North West England - Weather Chat

[tfin]

Can't be doing with all this sporadic rain/sleet/slush nonsense. Im off to bed.

[loubie_4]

Someone posted this on the model thread. I don't think it be like that by Friday especially in the lowlands.

I'm in the green (no snow) bit right near the Sefton coast :'( Edited January 28, 2015 by loubie_4

[Will Padz]

Would love some pics please of all the drama down there

Stopped snowing now but wow..... Hope everyone gets theirs tomorrow.... â„ï¸â„ï¸â„ï¸â„ï¸

Ps this tomorrow? Yes please.....

Edited January 28, 2015 by Will Padz

[DemonDaz]

At least got to see some decent flakes, can some o you post pics of your white gold in the morning pleeeease, it'll remind me of what the 'proper' stuff looks like

[HotCuppa]

It has been a few years since i last posted.

 

hale

 

2.9C slowly falling temperature

0.8C dew point, slowly falling

 

Sleet in the vicinity. 

So far we have had very erratic temperature changes. Highest temperature 30 minutes ago was 4.5C

 

until about 1 hour ago, it has been completely dry, then we had a light rain shower. also having just gone out to the car

the wind appears to have dropped to a very light breeze.

 

The angle of those showers does not look promising at all, just seen the sat24 radar and they seem more aligned northern ireland / ireland -> south wales.

[Spah1]

Off to bed - rubbish. People take note - for good snow that everyone wants it needs to be colder!!!! Freezing cold! Below 0. Mental note to self -marginal means no snow for most!

[Thunder Snow]

Another light showers, showers seems to be getting far between why?

[HotCuppa]

Off to bed - rubbish. People take note - for good snow that everyone wants it needs to be colder!!!! Freezing cold! Below 0. Mental note to self -marginal means no snow for most!

that is not true really, as long as you have your dew point at or below 0C, you can have temperatures of 5/6C, but it needs to be very heavy precipitation for it to change to snow, also helps you have the right 850hpa temps too 

[shelly 73]

Not done anything for hours here. Then winds picked up a bit and its hail/snow here.

[loubie_4]

It has been a few years since i last posted.

 

hale

 

2.9C slowly falling temperature

0.8C dew point, slowly falling

 

Sleet in the vicinity. 

So far we have had very erratic temperature changes. Highest temperature 30 minutes ago was 4.5C

 

until about 1 hour ago, it has been completely dry, then we had a light rain shower. also having just gone out to the car

the wind appears to have dropped to a very light breeze.

 

The angle of those showers does not look promising at all, just seen the sat24 radar and they seem more aligned northern ireland / ireland -> south wales.

Good to see you HC

[Cheshire Freeze]

Sod all here apart from a brief sleety snow shower earlier. It doesn't even feel that cold out of the wind so I reckon the dewpoint must be quite marginal at the minute.

[i luv snow]

Off to bed - rubbish. People take note - for good snow that everyone wants it needs to be colder!!!! Freezing cold! Below 0. Mental note to self -marginal means no snow for most!

 

Not quite, its snowing fairly widely this evening even in urban areas like Manchester. The problem is any sort of westerly wind will warm up regions by sea - if the northerly early week sees troughs & disruptions then you won't have that problem

Edited January 28, 2015 by i luv snow

[Stratocumulus perlucidus]

Evening HotCuppa cant believe the luck recently for us around the estuary. Hail and grauple here all day. Dp is below 0c temp is 3c 850's are -6 and the allignment, well thats another issue

[Thunder Snow]

Right guys I'm I've to bed, this looks like my last show for awhile night

[Hocus Pocus]

There's still time but I have to say this is looking very similar to last weeks event, I'm not holding out much hope for anything particularly wintry tonight and we may have to wait for next weeks installment but by then I think many in here will have called time on another wild goose chase.

[pip22]

I give up. The Irish Sea is still being lazy as usual and I gonna be lazy too by going into bed!!

[Jan]

well it's 5c here and sunny!!  must be that Spanish plume

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

useless %"%$& weather app on phone

[HotCuppa]

Evening HotCuppa cant believe the luck recently for us around the estuary. Hail and grauple here all day. Dp is below 0c temp is 3c 850's are -6 and the allignment, well thats another issue

been rather a strange day, we had a few flakes but it gave up.  That wind we had down here was bordering gale force for a while, then it just vanished.  Very similar temps to you, would really like to see the 850hpa down to at least -10C or so, and then we have the strange alignment, which I think will likely change once it hits the northwesterly airflow

[Penrith Snow]

Turning into a great night here with another heavy blustery snow shower rattling through on a gale force wind, it's so rare to get high winds and snow haven't seen anything like it for years.

4cms lying now blowing about in the wind, OK not a great amount but I am not complaining.

Andy

[Miamay]

Lots of hail showers all evening. To those who have snow - im delighted but i hope we do get some tomorrow. Still very windy/gusty out

Edited January 28, 2015 by Miamay

[HotCuppa]

The original forecast was rain / sleet this evening to gradually turn to snow in the early hours of the morning until at least mid morning (9am). colder air will arrive overnight, would not worry to much.

just wanted to point out for the estuary at least,  since we are literally on the borderline as it is, it will only take a heavy shower for it to fall as snow.

Edited January 28, 2015 by HotCuppa

[Mountain Snow]

3 inches of snow now and looking at the radar there's plenty more to come overnight. Really have done well out of this spell, usually there's not much left of the showers after passing over Dumfries and Galloway. Hope you guys further south wake up to a covering, I'm off to bed.

[Thunderbolt_]

I actually managed to capture a bit of that thundersnow before!

 

[I Cumbria Marra I]

Heavy hail/snow!!

[Jan]

Hi HC nice to see you on here again