On Dec 14, 10:22*am, Alan wrote:
On Dec 14, 10:04*am, Chris Smith wrote:

Looks to me like today's models mostly call for cold rain after the
weekend, leastwise south of the Pennines.

Still cold enough to be ambushed by icy roads on clearer mornings, but
generally looks like damp, raw weather.

Lovely.

On the upside - could well be another cracking ski season in Scotland
. Shame I don't ski.

Yes sadly looking more and more like a damp squib for the South East,
even by Sunday:

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Rtavn1322.png

I'm not so sure. You might have to be pretty far south for rain rather
than snow Friday night/Saturday. That's a pretty cold low. Could be
quite a dumping of snow somewhere, maybe across eastern England
(although I'm not going to try to pin it down geographically at this
stage). Maybe less cold Sunday/Monday .

Before that the greatest snow threat is of course the north and west
on Thursday and Friday. By the time Thursday's cold front get to
southern England it'll give a fairly brief shot of sleet/snow, and the
main danger will be ice in the rush hour as temperatures rapidly drop.

Stephen.