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Still some pretty beefy showers crossing Yorkshire from the North Sea but only time will tell if they have enough left in them to get over to our side.
not a bad effort earlier this morning though and even though the streamer moved away from here soon after light it did give another inch or so top up along with the usual early morning chaos on the local roads.
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Hardly the beast from the east but not bad.
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3 minutes ago, Winter Hill said:
Nice surprise to see snow falling
BBC forecast showed snow showers coming in from the North Sea throughout the day so plenty of opportunity for parts of the region to see something.
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Couldn’t resist looking at the radar and that’s a decent streamer coming across the Pennines.
its pretty narrow though and although i’m getting lucky at the moment, a movement of only 10 miles either way would take me out of the firing line.
still it’s the third day with snow falling this week and after the dire first half of the winter when I couldn’t see us getting anything at all, it hasn’t turned out that bad.
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8 minutes ago, shadowfax said:
Lovely streamer aiming straight for me -wasn’t expecting that so a good top up to what’s still lying from earlier.
Yep, surprised to see the velux window in the bathroom covered again this morning.
i haven’t looked at the radar but wasn’t expecting anything overnight so whatever we end up with is a nice surprise
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5 minutes ago, frosty ground said:
Rain?
are you sure it’s not snow blowing about?
nothing on the radar for miles?
It was snowing a bit when I left work at 5pm but it didn’t do much.
what we are having now is more like damp blowing fog than drizzle but you can feel the damp from it.
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Windy, foggy and damp outside to the point where you can see what looks like rain blowing about.
only thing is with it already being -3c I can see there being some serious ice on the cars and slippy roads in the morning.
meanwhile as i’ve got drizzle at 1000ft, sea level in Cornwall gets buried in snow.
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All we need now then is some fresh new snow for our thread.
tomorrow and Friday are looking unlikely so it’s all eyes on Sunday which may or may not deliver
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20 minutes ago, Winter Hill said:
Found some images of the winter of 1940
photos took on the main route from Horwich to Bolton ( top of Chorley old road) near scout road. About 5 mins drive from my house. About 900 feet above sea level
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first photo is on the road from Bolton to westhoughton.
My parents always said that the snowstorm in 1940 possibly January but not sure was heavier here than anything in either 47 or 63.
a hell of a statement to make given the mythical like status those 2 have reached but aparantly the level snow was over 3 feet deep.
big question is would it have warranted a Met O amber warning or being up here, would a yellow have been enough
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1 minute ago, northwestsnow said:
looks like a streamer to me setting up ?
They seem to be hitting the Pennines and then turning south.
obviously don’t fancy going to Yorkshire in the dark
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1 minute ago, Spah1 said:
Jesus.
Icon pivots the front just under my house.
This will be the 4th time in 8 years.
It seems to happen pretty well every year in much the same way that the north Midlands are often the northern limit of hot weather in summer
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1 minute ago, Had Worse said:
It seems more like Rochdale. Hard to tell as the outer parts of the shower sometimes flourish later and the main core dies.
No that’s the one I was talking about.
the most easterly of the showers was right above Bacup so about 7 miles north of Rochdale.
it wouldn’t take much of a change in direction to put Greater Manchester in the firing line and take the Rossendale Valley out of it.
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From an IMBY point of view I like the look of that line of showers coming in between the IOM and Walney Island.
only problem is that the first one which the radar showed directly above me ended up giving me nothing but I live in hope
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4 minutes ago, northwestsnow said:
Just been outside and what we have is thawing ...
North westerlies now as bad as south westerlies in winter for me.
Agreed, only a decent easterly seems to offer anything more than transient slush these days.
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6 minutes ago, SP1986 said:
It will start snowing when Richarlison hits the back of the net
As it started then.
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1 minute ago, Spah1 said:
ECM is king.
Game over
Probably but if the rumours that it’s raining darn sarf are true I might just have a look into the mad thread to cheer myself up.
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I’m thinking the same as many in here that Thursdays snow will end up short of all but the most southerly parts of our region but the BBC forecast just before 7 seemed quite bullish about moving it across all parts.
i suppose we have at least another 24-36 hours before we can firm up on its final path but in the meantime maybe some overnight showers for the lucky ones.
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Well that was a bit underwhelming, certainly around here.
a full days steady snow dropped about 3 inches up here, maybe 2 inches at work and the heaviest snow I saw all day was from a shower on the way home from work.
one good thing was how quiet the roads were coming up the valley as a lot of folk looked to have finished work early.
i’ve seen busier Sunday tea times.
maybe some decent showers overnight but as for who gets them, it’s down to lamp post watching.
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2 minutes ago, I Cumbria Marra I said:
Raining
Sorry mate
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The radar shows the band of activity out in the Irish Sea to be on a SW NE track and missing most of the region.
hopefully this will veer more westerly but it’s currently looking good for Cumbria, providing of course it falling as snow.
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I had a cm of snow from a shower around 9.30 last night, but otherwise it looks to have been dry throughout.
not looking bad for today though with the Met O icons (yes they aren’t the most reliable) giving me heavy snow from 7am through to well into this evening.
yes a lot of it will be in the form of showers so very much subject to last minute change but we would have to be damned unlucky to not see a decent covering from today’s Synoptics.
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2 minutes ago, frosty ground said:
1 am to 12
not sure what the warning is
I think it’s upgraded the chance of snow showers overnight
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snowing and sticking here, another couple of miles more and our Yorkshire friends can officially join in the fun.
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6 minutes ago, Spah1 said:
Icon doesn't even get the precip to the Midlands on Thursday.
If that’s the best it can offer it can stop south.
anyway i’ve only got one snow shovel and i’ll still be digging all of tomorrow’s and wednesdays snow out so will need a break on Thursday
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North West Regional Discussion 30 Jan 2019 onwards
in Regional
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Yeah just been out in the car and it’s snowing here.