" Far southeast England may see some bright spells, otherwise England
and Wales will be mostly cloudy with outbreaks of light rain around,
especially this morning. Scotland and N.Ireland should be fine generally
with some warm sunny spells. Light winds. "

--
Martin Rowley
Bracknell

in 222659 20070322 075912 "Martin Rowley" m wrote:
" Far southeast England may see some bright spells, otherwise England
and Wales will be mostly cloudy with outbreaks of light rain around,
especially this morning. Scotland and N.Ireland should be fine generally
with some warm sunny spells. Light winds. "

--
Martin Rowley
Bracknell

I'm a few miles north of Portsmouth and it's been snowing steadily here for the last 2 hours.
It started to lay at first (my car was covered) but then it got a bit wetter, but still large flakes
coming down. Very pretty.

Bob Martin wrote:

I'm a few miles north of Portsmouth and it's been snowing steadily here for the last 2 hours.
It started to lay at first (my car was covered) but then it got a bit wetter, but still large flakes
coming down. Very pretty.

Lovely and sunny here :-)

Coldest night of the month (and only the second air frost of March) at
-1.6C last night.

--
Jonathan Stott
Canterbury Weather: http://www.canterburyweather.co.uk/
Reverse my e-mail address to reply by e-mail

On 22 Mar, 08:20, Bob Martin wrote:
in 222659 20070322 075912 "Martin Rowley" m wrote:

" Far southeast England may see some bright spells, otherwise England
and Wales will be mostly cloudy with outbreaks of light rain around,
especially this morning. Scotland and N.Ireland should be fine generally
with some warm sunny spells. Light winds. "

--
Martin Rowley
Bracknell

I'm a few miles north of Portsmouth and it's been snowing steadily here for the last 2 hours.
It started to lay at first (my car was covered) but then it got a bit wetter, but still large flakes
coming down. Very pretty.

Meanwhile, in Penzance, well into the warm air, the sun's just broken
through and it's 11C. Looks like it'll be a nice day on the south
coast, probably stay a bit mirky over the moors.

Graham
Penzance

I'm a few miles north of Portsmouth and it's been snowing
steadily here for the last 2 hours. It started to lay at
first (my car was covered) but then it got a bit wetter, but
still large flakes coming down. Very pretty.

Good grief! Snow away down there!

I had to scrape ice off the car at 7.45 this morning, but the
temperature rose ro 4.5ºC according to the car thermometer by
8.30, and after the clouds rolled away at about 11 am we had a
glorious sunny day, though there was a chilly southerly wind.

Anne

"Martin Rowley" m wrote in
message ...
" Far southeast England may see some bright spells, otherwise England and
Wales will be mostly cloudy with outbreaks of light rain around,
especially this morning. Scotland and N.Ireland should be fine generally
with some warm sunny spells. Light winds. "

Martin - looks as though they lost their bottle sometime between 2353Z last
night and 0255Z this morning! TAF amended 21mins before the snow arrived
METAR EGLL 220720Z 29005KT 5000 -SN BKN034 01/M01 Q1018 TEMPO
3000 BKN010=

I was surprised as the absence of snow on the text forecast - and even the
AirMet - which usually catches the things that the TAFs misses - no mention
of snow.

REMAINDER OF THURSDAY:
WARM FRONT WEAKENING AND BECOMING SLOW MOVING OVER SE ENGLAND. HIGH
PRESSURE ESTABLISHING ITSELF OVER THE N. RA ASSOCIATED WITH FRONTS
BECMG LIGHTER AND PATCHY THROUGH THE DAY. WDSPR MIST AND LOW CLD
WITH HILL FOG IN THE WARM SECTOR. GEN FINE AND CLEAR OVER NW
SCOTLAND AND LATER N IRELAND. FOG PATCHES MAY FORM IN SCOTLAND
TONIGHT.
VISIBILITY GENERALLY GOOD OR VERY GOOD BUT MODERATE TO POOR IN RA
AND MIST.
WINDS GEN LIGHT AND VRB OVER ENGLAND AND WALES, N LIGHT TO MODERATE
OVER SCOTLAND AND N IRELAND.
CLOUD BKN/OVC STSCAC IN ASSOCIATION WITH FRONTS AND WARM SECTOR,
OTHERWISE SCT/BKN CUSC WITH RISK BKN LOW ST IN ASSOCIATION WITH FOG.
CLOUD COVERING HILLS.

FC 22/03/2007 06:59- TAF AMD EGLL 220659Z 220716 28005KT 9999 SCT030
BECMG 0710 7000 -RA BKN014
PROB40 TEMPO 0709 3000 -RASN -SN BKN005
TEMPO 0916 4000 -DZ BR BKN005=

FC 22/03/2007 05:56- TAF EGLL 220556Z 220716 28005KT 9999 SCT030
BECMG 0710 7000 -RA BKN014
TEMPO 0816 4000 -DZ BR BKN005=

FC 22/03/2007 02:55- TAF EGLL 220255Z 220413 28005KT 9999 SCT030
BECMG 0811 7000 -RA BKN014
TEMPO 0913 4000 -DZ BR BKN005=

FC 21/03/2007 23:53- TAF EGLL 212353Z 220110 28005KT 9999 SCT030
BECMG 0810 7000 -RA BKN014
PROB40 TEMPO 0810 3000 -RASN BKN005=

Phil

"Phil Layton" wrote in message
...
I was surprised as the absence of snow on the text forecast - and even
the AirMet - which usually catches the things that the TAFs misses -
no mention of snow.

.... strange that, because the public (tv/radio) forecasts yesterday did
mention the risk of snow, if only of the 'slushy-soongone' variety.

Martin.

In message , Martin Rowley
writes
"Phil Layton" wrote in message
...
I was surprised as the absence of snow on the text forecast - and even
the AirMet - which usually catches the things that the TAFs misses -
no mention of snow.

... strange that, because the public (tv/radio) forecasts yesterday did
mention the risk of snow, if only of the 'slushy-soongone' variety.


Had the pleasure of watching the 0830 BBC presenter saying there would
be sleet, not settling, turning to rain in the NW of the London SE
region. Even as she spoke snow was settling in this bit of SW Surrey.

As my old boss used to say in quite another context, forecasts are all
very well, but people do need to look out of the window.

--
Peter Thomas

"Peter Thomas" wrote in message

Had the pleasure of watching the 0830 BBC presenter saying there would
be sleet, not settling, turning to rain in the NW of the London SE
region. Even as she spoke snow was settling in this bit of SW Surrey.

As my old boss used to say in quite another context, forecasts are all
very well, but people do need to look out of the window.

.... events like this morning always cheer me up - a timely reminder that
for all the 'whizz-bang' technology, flashy screens, sooper-dooper
micro-scale 'in your face' modelling, we don't yet have the total
answer! As you write, a decent window (or conservatory roof) is a
valuable aid to forecasting.

Martin.

--
Martin Rowley
Bracknell

On 22 Mar, 15:12, "Martin Rowley"
m wrote:

... events like this morning always cheer me up - a timely reminder that
for all the 'whizz-bang' technology, flashy screens, sooper-dooper
micro-scale 'in your face' modelling, we don't yet have the total
answer! As you write, a decent window (or conservatory roof) is a
valuable aid to forecasting.

Even sleet this morning in Central London (City) as I walked in. It
was interesting looking right up towards the top of the Natwest tower
- it picked out only the snowflakes and gave the impression of only
snow. Maybe it was all snow up there...!

Richard