North West England Regional Weather Discussion

[davacr123]

OK just the way it was typed didn't sound like occluded front

[Day 10]

Irish Sea pepping up!

[chiffer]

7 minutes ago, Day 10 said:

Irish Sea pepping up!

Bout time, finally got snow instead of icy rain and it bloody vanished!

[gearbox1001]

We caught between 2 blocks of snow/rain here in st Helens.  Absolutely clear as a whistle. Sods law

[Stratocumulus perlucidus]

5 minutes ago, Spah1 said:

Occlusion 

METEOROLOGY

a process by which the cold front of a rotating low-pressure system catches up the warm front, so that the warm air between them is forced upwards off the earth's surface between wedges of cold air.

Lol i know what an occluded front is just not how it effects ppn.

[Spah1]

Just now, Stratocumulus perlucidus said:

Lol i know what an occluded front is just not how it effects ppn.

No idea

[I Cumbria Marra I]

light sleet turning to snow

[jam2010]

At last the lightest snow is falling but yeah we have something whoop. Sticking straight away.

[Stratocumulus perlucidus]

How close am i to this streamer!!

[Anon90]

Starting to turn whitish outside, wouldn't really call it full on snow but it's better than nothing I suppose.

[Geordiesnow]

Had about 15 mins of soft hail shower at a moderate intensity, started to stick stright away but then it became very fine stuff and it was struggling to settle, turned into light snow on its back edge. When that wind picks up, it does feel quite cold I got to say.

[Day 10]

Northern Ireland doing extremely well from this

[chiffer]

6 minutes ago, Stratocumulus perlucidus said:

How close am i to this streamer!!

I'm under it and nothing 

[frosty ground]

Just to the north east of that shower..... might find a few oldhamers back on 

[Bolton67]

Just now, chiffer said:

I'm under it and nothing 

Now that is bad luck.......

[Day 10]

Just now, chiffer said:

I'm under it and nothing 

Me too, very strange

[cheshire snow]

SNOWING

C.S

[SparkleS]

Really is pathetic here for snow lol... after the 50 minutes we got some snowflakes and now it's clear again !

[IM NOT REALLY HERE]

Looks like I may be in line for a shower soon with a beefier one possibly incoming from morecambe area? 

[Day 10]

Nice little area moving toward Preston area

[jam2010]

Nice coming down now not really heavy but fluffy moderate.

[Geordiesnow]

1 minute ago, Day 10 said:

Me too, very strange

I think we got to be careful not too take the radar to literally as these are small shower cells so very localised in nature so whilst it may say you got PPN you might not of but a mile or two down the road has.

As I said earlier, really tricky predicting what the radar is going to show next.

The stuff that is meant to head southwards tonight is closing in on Northern Scotland, be interesting too check the weather stations up there and see the temps and dew points and of course the wind which is forecast to really strengthen.

[captaincroc]

20 mins ago. Came in for a warm up then back out!  

[snowingtequila]

16 minutes ago, davacr123 said:

What do you mean by occlusion as not heard of that one before mate

An area of more organised precipitation 

[jam2010]

Oooooooo nice and heavy now, looks like it will be short lived though.