Looking good for the precipitation to reach our region, looks like it's going to hit us head on.

The question is, will it be cold enough?

Well I've hopped over to the dark side to keep up with this as there's a post about every 5 seconds on the event of the century.... and I am none the wiser! Still thinking rain for us wretched lowlanders, though a more wintry flavour of rain if the low centre pushes into N.Wales and we don't get a howling NW'ly off the sea around the back of it. 

I think the first test is to see how it looks once it has entered the Irish Sea, as that's a bit of a squeeze for it and they're quite temperamental by all accounts!

He's a useless troll and we should have banned him years ago.

Adam is ok though

 Hi Duane 

i think we may get a bit of snow out of this, as the showers have been wintry - but not persistent enough to allow the temps to drop.  All the ingredients are there.  

Its 3*c out there, and it drops to 2*c in the heavier showers weve had this evening.

Arrived back from London earlier to find a light dusting of snow on the car which had frozen solid.

Current temperature 0.5C with dew point of -0.7C. A good chance of a bit more snow later in the night I think if the BBC graphics are to believed.

Yeah I noticed that actually - our main problem with the cold spell has been catching heavy PPN, it has been snow on the few occasions we've got it. I notice the DP on IOM is currently +2c though (with rain/snow admittedly). 

My two kids aged 7 (nearly 😎 and 6 (just) were in a state of euphoria this evening making snowballs out of 1cm of slushy snow cover. I was surprised as they have lived through several snow events in their young lives.

It seems both of them have little recollection now of snow events in years passed; namely 2009-2013 

Because of this never in my life have I wanted tonight's potential to come to fruition more..they asked me if we were due some more..my reply was to dream about it tonight and your wishes may just come true.

The moon is shining on the frozen slush now..here's hoping the polar low delivers. 

It will make for a magical morning if it does. 

One word of caution: it's producing rain in Northern Ireland

(although snow on the IoM)

Temp: 1c

DP: -1c

yet we have rain. Not even sleet. No idea why this is. 

Slight intensity ?

but I had same problem on iPad .. (Mini) (mini ipad, not problem)

not problem "feature"

An hour ago it was absolutely lashing down with those figures. Bizarre. 

Today has been most unusual.

It was 4*c in liverpool when we had a heavy snow shower earlier.  It didnt even start as Rain, it blew in as fluffy snow.  Temp dropped soon after mind.

Alot of the usual calculations have been thrown out today.

..weird.

That a nice lot of showers moving down NW to SE on the radar 

Snowing here adding to the cover we had from an earlier shower.

Same here Russ. it sounds to me as if our 5pm trough was probably related to the similar event you experienced several hours earlier, I'm guessing that all the characteristics were maintained as it headed SE;wards this afternoon..eg the tops of the clouds were higher with greater vorticity, downdrafts etc.

The SW of the UK sounds like it is in a more stable environment relying on more traditional methods to get the snow to ground level such as negative dewpoints.

The cheek! But yes mostly. It's hailing lightly here currently (with rain too ) 

Regardless of what it does it is quite a thing of beauty on the radar. Can't say I ever remember having seen one before like that. (RainToday is back online BTW... refresh refresh refresh!)

I'm on call too.....but as East Kent Coordinator, so I get to send others out while I sit indoors and just keep checking on their welfare ...trouble is, I'm currently in a location with bugger all to look at!