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Typical, every bloody low heads south and leaves us dry apart from the one we want to stay south which then moves north, but not enough to give us snow, just enough to stop us getting it

I’ll be disappointed if that’s all we have had by then in other words I’ll be disappointed

Seemed like a decent event but one that I seem to have forgotten about.

On a Saturday as well, what’s not to like

Post it in the mad thread then someone can utter those famous words, southerly correction anyone

Given that the final path of weather systems nearly always ends up at least a hundred miles south of where initially forecast, I can never understand why the models don’t factor this in at the time. Surely it would improve their status when it comes to their level of accuracy and overall standard. as for snow prospects, after showing nothing but cloud and dry for the last week, I’m finally showing a single flake on Wednesday and it’s in daylight hours when I can get out of work and enjoy it Just a shame it likely be gone by the next update

I’m in the east of the region and certainly should have the altitude but not putting my last fiver on a snowfest. Maybe a covering at times as the fronts head south early next week but the current default in cold set ups is for anything coming in from the west/sw to stay well to our south and, even the forecasts are pushing the mid week system south to a point where it is a midlands south event at best. I didn’t take a lot of notice of the science behind the weather growing up in the 70’s and then into the classic winters of the early 80’s but we certainly got some heavy snow events during most years and I’m not talking a couple of inches. snow was measured in excess of a foot up here in the Pennines and crucially hung around for days and sometimes weeks so whatever the direction of attack, it was not only possible back then, but probably the most likely set up. Frustratingly it’s now the complete opposite.

Annoying to see that once again, one posters gain is another ones loss with a band of snow that be driven across in a matter of an hour. what it is with weather fronts in this damn country that they can barely be regional, never mind country wide when on the other side of the pond they give major dumplings that’s stretch across hundreds of miles. It’s not like we don’t have plenty of ocean to tap into but we never seem to have a weather system that ends up any more than a local affair. Anyway I think I’ll keep out of the mad thread.

Full on IMBY ism in the mad thread again this morning. Makes me glad I’m off to work

As happens 95% of the time. keep our southern friends happy I suppose and probably allows us to stay colder with a chance of shower activity from the north/northeast but full on snowy frontal events are practically non existent in our part of the world these days with the usual set up being a few flakes before milder air and rain takes over again. The app for my location is now showing nothing but dry out as far as next Tuesday so I think that the above scenario is probably the one which will play out, at least with the first battleground. interesting though that the BBC forecast is still showing a significant area of snow this time next week reaching well into our region so unless it’s old data, they have their eyes on something.

Can hear the members in the Mad Thread screaming southerly correction anyone not that they’ll need to scream, it’ll probably happen anyway.

Met app shows it bone dry although mainly cloudy here as far it goes out on Monday so a good opportunity for everything to dry out but yet another waste of a cold spell. From an IMBY perspective, and given the northerly air source, I’m not overly confident that we’ll see anything much in the way of snow next week either with the usual wishbone effect limited things to coastal and exposed areas. I’m happy to be wrong of course but unless we get embedded troughs, the east Lancashire drought may last some time.

Southerly correction then Cheshire Oaks car park can get a covering

It was that busy in mad thread this morning some had to go into the SE regional thread instead Bet you couldn’t get through the door at times.

Where could possibly be better than here in the northwest, in brilliant sunshine and drier than a camels backside watching the rest of the country getting buried with London’s 2cm getting wall to wall coverage anyway, at least I had my falling flurries going to work this morning but that’s as good as it got.

We’ve been a bit further north than most of the showers today but there’s a few light ones managing to make it over the Pennines now and heading towards here so it’ll be interesting whether it’s rain or snow or even if any actually get here without fizzling out completely.

Cloudy here now but dry. meanwhile over at daughters in Sowerby Bridge it’s been raining but I’ll take dry over rain any day.

Occasional tiny flurries of snow from a rogue cloud while I was out walking but that is as good as it got with most what is on offer a few miles to my south. slippy underfoot but the positive is that the muddy lanes have frozen up a bit so it’s cleaner if nothing else.

Another lovely frosty morning with the sun just about to show itself above the high ground to our east so it’s time for a quick brew before a swift couple of hours walk. just watched the BBC forecast and it shows the chance of wintry showers and settling snow across higher parts of the south east on Monday. good luck to them but I hope that the Mad Thread have got the emergency chairs and outside catering sorted as it’s going to be awfully busy playing hunt the flake in there here the Met are saying chance of a few flurries over high ground from the east so i am high enough and east enough. I think it will certainly be cold enough.

Early warning out for low flying toys in the Mad thread this morning as they wake up to what seems to be the start of a downgrade to the cold spell. I just don’t know why folks get so convinced that a single cherry picked chart will end up with heavy drifting snow down their street but some just don’t learn. At least a few dry days are on the cards which will bring welcome relief to those affected by flooding but beyond that it’s anyone’s guess and the weather will do whatever it wants, irrespective of our wishes.

Looking at the Meto app for here, there’s nowt to get excited about for the start of this cold spell at least. weekend through to Tuesday is dry and cloudy with temperatures in low single digits and just below freezing at night. hopefully something more dramatic lies beyond that but bland in the short term although a break from the rain should help things to dry out a bit.

Best wishes for a speedy recovery to you both. we need everyone up and about to shift all of the snow potential we can expect over the next couple of weeks. all of the emergency chairs are ready in case it gets busy in here.

Karamboa is the one we went in last January and the only criticism I have was us only going for a week. It’s a massive hotel but spread out and right on a lovely beach and with probably the shortest airport transfer I’ve ever had. You literally drive out of the airport gates and straight onto the hotel access road. sure you’ll enjoy the place and get your exercise in at the same time.

Peeeeeing it down again

We went to Sal in September, as you say barren and at that time of year hot, but really enjoyed it. less to do in Boa Vista but this is a lovely time of year to go to CV. which hotel are you going to.