The wind has picked up once more, hopefully it won't spoil the Narnia-esque landscape outside. I'm really looking forward to seeing the mountains clocked in snow in the morning!
Still pelting it down here, hopefully it continues all night as forecast.
The wind has picked up once more, hopefully it won't spoil the Narnia-esque landscape outside. I'm really looking forward to seeing the mountains clocked in snow in the morning!
Best frontal event I've seen all year, although I do live in Newcastle where most of the snow comes from the North Sea. I've measured the table and its 4cm, but that could be doubled by the morning at this rate.
A decent cover near Keswick where I am now, about 5cm. The A66 between Keswick and Penrith was atrocious with some large drifts by the roadside, spreading right across the road in places. The radar doesn't look that great, but its still snowing quite hard at the minute.
About 5cm here near Keswick, far more than that on the A66 between Penrith and Keswick though with some pretty bad stretches where the snow is drifting onto the road.
Its coming down quite heavily now, hopefully there'll be more than this by the morning.
Keswick looks quite snowy - I'm off this evening so hopefully it isn't too wet there!
http://www.georgefisher.co.uk/pages/webcam.asp
It is allegedly below freezing according to the Met Office.
The NAE puts eastern Cumbria in a rain shadow, but not the Lakes. I'm hoping to see some in Keswick, I don't think I've ever seen more than a few inches of snow there. The NAE has Keswick down for ~17cm by 6am Saturday.
*and severe weather enthusiasts. The snow will fall whether anyone wants it or not, so we may as well enjoy it.
I don't see why anyone likes cars, drinking, hiking, actually going outside the house (!) as all of these could be life threatening.
The NAE gives Keswick 17cm of snow by Saturday at 06:00. If that comes off I won't complain as another 5cm or so would likely fall from the second band during the day.
Only slightly. Cumbria looks like getting absolutely pasted by the end of tomorrow and into Saturday, whereas the NE is looking a bit iffy for precipitation amounts still. Definitely a case of radar watching tomorrow.
A light sprinkling of snow here this morning.