We had a marginal set up deliver back in January - and last year, on more than one occasion. 

I don't believe it ! Has the snow risk been downgraded again ? 

Last night I was all set to drive to The Chilterns with the wife and kids to play in 10cm.

To be honest I'm completely numb to all the disappointments now though.

Its laughable 

10cm? I don't think that was ever on the cards even before the downgrade. Greatest "snow depth" I saw quoted on the charts was 3cm for the most favoured spots in the south.

It was on the 12z yesterday Rob..It showed a general 6cm in SW Oxfordshire. SC quoted 10cm in some favoured spots. The inevitable downgrade kicked in from the 18z onwards. 

Stay up at Hawkinge for the SSEly before and Nwly after SE Kent snow-fest Steve

A double whammy disappointment Phil ! 

Whats the betting the dry cold SSE'ly will stall precipitation west of here and as soon as the front is fully occluded and finally gets shoved eastwards the precipitation will have largely died out 

Steve, to mis-quote Bernard Breslaw from Carry on Up The Khyber "deny yourself nothing" as he gives advice to Sid James as he surveys  the hareem, the mantra is, and should be "expect for yourself nothing".

It works.

I will try Phil. I expected nothing from the Sunday night /Monday morning NE'ly debacle and actually woke up smiling on Monday morning as I gazed out at a clear blue sky and dry ground. 

Anyway..I'm at Dover Castle tomorrow..I shall give you a shout out from the turret. 

From IF

I'd suggest quite the opposite: the parallel suite Euro4 and UKMO-GM both now generate little snow of note, so it all currently looks a bit less worrying. It's important to note that EC (which in the 00z run offered 5+cm of falling snow e.g. Wilts) has a known tendency to over-generate solid PPN and is thus considered unreliable re amounts being progged. So as it stands, unless there's a major shift back towards the more threatening outcome(s) we saw in some suites earlier today, I'd suspect the snow 'issue' will be gradually toned-down - at least somewhat - in public forecasts. That said, there remains around a 60-90 miles potential error margin E-W in areas that could yet see snow into central-southern England (encompassing from E Wales to E Anglia, and south-south east of those zones). Either way, this set-up will prove a tricky customer up to the wire.

I was at Dover Castle the other day.There was a bloke running along the walls constantly swearing! Turns out he was suffering from turrets 

LL on BBC weather just now: "And if you live in East Kent, kiss goodbye to a second winter in a row, suckers!!"...or words to that effect 

I think this'll be the first time in my living memory that I've gone 2 back to back winters without seeing a single snowflake! 

All this over if there will be a spell of wet snow that will be gone as soon as the sun pop's out even if it had not been downgraded.

Got to laugh at how bad this Winter has been for snow.

Might see some snizzle imby, though id bet on the front has died out as soon as the cold air catches up 

http://modeles.meteociel.fr/modeles/gfs/runs/2016021618/gfs-2-42.png?18 

I think today here is a no-go regards snow as i've never seen it fall at 4c before from a frontal system.The local bbc has it between 2 and 4 degrees, so very high ground only. Temp is slowly on the rise.

Wee bit of snow again in Edinburgh this morning. This is from my flat at 80m amsl.

After seeing this I'm no longer hopeful

Same here- just using the position of that frontal trough and the -5 upper line as a rough visual guide, they don't seem to get close together until it's too late.

http://www.theweatheroutlook.com/twodata/chart.aspx?chart=/charts/gfs/00_21_mslp850.png?cb=320

Unless the air behind dries out quickly enough in heavy pptn for evaporative cooling to be significant??

http://www.theweatheroutlook.com/twodata/chart.aspx?chart=/charts/gefs/gefsens850london0.png?cb=886

Snow row for London back up to 11 but Cardiff and Brighton only 3 and Plymouth zero. I'm not going to even try to work out where Hampshire might be in that range.

Must be some residual cold air ahead of the line as I'm in Grantham this morning and it's sleeting here

So we're all in the same boat, then?

The temp in MBY has been stuck at around 5.5c since about yesterday lunchtime. Nice... 

All eyes now turn to the next non-snowy non-event on Sunday. Oh Joy.

Have you even read the warning and the assessment of it?

I have, it's for snow yes, but i don't think i've seen it fall when the temperature has been at 2 or 3 degrees above freezing at night. I have seen it loads of times, even today's temperature is on the up (higher than forecast). This warning was issued for the West Midlands Conurbation which i don't think has that much high ground.

They have subtly redrawn the boundary since yesterday, reducing the southern extent of the warning area.