On Dec 17, 11:52*am, "Tony Kenyon"
wrote:
"Teignmouth" wrote in message

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On Dec 17, 10:02 am, Nick wrote:

Doesn't seem to agree with what Will and others are saying here, but
the latest Met Office forecast doesn't seem to suggest much snow for
London and SE England, at least over the weekend. Tomorrow's is
forecast to be "a mixture of rain, sleet and snow" and Sunday's event
doesn't seem to be happening at all.

So is there still a chance of something significant in lowland
southern England? Seems from this forecast like Saturday is now going
to be warmer than anticipated, and the low track on Sunday will miss
here.

Nick

Not wishing to state the obvious, but Will is in upland SW England,
not London, South East England or lowland southern England, his
forecast is for Dartmoor!

He did however use the terms "national emergency" and the "UK " in his post
of 12th Dec. *It is obviously a hugely difficult set of circumstances to
forecast and I have no problem with people getting it wrong. I am, however,
irritated by the fact that the Met Office page still offers two different
solutions for the same area/time if you compare the narrative to the maps!!

Tony

Hmmmm. And the army out in London on Saturday. If it happens; fine. If
it doesn't, it was the usual coldie, overplaying a good model cold
hand.There was and still is a chance of this happening, but the chance
of a "historic" event was low and still is. If it comes off, it will
look like a fantastic forecast. These things always do. If it doesn't
it will be quickly skipped over and forgotten in the headlong hopeful
change towards the next metre of snow that might fall (and probably
won't - this is the UK after all!). Could happen. May happen. Actual
chances........well there's the difficult one and anyone can overplay
a hand.