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  1. Blackie
    Egyptian snow...? 2-10, come on... I'll get my coat...
  2. Blackie
    Heavy snow in Shoebury for a little while now. Settling on my office skylight, cars, roofs and grass verges. The temperature suddenly dropped from 4C to 0C about 30 minutes ago and the dew point is now also 0C, with 100% humidity. I think a lot of people have been caught unaware it would be as snowy as it is now and there will be some very long rush hour commutes home...
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    Snowing in Shoebury - finally!
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    And East Beach is less than a five-minute walk away On that note, I shall bid you all goodnight and dream of warmer weather. Unless we get the fabled "Return of the Cold" sequel in February. Coming to a window/lamppost near you...
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    Bugger all here now, too. Everything is bone dry. The North Kent deflector shield is doing its job again, stopping us from getting any ppn. But then South East Essex is the driest part of the country, so I guess it's no surprise...
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    Just seen a few small flakes falling. Odd that it has started as snow here, as I am right by the Thames and just a few feet asl. Bet it won't last, though
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    It must have been balmy in Kingston today if you had the garden brolly up. Get a nice tan...?
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    Been at the sherry to celebrate a successful interview today, John...?
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    A Kentimetre, perhaps...
  10. Blackie
    Very well said, Nikki - and I would totally endorse all of that. I must admit, although I have been a member of NW for about eight years, I rarely post these days unless it is on the regional thread. I have always loved the weather, the more extreme the better. If it is cold, I want it to be in the freezer with blizzards. Likewise in summer, I want it scorching. And as for storms, give me a full-blooded supercell complete with lightning fest. I was lucky enough to be able to go on one of the NW storm-chasing tours several years ago, and spent 10 fabulous days in the company of Paul Sherman, Nick F, Anyweather and a bunch of other weather nuts, along with the great man himself, Michael Fish. I would heartily recommend anyone who is contemplating signing up for one of those to do so. Even if you don't see a tornado, and we didn't although we did manage a funnel cloud and saw the aftermath of the devastating Greensburg EF5 on the first anniversary of it, you will have a blast. I have also been fortunate in that my job takes me around the world and has allowed me to experience some incredible extremes of weather. Only last year I was in Death Valley, California, when they endured the hottest-ever April in US history. It got up to 112F while I was there, and I even managed to play golf at Furnace Creek - the world's lowest golf course - with the thermometer over the 100F mark. I once played golf in 115F heat for five days in Palm Springs, too! As for cold, I have been to the Arctic a few times and have experienced cold down to a bone-chilling -40C (which is also -40F) in Nunavut, Canada. It was so cold I had to give up trying to photograph the Northern Lights, which were an amazing sight, and go back indoors. Yet despite all my travels, nothing is more exciting than sitting at home watching the radar to see snow approaching, being online on NW and seeing who is getting snow and then standing by the back door waiting for the first flakes to gently waft down. Like everyone else on here, I'm just a big kid at heart and always will be. And I will keep watching those lampposts!
  11. Blackie
    Still snowing but everything wet and not settling at all
  12. Blackie
    Looks like that line of showers is starting to tilt a bit more easterly. Where it is streaming off the French coast, it is going farther north and edging into Belgium. Wonder if we could end up with a surprise, full-on Thames Streamer? The winds are meant to go more ENE in the North Sea overnight. However, with temps holding above freezing I still don't expect much from it even with -1C dewpoint.
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    I can see from the raintoday radar that the heavier stuff has been just west of me, Paul. Hence why you have been getting bigger flakes and more of them. Just about sums up winter here...
  14. Blackie
    Slightly bigger flakes now, but too wet to settle
  15. Blackie
    Snowing here - tiny, snizzly flakes but being blown by a strong east wind. Could be snizzlemageddon after all
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