North West England Weather discussion 16/01/16 Onwards

[countvlad]

light rain here. temp 2.7

 

[dodge]

First bits of light snow falling here now.  In fact other than hail, this is the first snow falling this winter.  Let's hope it's the start of good things to come.  Maybe so with the cold being more stubborn to move away next week

[Spah1]

Tiny little granules falling now. Had really big proper snow before. 

[carl1980]

Stopped here temp falling 0.9c

[griff74]

Is getting darker and colder here and the snow is starting to get into it's stride.

[jam2010]

 got heavier here not sticking but nice to see  snow  

[cheshire snow]

Still raining very painful temperature 

1c DP -1C

C.S

[i luv snow]

Just getting heavier, and starting to settle in Manchester.

[pip22]

The snow gone less white here.

[i luv snow]

3 minutes ago, jam2010 said:

 got heavier here not sticking but nice to see  snow  

Just started to settle in Salford!

[Spah1]

I'm tempted to call this sleet now

[dodge]

Snow intensity has picked up and readily sticking to the frozen ground

[Spah1]

Heavier stuff seems to be over west Scotland. Hopefully making its way down in couple of hours. 

[March Blizzard]

14 minutes ago, Weather-history said:

Heaviest snow since Boxing Day 2014.

Very light snow just started here. Wasn't late Jan 2015 better in your location, WH? It was here anyway.

[Bolton67]

Easing off a little 

[chiffer]

That's what I have so far!

[griff74]

Getting heavier and starting to stick to surfaces but not the ground as yet.

[Backtrack]

1 minute ago, chiffer said:

That's what I have so far!

In St Helens?!

 

its just starting to turn more to snow here now. 

[Stratocumulus perlucidus]

Reverse psycology it isnt getting heavier here!

[Weather-history]

2 minutes ago, March Blizzard said:

Very light snow just started here. Wasn't late Jan 2015 better in your location, WH? It was here anyway.

We got snow from it but Boxing Day 2014 was rain to snow and to get a covering from that scenario and how marginal it was, was due to how intense the snow was.

[chiffer]

Just now, Backtrack said:

In St Helens?!

 

its just starting to turn more to snow here now. 

In golborne BT, going home to Knowsley after this, apparently it's been raining the whole time! Met office said ppn will stop after dawn so we've got a few hours left!

[Darren Bown]

Expecting this to trail on until midnight in our region.

[jam2010]

sticking on the roofs and it looks like it is starting to set on the pavements, really hope it stick and not just go to slush.

[Liam J]

At least it's stopped melting when it hits the ground, just a light dusting though. 

[dodge]

Higher ground naturally faring better, but hopefully as temps fall later on (and fingers crossed the precipitation sticks around) lower ground should see it sticking a little.  Let's not overdo it though, it's not going to be 'foot' fall territory like the fabled 2010/13 years.