Indeed, my location is one that used to do very well back in the day, as did much of the north Kent coastal strip.
Something worth mentioning is that the raw forecasts from the GFS have been slowly ramping up snow volumes here. I find XCWeather's presentation to be really nice, so here's the link to MBY:
http://xcweather.co.uk/forecast/leysdown
Of note is that from Sunday night snow is forecast even though it doesn't show a snow symbol - it seems anything under 0.5mm rainfall equivalent is just shown as cloud.
As we know, the models struggle to resolve shallow cumulus/cumulonimbus clouds and thus tend to underestimate convective snowfall. Yesterday was a prime example. The models showed unbroken sunshine all day, yet shallow cumulus built up during the morning and by afternoon the sky was mostly obscured.
I've been keeping the senior team at the school where I work updated these past few days. The Head was most sceptical, believing it'd just get cold and sunny (as the automated forecasts at the time were showing), but they've ordered in extra salt as a precaution. Not, as the site team say, it'll do much good with blowing powder snow!
I've got Monday off work, booked that day off ages ago, so should miss the first round of traffic chaos. I'm not much looking forward to Tuesday's commute, though!
Originally Posted by: Retron