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Have been looking at forecasts .


Cold sweeping in from the east and Siberia .


Snow from Tuesday in SE ?


Armageddon on Friday .Or quite possibly not .


I'd be grateful for predictions .Supposed to be flying Luton to Belfast on Tuesday afternoon ,returning Thursday .

London will potentially get a few cm?s tomorrow night and into Tuesday. It will feel very cold, but it really will need to snow heavily to settle for any period. My hunch is that the bigger potential for disruptive snow will come towards the end of the week, and will probably herald slightly milder conditions there on in.


Very cold for late February in London - yes. The coldest weather for decades? No.


Snow - probably yes. Extreme snowmageddon - no.


Louisa.

Met office are the best in the world

Daily Express and other tabloids buy their forecasts from the cheapest service and tend to be alarmist.

I'll be cycling in all week as per usual, and sadly I doubt if it will be sledging weather, but I'll have an extra layer.

I expect airports will be well prepared.

Biggest issue I ever had was with (a) fog a year ago all airports disrupted (b) getting to Luton airport on a snowy day as Thameslink was down, but not due to the weather (you couldn't make that one up!)

We could wake up on Tuesday morning to an Icing of Snow.


Trains in South East London will come to a complete stand still.


Gritters will be left abandoned in the streets as their oil freezes and their batteries run down.


There will be major food shortages as delivery lorries are caught in 5 mile back logs.


The Thames will freeze over at Richmond Bridge.


Thousands of Birds will perish unable to find Food.


The rest of the day is expected to turn warmer with Bright Sunshine with a light Southernly breeze.


Foxy.

hohoho.................


DulwichFox Wrote:

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> We could wake up on Tuesday morning to an Icing of

> Snow.

>

> Trains in South East London will come to a

> complete stand still.

>

> Gritters will be left abandoned in the streets as

> their oil freezes and their batteries run down.

>

> There will be major food shortages as delivery

> lorries are caught in 5 mile back logs.

>

> The Thames will freeze over at Richmond Bridge.

>

> Thousands of Birds will perish unable to find

> Food.

>

> The rest of the day is expected to turn warmer

> with Bright Sunshine with a light Southernly

> breeze.

>

> Foxy.

Angelina Wrote:

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> We've had snow at Easter before. It is still

> winter, people.

Yes- I came across a childhood diary and on 5th April 1963 I wrote 'it is snowing just as the Americans said it would'. I was in London at the time. That was, of course, the end of the worst winter of my lifetime- so far.

Louisa Wrote:

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> Looks as though we may get some snow overnight.

> Amber warning for parts of London, Kent and Essex

> has been issued. Watch this space.

>

> Louisa.


Think I'll just look out the window if that's alright with you.

ed_pete Wrote:

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> Louisa Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > Looks as though we may get some snow overnight.

> > Amber warning for parts of London, Kent and

> Essex

> > has been issued. Watch this space.

> >

> > Louisa.

>

> Think I'll just look out the window if that's

> alright with you.


Looking out the window won?t be able to tell you what?s coming in a few hours time. If you look out the window now it?s dry, partly cloudy and above freezing. A few miles down the road in Sevenoaks it?s two below freezing and snowing.


Louisa.

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