Looking dire for east Devon esp Exeter:

Snow is allergic to Exeter surely! Something is really messed up here! How can it be!?

3pm Tuesday - Snow to our north, south and east all by 50 miles).

3pm Wednesday (snow to the south and of Devon and most of Cornwall, yet Exeter misses out, but the snow moves out to the channel to give Isles of scilly a pasting!).

3pm Thursday:

3pm Friday...? oh wait I won't bother its too far out! But so so disappointed!

FFS, you do realise that, between 1 and 3 days out, they're just rough guides to where the PPN is likely to be?

But then, this is the moaning thread after all.

FWIW the model ppn charts had basically zero over my house for today and yet it has been snowing more often than not today. Only the tiniest of sprinklings in shaded areas, but nice to watch and I can see another bank of shower clouds heading this way, lit by the setting sun... oops, need to moan. OK, I should have bought more firewood. 

Not everyone is sticking to putting their whinges in this place, though

Yeah, I have a theory in cold spells that, if the MO is showing snow for YBY a few days out, it's a bad sign, because it won't come off. The number of times I've despaired of missing out on snow, only to have a 'surprise' front or convergence develop and deliver a covering... well if I had a quid for every one, I'd have several quid at least.

In my book though, any event is a non-event until such time that it actually happens so that in this case, I would probably say that these people are correct.

It does make me laugh the people moaning about the lack of snow that they were never supposed to be receiving today! 

Meanwhile the Met Office as removed it's snow warning for Exeter on Wednesday and tomorrow the Met have forecast a max of +4c

Regional Forecast for South West England

Headline:

Mostly dry with a severe and widespread frost.

This Evening and Tonight:

Mostly dry with clear skies overnight, which will lead to a widespread severe and penetrating frost for many. Remaining breezy, especially in the far southwest. Minimum temperature -6 °C.

Tuesday:

A frosty and bright start for many with a cold northeasterly wind. Mainly dry, but some snow showers moving into the region from the east for the afternoon. Maximum temperature 4 °C.

But then when just about everyone else is getting that snow, I think that we still have every right to complain about that as a result.

Well so far this dire easterly spell is reminiscent of the putrid March of 2013. Nothing more than a few flurries in the morning and dry all afternoon. No frost for days and only 3 hours below freezing since mid-month

Apparently there’s going to be 20cm of snow and a max of -3C on Wednesday. Well, since there has never been a max anywhere as low as that this late in the season, not even in March 1947, I’ll take that with a lorry load of salt

Furthermore, there is no hope of seeing any decent low temperatures with relentless overcast set to last throughout the first week of March which is just suicide inducing Really concerned that March could turn out to be an excruciatingly dull month. The worst easterly dominated horror shows such as 1909, 1964 and 1996 managed only 30-50 hours all month which doesn’t bear thinking about. Very little snow in any of them either.

Gosh BBC News talking of Beast from the east and now even the One Show mentioning it. Gosh! Give it a break. We are pathetic.
It's an easterly wind . They should stop referring to this as the "Beast!" every time!

That's true and before we know it, I've no doubt that its number will be 666.

It's in the papers, now talking about it on the One show, heard it on the radio as well as NEWS & Social medial etc and virtally everywhere. 

 - They don't complain about the "Pest from the west" so they could stop[ calling it the beast from the east!

This is a feast from the east! So far we havent' had the feast yet - just flurries and dustings - even those dustings melted in London & East this morning.

Actually, the Pest from the West hasn't always been such a pest here. That is after all, where nearly all of the snow which we have had during this winter so far has come from (by that, I'm referring to cold zonality of course).

In fact, I was amazed to discover that despite being right on the east coast here, we actually often have a better chance of getting snow when the wind is from the WSW than what we do when the wind is from the ESE.

The reason for that is because when the wind is from the ESE (as it was during a large part of today), we are often sheltered here in Edinburgh from the Lammermuir Hills to my SE so that when the wind is from the ESE or SE, we actually tend to do quite badly for snow in this part of the world.

When the wind is from the WSW though, those showers often filter all the way through the Forth-Clyde valley towards the Edinburgh area which can often be enough for us to do quite well for snow if that air is coming from the likes of Greenland or even Canada.

I hear you and how frustrating that can be - here in Devon all the showers are 50 miles to the south over the English channel! south Devon and Cornwall will get some on Tuesday and Wednesday - perhaps I should take trips there to see proper snow showers in future!?

you are well placed for weds / thursday as wind shifts to more south easterly.  Right now I have no idea where my 10-20 cm of snow is coming from....   the beast not yet delivered for many it seems ..

The Cockroach from the East strikes again 

A totally dire sorry excuse for a cold spell this is. Yet again it has failed to go below zero There were more hours below freezing during last years exceptionally mild second half of February which saw many days reach 10-14C and was over 3C warmer than this years lamentable tripe.

Very little snow has fallen and it is a far from picturesque scene outside under dirty grey skies. Hardly anything on the radar so very likely that the minimal covering will have sublimated by lunchtime.

Tedious grey rubbish sums up what we have just now. Simply dreadful