North West England Weather discussion 16/01/16 Onwards

[Darren Bown]

Eee it's all on a knife edge! Still around freezing here. Is all that mess in the Wirral and Wales anoprop?

Edited January 16, 2016 by Darren Bown

[Day 10]

Couldn't get any more bloody marginal if you live south west of the Mersey! I bloody hope this corrects west just enough, look at these dewpoints, knife edge stuff (I know other factors involved).

[James M]

Very interesting set up today. Got down to -5.1°C last night, coldest of the winter so far and it's still -1.6°C now.

[I Cumbria Marra I]

4 minutes ago, dodgeredee said:

Snowing in Whitehaven/Workington (western fringes of Cumbria) now albeit very light.

where did you see that?

[Day 10]

Wind direction switches from west to south then south east from 6ish

[dodge]

1 minute ago, I Cumbria Marra I said:

where did you see that?

The pink areas show it as snow, but it could be so light it might be anathrop levels.

[I Cumbria Marra I]

All frost has melted

[Spurry]

-4.6c overnight and a sharp frost,turned cloudy earlier on but now sunny again and temp at -0.5c ...not expecting any snow here later ,probably sleet at best.

[Day 10]

I fear for us westerners it's moving too far east

[I Cumbria Marra I]

Still nothing falling, radar is wrong.

[Liam J]

Radar lies, I should be under light/mod ppn but zilch! 

[joggs]

It does look further East on the radar to what was shown on the BBC.I think Manchester could be the sweet spot.

I'm in West yorks n could be just on edge of precip.

Edited January 16, 2016 by joggs

[chiffer]

I i think I speak for everyone when I say I'm going to really enjoy this rain to rain event! Especially being west of Bolton!

[Chris.R]

 Precipitation not reaching the ground. A good sign,  evaporative cooling should be effective. feels really snowy outside  if you know what I mean. 

[Steve_Alltami]

3 minutes ago, *Sub*Zero* said:

Radar lies, I should be under light/mod ppn but zilch! 

Same here - nothing falling from.the sky, yet according to the radar we should be seeking something. 

[I Cumbria Marra I]

I've just been outside seen about 10 flakes/drops in 5 minutes, very wet and small though, probably sleet tbh

[I Cumbria Marra I]

ITS SNOWING!!! still very light but its pure snow this time

[pip22]

frost is melted here except the shades

[Darren Bown]

BBC seem to think rain west of M6 this afternoon, then turning to sleet/snow from forecast seen at 12:08. Snow east, and Stav even said possible of a few inches, rather than cm.

[Iceaxecrampon]

2 minutes ago, I Cumbria Marra I said:

ITS SNOWING!!! still very light but its pure snow this time

.....was going to say it should be - radar looks heavy.

[Day 10]

2 minutes ago, I Cumbria Marra I said:

ITS SNOWING!!! still very light but its pure snow this time

sun's trying to come out here

[Liam J]

NOT rain NOT sleet but SNOW!!!! 

[liam79]

29 minutes ago, Minus 10 said:

I fear for us westerners it's moving too far east

Looks a little further west compared to the forcast and GFS?

[Liam J]

Coming down quite fast now but only small flakes, temp fallen to 1c. 

[chiffer]

As soon as they say west of m6 your really looking at Bolton west. But it is only huge guesswork, well only know when it's actually here. Looking about 2 degrees above 0 at prescot until you get to the m6 which is still at a minus at the moment.

 

seems temps are falling though...

Edited January 16, 2016 by chiffer