Snow watch.

[OhYouBadBadKitten]

While for many it is milder today, it will become colder again tomorrow. The main snow risk starts on Thursday where both GFS and ECM show a risk of snow in the south into the midlands and Wales, away from south eastern coastal counties. They both model a low moving in from the Azores, bumping into cold air.

GFS takes this right into northern England and parts of Scotland.

As always, early days and so there is lots of uncertainty. We await the next model run

@SquirmOfEels it seems excessive for the possibility of one day a year where the alternative is to stay home but you fill your boots. Obviously different if you live in remote Scotland and get regular snow.

First snow and ice warnings.

However, for those hoping for more later this week, it looks most likely that this will be a dry cold spell with snow showers for some from the east.

And that's why we get so much trouble on the roads when it goes below freezing (ice is common, even if snow is rarer)

As with other infrastructure, where good mitigations exist but people don't want to go to the bother/expense of using them.

(Beast documentary good on these points)

Sleet has vanished from the London forecast. Still expected to be sub-zero even in the centre, which is unusually cold for a conurbation of this size

The Independent is getting a bit overexcited

It is MUCH colder in Brussels today - finally dry and bright, but that comes at a cost! I think I will be buying a better coat this week (and possibly some boots...) as I don't think I can wait the 3 weeks for my truckload to come.

I was hoping to get some snow pics with only a days driving There and back from Oxford. That idea seems to have retreated northwards.

Snow has started in North East Scotland by the coast.
That is the latest update from my mother. I have my own personal Snow Watcher :-)

Sna’in in parts of Aberdeenshire.

Heavy rain shower just now for Wales

Blue skies and washing out in Manchester!

Forecast to snow throughout tonight here in County Durham according to the met office 😬

Oooh, yellow snow warning here - a phrase that had my youngest howling, potential snow on and off from 10pm to 6am - just looked on the met office matrix and it's a higher chance with a low impact - perfect, that'll do

Yellow warning, I hope, not yellow snow................

Just remember not to eat it, advice courtesy of the Elf movie 😁

Snowing SE Northumberland

Is is sleet-snow or snow-snow, fat flakes or small flakes, is it laying?

Mixture but it's not lying

Clear, cold and loads of stars in NW Northumberland. We're right on the edge of the yellow warning.

Thanks.

We had about 10 seconds of snow. NE coast near Newcastle

I’m in Gateshead and we’ve got proper lying on the ground snow!

I worked in the QE for years Pottering. You always get good snow. I had to dig my way INTO the staff parking one winter!

Just south of Berwick-Upon-Tweed on coast. Hailing hard most of day. Bitter.

I'm in Sunderland. My friend has snow - a covering of her garden. We're 2 miles down the road - nearer the coast - and have none!

It snowed here, proper snow at least three flakes deep on the road at about 9pm, I got very excited as I was driving back to my house here. Your usual roving West Wales reporter signing in from the east coast of Yorkshire tonight, waves at @wineandmaltesershappyme

Please could everyone promise me that the M62 over to Manchester is going to be fine tomorrow afternoon. Or I will head over one of the passes, I'd rather do that than the motorways in inclement weather.