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The one I recall from last winter was Sunday 28th November. I remember it well, and not for the best reasons, as my elderly father in law was ill and we had to make several trips to him. We ended up with about 3-4 inches and I had to get the AWD out to get us back and forth from his house. Pic into our back garden of that day.

I quite like the wording of the Meto Weather Warning for our region for Sunday! Although it’ll only be a temporary covering we could get to see some heavy snow fall for a while.

-4.1c overnight low in Barnsley. Currently -2.4c. No ice day yesterday as managed a high of 1.7c. Arpege still going for a period of snow on Sunday before the less cold air moves in.

2nd ice day in a row yesterday here as well. It’s -3.5c at 7.35am after an overnight low of -5.5c at 3.30am. Could we see a 3rd consecutive ice day?

Next Monday and Tuesday potentially looking interesting for our region for battleground snow.

Similar in Barnsley. Got to an overnight low of -1.4c with temps then rising to -0.3c around noon whilst still foggy, and then gradually falling away again once the fog started to clear. Now -0.9c with blue sky and sun and another cold night to come! Looks like temps briefly rising as we progress through Sunday and into Monday and then falling away again by Tuesday. Also, the wind is going to be picking up as well on Sunday and Monday so that should help shift the fog.

Official Ice Day here as well!

Definitely an ice day here! Highest we have reached is -2.1c and temps now falling away again. It’s just been me, the dog and a roaring fire today so no complaints here. Will be great if we do get some snow tonight but struggling at the moment to see where it is coming from unless we get a Barnsley blob in the same way as Sheffield did!

Haha, and no sooner had you posted this that I checked back for Barnsley and its now showing more snow than before. Thing is we’ve seen this so many times with the automated updates. They just aren’t reliable. I keep telling myself to stop looking but I always do!

If you run the radar animation you can just about see that these sporadic showers moved north north west from the North Midlands in a rough band. Also, automated forecast from Meto now just shows thick cloud and fog for tonight and the light snow symbol has gone so not holding out much hope now.

Yep, Meto forecast for Barnsley has now updated to show light snow for 7 and 8pm tonight. It’s now 12.20 and my weather station is still only reading -2.6c, so I think it is highly likely we’ll get an ice day here.

Hmm, not sure it’s Tule Fog as this seems to be very specific to a valley in California (at least according to Wiki!): Tule fog (/ˈtuːliː/) is a thick ground fog that settles in the San Joaquin Valley and Sacramento Valley areas of California's Central Valley. Tule fog forms from late fall through early spring (California's winter season) after the first significant rainfall. The official time frame for tule fog to form is from November 1 to March 31. This phenomenon is named after the tule grass wetlands (tulares) of the Central Valley. Tule fog is the leading cause of weather-related accidents in California.[1] Having said that, like others, I haven’t been able to find a meteorological name for what you seem to be experiencing. Different types of fog are described here but none sound like what you have. Maybe its just ordinary snow and you have fog at the same time Radiation Fog: This fog forms when all solar energy exits the earth and allows the temperature to meet up with the dew point. The best condition to have radiation fog is when it had rained the previous night. This help to moisten up the soil and create higher dew points. This makes it easier for the air to become saturated and form fog. However, the winds must be light less than 15 mph to prevent moist and dry from mixing. Precipitation Fog: This is fog that forms when rain is falling through cold air. This is common with a warm fronts but it can occur with cold fronts as well only if it's not moving too fast. Cold air, dry at the surface while rain is falling through it evaporates and causes the dew point to rise. This saturation forms fog. Advection Fog: This type of fog forms from surface contact of horizontal winds. This fog can occur with windy conditions. Warm air, moist air blows in from the south and if there is snow or cool moisture on the ground it will come in contact with the warm, moist winds. This contact between the air and ground will cause the air blowing in to become cool. Then dew point rises and creates high humidity and forms fog. Steam Fog: This type of fog is commonly seen in the Great Lakes but can be seen on any lake. This forms during the fall season. As summer ends, water temperatures don't cool right away but air temperature does. As a mass of dry, cold air moves over a warmer lake the warm lake conducts warm, moist air into the air mass above. This transport between the lake and air evens out. This corresponds to the second law of thermodynamics and this law state "any two bodies that come into contact, the system will become equilibrium state." Steam fog does not become very deep but enough to block some of the sunlight. Upslope Fog: This fog forms adiabatically. Adiabatically is the process that causes sinking air to warm and rising air to cool. As moist winds blow toward a mountain, it up glides and this causes the air to rise and cool. The cooling of the air from rising causes to meet up with the dew point temperature. Fog forms on top of the mountains. Valley Fog: Valley fog forms in the valley when the soil is moist from previous rainfall. As the skies clear solar energy exits earth and allow the temperature to cool near or at the dew point. This form deep fog, so dense it's sometimes called tule fog. Freezing Fog: Freezing fog occurs when the temperature falls at 32°F (0°C) or below. This fog produces drizzle and these tiny droplets freeze when they come into contact with an object. But at the same time there is sublimation going on. Ice Fog: This type of fog is only seen in the polar and artic regions. Temperatures at 14 F (-10°C) is too cold for the air to contain super-cooled water droplets so it forms small tiny ice crystals.

Currently -4.1c in my part of Barnsley after an overnight low of -4.8c, which was reached just after midnight.

Already -4.2c in Barnsley at 10.20pm, so the coldest so far this winter. Given clear skies it’s likely to fall quite a bit further.

The Sheffield blob has just reached Barnsley and we have a few tiny flakes fluttering down. Let’s just say it isn’t going to add much to the dusting from overnight!

Same here just across town from you @Allseasons-si. Just a dusting!

A murky day in Barnsley today with temps briefly reaching 2.6c before falling away again. We had a little bit of light rain around lunchtime and all the snow and frost has now gone. Temps are now down to 0.8c and looking at the radar the snow nearer Sheffield won’t make it here before fizzling out.

Harmonie showing there is a risk of wintry showers into our region spreading from the West tomorrow. Arpege and Arome also show but not quite to the same extent.

We had a slight dusting of snow in Barnsley yesterday but most of the white is frost that hasn’t shifted in shady areas for 3 days now. Overnight low was -3.1c and at 9.45 still -1c. Outlook appears to be mainly dry inland although coasts still have a chance of catching a shower or 2 over the next few days. Next opportunity for our region for slightly more wide spread snow showers is looking like Wednesday .

Only Arome now showing any wintry precip for overnight tonight. Arpege now showing mainly dry, although still a small area of precip showing before it peters out altogether.

Welcome to the best regional forum @mat43. And just in time for the coldest weather, the gas central heating boiler conks out! Just glad we have a log burner in the lounge but it’s already decidedly chilly elsewhere in the house! Hopefully can get an engineer before Wednesday, but that is no doubt a long shot!

Several mentions of higher than normal SST above, but I saw a post in the Mod thread earlier which showed there has been a marked lowering of these in the last week in most areas other than the English Channel, and as a result are back down to average in most areas of the North Sea. Temps maxed out at 6.1 in Barnsley early this afternoon but are heading back down again now. My take is that other than a brief chance of snow from the front passing through on Thursday morning I’m going for mainly dry and cold for us in inland areas. It’s looking like we will see some severe frosts and hopefully there will be an increasing chance of snow if the winds shift round giving more of a North Easterly or Easterly. We don’t tend to do too well with a straight Northerly. It’s certainly a good start to winter, and far better than the last few, just hope we get a few decent chances of snow in the run up to and through Christmas.

Strewth! Been away from the Mod thread for a couple of hours only to return to find 17 pages of posts and apparently everything has gone t*ts up! That’s winter over then!

Good luck in m-sport! I had a BMW a few years ago and just a bit of damp let alone a dusting of snow set it off all over the road! Great cars in the dry but it was getting stuck in snow in it that set me in the track to AWD and I’ve never looked back.

Agree re the Mod thread, it’s getting very difficult to keep up. I’ve thought about filtering out the majority and just seeing posts from a select few who are clearly more knowledgable, but I think it would take ages to set all the filters! I reckon the NYM and Wolds will do well towards the end of next week, and if we get a few embedded troughs or even a Humber streamer then maybe those of us who are further inland should also stand a chance of seeing some snow. If the AWD system on the XC70 is anything like the XC60 or XC40 then you’ll be fine. My last XC60 got me up Rievaulx Bank a few years ago in about 4 inch of snow when everyone else was going nowhere!