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Looks like it's going to stall around notts, so someone in that region should do well!

Moderate to heavy snow here now in Leics, settling quickly .

No Andy ! , it's still bone dry in Leicester ! haven't seen anything more than 1/4 of a centimetre all winter yet.. or last year too

It was due to keep moving north for hours yet, and clearly still is on the radar. Not sure why people think its stopped.

Yes true, I can remember one or two times we did okay, but it is pretty rare. Do we really get less rain here ? anecdotally, it doesn't seem like rain ever struggles to get here to me, but i've never checked the actual figures for us versus the rest of the UK to be fair.

That's the beauty if Leicestershire. Whether the weather system is from north, south, east or west - we miss out regardless.

Yeah it's not looking good, I admit. It seems further east than modelled. I'll give it a few more hours but it doesn't look good. Fingers crossed for another event before the end of winter failing that.

Aye, I know the feeling. Live in Leicestershire myself. We rarely do well here even when it's forecast

You need to wait until 2 or 3pm before calling it off. If you look at models like the Arpege, it is supposed to be raining now - as it is. It then sinks south and edges west slightly mid to late afternoon and turns to snow. So remain hopeful for now

Honestly that's what I normally see with Leicester. This is probably the first time in ages i've seen us well inside the warning zone. Feels nice for once , not that I expect much snow regardless. From what i've seen it's really not due to turn to snow for a good 4 hours yet.

And there it is

Safe bet - follow the MetO warning zone guidance. They're right more than they are wrong. Access to better models than we have...

HIRLAM and ARPEGE looking quite nice to be fair for majority of midlands for tomorrow.

I don't believe you either Pic 4 proof

Yeah zero sign of any snow in Leicester. On the positive side, I saw three 1mm size flakes on the way to work which means I have, technically atleast, seen it snow in leicester this year

Same. It's funny sat in the office at work with all the plebs chatting utter crap about the weather. I have to really resist the urge to correct them all the time.

Not sad! that is why we're all here. Nature is always better than watching the utter crap on TV. Fingers crossed for our area and other midlanders.

Why delay what you can do right away ? On a serious note, forecast is unlikely to be wrong at this timeframe. Anyone outside of south midlands is unlikely to get much if any snow. It's still worth keeping an eye out of the window and fingers crossed, forecasts can and will be wrong even in these modern times. But odds are it will be largely correct.

As for your last sentence... i've been skiing every year for the past 15 years to the alps. 1 week each year. Do you know how many times I have seen it snow in those 15 weeks ? once, and about an inch. Every single week I choose to go, it's dry and sunny. Don't get me wrong it's nice to ski in the sun, but I want to see a massive dumping of snow atleast once in my life. I just got back from Les Arcs last week, and then the day after I got back they had 60cm of fresh snow fall. Even last year when they had a huge amount of snow and 3 meter high drifts, I still managed to choose the dry week

Hopefully but I doubt they'd publish new warnings of the area and extent at this timeframe unless they were very sure. Probably just mild run to run variances of their internal models.

Seems pretty much inline with the Hirlam for mid day to me.

Varied quite a lot. I got about 6 or 7cms too, but 5 miles east of me was more like 10 to 15cm.

Lol I remember that. MattStoke has similar look in his neck of the woods To be fair we're like 18 hours away. The chance of ICON, Arpege, Hirlam and ECM all being wrong at this stage is < 20%. Some people in southern midlands will do okay out of this though, a few centimeters perhaps.

Yep tell me about it. On the plus side we get the dregs from most snow events as we're central. But like you said, we never get much from any event either. Most i've ever seen in my south Leicestershire area is about 7cm.

Ah well what did we expect lol, it seems like we go from a nice event predicted to much of nothing in the 72 hour timeframe probably 90% of the time pretty used to it by now!