yep, liking that. GFS showing what I just referred to, LP to the SW engaging with the cold air  another good run.

I think you're thinking of the event in February 2009 when Bren got over a foot of snow in Weybridge. That event, and others like it in the past, seem to occur with a perfect setup with cold air blowing over the North Sea from an ENE direction, and tends to affect London south of the Thames and then into Surrey. On that occasion here 5 miles south of the Thames, we had only 8 cm, and just a few miles further north there was less.

On that occasion I polled TWO members and UKWW members for their snow depths, and built up a map of the country that you can see here:

http://two.dazsmith.co.uk/snow/

Zoomed in on the South East of England looked like this:

That's the one Darren, thanks, can't believe it was that long ago.

Back to the models and a great UKMO tonight.

I can add to that with a whopping 42cm, at Walton on the Hill in Surrey (180m ASL) (I've a ruler photo somewhere) and from memory, a 31cm just outside Reigate in Surrey (120m ASL). Fits with that pattern once altitude taken into account.

It is absolutely the dream setup in this part of the world. Unfortunately I lived in Tooting at the time and had to make do with 'only' 20cm

Very nice run thus far

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super thats ok

http://www.meteociel.fr/modeles/ukmo2.php?nh=1&ech=144&carte=1021

UKMO at T+144 looks very promising for fairly widespread snow

For the Home Counties that's 500-1,000 hPa values around 520-522 and 850s around -7C

Looks like freezing over the snow fields of central southern England 

Good grief look at that for a block

http://www.meteociel.fr/modeles/geme_cartes.php?&ech=138&mode=0&carte=1

The evolution beyond T+192 has a bit of last night's 18z about it. The LP in the Azores region, which last night pushed WAA over Biscay and cut off the cold feed, is now drawn into the southern arm of the jet and once again pushing the milder air slowly NE. 

With cold air coming south it could be the set up for a major battleground event, but the push of milder air might mean rain for the south - at least as this is evolving.

I also remember that far too well. a poultry inch of snow between Reading and Oxford and all the while hearing of the carnage further East. Would be nice if this year made up for it although I'm still getting a bit nervous at the temps coming out of the BBC weather and Two sites. Not quite matching the cold Northerly's just yet.5 deg max/ 0 min from 12-16th each day. Fingers crossed though.

Slightly odd 12Z. Massive GH, but renewed Euro high and the UK sat right in the middle.

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Rtavn2281.gif

A proper cut-off high over Greenland by this stage...

LOVE the 12z MetO run.

12z GFS is great too, albeit with the block more closely restricted to Greenland rather than across Mid Atlantic.. Some epic snow potential towards FI no doubt.

I also hope that the GFS is overplaying that annoying low for early next week.

I don't like this run at all, the cold never really makes it to the south coast before our Azores High arrives.

The whole thing is a bit worrying for the South of England if you are following the GFS.

Great battle leading up to day 10, with the Atlantic losing.

Another big snow event for the Midlands to end the GFS high res. Major battleground event

Wow, if we can get some serious snow in Scotland before this, I think we have a shot at breaking a record low here:

Ridiculously cold temperatures under that col in highland scotland.