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[Mrsf16]

Just rainy in Peterborough. Cant hear any wind really.... Let's hope its a storm in a tea cup and all blows over soon xxx

And just as I posted that, the festive baubles on my front door bashed about! LOL Reminds me, I must take them off!! lol xxx

[weatherwise]

Chris Mantle, on 12 December 2011 - 22:06 , said:

Hi Mksnowangel,

I was in your neck of the woods on Saturday, very busy due the Red Bull event. Sitting here watching the pressure going down although I can't hear much wind so far and to think this time last year little did we know that in a few days time we would be having one of the best snow events in many years.

Fingers crossed that the snow arrives soon.

Chris

Indeed. wasn't it good. Will keep my pics in my sig for some time I think.

[Jude 00]

'Tis a tad blowy out there. Nothing too scary though

Did think my neighbour was a bit daft putting outdoor lights out this evening (yes, actually in the dark ...) - could they not wait a couple more days?!

Wierd to hear rain, actually - been a pretty rare occurrence recently.

[MKsnowangel]

Chris Mantle, on 12 December 2011 - 22:06 , said:

Hi Mksnowangel,

I was in your neck of the woods on Saturday, very busy due the Red Bull event.

Chris

Hi Chris, Yes it was busy police estimated 60,000 people, I was there in the middle of it just up on the opposite side of Midsummer Boulevard to the paddock/pit lane with a great view, I've put some of my photos in the gallery on here

http://forum.netweat...ome-run-101211/


Wind seems to have eased a bit here now but it's still raining;

Speed / Dir 12.9 km/h / 3.6 m/s from SSW

Wind Gust 35.4 km/h

[Chris Mantle]

weatherwise, on 12 December 2011 - 22:52 , said:

Indeed. wasn't it good. Will keep my pics in my sig for some time I think.

Yes please do as I was looking at them yesterday lunchtime

Chris

[Hughsey]

I would really like to see some flakes today although Im remaining sceptical, chances for friday looking better now for snow across much of the region albeit subject to change.

As for today, thickness looking good at 524dam but uppers said to be at -3 so not too good, may be ok to see some sleet today though which I would be happy with.

Netweather going for heavy precipitation, -6 degrees uppers and 524/523 thickness, 1 degree air temp would see some snow alright if that came off.

TWO also going for heavy snow between 3 and 9am on friday, possible albeit unlikely.

Edited by hughsey, 13 December 2011 - 17:12 .

[full_frontal_occlusion]

Way too marginal and too many variables for this mornings suggestion of snow on Friday. All of the following need to be in place fro that to happen:

The track of the LP system today crossing north of Scotland and out into the North Atlantic, cyclogenesis out in the far Western Atlantic, secondary lows dragged around the main LP pulling in diluted PM -5 850hpa air on its flank as it passes through, dew points and wet bulb on the right side of 0C?

The ensembles show this marginality very clearly with a large spike in distribution for both precipitation and pressure on Thursday night / Friday. Which is also why the % probability stays on the <50% region.

If anything does come out of this, expect it to be sleety rain.

ffO.

[MKsnowangel]

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[Snow Obsession]

Hi everyone

I looked at the regional threads a couple of days ago and thought I was going to have to join in with the Kent lot (London and South East!). Glad to see the 3 counties has appeared again!

Looking forward to the excitement of lamp post watching with you all this winter...

(to MKsnowangel and Mrsf16 - I used to be Mrs M!)

[MKsnowangel]

Snow Obsession, on 13 December 2011 - 12:33 , said:

Hi everyone

I looked at the regional threads a couple of days ago and thought I was going to have to join in with the Kent lot (London and South East!). Glad to see the 3 counties has appeared again!

Looking forward to the excitement of lamp post watching with you all this winter...

(to MKsnowangel and Mrsf16 - I used to be Mrs M!)

Hello and welcome back to 3C & EA .... I like the new name

[Snow Obsession]

Thanks MK! I was just looking at the Central Southern lot and I don't know if I should be there really - although it's a bit quiet there! I might have to float between the two...! It's just that I feel at home here and Bucks is one of the 3 counties. It's all too confusing!

Anyway, not much to report here - just a very cold wind and some rain earlier. Not even sleet

[WheresTheSnow]

When is the chance of seeing snow flakes today because at the moment it is clear skies, also for Thursday/Friday shows heavy rain for Watford, although Watford is more towards the south of 3 Counties.

[tinybill]

http://www.raintoday.co.uk/

if that right we can expect storms in about 1- hour as the storms are near luton going to have a look at the m 25 cams to see what happening their

[WheresTheSnow]

tinybill, on 13 December 2011 - 13:22 , said:

http://www.raintoday.co.uk/

if that right we can expect storms in about 1- hour as the storms are near luton going to have a look at the m 25 cams to see what happening their

Turning dark here, a few snow flakes maybe, feels cold?

[Vince Coombes]

yes can confirm snow has fallen here in Aylesbury this afternoon for the 1st time this winter ,quite large flakes too , temp fell from +4.8 to +1.3 during the heaviest snow , no settling occured . so today has exceeded my expectations by a long way .....good times

[WheresTheSnow]

Vince Coombes, on 13 December 2011 - 13:45 , said:

yes can confirm snow has fallen here in Aylesbury this afternoon for the 1st time this winter ,quite large flakes too , temp fell from +4.8 to +1.3 during the heaviest snow , no settling occured . so today has exceeded my expectations by a long way .....good times

Lucky, started off with a bit of hail and faded it out into some light rain.

[MKsnowangel]

Yellow Alert of Wind for East of England :


Bedford, Cambridgeshire, Central Bedfordshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Luton, Norfolk, Peterborough, Southend-on-Sea, Suffolk & Thurrock

valid from 1800 Thu 15 Dec to 2359 Fri 16 Dec

http://www.metoffice...184E2CFC2C_9_EE

[lloydyd]

MKsnowangel, on 13 December 2011 - 14:53 , said:

Yellow Alert of Wind for East of England :


Bedford, Cambridgeshire, Central Bedfordshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Luton, Norfolk, Peterborough, Southend-on-Sea, Suffolk &amp; Thurrock

valid from 1800 Thu 15 Dec to 2359 Fri 16 Dec

http://www.metoffice...184E2CFC2C_9_EE

Hello my fellow EA and 3C folk.

So, Snow possible at the back end of the storm.....lovely..hope it comes off. So much uncertain at the moment with even the MetO struggling with the model shifts...lets wait,see and hope eh??

[nej1965]

Had reports of light snow in Dunstable and Totternhoe, heavy settling snow in Brackley, Oxon and light snow in Stony Stratford... can't see that it is going to come to anything but....

[Mrsf16]

Snow Obsession, on 13 December 2011 - 12:33 , said:

Hi everyone

I looked at the regional threads a couple of days ago and thought I was going to have to join in with the Kent lot (London and South East!). Glad to see the 3 counties has appeared again!

Looking forward to the excitement of lamp post watching with you all this winter...

(to MKsnowangel and Mrsf16 - I used to be Mrs M!)

Welcome home hehehehe Lets hope you are our lucky charm! hehehe xxx