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10 minutes ago, Chris Smith said:

Which is weird because I'm in Langley Park, and it's kicking it down.

Really? I'm in Gilesgate and it hasn't been more than light snow for hours. The radar doesn't suggest it's any more in Langley Park than here, a few miles away.

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10 minutes ago, Freezing-Point said:

Just checking out the Midlands group.  Some have 15cm already....

The only silver lining at this stage is that it's bucketing down in the SE.

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Anyone any thoughts on today/tomorrow? GFS06z leaves everything up to Teeside, but missing the north of the region entirely. Could be incredibly frustrating. Sheffield will be buried!

Is there any hope?

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12z is poor - keeps it all further south than it had been. Teeside might be OK. Rest of us missing out to a large extent.

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1 hour ago, Dom W said:

March and April can be months where extreme variation can occur even on the same day, one minute it is glorious warm sunshine, the next minute it is pelting it down with snow, sleet, rain or hail or a combination of the lot.

Absolutely! This is 1 April 2013. Near Langdon Beck/the ski centre up there. After this I came back to Durham where it was 10°C and planted my broad beans!

 

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1 hour ago, garylaverick said:

Yeah 6/10 sounds about right to me. I think what I was really longing for was some sustained heavy snowfall, instead we only really got light with bursts of moderate. Accumulations ended up ok but only because of the length of the spell, rather than the intensity.

Agree with that.

You can always tell we've missed out on proper heavy snow, because people start reporting heavy snow and blizzards and whiteouts when it's no more than moderate snow with a moderate breeze.

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1 hour ago, garylaverick said:

Well a fitting end to a disappointing spell for the region I guess, one final tease before cruelly being snatched away at the last moment. 

Something that has seemed very consistent over the past week has been the real difficulty in developing or sustaining convection in the circled area.

I'd love to know what the exact cause has been, could we have just been extremely unlucky with the wind direction (despite seemingly trying all of them at one point or another), has this area consistently been an area of divergence, or perhaps the sea temperature has played a part?

I don't remember this being a particular problem in other cold spells and hopefully it won't be in the future!

It will surprise no one to know that I too have been having these worries/asking these questions.

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4 minutes ago, garylaverick said:

This feels like Bond on the laser table, seemingly impossible to escape, yet he manages it. If we don't catch any of this there needs to be an inquiry!

50 miles further West and we would all have been buried by tonight.

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Just now, Freezing-Point said:

The entire NE of England is missing this.  Close one.  Maybe next time...

It really has been a frustrating period. Better to miss out by 200 miles that to be so close so often in so few days.

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14 minutes ago, untiedshoes said:

Fancy another chase Nick?!? 

 

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All I'm saying is, I expect membership of The Club to increase substantially this afternoon.

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Overnight low of -10.5°C

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2 minutes ago, GeordieX9v said:

I'm not so sure mate, plenty developing on the back end.

They need to penetrate a long way inland for me. The top of the NYM always does for us when it's from the SE. I just want to hit -10°C. Currently -9.8°C.

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15 minutes ago, GeordieX9v said:

That's escalated quickly.

Definitely a Newcastle northwards event.

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13 minutes ago, garylaverick said:

18z Euro 4 snow accumulation by 4pm tomorrow

I knew it!

Hate to say it, but it looks like it'll miss most the stretch from up to the Toon too.

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As soon as it hits -10°C, I'm going for a walk.

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When is the breeze or cloud due to come in and stop the temp drop?

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-9.1°C. I've just spent 5 minutes sorting out the car battery charger. Thin jumper and slip on shoes. I'm bloody freezing!

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Already -8°C here. Jesus it's cold.

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6 minutes ago, garylaverick said:

1pm tomorrow on the GEM 12z, my new favourite model if this comes off. The problem is its either going to deliver the goods, or be an extremely frustrating near miss.

Clearly this is the point when everyone should go to williamhill.com and put their life savings on it scraping 100yds north of Gilesgate Moor...

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-8.6°C here was the low.

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11 minutes ago, damianslaw said:

Yes just noted all the showers packing into Kent. Don't think these were forecast must be a convergence zone. Alas here in Cumbria we get the rain extremes!

I keep being sent bloody videos and pics of it all piling up by friends and family down there!

I keep trying to reply by turning the focus onto Altnaharra...

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Opposite ends of the UK currently the places to be - Altnaharra is at almost -18°C, with a PWS in Kinbrace at -20.5°C!!!

Kent getting another load - currently places are at 30-35cm. With about 15-20cm to come, so over half a metre by the end of the night. Annoys me no end that the SE can end up with more snow than most of us got in 2010! But, anyway... 2 amazing extremes.

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Can anyone tell me (again, this is a genuine question) what it is about the air mass/air flow that means this sort of organised shower system is currently barrelling in and towards Kent, where they are looking at another 20cm overnight, whereas here we haven't had anything like this?