Heavy snow now predicted for Sunday

1:34pm Saturday 19th January 2013 in Local News

Heavy snow now predicted for Sunday Heavy snow now predicted for Sunday

RESIDENTS of South Essex are being warned to brace themselves for heavy snowfall on Sunday.

 

Throughout much of Friday and Saturday most areas saw very light flurries of snow throughout the day.

But the Met Office has warned that Essex and other parts of the South East will see the worst of conditions on Sunday.

Snow is expected to begin to fall from 12pm continuing into the night, possibly as late as 9pm.

Forecasters are predicting as much as five to eight centimetres could fall along the Essex coastline, with two to five centimetres in other parts of the county.

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Comments(16)

von says...
1:40pm Sat 19 Jan 13

Reckon I'll believe it when I see it

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Basildondude says...
2:08pm Sat 19 Jan 13

yeah yeah whatever

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Nebs says...
2:13pm Sat 19 Jan 13

WEATHER experts are now saying south Essex should get heavy snowfall on Sunday.
Would these be the same EXPERTS who said we would get heavy snow last Monday, last Wednesday, and yesterday.
Money for old rope being a weather forecaster, for most of the year the weather one day is the same as the day before, then when something different happens they haven't got a clue. Slash their budgets and give them a bit of seaweed to use for forecasting, it will be cheaper and just as accurate.

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lennyfy says...
2:38pm Sat 19 Jan 13

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz !

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InTheKnowOk says...
2:57pm Sat 19 Jan 13

Great news for the supermarkets who have reaped the benefits from the good old shopper panic buying in preperation for the 'heavy snow' we have been told we were going to get for the past few days .. Not only that, some schools closed early yesterday for no reason, and others have altered plans fearing they would get caught out in adverse weather conditions ...

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firedog says...
3:41pm Sat 19 Jan 13

They usually add possible showers.

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lottie31 says...
3:53pm Sat 19 Jan 13

:O *YAWN* ive heard this before. im now not telling my kids its going to snow because they think im lying now. will it also be sunny, rainy, sleety with a chance of snow and hailstones?

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Timanda says...
3:56pm Sat 19 Jan 13

No snow in Leigh. Seems like a lot.of scaremongering.

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Diannah says...
4:07pm Sat 19 Jan 13

Is this heavy snow to add to the (cough) four inches we've already received?

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Eric Whim says...
4:55pm Sat 19 Jan 13

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Eric Whim says...
5:01pm Sat 19 Jan 13

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BinDipper says...
6:19pm Sat 19 Jan 13

5 cm is heavy? I'd say 20 to 30 cm constitutes heavy. Although with 5 cm enough to shut airports and cripple railways I suppose everything is relative.

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EssexBoy1968 says...
10:17pm Sat 19 Jan 13

I am at work in London & driving home tomorrow, so hope the snow stays away. If not, let's hope that SBC do actually send out the gritters, as all evidence I've seen in the past few years is that the A13 is always clear & safe, right up to the borough boundary! Oh, saw my first gritter this evening in Thundersley, so am confident bread & Cheese will be passabel...

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EssexBoy1968 says...
10:19pm Sat 19 Jan 13

EssexBoy1968 wrote:
I am at work in London & driving home tomorrow, so hope the snow stays away. If not, let's hope that SBC do actually send out the gritters, as all evidence I've seen in the past few years is that the A13 is always clear & safe, right up to the borough boundary! Oh, saw my first gritter this evening in Thundersley, so am confident bread & Cheese will be passabel...
Poor typing skills - last few words should read - "so am confident that Bread & Cheese will be passable"

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Antonius says...
12:11pm Sun 20 Jan 13

I expect there will be the usual mass school closure tomorrow ?
Here is a comment from someone in the US.

Quote ... " Modern education follows metrics closely. Let's say it is "extreme" weather for a particular area. If 10% of the kids can't make it, then that hits the schools attendance record at the end of the year. So instead of absorbing the bad numbers they call a snow day, and then have an extra day of school at the end, or shave a day off of Christmas break etc.
Attendance is a legal obligation of the parents, so schools will balance what is best for the school with what can be reasonably expected from parents in terms of transportation.
Most parents don't have the option to miss work just because a school decides to have a snow day, and they understand that.
I haven't heard of a law in the U.S. that protects parents from missing work...."

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Antonius says...
12:12pm Sun 20 Jan 13

Snow starting at mid-day.....

Well they got that wrong for starters.

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