Don't worry Nick, if I could I would send any snow shower that came within the vicinity of me over to your area. 

Anyway it is looking like an interesting event coming up. Snow showers in the north and west, and a band of more persistent snow in the south and east. Hope those in the south enjoy it though. They really have been waiting a while now.

Hopefully a good thing 

Having all the interesting weather in the near term (rather than out in FI) has disrupted my morning routine. Much of the interesting stuff is coming out before my 10am cuppa.

Apart from GFS, the hi-res models don't offer much snow prospects for MBY

Horrible drizzle here and it's getting warmer! Unless it changes drastically in the next few hours, there won't even be any sleet. And this was supposed to be a 'sweet spot', even if for an hour or so.

Hope that tonights' showers deliver at least a sprinkling for the morning. 

And the Met Office website forecast for MBY has been downgraded, with only sporadic single snowflake symbols from this evening into the night.

Then, to cap it all, the MO thread is chock-full of the south-eastern contingent squealing delightedly at the prospect of blocking to the east aligning to give them the best potential wintry conditions.

It all reminds me why I much prefer a Greenland High.

I do feel rather cheated, you know. Just a few days ago, this region was looking one of the more favoured spots, and with the cold & unstable flow from the north, there was the chance of a disturbance developing in the flow. Since that bloody disturbance popped up in the W-E flow in the south, it's all gone tits-up for us.

Easterlies are pretty crap unless you live in Kent or Essex. Almost always they are cold but dry and cloudy affairs in this part of the world. It's why the only people you see on weather forums reminiscing about January 1987 or February 1986 are from the SE.

Usually, yes.

Fortunately or unfortunately, a couple of times in 2013 - specifically one of the March snowfalls - was from an easterly (IIRC it was more an ENE'ly) so it now gives me a sense of hope in what will 9 times out of 10 be a letdown.

I remember the fabled Jan 1987 well, too. Brass monkeys, but almost bone dry (a 10 min flurry was all we had to show for it)

Spot on, both of you. Even here in the NE, an E'ly is usually rubbish. We need a higher block and a NE'ly element.

It makes it hard going reading through model analysis since it is almost always about a chase for synoptics which are only good for the SE.

The cold air won't be around until mid to late afternoon. It was always supposed to get warmer through the morning as the milder uppers pass through.

9 times out of 10 we get cloudy, damp crap with temperatures of about 4C from a winter easterly. Only on the odd occasion where the uppers are exceptional such as -12C or lower do we seem to get snow or even frost. Even in 2010 things became too mild for a time when the wind turned easterly.

A northerly or any wind north of NE though and you are talking for around here The beat snowfall I have seen (I am 21) was in March 2006 from a week long northerly which brought around 18 inches of level snow here 

They certainly are around here.  With daytime maxes of +1.5c and minima of +1.2c with a handful of tiny snowflakes once a day just to add the ignomy of having to declare it a snow day ..... 

I thought the UN had banned them?   Cruel and unusual punishment weather .....

Today has almost been like a New Years Day Deja vu. Well, for the South West it's been like that anyway.

What's really pee'd me off is that nobody's given me a smiley for my Jaywick joke in the Snow Reports thread.

Tough audience

I'll have a butcher's now! ;)

Aside from that, as the first reports of heavy snow from the South start to come in, I have ordered a blanket ban on all TV and radio in the house. We are on media lockdown.

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(PS - it's not really that funny/good really)

Oh aye, you can betcha life it'll be headline news cos it's the South East. You could have the NE/NW/Yorks/Wales/Jockland under 20cm of snow and it'd be a brief footnote on the news after a report about a duck farmer falling in his pond in Aylesbury or something.