North West England - Weather Chat - Spring 2016 Onwards

[WillinGlossop]

4c started as sleet but cold rain now, was 7c earlier at 9am.....

[cheshire snow]

Temperature seems to be held at

5c here mostly rain now with the

occasional snow flake for good measure

C.S

[karyo]

The colder air is coming back behind the intense frontal rain which is approaching now from the Irish sea.

[manonthegrassyknoll]

It,s been snowing here for about an hour, settling well, about an inch.. 

 

Edited April 28, 2016 by manonthegrassyknoll
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[I Cumbria Marra I]

Heavy rain preceded by snow then back to rain again at Sellafield today, left a little layer of slush on the windscreens, no lying snow on the local fells around 300M ASL which is surprising.

[Mountain Snow]

Heavy snow for a few hours this afternoon, left a thin covering. Knocked the temperature down close to freezing, now at 3.6C, incredible for the time of year and time of day!

[James M]

Temperature finally starting to go down, 4.1°C. Pouring down still.

[dodge]

Had a little slush on the grass this morning, but far from winter wonderland like the 'Windermere' pic above.  Just heavy rain last hour or so.  May get a bit more slush overnight, but some of the higher ground could get a slightly less wetter element of snow.  Doesn't do anything for me in late April, roll on a warmer trend next week.

[Weather-history]

Clearance is moving in now. A couple of sferics around the Morecambe Bay Area.

[WillinGlossop]

2.5c sleet.....brrrrr..... Fire on chilli made

[Frost HoIIow]

Temp slowly dropping away now, the dew point is 2C & this should lower quite quickly after 8 o'clock to below freezing. Things looking quite good tonight/tomorrow morning for snow across the region even on modest height ground, probably a bit more than we had this morning, with no sun today the ground won't have been effected by much solar heating. It won't be like early March though with that heavy fall. But for late April it *could be* interesting. Hope I haven't jinxed it lol

[Liam J]

Got back from Scotland this afternoon, was -4°C first thing this morning before setting off. Heading southwards from Loch Tay we drove through sleet, snow & hail with temps varying between 1°C to 5°C. Similar story back in Cumbria with heavy wintry showers, max temp on my weather station today has been 5.6°C, checked the calender and yep it's May in less then 3 days... 

[Wildswimmer Pete]

Well, the lousy British climate has really excelled itself today.  Late April and 5C at teatime and snow expected overnight.  Couldn't make it up 

I suspect this will kill a large number of lambs.

[karyo]

Some amazing showers are coming from the Irish sea, just west of Liverpool as we speak! I can see the cbs to the northwest of me. I expect to see hail in good measure and some thunder too!

 

[iand61]

Heavy snow showers in our part of the region first thing this morning dropped a couple of inches in a short space of time but it seemed quite localised.

drove down through Cheshire and it was a lovely day and was the same right down to Birmingham.

Oh the joys of living in the Pennines.

[Chris.R]

Thunder!  Coming closer. 

[Chris.R]

Right overhead. This wasn't forecast    Was it? Massive hail.  First storm of 2016. 

[karyo]

2 minutes ago, Chris.R said:

Thunder!  Coming closer. 

It looks very lively on the radar! I will get what you are getting within the hour.

[iand61]

Just had a heavy shower and thunder here but looking brighter again now.

 

 

[Ashlfc]

Wasnt a very lively thunderstorm with lightning approx every 3-4 minutes 

[SP1986]

Huge flash of lightning before.. amazing line of cbs

[karyo]

1 minute ago, SP1986 said:

Huge flash of lightning before.. amazing line of cbs

Did you get hail?

[Weather-history]

What a day, a frost then heavy snow shower with partial covering, torrential rain in afternoon and very dark skies to the west with thunder.

Going to be an interesting time-lapse for today!

[Chris.R]

Was watching sferics  coming closer but  wasn't expecting that. Wow!   Lightning frequency was low but was  right  overhead at one point. Torrential hail left a thick  covering. Still producing sferics, now  inaudible. Other sferics around now  as well from other cells. 

[Ashlfc]

Sleet shower now