The Midlands Regional Weather Discussion 08/08/14 16z----->

[smethwickgg102]

Heavy snow shower here at the moment!

[PolarWarsaw]

Been raining with a wintry mix here, need the DP and temp to drop overnight or else it'l be a wet mix that doesn't even try to stick.

[weirpig]

whiteout again hammering it down  all roads main and side roads covered

Edited February 11, 2014 by weirpig

[I remember Atlantic 252]

uppers must be warmer now, that latest shower was just sleet,

 

friday looking like a washout writeoff, GFS 12Z massive downgrade, 00Z and 06Z had a dry friday

[Polar Maritime]

plenty of snow action today in Peak District. mainly around Tideswell, Great Longstone. couple of photos with phone and small clip as I drove over Longstone.IMAG1385.jpgIMAG1387.jpg

 

edit won,t let me upload vid from phone. ??

 

Yes Mark that's just a mile or so from me ! Snow became very heavy on one point catching lot's of people out... some had meted in the sun this afternoon but still have a covering of around 3cm here, and light snow showers started around an hour ago.

 

Temp 0.8c

Dp -0.3c

Wind Chill -2.7c, S/W 7mph.

Edited February 11, 2014 by Polar Maritime

[Polar Maritime]

Heavy snow now 

 

Plenty of showers building to our West on the Radar..

Edited February 11, 2014 by Polar Maritime

[Staffordshire]

Managed to become a lot more wintry by the end of that shower but was too wet to stick, hoping for a couple dry hours before the next bit of ppn

[nobble]

Snowing moderately on way home in Sutton Coldfield

[picog]

I see the "heavy snow" forecast for overnight has been downgraded to sleet and rain. Was I surprised? No.

[Serendipity]

Temp dropping here, dew point rising!

[SMU]

Heavy snow now 

 

Plenty of showers building to our West on the Radar..

 

Trust the FLASH webcam to be broken today ( up the road from buxton)

S

 

[Skyraker]

Trust the FLASH webcam to be broken today ( up the road from buxton)S

What are you doing in here Steve?

[Polar Maritime]

Trust the FLASH webcam to be broken today ( up the road from buxton)

S

 

 

Enjoy Buxton on Friday 

[I remember Atlantic 252]

What are you doing in here Steve?

 

think he is in buxton, think it was today

[PolarWarsaw]

Surprised how bullish Midlands today was. Shefali noted '2-5CM widely, that could be conservative over high ground'./ 

[PolarWarsaw]

Also tommorrow evening - Shefali said it was likely showers would be wintry again overnight.

 

Edited February 11, 2014 by PolarWarsaw

[Gustywind]

It's Shefali though, she's always wrong, still haven't forgiven her for her overnight promise of a 20cm fall during the Feb09 cold spell, we ended up with 1cm as it all went east of my locale.

[Wadey]

Looking a tad windy tomorrow lunch onwards

[Gord]

Snowing heavily again here now. Have a good dusting right now. Can see 2cm if the showers keep coming...but going to be tricky to achieve I reckon.

 

More realistically I reckon quick dustings throughout the night will be the best to hope for.

 

Then it'll all be washed away tomorrow.

 

In the context of this winter, it's been a very positive day here for snow.

 

In the context of this decade so far....meh!

[Summer of 95]

Just had a wet snow shower, temp is a bit too high still but was encouraging to see it wasn't rain. Maxed out at 7C today- it was like an April day.

[Sweatyman]

It's Shefali though, she's always wrong, still haven't forgiven her for her overnight promise of a 20cm fall during the Feb09 cold spell, we ended up with 1cm as it all went east of my locale.

hopeless woman

[Gord]

Looks like that's it for snow showers for now acording to the radar. Next shot will be the early hours then this little spell of wintryness will be at an end.

[PolarWarsaw]

Looks like that's it for snow showers for now acording to the radar. Next shot will be the early hours then this little spell of wintryness will be at an end.

 

Not sure why your posts seem downbeat, any snow wasn't forecast until at least 1-2am onwards according to all forecasts that I've seen.

[Gord]

Not sure why your posts seem downbeat, any snow wasn't forecast until at least 1-2am onwards according to all forecasts that I've seen.

 

i'm not downbeat at all...where'd you get that idea? Very pleased with developments today.

 

Guess you can't get a tone of voice across on the internet!

[PolarWarsaw]

i'm not downbeat at all...where'd you get that idea? Very pleased with developments today.

 

Guess you can't get a tone of voice across on the internet!

 

Apologies if tone wasn't quite bang on, your post made it sound like you expected a rash of showers to be over us currently and because there wasn't...that was that.