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Rush2019 Pleased to hear you are feeling well enough to get out and about and hoping all goes well with the further treatment. -
It's a reasonable start to the day here, dry with partial cloud cover, 2.5C. Hopefully a chance to dry out a bit today after a miserable few days. At least the drier weather has been timed well for the weekend.
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Joe Snow Yes, the sun is starting to gain increasing strength now as the days gradually lengthen and by March, conditions needed for snow to stick around are very hard to come by. I recall the snowfall we had in March last year. Absolutely pasted it down in the morning, dumping a couple of inches or so but was mostly gone by the afternoon. A contrast to December through to January when a slight covering can remain on the ground for days.
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iand61 i would definitely have taken your wet two inches here! The warnings were warranted based on the available information on the Wednesday morning, but things did shift just the wrong side of marginal in the models for most later that day which was very gutting after the earlier output. I'm sure those high up were just about satisfied with the covering at least but could have been so much better. At my location, it just ended up being one of the most miserable days of winter.
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Just about the most vile type of day possible here today. Rain, heavy at times well into the afternoon with the temp sat just 2 or 3 degrees above freezing and a fresh Easterly wind. The rain did turn to sleet for a couple of hours this morning. Very disappointing after what had looked possible in the models yesterday morning and another wet and miserable day to come tomorrow by the looks of it. The best part of a 1000ft needed for decent settling snow in the end it seems.
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Down to 2.1C here and rain has turned very slightly sleety.
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Iceaxecrampon Sending the heavy stuff your way, don't want you to miss out on the fun
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Looks like the best part of 1000ft needed at the moment for snow, but this level may be driven down by heavy ppn, of which there is no shortage at the moment.
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cheshire snow Yeah, vile weather here right now. Temperature is slowly dropping, but still sat at 2.5C with heavy rain and a bit of an Easterly breeze. Just about the worst kind of weather there could be. Joe Bloggs I think you know the answer to that one Joe lol!
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Heavy rain, 2.6C.
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Joe Snow Yes, there will be a bit of a backlash if there is little or no snow. I have a lot of sympathy for the metoffice, they were absolutely right to issue the amber warning, but things did downgrade yesterday evening on the models unfortunately. Things could still change, but there have been intense echoes over North Wales for some time now, so the lack of reports in the Welsh thread is probably not a good sign.
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Iceaxecrampon Yeah, I was thinking last night that there could be an awful lot of people wondering why on earth all the schools are shut! I totally get why they made the call given the amber warning, and could still come to fruition, but looking more wet than white at the moment.
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Some intense echoes widely across Wales on the radar, but no reports at all in the Wales regional thread for the past 7 hours. I'm guessing that's a bad sign for snow prospects.
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Rain here, 2.9C, I guess that confirms game over for here, unless the snow level is driven to lower elevation in any heavier ppn. Those in the rain shadow at low levels can be grateful!
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Is @Chris.R still eating his tea? Waiting for his forecast.
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Had Worse Everyone pile over to Will's house tomorrow then, and we know they'll be someone on hand to do the catering
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A much better day today than yesterday and definitely a chilly feel, temperature reached 5.7C. Some chopping and changing in the model output for tomorrow, as is to be expected, but I think I'll cast final judgment tomorrow after it's actually happened rather than before the event, as some seem keen to do.
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cheshire snow Yes, the metoffice text forecast is less than inspiring for tomorrow, makes it sound like the possibility of rain turning to sleet or snow at times. Are they having a last minute wobble? Models still look ok.
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Scuba steve Its quite ridiculous in there right now, I had to double check I hadn't wandered into a regional forum by mistake.
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Dark Horse I experienced the pain of that snow shield for several years, the most horrendous event being March 2013. The snow accumulations don't look particularly amazing away from high ground, even if it does come off, so you wouldn't be missing much.
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Day 10 still looks ok to me Could still change further of course.
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The Northern Ramper There is of course much joy with the shift South in the mad thread, but of course it's still 2 days away and yet to happen yet, so joy could turn to despair and vice versa. This is still not fully resolved and there could be further adjustments North or South.
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Gusty winds here this morning. Dry at the moment, but a wet day in prospect.
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cheshire snow ECM looks good. However, we just have to be mindful that there is a lot of will power being used in the mod thread to suck everything South, which I don't think has been programmed into the models
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cheshire snow Should I start waxing my sledge in anticipation!?
