Snow watch Winter 2019/20

[OhYouBadBadKitten]

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First proper potential for the winter on Friday - if you live in the Peak district and parts of Scotland.

There was lightning and lots of rain last night. Driving through the surrey hills was fun... A31 Hogs Back the rain was more like sleet but no snow.

We had biblical rain here on the london/Essex borders last night. It was literally hammering down on our Velux windows!

The rain caused a fair bit of flooding round here, with a number of roads closed.

Seems that parts of the Peak District have had a pretty good dumping of snow.

Some interesting convective activity in the south, lightning and hail.

If anyone witnesses damage from hail or high winds tonight please can you pm me.

It’s blowing a hooley again down here - up on the South Downs (outskirts of Brighton)

Oybbk we had some awful hail around 1:15am it made dd shoot out of bed really scared!

That's not what you need on a Sunday night Wreck!
If there is any damage locally can you pm me please.

Couldn't see any damage apart from the poor squirrel I ran over

oh no. Poor you and poor squirrel!

Snow starting to settle well at Glenshee near Braemar.
Image from: www.snowgatecameras.co.uk/

nice one!

The gritters are out in force in Scotland

www.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=2de764a9303848ffb9a4cac0bd0b1aab

and in Essex: www.essexhighways.org/roads-and-pavements/winter-travel/track-the-gritting-lorries.aspx

It's not going to get below 6/7c tonight in Essex, so it seems odd that gritters would be out.

Those blue lines are just where they would go if they were going.

oh yes, I know, just that it can be tracked when they are out if you are a sad git like me.

doh. silly me!
It is a cool idea!

Off-topic: In Hampshire, and probably other areas, some gritters have been named. My top 3 favourites are: Gritta Garbo, The Grittalo, Grittersaurus.

On-topic: Nothing but rain here, and temperatures comfortably above zero. And forecast for the next few days is much the same. There are occasional times when I'm thankful for not very "interesting" weather.

I hope everyone stays safe. It looks as though it's challenging conditions over a lot of the country at the moment and for the foreseeable future.

Happy New Year to you all
Still no sign of any snow for January/February?

Snow to th

Try again....
Snow to the South of Edinburgh, in the Boarders today

Keep seeing dramatic headlines of promised snow but it was 11 degrees here today!

In the autumn I said to DH that I thought the SE was going to have a mild wet winter again and looks like I'm right. I don't think we'll see any snow. No science involved here, I just feel it in my waters

Who needs weather satellites when we've got Titsys water .

It does feel mild. Remember last February's "heatwave". Maybe we'll have a similar blip.

Was on the beach last February. (Pretty good given that we live about as far fro the beach as it is possible. )