[Misc] The Award-winning official "More Snow Tomorrow?" Thread [2024-25 Season]

[Hillian1]

No snow. Rain, mild. windy. ok?

If you could arrange it to be just the mild bit of that I would be very grateful Papa.

Cheers

 

[Papa Lazarou]

If you could arrange it to be just the mild bit of that I would be very grateful Papa.

Cheers

That's called spring, we don't have that yet.

 

[leigull]

2.5c and light rain when I left Hove this morning, over the downs past Devil's Dyke and I entered a winter wonderland which was -5c. Looked stunning with the frost covered trees and bushes

 

[Papa Lazarou]

2.5c and light rain when I left Hove this morning, over the downs past Devil's Dyke and I entered a winter wonderland which was -5c. Looked stunning with the frost covered trees and bushes

Oddly it was -0.3C and drizzling here a little while ago. Lots of cold air at ground level, with warmer air aloft.

 

[chiefkickass]

-4 in steyning, bit foggy and raining ice! Deadly!!!

 

[leigull]

Oddly it was -0.3C and drizzling here a little while ago. Lots of cold air at ground level, with warmer air aloft.

I am only going off the temperature shown in my car so not the most accurate! The 2.5c registered and rain started when I was at the top of Dyke Road by the A27

 

[Giraffe]

So how can it rain and not snow when it is this cold? I am mightily confused. And rather disappointed.

 

[casbom]

graupel with light snow in Horsham, temp got down to -6 here in Creepy!

Not sure Giraffe, could be due to the onshore winds picking up warmer air from the Channel which is mixing with the cold air, making it less cold higher up?

 

[Papa Lazarou]

graupel with light snow in Horsham, temp got down to -6 here in Creepy!

Not sure Giraffe, could be due to the onshore winds picking up warmer air from the Channel which is mixing with the cold air, making it less cold higher up?

The basic cause is having cold air at ground level and less cold air higher up, so it's rain when it leaves the cloud. Depending upon how think the cold layer is, it can fall as rain, supercooled rain (freezing rain), ice pellet or graupel. The current situation has us under an Anticyclone, so we're under a temperature inversion, with very cold air near the ground. The cold layer isn't very thick, but clearly thinner on the coast (rain) than inland (graupel). The air aloft is less cold, especially as there's a depression motoring in from the West.

 

[Giraffe]

Damn those Anticyclones.

 

[Vegas Seagull]

The award-winning official "More snow tomorrow?" thread [2012-13 season]

Anybody noted what the coldest temp in the UK was last night?....cheers

 

[Papa Lazarou]

Looking at the current model output - I think we may be putting this thread into moth-balls for a while. The outlook for the foreseeable future is looking mild, unsettled and wet. There are few straws to clutch at in terms of cold, and the current model output gives us a green Xmas. I'll report back if anything more interesting (snow wise) appears.

 

[Papa Lazarou]

Anybody noted what the coldest temp in the UK was last night?....cheers

Looks like Tulloch Bridge in Scotland hit -10.6C last night.

To answer your specific question - The Met Office note these things:

Observations - Met Office

 

[Hillian1]

Looking at the current model output - I think we may be putting this thread into moth-balls for a while. The outlook for the foreseeable future is looking mild, unsettled and wet. There are few straws to clutch at in terms of cold, and the current model output gives us a green Xmas. I'll report back if anything more interesting (snow wise) appears.

 

[casbom]

Looking at the current model output - I think we may be putting this thread into moth-balls for a while. The outlook for the foreseeable future is looking mild, unsettled and wet. There are few straws to clutch at in terms of cold, and the current model output gives us a green Xmas. I'll report back if anything more interesting (snow wise) appears.

Cheers Papa, I couldn't remember the exact synoptics. Yes it's not looking good this side of the new Year!

 

[Flex Your Head]

I was up early this morning for a meeting in Loughborough. The journey up from St Pancras was like travelling through a winter wonderland with a brand new Christmas Card setting every 2 or 3 minutes. I'm feeling ridiculously disappointed and saddened by the impending mild, wet and windy weather.

 

[Giraffe]

So no snow before Christmas. That is a flippin bummer. I am not very happy. I blame Barber, we had loads two years ago before he turned up.

 

[Lush]

Via Twitter

Friday and Saturday should be fun

Met Office: UK: severe weather warnings

 

[Ernest]

Looking at the current model output - I think we may be putting this thread into moth-balls for a while. The outlook for the foreseeable future is looking mild, unsettled and wet. There are few straws to clutch at in terms of cold, and the current model output gives us a green Xmas. I'll report back if anything more interesting (snow wise) appears.

So you would say looking ok for the racing and sport on Boxing Day ?

 

[Ernest]

Looking at the current model output - I think we may be putting this thread into moth-balls for a while. The outlook for the foreseeable future is looking mild, unsettled and wet. There are few straws to clutch at in terms of cold, and the current model output gives us a green Xmas. I'll report back if anything more interesting (snow wise) appears.

So you would say looking ok for the racing and sport on Boxing Day ?