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Snowing here on the coast.

A short very light snow flurry just passed through here right on the coast. Radar showing shower activity increasing .. © netweather 5min radar

South Shields lighthouse loses its dome as storm Babet smashes the North East coast South Shields lighthouse dome smashed off by high winds and waves of Storm Babet WWW.SHIELDSGAZETTE.COM South Shields lighthouse is missing its distinctive red and white dome after it was torn off by the ferocious sea.

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned ESTOFEX as they have issued a level1 threat of severe wind gusts and Tornado threat across Ireland, Northern England and Scotland for this evening/overnight. DISCUSSION ... Ireland to N England and S Scotland ... A sharp short-wave trough is forecast to cross the area in the evening to night hours. Strong synoptic-scale lift and drop in the 500 hPa temperature will result in a pocket of steeper mid-tropospheric lapse rates and marginal CAPE. At first, CAPE will be elevated with some embedded showers or weak thunderstorms embedded in the main stratiform rain shield. At and behind the cold front, strongly forced linear segments may form with surface-based CAPE. Strongly sheared environment with 0-1 km bulk shear reaching 15 m/s will yield isolated severe wind gust and tornado threat. European Storm Forecast Experiment - ESTOFEX WWW.ESTOFEX.ORG

Just had a short intense graupel shower, got to be the largest graupel ive ever seen..!!

Early warnings for for potential 'disruptive' snow Monday,Tuesday Scotland ,North East England have been issued from the met office. UK weather warnings WWW.METOFFICE.GOV.UK Met Office UK weather warnings for rain, snow, wind, fog and ice. Choose your location to keep up to date with local weather warnings.

Steady moderate snow here right on the coast..

Here in So.Shields we have about an inch of snow laying..Id post photos but unfortunatly Ive contracted covid and i aint going anywhere..!!

Very light snow here in South Shields too.

Try this one, some close CG's. Live Cam Thessaloniki WWW.SKYLINEWEBCAMS.COM Live Cam Panoramic view of Thessaloniki, the White Tower in the background from the Makedonia Palace Hotel

Convective inhibition quite evident in the places where showers are diminishing. © Netweather.tv

Met office also saying 'significant snow down the eastern side of Scotland and North East England.

The word your'e looking for is Graupel. Graupel - Wikipedia EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG

This has probably been broken last year with a recorded pressure at Tsetsen-Uul, Mongolia at 1094.3 mb. All-time pressure records set at the end of 2020: North Pacific extratropical storm peaks at 921 mbar, extreme cold in Mongolia sets new world record with 1094 mbar WWW.SEVERE-WEATHER.EU Final 2020 extratropical storm set a new North Pacific low-pressure record of 921 mbar. A day earlier, a new world record was set in Mongolia, 1094 mbar!

Potential for long fetch streamers along the convergence lines. Could even be low topped cumulonimbus producing 'thundersnow' with pretty steep lapse rates, only 4 days away, so well within the reliable.. © metoffice.gov.uk

With 850' Temps at -8℃ and greater they'll be no marginality here on the coast, had a small flurry this morning and 850's were hovering around -6℃ and winds coming off the sea.

Had a shower here earlier and fell as freezing rain with Dp at -4℃ and air temp at -0.6℃ i was suprised it wasnt sleet or snow..

Snowing here in South Shields moderate falls, almost blizzard conditions in that strong northerly. Starting to settle on the cars and grass.

Sleet and snow showers light to moderate but looks worse in the gale-force winds we are currently having here on the NE coast.

Trans-Atlantic records could be broken as currently theres an Airbus 340 reaching ground speed of 794mph..!! Live Flight Tracker - Real-Time Flight Tracker Map | Flightradar24 WWW.FLIGHTRADAR24.COM View flight IB6402 from Mexico City to Madrid on Flightradar24

The skies were clear here on the east side last night and Betelgeuse could be clearly seen but has dimmed, so much so that his 'belt' is now brighter than his left shoulder..

No Christmas theme this year?

Not looking through rose-tinted ones then..!

Absolutely, this is what last years prediction for Christmas day on this day(9th) forcasted a potent northerly when in fact we got a mild southerly.