North West England Regional Discussion 21st January 2013, 06z onwards

[Stephen_Mcr]

Surprisingly happy with the overnight amount - totally unexpected for here.

Had snizzle last night and only an icy slush on cars, woke up this morning and everything is white - not much accumulation but I'm not too bothered about that as long as things are all white and nice.

[snowdrifter]

Heavier again here (St Annes) now

Is this likely to freeze tonight folks? Will be treacherous in the motning if so. Memories of 2010

Edited January 21, 2013 by snowdrifter

[Brass_Monkeys]

If it carries on like it is now for another couple of hours we could reach 10cm. Just took a measure on the patio table which had 1 or 2cm from Fridays snow, so around 7cm so far

[SparkleS]

Winter wonderland here! Woop woke up to comeplete whiteout and still pelting down with snow.

[Cheshire Freeze]

Been pretty satisfied with this spell. A 4 inch dumping on Friday and on off snow since. The only thing that has been missing is severe low temps.

Would like a Greenland high to finish off the winter in Feb though!

Edited January 21, 2013 by CreweCold

[Backtrack]

Wow, woke up to a thick covering of snow and it's now belting it down!

[Lake District Blizzard]

Any where near Calbeck? thats where i was born and brought up!

Not too far away from Caldbeck, id imagine theres been a good fall of snow there too! cant even see the Northern Fells at the moment, cloud very low almost misty

[R.P. McMurphy]

Been pretty satisfied with this spell. A 4 inch dumping on Friday and on off snow since. The only thing that has been missing is severe low temps.

Would like a Greenland high to finish off the winter in Feb though!

Signs of a GH at the end of the GFS runs.

[Snow free zone]

STOP PRESS ............... it has snowed in Preston overnight ................. I have just regained consciousness after collapsing when I looked out of the window. 1-2cm sticky stuff but should still be around when the kids get home, and still when the big kid gets home was still snowing at 7.30 when I left as well.

For once there actually seems to be more snow in Preston than round Carnforth, very little snow up the M6 north of Preston really plenty on the hills to the East of here though can't see north its too cloudy.

[frosty ground]

Wow, woke up to a thick covering of snow and it's now belting it down!

Is it as deep as the dusting you photed on Friday

[Backtrack]

Is it as deep as the dusting you photed on Friday

Dunno, not been out yet, I'll tell you later.

[toccylad]

Snow Getting heavier

[Cheshire Freeze]

In Backtack's defence, the snow on Friday was misleading. It was light, powdery snow which was blown against objects. Now I had 7/8 level cm on the table outside but the actual level depth was about 10cm or 4 inches as snow was blowing off as it was falling. There was easily 8 inches in drifts as my photo showed (snow depth up to shin on that photo)

[trickydicky]

Any particular reason why the BBC weren't showing the snow in the North West even when it was still falling out the sky?

[Backtrack]

In Backtack's defence, the snow on Friday was misleading. It was light, powdery snow which was blown against objects. Now I had 7/8 level cm on the table outside but the actual level depth was about 10cm or 4 inches as snow was blowing off as it was falling. There was easily 8 inches in drifts as my photo showed (snow depth up to shin on that photo)

Thanks mate!

[Stratocumulus perlucidus]

this green blob was over me for 3 hours overnight

[Stratocumulus perlucidus]

Here is the accumulation over 24hrs. me and backtrack are in the green lol

[R.P. McMurphy]

Heavy snow coming this way from huddersfield. Proper heavy here now, super heavy.

[snowdrifter]

Out of pure need for snow, I said this last night! (the middle sentence being the key one!) Never thought it might happen though!

http://forum.netweat...ost__p__2547109

Edited January 21, 2013 by snowdrifter

[MWB]

Wow woke up to a good covering, and still snowing now. The road has had to be cleared so cars can get up/down!

[Stratocumulus perlucidus]

Still snowing heavy

[kaluja]

Finally snowing here ... quite light but seems to be coming down at a reasonable rate and its attempting to stick !!

Have also lost my view of Clougha Pike which i think has been eating all my snow!

Hopefully I might get a bit of snow on the ground from this as the kids (and me ) are sick of seeing snow on the tv but none here.

[Stratocumulus perlucidus]

Wonder where hot cuppa is

[NW_Blackburn]

Snow has certainly picked up here

Edited January 21, 2013 by NW_Blackburn

[mufc]

Heavy snow coming this way from huddersfield. Proper heavy here now, super heavy.

Where in manc are u?