The Midlands Regional Weather Discussion 11/03/14

[Bishop Brennan]

Classic early Spring day here - mostly sunny, quite cool, windy, and the occasional shower

 

Bish

[Stormraider]

Is that a squall line out West? Been not too bad here today, the odd shower, bit cool though.

[Gord]

Well I said that I'd only come back on here if something grabbed my interest. And that line out west is doing just that!

[TonyH]

Its basically a rain band with gusty winds as it sets in but now winds are light behind it.

[Polar Maritime]

A wintry mix here of sleet and snow mixed in the heavy bursts.

[I remember Atlantic 252]

This day last year the best, 6 inches of snow, Sat 23rd March, Sun 24th also snowy morning

[I remember Atlantic 252]

A wintry mix here of sleet and snow mixed in the heavy bursts.

 

yeah even 200m lower, just a hint of sleetiness in this squall feature, temp dropping now at 3.6C

 

Quite heavy sleet on backedge, but blue skies now to west

Edited March 22, 2014 by IrememberAtlantic252

[Stormraider]

I was unfortunate to be out in that intense hail shower! Horizontal hail from very strong wind = Blindness so had to stand still as couldn't see.

[Costa Del Fal]

Thunderstorm just recently passed North Worcestershire it seems.

[I remember Atlantic 252]

have a feeling tomorrow is going to be a washout for north west of this region, been lucky since about 0ct really, not much rain and no Cheshire Gap days

[Summer of 95]

Sleet mixed in with rain in a shower here about midday. Went over to Barmouth this afternoon and there was a heavy hail shower there as we were leaving about 1615, and saw lots of sleet driving back. Was pretty much all snow going over that Oerddrws pass near Dinas Mawddwy, but only above 600m did the hills have a dusting.

[Terminal Moraine]

No lying snow here but we have had sleet and hail showers. The heaviest of these about 2 hours ago left a partial covering of hail on the ground; about 2 miles E/SE of here the roads were covered in slush due to melting hail.

Perhaps it's too much to hope for that the showers will continue overnight and give us a thin covering of snow by morning.

[Bishop Brennan]

For those of you who might be in a nostalgic mood, here's the Midlands Discussion thread from this time last year..........

 

http://forum.netweather.tv/topic/76191-the-midlands-regional-discussion-220313-12z/

 

We managed to chalk up 44 pages of posts in less than twenty four hours! 

 

Bish

[I remember Atlantic 252]

For those of you who might be in a nostalgic mood, here's the Midlands Discussion thread from this time last year..........

 

http://forum.netweather.tv/topic/76191-the-midlands-regional-discussion-220313-12z/

 

We managed to chalk up 44 pages of posts in less than twenty four hours! 

 

Bish

 

IrememberAtlantic252 likes this! never been a fan of like button, but it's even worse now

[WillinGlossop]

For those of you who might be in a nostalgic mood, here's the Midlands Discussion thread from this time last year..........

 

http://forum.netweather.tv/topic/76191-the-midlands-regional-discussion-220313-12z/

 

We managed to chalk up 44 pages of posts in less than twenty four hours! 

 

Bish

Was reading that then heavy hail shower ending with bought of snowflakes....

[Bishop Brennan]

IrememberAtlantic252 likes this! never been a fan of like button, but it's even worse now

 

Some of the pictures being posted this time last year were genuinely amazing. Polar Maritime's were probably my favourite ever since I started following this forum 

 

Bish

[mattyrayandkay]

Absolutely beautiful in dove dale today , as you can see. Also got a good glimpse of snow at the cat and fiddle in Buxton too...marvelous!

Edited March 22, 2014 by mattyrayandkay

[Terminal Moraine]

Absolutely beautiful in dove dale today , as you can see. Also got a good glimpse of snow at the cat and fiddle in Buxton too...marvelous!

Thanks for the photo's, mattyray and kay.

Although we know where you were when you took them, could you put your location in your avatar please, it's always handy to know where someone is if they're posting weather reports or commenting generally on the weather in their area. Thanks.

 

A few sleet showers already here this morning but any lying snow now looks very unlikely this month. We've managed not to entirely snow- free  this month, now can tonight manage the first air frost in March?

[Gord]

Just had a brief snow shower here. Very big flakes. Quite a surprise!

[Polar Maritime]

A very cold night coming up, colder than what most have endured all Winter,  Showers of sleet/hail so far today.

 

Current temp 3.8c, Wind Chill 0.6c, Dp 2.2c.

 

 

[Staffordshire]

Thanks for that link bish!

Mix of rain sleet snow and mainly hail here right now

[Staffordshire]

Topped off by some thick flakes of snow

[TonyH]

Topped off by some thick flakes of snow

Surprised you have snow 

[BlueHedgehog074]

It's a complete mystery - the radar showed a shower over me at around 8am, but was asleep by that time, so had no idea what it fell as (ahhh!). But it would have just been typical if it fell as sleet or wet snow, considering the wintry shower reports in here (lol).

[Bishop Brennan]

It's a complete mystery - the radar showed a shower over me at around 8am, but was asleep by that time, so had no idea what it fell as (ahhh!). But it would have just been typical if it fell as sleet or wet snow, considering the wintry shower reports in here (lol).

 

I can confirm we had heavy snow here in Knowle at 8am...............

 

 

Bish