 Poster: A snowHead
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Snowbird, get yourself up to the Town Moor. Starting to snow again in Durham now.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Currently tossing it down on Teesside
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Lots of heavy snow showers in Newcastle - snow lying on roads in city centre. The best conditions are on the rooftops, especially the higher ones. Further snow forecast for today and the rest of the week. All hotels have vacancies ! No signs of gritters as yet. 
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Not much settling in Hertfordshire at the moment - but then it has only just started.
mainly rain and sleet last 24 hours in SE - it was noticeable how the snow showers over Lincolnshire turned to rain as they crossed the Wash. There was some warmer air embedded over the SE yesterday/last night. You could see how the temperature went up in some places as the evening wore on. At this time of year it takes a little while for everything to cool down properly (the seas are relatively warm, and it's been quite mild recently), so we'd need this weather to continue to bring everything down to snow levels. It looks like that's what will happen with a trough expected to cross into the East later. With snow/sleet showersand the easterly wind cooling things down throughout the day, as it starts getting dark, we could start to see snow starting to settle and if the trough moves through then, there could be a reasonable amount (for this part of the country). That could coincide with rush hour (like it did two years ago) - if you go home via the M11 you might want to consider leaving early  .
Overnight Tuesday night there's a small cold front expected to come in from the east which could bring more snow, followed by a trough. If snow's already settled before that, we could see more as temperatures should be being lowered. Thursday they were forecasting a warm front to move through bringing milder air, but that's now been changed to an occluded front. If the lower air's been chilled, then the milder air with move above it and it could mean a reasonable dumping of snow. If the air has not been sufficiently chilled it could mean rain instead - though that could mean ice problem overnight.
Very difficult to forecast more than a few hours ahead in this situation (the details anyway), and the presence and timings of the fronts and troughs could very easily change (note the Thirsday change already). The main thing needed to bring snow for the SE is a drop in temperature (esp. the dew points) and though that looks on the cards, it's a bit of a borderline situation. So if you want snow, you'll want the temps to drop, if you don't you'll want them to hold steady or rise.
Two places you might like to keep an eye on:
http://www.meto.gov.uk/weather/europe/uk/radar/animation.html
http://www.meto.gov.uk/weather/europe/uk/obs/index.html
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Whiteout conditions here in Lincoln at the moment. I'm going to get my goggles out for driving home 
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An upper air trough (basically a high level area of unstable air) is set to cross the SE this evening which should bring a fair bit of precipitation. This could very well be snow - in fact as it'll be coming in on easterly winds (the wind directly is now shifting more to the east), then it's looking very likely that it will be. Keep an eye on the radar pictures out in the channel, this afternoon.
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A few cm here this morning, but the Sun is out now. Bloody freezin though!
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It's raining in Nottingham, miserable part of the country! 
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The piste bashers didnt do their work quick enough and so I can see rocks, heather, tarmac and white lines on the roads in Newcastle - doh ! More snow is forecast though for the next few days.
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Fresh Powder in Dublin this morning, but not sticking! I needed my new goggles to deflect snow while cyling to work this morning .
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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It's dumping it down in Hemel right now.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Has just snowed hard in Nottingham, not sticking though.
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Was just snowing hard in Central London, has stopped for a while now, due to return later.
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You know it makes sense.
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Distinct n/s line of (snow) showers moving west across the country and has just cleared London. It stretches from north of the Humber to the south coast, but is not very thick - so I doubt it'll leave much unless there's already snow lying. It's very noticeable on both radar and satellite pictures.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Snowing in Wales & Scotland (though not, I think, heavily).
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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rockyrobin, hard to say - I'm not experienced at what (borderline) conditions are necessary for snow in Scotland, hopefully brian will be on here at some time. I don't know but guess that there may have been some more snow over the weekend, looking at the charts? The winds for Scotland look to be mainly from N (both NE & NW) for most of the week - though they are quite slack at times as HP builds to the NE midweek. Current conditions in Aviemore are rain and 8C so it's not looking great - but I haven't seen the dewpoints.
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brian
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brian, thanks.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Props to a guy called h11lly over on Winterhighland forum for the piccy.
