Nick L

What's up with the NW radar?!

:o I presume that is a jokey comment. Not our fault we have had more snow than others!

As expected the PPN is dying out as it reaches South Staffordshire :lol:

3.7c...and a few flakes of SNOW just fell, weird.

Temperature dropping again, now at 3.5c.

For daily temperatures of 4c+ there has been very little thaw, seems very odd. Temp now down to 3.6c, just a bit more...

Yes I really should start believing you! I am glad I bought the NW radar now, very useful. Will almost certainly get a decent top up this afternoon =]

That's a good thing about not seeing proper snow before, when we get a decent fall we think it is great! Our expectations are very low compared to people who saw winters in the 60s, 70s or 80s. Anyway, cloud now thickening all the time, and temp has dropped considerably to 4.1c, probably won't rise again today.

That will almost certainly be extended to 10 days, and some people in the South Midlands could see their lying snow last for 2 weeks, maybe even more. This is something that us young people have never seen before!

To prove my point about suddenly dropping temperatures, it has just happened. The sunshine goes slightly hazy and the temp drops 0.3c very quickly.

Going by my new favourite gadget, the PPN is intensifying as rapidly as it deteoriorated! I thoroughly recommend it if you haven't already bought it - only £3.49 for a month! My only worry is the temperature. I am fast approaching the 5c mark

When the sun goes behind the cloud the temp should drop notably. Starting to get some cloud cover now, and the PPN will arrive when the sun is setting, so it will be mostly snow.

At the moment tiny changes in detail could make all the difference. And we have all seen that things haven't gone the way they should have in some instances this week!

You could get a right dumping. If current forecasts are anything to go by, your lower limit could be 6 inches of the stuff, and with very strong winds there could be drifting. But it is a long time yet and it could all change.

Well, this is finally enough to force me to purchase the NW radar for the coming month, I feel it could be very useful indeed! Some parts of the south Midlands will easily get a foot of snow on Tuesday.

Ah here we go now. The precipitation obviously popped down to the shops or something as it is now starting to reform, regroup and reintensify. Hopefully cloud cover should start to spill in very soon. Countryfile looked interesting for tomorrow night. Little too close for comfort for my location, but I am sure I will get something. The South Midlands could see some exceptionally heavy snowfall and blizzards. An early warning has been issued by the Met Office, predicting between 5-10cm and upto 20cm on the hills. I think it could even be more than that in some spots. The warning spreads as far north as Derbyshire. http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/uk_...t_warnings.html

The PPN has now pretty much completely died out. It is going to take a hell of a pep up now for the Midlands to get anything half decent.

Wha...?

If there is already snow on the ground then any type of snow should settle fairly easily. I have just looked at the radar and I wish I hadn't. Drizzle and cloud anyone?

I thought it was just happening to me because when I get back online nobody mentions it!

Yes let's just leave that out! I think the Met Office are just playing the waiting game, after a number of big mistakes the past week I am sure they are being ultra cautious.

This afternoon's event isn't really that big, and inch or 2 at the most, and the band of PPN is rapidly deteoriorating over Wales, so I don't think it really warrants a warning if I'm honest.

Read the website. The advisories are updated by 1pm daily.

Here is the view out my back garden:

I have still around an inch on the ground away from areas that have permanent sunlight and salty roads. That's something I am concerned about. Less than an hour ago it was below -2c, now it is -0.3c.