Frosty the Snowman
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2 hours ago, CreweCold said:
Even Texas is getting battered by up to a foot of snow and -15c temperatures...Texas. It's the same latitude as the N of Africa. We’re cursed in this country. No idea how or why cold air has such a struggle to get here.
The Jet Stream.
You surely must be joking if you claim not to know it's effects on the UK as z long time poster on here?
Anyway Atlantic returns from now on with things back to normal.
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Bit of a light breeze out there
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6 minutes ago, Dan B said:
Well if that's the snow we've had it
What bloody snow?
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Bloody hell. Quiet in here.
We all given up on Sat/Sun then?
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36 minutes ago, Wee County Exile said:
What a clown. One one hand it’s hilarious but on the other scarcely believable that someone would actually try to drive that ??
It's only hilarious because the police managed to stop him. Headline could easily have been 'Dangerous Driver kills cyclist/schoolchildren."
Bloody ridiculous anybody could look at that car and think it's safe to drive.
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1 hour ago, chicken soup said:
abc.. Utterly depressing.. The worst region in the country by far this for snow.. The 25 year wait for a decent snow event continues.
Probably be another 25 years wait, I'm unlikely to wait that long
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4/10 at most. A little bit nippy - especially the last few nights getting down to -5/6 overnight, but not even the most snowy period of this winter round here, a covering at most one day. Awful.
Would have took sunshine, mild and rain showers above a snowless Easterly like this.
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It looks as though this cold spell has been predictably naff in this part of the country - not even the best cold spell of the winter imby - the temps are probably a little bit lower than they got during the far snowier spell between the 27th December and the middle of January, an Easterly reliant on convective snow is just a poor option for our area, I posted a picture early today showing the issue in our regional thread with the Yorkshire Dales to our North East and the Pennines to our South East there's only a narrow band of space for any Easterly convection to make it through, sadly and it hasn't found the gap. We got a light covering of snow that may have measured about half a centimetre a few days back, otherwise dustings and infrequent showers.
Other snow events this winter have given us 10cm of snow for comparison. It looks increasingly likely the best hope these parts is going to be any form of snowy breakdown with a front from the west but that seems less and less likely with each model run. It seems outside of the extreme north and eastern areas of Scotland and a narrow band of the South East coast this has largely been a pretty poor snow event - whilst the images from Scotland and parts of the East Coast of the country are captivating that's a relatively small area of the country.
I certainly will be taken model hyping with a lot less seriousness in future, when supposed boom charts lead to this drab of an event. Thankfully we in the North West knew the score before the event started having seen enough lame Easterlies like this one and the 2018 "Beast" that delivered sod all. Until we get a full on Atlantic Front moving in from the west coast into cold air it seems unlikely we'll get any notable snowfall in this part of the world.
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13 minutes ago, chicken soup said:
Thier just covering thier asses I think in the unlikely event it gets here.
To be fair that's exactly what the warning is saying 'Unlikely but High Impact'
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There's the two main directions snow have come from next week. No wonder @chicken soup was so adamant that Easterly's would be crap in this neck of the woods. Awful cold spell, woke up to a covering one day and dustings the rest but with 600m hills to kill precip from one direction and 500m hills to kill it from another direction, no wonder it's dung.
All eyes on breakdown.
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12 minutes ago, Manchester_Sunset said:
Can't see anything happening today
If these showers can't start surviving the Pennines could be some good falls.
Each one seems to be getting further than the last so far.
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Just got a light snow flurry here, certainly looks a bit heavier than radar says it is.
Looks as though showers from the NE could be making it through - we'll know for certain when we see what this does
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Beautifully sunny here.
If it weren't for the fact my phone is suggesting it's - 4 degrees and it feels that cold putting the dog out, you could have tricked me into believing it was late April
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27 minutes ago, Bullseye said:
Quite the sight, first time ever we have had GCC in gritting the roads in our streets and at midnight of all times. How exciting.
Why the hell are they shoveling the grit out of the back of a van rather than just driving a spreader through?
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7 minutes ago, damianslaw said:
Can't remember the last time we had such an event, oh yes I do 25 years ago, 5/6 Feb!
To be fair that would be the upper end of expectations, I'd settle with 10cm to match the last big event this winter after the let down of this Easterly.
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12 minutes ago, Dexter said:
That's insane. What kind of accumulation would that bring, hypothetically of course...
Trying not to get sucked into a Day 5 chart tbh but quite realistically could be 20-30cm from 36 hours of non-stop snow.
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Can still see grass, still a naff cold spell.
Give me the set up we had early January / a few weeks ago any day please.
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There's a few in here around Macclesfield, right?
Absolutely beast of a shower on it's way there.
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Moderate snow falling from the sky here.
Temp must have creeped down a bit again as it's making an attempt to stick - a poor one that said.
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If those charts for the weekend come off this will go down as the worst cold spell I've ever known.
I can still see the grass in the garden for crying out loud.
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As expected huge shower line heading for me has broken up before getting here...
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2 minutes ago, Had Worse said:Wondering if the area pushing up from the SW is causing this.
I'd imagine so, never know it might make it up here. Is snow apparently in Truro.
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1 minute ago, I Cumbria Marra I said:
Looks like the showers are running more straight west than yesterday
Running in a slightly south westerly direction now.
Odd bit of the old dandruff floating in sky.
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Just now, Weather-history said:
That's weird, a moderate snow shower suddenly appeared and just passed over. What caused that?
I wonder inland convection is causing development?
Looks to be the case.
At the same time as the shower over Manchester developed, I was just watching a shower dying into Ripon and then redevelop out of it.
North West Regional Discussion Feb 2021 onwards
in Northwest Weather Discussion
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Police might want to look in the Highlands for the thief, going by the amount of snow.