Far North Of England - Weather Chat, July 4 and on...

[tynevalleysnow]

Well the met office online forecast for my location having snow for 25 hours starting at 3pm today with no lower than 70% chance. Will probably change by lunch time but if not will be very interesting.

[NorthYorksWeather]

30 minutes ago, tynevalleysnow said:

Well the met office online forecast for my location having snow for 25 hours starting at 3pm today with no lower than 70% chance. Will probably change by lunch time but if not will be very interesting.

I think with your elevation any precip that falls will likely to be snow, heard the BBC mention last night the snowline will be around 200m in the North of England, potentially higher to start with but slowly dropping as the night progresses, would of thought there will be some snowy pics in the morning, favoured spots... Northern Pennines, Yorkshire Dales and North York Moors.

[Cloud 10]

Met office seem to be leaving the warnings to the last minute,so they will probably update in a couple of hours.

[Summer Sun]

Later today and into tomorrow is going to be the best chance for seeing some snow before high pressure moves in at the end of the week settling things down and staying cold

[doctor32]

Morning all, nice to to see a bright morning with a little sun... but don't be fooled as later this afternoon the cloud increases and with that showers and rain moves in associated with a low pressure system moving over the region later. This will likely produce mainly snow on higher elevations and with freezing level dropping through the evening/night then down to lower levels too. However coastal areas should keep the rain especially as winds turn more N/NE due to warm north sea. 

Expect meto to issue warnings this morning and several cm of lying snow in upland areas and slushy/few cms to some lower levels during the night.

Into the weekend and next week, much drier and some nice winter days but cold with widespread sometime sharp frost away from coastal areas where showers will flow in off north sea from time to time, especially saturday as a shallow low passes down north sea introducing more of a NE flow... these may be wintry too. Next week staying cold as the block holds atlantic at bay... but for how long? who knows

[doctor32]

As expected, warning issued... mainly for high ground for now. 

Outbreaks of rain and sleet, with snow over hills will spread east during Wednesday, before increasingly turning to snow in places. This seems likely to happen during Wednesday evening across southern areas of Scotland, perhaps including parts of the central belt. The trend to wintry weather then extends into parts of northern England during the rest of Wednesday night, clearing from Yorkshire during the morning. At this stage, it looks as if the heaviest snow will affect parts of southern Scotland (for which a separate Amber warning is in force) and upland areas of northern England, including cross-Pennine routes, where 3 to 6 cm may fall in a number of areas, with possibly as much as 10 cm locally, mainly above elevations of 300 metres.

Please be aware of the risk of disruption to travel, and take appropriate precautions before undertaking journeys. It will also be worth keeping fully up to date with the latest forecasts - details of amounts and areas affected may well change.  

Edited January 13, 2016 by doctor32

[gordonm]

right that does it!!! I'm looking at right move app to find a house in the tyne valley!!!! living near the coast is pants!!! lol

currently 1c DP-0 850 uppers -6 !!!!!! but no precip!!!!!

[Deep Snow please]

35 minutes ago, gordonm said:

right that does it!!! I'm looking at right move app to find a house in the tyne valley!!!! living near the coast is pants!!! lol

currently 1c DP-0 850 uppers -6 !!!!!! but no precip!!!!!

Make sure it's high up. 70m asl here, not a chance tonight.

[North East Blizzard]

Hoping we may see a bit tonight in Consett

[Geordiesnow]

I got to say, I think the NE best chance of some snow showers will be Friday night into Saturday if the Euro models are right, especially the ECM, Northerly flow off a warmish North Sea but surface winds should be off shore and with uppers of around -6 -7 then these should fall as snow. The GFS reduces this risk as the flow is too NNW'ly but I would definately keep a close eye on future runs regarding this potential because I really would not be surprised if lying snow is reported on Saturday morning and of course if it does, then it could stick around for quite a bit in shaded areas in particular with cold looking like winning out for a while at least. 

[Deep Snow please]

18 minutes ago, North East Blizzard said:

Hoping we may see a bit tonight in Consett

Enjoy it and send a bit down the hill towards us. Going to be another day of frustration watching rain fall in freezing temperatures.

[doctor32]

2 hours ago, North East Blizzard said:

Hoping we may see a bit tonight in Consett

consett always does well in these situations, then 8 miles down the road in chester-le-street it does nothing but rain. looking likely to turn more to snow as thursday morning progresses.

[4wd]

The next few days are unusual for a Northerly/snow showers scenario in that the east coast will miss most of it.

[NorthYorksWeather]

33 minutes ago, 4wd said:

The next few days are unusual for a Northerly/snow showers scenario in that the east coast will miss most of it.

The flow is mainly west of North, keeping the showers out to sea but as @Geordiesnow pointed out above on Friday and into Saturday the winds veer N- NNE for a short window which could see eastern parts see some snow, especially in the overnight period. I wouldn't be surprised to see places East of the A169 such as Dalby with a a covering of snow on Saturday.

[Deep Snow please]

Been dry as a bone most of the day. Any precip falling as rain as expected

[Continental Climate]

we just need a little bit of snow on the ground if we can get that then I think it will stick for a good few days even maybe a week. Its getting that bloody snow that will be difficult. Do people think we will be getting any tonight/tmoz morning? Just popped into the north west thread and its snowing there now in some locations.

[4wd]

18 minutes ago, Deep Snow please said:

Been dry as a bone most of the day. Any precip falling as rain as expected

I can smell snow now - dry so far but only 1.9C

[Cloud 10]

The band spreading in from the west is intensifying all the time which can only be a good thing for snow chances.

 

[tynevalleysnow]

Currently -1.2 dp -3.04 and snowing moderately right now here

[geordiekev]

Good to hear the cold shot has kick started. With the cold coming in and the ground cold from today should settle easy.

The freezing temps going through to next week will keep the snow in place so hopefully will look like a winter wonderland for some time. It was nice to be able to walk the dogs without sinking into the swampy fields.

The map shows the snow moving in turning readily to sleet initially. Bring it on 

[Cloud 10]

Got sleet here at the moment.

[doctor32]

Rain here

[damianslaw]

Heavy snow in Ambleside at only 60-70 metres earlier this evening, power of evaporative cooling. In heaviest precipitation the margins are favouring snow - very similar situation to 12 December, however, unlike then as time goes by this evening and overnight conditions will become more and more favourable without reliance on evaporative cooling. Always annoying knowing it could be snowing if only the precipitation was heavier - the case here in Windermere so far this evening.

[geordiekev]

Just starting to snow here, mixture of sleet but big wet snowflakes in between. A good start.

Edited January 13, 2016 by geordiekev
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[Deep Snow please]

15 minutes ago, geordiekev said:

Just starting to snow here, mixture of sleet but big wet snowflakes in between. A good start.

Rain down here in Ponteland so far. Bad start.