Hope?

:)

Is that just for you guys in the East of the county Steve or my way also?

What do make of the meto update regarding the Thames Estuary?

It's poxy snizzle at the moment and I'm lucky it's got the SN part of snizzle tbh 

EDIT: A touch more very light snow in it now AWOOOOOGA 

Dunno mate..dunno anything anymore when it comes to crappy snow in this country..tired of it now..bored..time to move on.

Keep the faith mate, got a wintry mix shower going on here now 

Need some reports from the Gillingham/Rainham area to see what they got from this, maybe rain there as closer to the river.

 I think I might do the same.

Going to make good use of the high pressure set up to take a break from my forecasting duties and take a back seat to it all for a while. I'm not doing this in a huff, I've been planning it for a few days and just thought I can do it while the going become quiet and settled.

oh dear, now a hail shower with the sun shinning through a poxy Rainbow 

Sun Just appearing here Jonesy a little further east of you, dosn't feel particularly cold either out there lets hope we get a more NE flow this afternoon 

I so hope so, I'm keeping an eye on the Dutch radar http://www.buienradar.nl/ 

Me too looks like there are plenty of echo's developing up there now....  

Here at work (West Malling) which is 100mtr asl we have just had a heavy but very brief shower which started as sleet and turned to wet snow momentarily.

Do you see what I see....(repeat)

http://www.buienradar.nl/motregenradar

Looks to be setting up nicely, seems to be a bit more of a NE flow upstream........

Does any of the more experienced heads amongst us know when the pocket of -10 850's is due to hit the Kent area?

Possible streamer developing?

At 6 pm to 9 pm tonight, so it seems. Just have to hope there's still be enough convective stuff by then to take advantage of it before the lot fades away later on in the night.

Thanks....  all the elements will be there later and if it dosn't happen then there's always the next time......

Whenever that might be.  It would be terribly ironic that just as we finally get some properly cold uppers into the SE coincides with the end of the convective risk down there (almost here).

How often do you get Snow?  One often thinks of Jersey being fairly warm.

Agree with you it would be a tough one to take if it were to happen in that way, however we have the streamer developing and the -10's progged to be with us so for now i am keeping the faith in it, although that will change if i suddenly start to see the showers disappearing as they hit the North Kent coastline

Everything does look to be setting up a little further east than my location at present so i may miss out on it all together anyway...

Not sure about that - your part of East Sussex could get snow tonight, especially as the wind turns more NE or ENE.   Us in the West less likely.

Not often I would say that on average we probably see falling snow every couple of years.

Lying snow is a different matter. The sea air usually melts things within a few hours unless the temp is well below zero. This happened on Tuesday evening good covering at 8pm (2-3cm) gone by 10pm

March 2013 we lying snow for one week in places and this was the first time for nearly 30 years.

Generally its quite warm here although in the summer we seem to avoid the hot stuff and in the Winter avoid the freezer. We seem to just go from Autumn to spring and miss out summer and winter.

Lots of cells skipping past to my west, and edging ever closer....just not close enough yet to see what type of ppn is falling. The current one has a well defined fall curtain though - I can almost touch it. As I type, the next one is looming on the horizon, but will it reach here?.....

A heavy shower of snow that last five minutes. Settled - kinda - and then the sun came out.