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Rubbed in rather than drunk I assume.

Sounds nasty, can you get treatment for that.

Watch out for low flying toys Moki.

Telling us what you posted my give us a better idea on why it was deleted but if you dared to suggest that Fridays system would be better further north then you deserved everything you got. Had a quick look through the last few pages of posts in there when I got home from footie and unless the current thoughts of a Friday breakdown change it will be carnage shortly.

All this talk of breakdowns and milder weather coming sooner than expected. Each to their own I suppose but i’ll gladly take a week of bitter cold and snow before winter sods off for another year and we get something warmer. that said though the Met outlook is anything but mild with upgrades in snow potential over the coming weeks.

Good to see the region now covered by warnings on Tuesday and Wednesday and unlike those earlier in the season, I think that these will end up being justified. i’m not expecting huge amounts but given the wind strength and bitterly cold uppers and dry air, what falls will readily blow into drifts and conditions approaching blizzard like will probably occur. IMBY I wouldn’t be surprised to see something approaching late March 2013 which probably gave the largest drifts here since 1979 and even if the snow fails to materialise the winds and perishing cold will no doubt be one to remember. meanwhile it’s all going off in the mod thread with summary executions taking place of anyone brave enough to mention next weekends low tracking further north and introducing rain and milder conditions down south.

Agreed mate, I usually do we’ll out of an easterly and am expecting this occasion to deliver. how much though we’ll see but forecasts seem to be upgrading chances in our region.

Dodge with that last sentence are you Di Oxberry in disguise. i know what you mean though, by mid January 2010 I was sick of shovelling snow and driving on icy roads packed with double parked cars.

Quite a bit from Atlantic fronts stalling against the block as well but i’m pretty sure that some serious amounts came from the east. oh for a repeat of the winter of 1979 although as it lasted for 10 weeks up here I wouldn’t fancy sitting down tonight knowing I had the full event in front of me.........the highlights will do.

Never understood fingerless gloves myself but you’ll be needing Eskimo standard issue ones this time next week.

Party at yours then Sf and save on my heating bills. seriously though, a strong easterly can cause havoc here even without it being a bitter cold one. It somehow often gets very gusty as it crosses the ridge on the county boundary and i’ve had fence panels blown out by easterlies in summer months when lower down the valley it’s been pretty calm. looking forward in principle to what may be a once in a generation spell of weather but the reality when it arrives may prove to be serious and even if the snow isn’t heavy the feel will certainly be damned cold and probably even a shock to my system.

Models still looking good for next week and at last the BBC forecasts are starting to talk about it. in the meantime it’s just going to be bloody cold.

Maybe we know something that they don’t.

Oh right, anyway keep one free for when i’m snowed in up to the bedroom windows.

Thought you’d sold it all off.

I’m gonna predict that if the models come off anything like they are showing a lot of places will be cut off including a few in our region.

Nice to see the Met forecast growing for snow showers developing across the region as early as Monday. still time for changes but at least it’s getting into the reliable timescale. as for amounts, i’m with others in saying that we’re not likely to be getting snowed in on this side of the Pennines but it’s looking more and more like a potent cold spell is just around the corner and with no marginality, at least what falls should be snow.

I hope your right but there’s plenty in the Mad thread who sound like they need counselling at the moment.

Thank god for that, I didn’t fancy a 10 minute look followed by a 6 hour visit to A&E.

Long day at work and I haven’t looked at the latest charts so is it safe to enter the Mod thread or is the risk of toys being flung from prams just to high.

Agreed, some of the best snowfalls i’ve seen over the years up here have come from easterlies. just need a strong enough flow and embedded troughs and bingo. oh and usually non of that crap marginality we get from the west and northwest.

No it can’t be the NW, it’s not drizzling.

I’m being positive about the upcoming period, not because i’m expecting massive amounts of snow for our region but because I still think that the end result for the UK will be a substantially watered down version of what everyone in the Mad thread is wanting and many are thinking is already nailed on. what must it feel like to have warnings of snow measured in feet only to see it all head south at the last moment and plaster others instead. That must be gut wrenching. Oh wait a minute

They’re not particularly high where they devide Lancashire from Yorkshire but no doubt they’re sufficient to stop most of the snow from reaching us.

Turned professional last week after placing several bets that snow weather warnings for the north west would fail miserably at the last moment and we’d end up with nothing. i soon realised how easy this betting malarkey was.