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  1. Echoing thoughts above, I’ve had enough of this ‘winter’. Where’s the high pressure? Where’s the cold, crisp days and the frosty nights? Where’s the winter season as a whole gone? I really hope this isn’t a theme for the rest of the year. We have to really hope for a dry & sunny spring/summer period. Those with SAD must really be struggling (such as myself).
  2. Day 10 I don’t think much has changed regarding low levels. At this range it’s hi-res modelling that interests me!
  3. This event was always going to be a transient affair for ground below 400m, I can’t see any meaningful downgrades or anything to get too stirred up about. Plenty of moisture hitting colder air, starting as rain, colder air undercuts for a few hours turning it wintry before turning back to rain around 2pm for all of us away from high ground. In this particular battleground, the mild, sub-tropical air wins out. It was always looking like a wintry mess at lower elevations. However, get the intensity and you’re going to benefit. That warning map from @Kasim Awan’s Facebook page is silly though. You can’t have an immediate rain shadow for JUST Manchester and no where else. Too many memes and stuff on that page mate, you could have that as the best and most informative non-government meteorological page in the UK.
  4. Just checking the charts, I think we’ll be good for a few hours of snow, even on the immediate coast. The uppers are conductive to wintryness until around 2/3pm, where they do creep into positive digits. Surface temps & intensity are key here to lying snow rather than uppers. Good old battleground. It’s been a while.
  5. Much harder flicking through our beloved regional forum without viewing quoted posts. Hopefully it gets swiftly knocked back on the trial and we can resume ease of reading. We actually got down to 1C last night. Only 4 degrees below our forecast minimum, not too bad was clear until about 3/4am. Cloudy now. Looking forward to a sunnier day tomorrow. In my opinion, winter is finished now. There’s nothing on the charts that’s remotely cold. February notoriously in recent times doesn’t deliver (and I’m wanting some spring warmth now anyway after we hit 15C the other night. It’s wet my appetite).
  6. As someone who is a very active user, this really feels like a step back. Most users won’t be able to quote on their phones or tablets by selecting specific portions of text, especially the older members who aren’t as tech savvy. Flicking through the forum since this ‘upgrade’ makes for a much harder read and it just looks overall way more untidy. I can see why it might work in certain threads such as the model thread where half a page is sometimes taken up by image quotation, but for me if there was an option to turn it off, I would. That’s my opinion as an IT professional, not a novice user.
  7. Wow wow wow. It feels almost spring-like. Yesterday topped out at 15C in the evening. It felt so comfortable and pleasant, even in the wind. We’re sat at 10.5C currently with no sign of anything even remotely average on the horizon. Another 10 days of well above average on the way.
  8. We’ve had a -7C, snow falling on Monday night, Tuesday morning, and Thursday night. Some snow cover since we had the original fall on Tuesday and persistent low night time temps. Day time temps weren’t as low as I thought and we didn’t really get any significant snow, something that I’ve been chasing for about 3/4 years here now.
  9. And just like that, the cold spell is over. Weeks of model watching and finger crossing and it all boiled down to a Tuesday that was just slightly too mild for the snow to properly stick around. It’s been cold but not super cold. The sun has been welcome and it’s been nice seeing the elusive, super rare white gold falling from the sky. We’re just about to pop above freezing here and when we do, it’ll be the last time those digits are recorded for probably around 2 weeks. Last nights min was before midnight when we dipped just below -3C. Here comes the Atlantic steam train. Hold onto your hats, going to be a mad, mad weekend.
  10. Not sure we want it. It’s started raining here now. The colder uppers are being mixed out and dew points are soaring
  11. There’s rain in this lot. Super marginal. Knew it would be with a direct W’erly. Even under super cold uppers and surface temps were struggling. Wow.
  12. Everywhere covered again. Heavy soft hail shower. The good stuff! Good old Irish Sea.
  13. Couple of snow showers showing up on the Met app for here. Though marginality might be an issue now, especially with a direct W’erly
  14. Winter is firmly on hold after tomorrow with the usual autumnal default resuming. Talk of ‘the next chase’ etc on the model thread. There is no next chase as far as I’m concerned. Just a few teleconnectic background signals that rarely mean anything, or the usual chopping and changing at 10/14 days out. The rest of January can now be written off and February has the stronger sunshine so any snow cover becomes really hard to hang onto. ‘Winter’ yet again is going to draw to a close without delivering a significant snow event in my opinion. I suppose it’s something we just need to get used to now. Then again, you’re statistically more likely to see snow at Easter than Christmas
  15. Did anyone around the Anglesey/Bangor area benefit from that streamer & shower activity last night? Was pretty constant from what I saw on the radar for N. Wales!
  16. Is it really always coldest just before dawn? WWW.THENAKEDSCIENTISTS.COM Hi Chris, We're on a roadtrip to the coast and the sun is just coming up. We remembered the saying that it's always coldest just before the dawn (darkest as well but that makes sense). Is it true
  17. -7.0C low on the WS, was -6.4C when I checked it 15 min ago. An apparent max of 3C is forecast today. Can’t see that happening, but we’ll see.
  18. That makes you one of the mildest places in the UK! Even L’pool Airport is at -3C. You sure it’s only -1 where you are? -5.3C here in Widnes. I quiver at the name ‘Whitehaven’ one of the most depressing and behind the times places I’ve ever been. I vowed never to return, ever!
  19. Winds are veering now, slight more of a W’erly will limit the drop or even cause a rise near the coast from here on. We’ve had the lightest winds out of pretty much the whole country tonight. Explains the widespread coldness!
  20. A band of showers has formed just over the IOM, current trajectory takes it around Merseyside through to Cheshire in the next few hours. How far they can penetrate remains to be seen. This northerly air is REALLY dry.
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