North West England - Weather Chat

[Mucka]

Woohoo another rain shower - things really picking up now. 

[I Cumbria Marra I]

PROPER SNOW NOW! FINALLY!

[Stratocumulus perlucidus]

Wierd how the ppn pepps up at last minute before hitting mainland uk. And then intensifies over land. Noticed it last week too

[HotCuppa]

Hi HC nice to see you on here again

thanks

Hot cuppa. Loving the efc bagge !!

thanks, in times of adversity

[I Cumbria Marra I]

Melting on impact though

[Jan]

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

 

Love it......only ever witnessed thunder snow once, a good few years ago, first thing in the morning, it was eerie, snow was falling and it was so quite, the sky had a very definite yellow hue, then all of a sudden bang!, then the snow became very heavy, fantastic

[Miamay]

Another squally hail shower passing through

[Penrith 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.

2 inches here but well happy, gale force winds and snow is a rare beast indeed, my wife might get her snow day tomorrow lol

Andy

[I Cumbria Marra I]

Weird how we get a lot more ppn from a NW flow than a W.

Starting to lay all of a sudden! PLEASE dont bloody stop for atleast another hour, best snow i've seen in years this, proper big fluffy stuff, glorious.

[Miamay]

Hopefully it will get colder then and we finally see some snow â„ï¸â„ï¸ Cumbria Marra i'm pleased you have finally got some snow

Edited January 28, 2015 by Miamay

[I Cumbria Marra I]

Skylight window covered, why does it start laying all of a sudden? is it the drop in dewpoint and temperature?

[HotCuppa]

had a heavy hail shower and now it has turned to very light snow, suspect it will alternate between sleet and snow ,at least for the time being.  Temperature dropped to 1.3C and dp -0.8C, going in right direction

[I Cumbria Marra I]

Knew i just needed to catch some heavy stuff for it to snow

[HotCuppa]

Skylight window covered, why does it start laying all of a sudden? is it the drop in dewpoint and temperature?

 

a temp and dp drop would not cause it to stop, but maybe just dry cells over you, wouldn't worry to much, i suspect more on the way

[Stratocumulus perlucidus]

There is an embedded low due to cole down tomorrow teatime fromnthe north. Wont get to merseyside till about midnight. If thats alll snow it will deliver 8cm per hour. It passes through quick but worth it with that rate. Also has it spiraling over the north west for a bit too

[I Cumbria Marra I]

nice little dusting of snow, stopped now and can hear dripping

[Miamay]

There is an embedded low due to cole down tomorrow teatime fromnthe north. Wont get to merseyside till about midnight. If thats alll snow it will deliver 8cm per hour. It passes through quick but worth it with that rate. Also has it spiraling over the north west for a bit too

Thats good for us then ??

[Stratocumulus perlucidus]

[Jan]

Knew i just needed to catch some heavy stuff for it to snow

Made up for you....................now pass it down here

[I Cumbria Marra I]

Thanks Jan, really hope you get some.

[HotCuppa]

There is an embedded low due to cole down tomorrow teatime fromnthe north. Wont get to merseyside till about midnight. If thats alll snow it will deliver 8cm per hour. It passes through quick but worth it with that rate. Also has it spiraling over the north west for a bit too

it would be nice if that would come off for us, the sst for irish sea is not as cold as we would expect for the time of year, so we need that snow to come in on an alignment so that any high terrain does not suck the moisture out of the cloud, which is what usually always happens when we get a straight northerly  or an easterly (from these directions it hits high terrain and the precipitation is just sucked out as the snow is deposited on the moors and pennines), some times we get lucky with a north easterly.  If the temperatures can drop low enough, then any thing generally coming in off the irish sea, will be as snow,  but this generally only happens in fragmented showers, but some of those showers can be quite heavy.

Polar lows are just perfect for us (warmish irish sea, very cold surface temperature, very cold 850's), just dumps endless snow on us and i am sure the last the time i saw that was back in either 95 or 99 cannot remember which year, but it dumped a couple of meters of the stuff in a short period of time.

Edited January 28, 2015 by HotCuppa

[SparkleS]

After nothing for ages got hail showers again

[Paul T]

Penrith @ 23:30. few cms.

night

Edited January 28, 2015 by Paul T

[Spah1]

There is an embedded low due to cole down tomorrow teatime fromnthe north. Wont get to merseyside till about midnight. If thats alll snow it will deliver 8cm per hour. It passes through quick but worth it with that rate. Also has it spiraling over the north west for a bit too

Not cold enough. I noticed it too. Rain my bet.

[Stratocumulus perlucidus]

it would be nice if that would come off for us,  the problem is, the sst for irish sea is not as cold as we want it to be at this time of year, so we need that snow to come in on an angle that any high terrain does not suck the moisture out of the cloud, which is what usually always happens when we get a straight northerly  or an easterly (from these directions it hits high terrain and the precipitation is just sucked out as the snow is deposited on the moors and pennines), some times we get lucky with north easterly.  Nice to see cold from the north, with advancing precipitation from the south, with snow on its northern edge over the midlands, pushing up towards us, with nothing to get in the way.

its is coming on a nwley. Its coming in kess than 24hrs according to nnm. It skirts along the scottish coast and then over irish sea and slaps us innthe face! It cokes down fromna buckle in the isos and stroger winds behind it. It not just a trough it shud be very squally i think as its a low centre