Weegaz

Net Weather radar doesn't seem to have updated since 1.40 this morning

Wonder could I get the lake affect from Louth neagh and get a good dumping

Pressure decreases with altitude, and thickness measures the difference in height between two standard pressure levels in the atmosphere. It is proportional to the mean temperature of this layer of air, so is a useful way of describing the temperature of an airmass. Weather charts commonly show contour lines of 1,000-500 hPa thickness, which represent the depth (in decametres, where 1 dam = 10 m) of the layer between the 1,000 hPa and 500 hPa pressure levels. Cold, polar air has low thickness, and values of 528 dam or less frequently bring snow to the UK. Conversely, warm, tropical air has high thickness, and values in excess of 564 dam across the UK often indicate a heatwave. ***from Met Office website

12z chart for 12.00 tomorrow. So who's organising the snow ball fight?

I think the fact that forecasts are all over the place shows how hard the situation is to forecast never mind having confirmation of depths in certain areas. The snow risk charts still look good, no matter what the automated forecasts are showing for individual areas. We will have a period of 'Now Casting' coming up......so enjoy.

The ones in the south of england shouldn't be complaining to much.....looks like some place could get a good dumping when the precipitation merge with the cold air. Looking good for us still.....thursday evening looks interesting.

I appreciate its an automated forecast but for my location its showing heavy symbols for 6hr period from Thursday evening into Friday. Looking forward to it now.....just have no lamp post to watch. Bitter cold today to

Some peoples are twitching like a rabbits nose

Ties in with GFS for Thursday Hegzyy

Its a very volatile still by the looks of the charts, even the updates from MetO aren't inspiring. I'm still confident some could do well out of it, especially Thursday, as below shows. For me 2cm of snow is better than none......10cm is a bonus.

Looking forward to it over in Northern Ireland....we could do quite well

We're at 110.2msl so I think we will be 5cm more than you mountain.

From 18z it really is looking that north and west is best, winds seem to be strong which will hopefully keep precipation moving east enough for us this side of country

Was thinking that myself Pom.....gfs still looks good from Wednesday afternoon/evening....haven't seen ecm but some chalk and cheese comments in mod thread

That's the logs chopped up and the cage topped up!! Roll on Wednesday evening....just need to get lamp post set up in the front field

Ireland in with a good shot Thursday night into Friday of next week. Charts have been backing this up for a couple of days now.

This would keep us all happy

Still on course this morning.......maybe get my snow ball throwing arm freed up a bit later

This is pretty good alignment, if not better, than what the gfs is showing. The esembles showing snow from 12th to

12z still updating and ran out of frames around the 13th but still on the cards folks.

Some interest around the 13th alright Pom prectypeuktopo (1).webp

'Potential' snow within a reliable range I would say

Snow symbols appearing at my location for New Year's Day Pom, mod thread looking good to!! hopefully this forum will pick up on the positive vibes over the next few runs

Jezzzz.....I think some in here need some left over toys from Christmas to.....I thought this was a light hearted forum on regional weather where people give views and opinions and a few jokes in between. Its all got very serious now. Can we not pm each other if we have issues rather than spoiling it for the majority? The weather is the weather and its good to see everyone views and opinions right or wrong ......roll on the snow so we can get together and throw snow balls at each other in good taste and some let a bit of steam off

From a quick scan of the MOD thread there's potential for some interesting weather coming up through Jan. It'll be a change from what we have had this year anyway. if anyone has any left over toys from Christmas they should donate to the MOD thread, quite a few have thrown there's out of reach