Onwards....

I find the lack of information regarding Thursday interesting from the Met Office..

Wednesday:

A good deal of cloud with further showers of rain or sleet at low levels, and snow on hills. Feeling particularly cold in the brisk breeze. Maximum Temperature 3C.

Outlook for Thursday to Saturday:

Staying cold with overnight frosts and further wintry showers. Feeling especially cold on Friday due to a strong northeasterly wind. Perhaps turning a little less cold on Saturday.

Updated at: 1419 on Tue 03 Feb 2015

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/forecast/u10khsx41

Even the little forecast symbols have gone from light snow to just an hour of sleet for IMBY.

As I said on Monday morning in the MO thread, I only rated the snow of decent snow from this set-up at 30%.  There are still favourable model runs to be found, so things could still swing back in favour from the big boys, but the ECM and GFS both delay the arrival of sub -8 uppers til after midday on Thursday, thus the heavier precipitation will be marginal as today's had been.

There's still 36 hours to go and as the margins are so fine there's still a chance things will change back favourably for snow, but those expecting 2-4 inches (of snow) may have to revise their expectations to a dusting or zilch.  The 6.30 BBC 1 forecast had rain and sleet and 5c.

Keep expectations suitably low I suggest.

WI

Dont know what charts they are looking at! Perhaps for a few hours we have a bitter wind before it gets cut off

Shame when the BBC indulge in tabloid style nonsense

I***t forecaster Rachel Mackley for BBC SE managed to contradict herself in the same sentence re Thursdays snow, I suppose that's the definition of keeping your options open

Rather odd ending to the Beeb's forecast at 10.30PM (unless I've missed something) with Matt Taylor expressing uncertainty about whether the less cold air coming round the high will reach as far as the south.

Gosh and if you can't get snow where you are what are the chances of us down south getting snow other than a shower of light flurry!? I heard Aberdeen didn't get much snow and neither did Edinburgh!

Feel free to post in my moan/no snow thread. - I will be giving this a break on here soon - as you're all probably aware that I only post here during the winter months or if there is a cold spell on it's way but having been let down last time and this time I really don't think i'll bother watching the models. Even the forecasts a day ahead are inaccurate too.

But you live in Devon at sea level. It snows there once in a blue moon, and apart from a 30% chance of some frontal snow early this week, that would still probably have been rain in your location, there was never likely to be any snow at any time from this spell where you are. I can understand disappointed, but let down?

A good winter so far in Cornwall.

Still have snow in shaded places from Monday.

Andrew

Yes Cornwall has done better than Devon - Especially north on coastal area's Like Bude, Newquay etc exposed to northerly winds with wintry showers - where in Cornwall are you?

The coldest day of this 'cold' spell still due on Friday.

A frigid, freezing, cruel +5C expected on Friday with winds all the way from . . . Germany

I sometimes wonder how folk would cope if we had anything like a decent easterly anymore.

Indeed

This morning the Beeb showed temps of 2c across the South for Friday, clearly the cold isn't that  cold after all

Depressing wasn't it?

Yes, slight change - now looks like maxes of +5 or 6c

London a max of 6c tomorrow - so not quite the "Winds from Siberia" as forecasted a few days ago.

Well then Mini heat wave on the way according to the weather online:

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/cgi-app/reports?LANG=en&MENU=weekahead&DAY=20150209

Just a shame they got the year wrong!

No frost then! haha.

I see the extended outlook has gone from temps just above normal to temps around average.

Better get out of the thread before someone declares there's an arctic blast on the way on March :)