The Midlands Regional Weather Discussion 19/12/2013----->

[conor123]

Moving away from here now, turned back to sleet on backedge, but a very nice surprise in what has been a very trying few weeks for a snow lover.

[Summer of 95]

Mini slush and snowballs ongoing...it'll freeze alright! Tiny area of precipitation has to be noted.Serious snow it's sticking on the grass lol.Nite mids folk.

Lol we still have some slushy snow out there, sad git that I am I've just collected another handful and put it in the freezer so I have a sample of winter 13/14 snow :lol:

[weirpig]

Lol we still have some slushy snow out there, sad git that I am I've just collected another handful and put it in the freezer so I have a sample of winter 13/14 snow

yep same here although got quite alot collecting on the grass. lovely surprise and still throwing it down

[WillinGlossop]

Can see the pinker skies to the west.... Will it fizzle before getting here probably....

[Wadey]

Can't believe I'm looking out the window and seeing snow who needs -8 uppers lol great stuff just proves anything can happen

[WillinGlossop]

Lucky lucky people.... Not envious at all enjoy.....

[weirpig]

really surprised by the amount of snow thats falling  top of cars and windscreens turning white

[fizz511]

Oo-er. Will it reach Solihull I wonder.....?

[hammy]

Oo-er. Will it reach Solihull I wonder.....?

 

judging by the rain today radar loop at 01:00 something should be falling?

 

sleety here in hall green

 

Been told its more like snow in rubery though

 

crazy what a few more m asl can do! 

[fizz511]

Yeah, someone just posted ((in a different thread) saying it was snowing in Stourbridge ....

[skyblusam]

Its only rain here in coventry so enjoy your sleet/snow fellow midlanders. I must be to low down lol

[weirpig]

stopped here now, good while it lasted  seems height is a deciding factor  friend in kingswinford said it was only rain there

[Terminal Moraine]

As I suspected might happen, the area of showers to the west yesterday evening fizzled away to nothing more than a short spell of light wet snow by the time it reached here early this morning.

All that remains is a layer of frozen slush on the car windscreens.

[Staffordshire]

Quite shocked to wake up to a very thin layer of snow, wasn't paying attention to the current forecast as was too hung up on what could happen in the future

[Polar Maritime]

Yes a thin layer of snow here too.

[picog]

Some lucky people around last night. Nothing here, not even rain! However, we do have frost number 4 on the trot, so I'm happy with that (although I would have much preferred snow!).

[Summer of 95]

A nice frost here this morning, still bits of last night's snow around in some spots. Was expecting to just find everything wet to be honest.

[Bishop Brennan]

No snow here overnight, but a hard frost. We just about managed to reach -0.1c earlier this morning.

 

Looks like being a nice sunny day, best make the most of it!

 

Bish

[nobble]

A covering of snow this morning nice surprise

[Harve]

More substantial snow on the Cat & Fiddle webcam.

[conor123]

Looks like the Wrekin has a nice covering of snow this morning, turned back to light rain just as it was starting to settle here so just some patches of ice.

Lovely sunny morning though cloud pouring in from the west now as the next storm approaches.

[Bishop Brennan]

Today marks the half-way point of the meteorological winter (Dec/Jan/Feb). Let's hope the second half is a lot colder & snowier than the first!

 

It was around this stage last winter that our prospects markedly improved.

 

Bish

[Wadey]

People trying to predict the weather in the mod thread drives me nuts, 'met office 10+ however many days shows no snow' well it snowed here last night and they didn't show that in there forecast so how can they know that far out ?

Last night was a great surprise so I think they should shut the models down for a week and see if we get any more surprises lol

[conor123]

I don't think the -5 isotherm has even scraped the region this winter yet, it seems to be a never ending sea of yellow's and green's, at least last night's surprise despite not settling has meant it's not a completely snowless winter :lol:

[I remember Atlantic 252]

Saw cars with snow on around 9am, coming from west midlands, inch of snow not unusual, not that I even gave snow a thought as a possibility last night, no cars here though with snow on, just ones on main road radford bank, must have come from higher elevations

 

so i have seen lying snow as early as 14th Jan in a way