Hi, Just reporting that our area has weather warnings for snow and strong winds for tonight and the weekend. Drifting snow in the village will be a new sight!! There are forecasting between 20 to 30 cm of snow. Just raining here at the moment but looking at the 2 local webcams there is plenty of snow up the mountain:- ...

Here is a summary of the NWP output for noon on Wednesday. Issued 0546, 22nd November 2008 The end of the week will see initially mild SW'lies giving way to less mild conditions as an upper trough extends over the UK. The alignment of the trough isn't yet certain - ECM shows it to the west, with southerlies over the UK, while GFS shows it atop the UK, with much colder conditions as a...

Meteosat 8 satellite picture from Ferdinand Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on Friday 21st November http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_image/METEOSAT-8-1200-EUR.jpg Meteosat MSG-2 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.00 UTC on Friday 21st November http://www.woksat.info/etcqk21m/qk21-msg-1200-uk.html NOAA 18 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.49 UTC on Friday 21st November

Brussels on Friday 21st November Mostly cloudy morning - showers before dawn and again around 10.15 local time. Brief bright intervals in the late morning but cloudy again after midday with another shower just before 15.00. Frequent showers from 15.30 for an hour or so with a sharp fall in temperature. Cold and raw evening - around 2°C - with light showers now and again. Moderate shower...

http://91.121.93.17/pics/MT8_Manchester_ens.png I cannot recall seeing it so tight so far out. Must be right!

Sharp and sudden hail shower at about 1300 turned to steady powder snow and lasted a couple of hours. Temp fell from just under 5C to just over 0C so although the snow settled it soon turned to an inch of slush. Temp starting to fall again now that darkness has arrived and the skies cleared a bit. -- Cheers Dave.

Temp 7.8C, dew point - minus 0.7C Dave

Looking increasingly likely!!-all the major models seem to be pointing in that direction-of course its rather too early in the season to be talking about a major cold outbreak and bucketloads of snow-but it certainly bodes well for the forthcoming winter. The Scottish sking industry will be jumping for joy no boubt!

Here is a summary of the NWP output for noon on Tuesday. Issued 0518, 21st November 2008 Wednesday will see a ridge move southwards over the UK, heralding a change to SW'lies for the remainder of the working week. Temperatures will return to near-normal over England and Wales for a time, with Northern Ireland and Scotland likely to see temperatures a little below average. Beyond that the...

Enjoy today. Temperature is currently at 11.8C - I doubt if it'll reach that again for some time, from what I can see in the charts ;-) Dave

This brief cold spell starting now will be just a taster for the main and prolonged event starting next Thursday. As I have said in previous posts the SST distribution with very warm anomalies in western Atlantic is reinforcing the longwave pattern we are in now which is one of repeated cold northerlies. During next week the pattern is expected to retrogress (move west) allowing the cold...

Minimum of 11.5C in Penzance last night, mildest night of November (just). Sunny intervals & scattered localised sharp showers this morning. No rain in Penzance yet (noon) but some heavy showers at Hayle. Currently (noon) 13C Penzance Heliport (13.1 here), 13C Scilly, 12C St. Mawgan despite the strong onshore NW wind. Only 1 day has failed to reach 10C this Autumn, that was back on...

Everybody - The severe weather alert's been moved to the extreme right hand side of the header out of immediate view I thought the east coast snow had been cancelled.... Some people do love to muck around with things....... Les

Rain and snow down at the station this morning (300 feet) with snow lying above 6-800 feet. One of those days when the village of Camserney is green at the bottom and white at the top. brian aberfeldy (well, Camserney if you are picky)

About 2cm on the ground, coming down in big wet flakes. Temp 0.4C, dp -0.1C. -- Steve Loft Sanday, Orkney. 5m ASL. http://sanday.org.uk/weather Free weather station softwa http://sandaysoft.com/ uk.sci.weather FAQs/glossary/etc: http://weatherfaqs.org.uk/

Chalfont St Giles - Friday 21st November 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------ 0630z NW F4 20km 3Sc 8AsCs 09.2/05.5 1011 Norman. -- Norman Lynagh

21 November 2008 Wokingham 0900z 310 13/23kt 22km -RASH 1Cu020 5Cu025 6Sc040 +9.0/+3.2 QFF 1015.3 +2.1 in 3hr RMK /As180 /Cs220 Cu fra/med. Cloudy//overcast and dry yesterday afternoon and evening. Rain in night, between 0330 and 0420z, with a short burst of heavy at 0344z (4.4 mm/hr). Current rain shower slight, but quite large drops. 09-09 Max 14.0 Min 9.0 Grass min 6.5 Rain 0.5 Sun...

Southcote - 1500Z NW F4 9999 -SHRA 2Cu030 5Sc050 7+Cs250 +8.9/+0.9 1016 CuSc increasing during past hour and a very light shower now in progress. Max +9.8 Eric Belton

After dithering all day, it's finally made up its mind to snow, and there's a dusting of white lying in the garden and on the street. A strong westerly wind is blowing it around in eddies, the sky is dull and grey, and I am very glad to be snug indoors. Anne

0850z WNW F5 22km 4Sc020 7CiCs250 06.6/02.4 1014.7 RMK: Rain between 0115 and 0230z 09-09: Tx 11.3 Tn 6.6 Tg 4.8 RR 1.8 sss 1.7 Philip Eden Whipsnade 214m