sleeping in High Wycombe John Lewis. It came out of nowhere and lots of people got stuck in to the early hours.
Might tell my parents to visit next week instead...!

Rumblings about convection... what does that mean in layman’s terms in context of current forecast? I’m making it my 2018 resolution to learn more about weather, I find it fascinating.

I got train from colchester to Liverpool Street at midday today and no delays despite morning of snow showers. Then got kings x to Leeds which was just 10 mins late getting into Leeds. I’ve a hospital appt in Leeds mid morning and then am doing same journey as today in reverse. Am really worried about conditions here in West Yorkshire in the morning and Essex by the afternoon . Crap week to be going up and down the country.

Might be a good idea!

I'm just looking at the Met Office site and the West Midlands is on the Amber warning list and also Yellow??

Oh Central Belt Scotland is looking scary Wednesday and Thursday. Might need to do a supermarket dash in the morning.

MakeLemonade www.bbc.co.uk/news/video_and_audio/headlines/43172539/why-the-uk-will-be-so-cold

@MakeLemonade it's harder to forecast as its to do with moisture evaporating into the atmosphere and falling again which doesn't tend o give much notice on radar etc. That's why met office are putting out warnings yet not showing much in the way of snow as a lot of it will be down to convection so it's nowcasting.

Today a lot of the snow showers that fell here simply evaporated rather than melting, the air being so dry and the sunshine helped that happen.

MadisonAvenue you must be near me. Are you talking about AJ - I must admit I turn to his forecast first before looking at any of the commercial ones, he's very rarely wrong.

In the snow of 2010 my DH's mum had died and we had to pop down to the funeral directors. We all piled into the car and off we went. In the half an hour we were in there snowmaggedon had hit Wycombe and it took us 6 hours to get home!!

The Amber warning has moved away from my area thank god!

east Central Scotland here so bracing ourselves. Am expecting not to be able to get work from Wednesday onwards. Fairly used to this sort of thing though so philosophical about it. just worried about mum who lives on her own. will have to struggle through the snow to get to her.
I have put snow shovel and blanket in the car and bought extra bread,milk and candles so we are sorted.

gertrudethestag where are you in Cornwall? We had a proper snow day in the first week of February! (3cm, which stayed all day, so no school). We're near Helston.

Also, it has been snowing lightly here most of the day, although not settling (temp. 2-3 degrees). Which wasn't forecast .

I did not actually possess a winter hat until this morning, when I was lucky enough to find one in the village charity shop, along with some lovely gloves. Haven't owned gloves since I was a child!

The met office have very little snow for us, but the bbc have us right in the middle of the amber warning?!

I think this is a watch and wait situation.

Look to the lamp posts and cross fingers!

Is the cold holding for Friday now?

Cold but no snow in London

we still don't know what's happening Friday Spartacus.

I'm almost done now then I can rejoin you all properly. It seems to have snowed while I wasn't looking.

@gttia met office issued that warning the bbc gave.... see my comment about nowcasting

Kent County council have declared a 'snow emergency'...have never heard that before.

I hate this uncertainty. My area is on the cusp of yellow/amber for tomorrow but no snow predicted on the forecast for the nearest town! I hope I wake up to enough snow to be able to forget going to work. Worst case for me is getting to work and then having to struggle to pick daughter up from nursery and get home again if it snows later in the day.

Wow whatalife I’ve never heard that either. I’m in Kent and I bbc and met office are at odds with what will happen (met office predicts more and bbc just light snow). I’m with boldly and hating this uncertainty.

I'm in the East Midlands and supposed to be driving my small car to a meeting for 9am across a route with lots of hills. At present looks like I might get there but I'm v worried about getting back as the snow is predicted for 9am.

I'm wondering if I should leave the central heating on low overnight. Poor sod DP is nightshift. It usually comes on an hour before he gets in, but if it's really cold and snowy the house'll take longer to heat up. 😞