Back edge of the cold front?

I'm at Canary Wharf and nothing obviously wintry here.

I'm getting a streamer vibe - will be interesting to see how the next few showers coming into Liverpool Bay and the Ribble behave. 

Some very brief hail and at best slightly sleety showers since the front went through earlier. The wind is very strong which has dried everything out, but as usual the problem for Wirral in this setup will be catching the PPN above anything else! 

Yes must be. The clearance has just come through. I only noticed because I happened to be at the photocopier next to the window and could see snowflakes....

So not shredded paper then?

Where can I see (near) real-time temps / dew points?

I've just seen Tomasz on the 1pm news.  Very little precipitation (roughly) Midlands south with the same emphasis on hit-and-miss showers giving some varying accumulations further north the this afternoon/evening/overnight.  Tomorrow morning more showers make it in to the southern half of the country, and look reasonably 'organised' for a few hours, before fading away later.

Also mentioned snow showers from the North through Saturday and Sunday

Sleety/ice rain, more so than hail, with accompanying strong gusts just passed through Dartford, very chilly feeling now too.

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/weather/maps/current?LANG=en&DATE=1422450000&CONT=euro&LAND=UK&KEY=UK&SORT=2&UD=0&INT=24&TYP=temperatur&ART=tabelle&RUBRIK=akt&R=310&CEL=C&SI=mph

You can choose the parameter at the right. Updates by about 25 minutes after the time in question usually.

Surely if you were at the photocopier, then a single snowflake could easily be turned into thousands?....

Its all clear out to sea from my desk.  so dont expect much in the next few hours.

I think our best chance will be overnight.  

Looking for seeds in the middle of the Irish sea and seeing them develop... hopefully.

Nice to see we are now part of the Metoffice warnings now, :)

Raintoday is gona get some hits tonight.

Heavy hail shower, settling a bit on the grass.

I should have made clear that I chose to omit the extended outlook as I'm sure there'll be tweaks at the very least before the detail is firmed up.  Indeed, I'd not be surprised to see further amends to the detail for tonight and tomorrow morning, particularly for the southern half of the county.  

A quick point about my snow risk map, it doesn't just take into account rain/snow threshold, but also precipitation requirements. With the exception of the south west the limitation will be precipitation not temperature, as the cold air dries out moving over the land. There will be shower bands over the midlands but isolated compared to what is going on further north, wales has a greater chance of seeing snow, however there is still an analogous issue, the air-stream is becoming too dry further south to support the kind of shower activity of the north. That said 60% is greater than a 1/2 chance of seeing snow! 

For those that are in the black area of my snow risk map, do not worry, there is plenty of opportunity this cold spell for snow, I think the vast majority of the UK will see snow. 

heavy snow in Belfast city centre

Dew points have dropped over 7C in 3 hours.

Air temps haven't dropped much yet though. 

Yes dps now down to -1.0, 2mT here at +5.9

You can certainly feel the difference from this morning and it's prompted me to pop my heating on early!