North West England Regional Weather Discussion

[March Blizzard]

Heavy snow in Stockport, settling on cars and grass.

[James M]

Heavy sleet here, flakes only just detectable in the rain. 2.2°C

Edited March 1, 2017 by James M

[carl1980]

Heavy snow again

[Derbyshire_snow]

Flash Bar looking good up there

[WillinGlossop]

Just looked out and town has disappeared snow laying on grass, roof and garden furniture 0c......

[robbo88]

It's like a blizzard hah. Cars covered outside! 

[WillinGlossop]

Its very wet clingy lumpy snow.....

[Chris.R]

2 minutes ago, WillinGlossop said:

Its very wet clingy lumpy snow.....

 You fussy bugger lol :-)

[Wildswimmer Pete]

16 minutes ago, SP1986 said:

Poll hill mobile transmitter Heswall

Yes, the Water Tower! Of course there wasn't a cell base station when I lived there (1950s/60s).  I remember watching when the Water Tower had its "roof" put on in 1960.

[WillinGlossop]

The flakes are huge..... really huge clumps.....

[WillinGlossop]

Wow laying everywhere now.....even where puddles were..... 1-2cm.... less wet snow..... 

[SP1986]

6 minutes ago, Wildswimmer Pete said:

Yes, the Water Tower! Of course there wasn't a cell base station when I lived there (1950s/60s).  I remember watching when the Water Tower had its "roof" put on in 1960.

ah yes I forget about the water tower... actually a reservoir still exists, but it's on the opposite side to the mobile phone transmitter. 

strong winds and heavy rain now.

[gregior]

 

finally some proper flakes mixed in with the moderate sleet.

 

 

[James M]

That was a fast drop in temp 1.1°C now and heavy snow starting to stick!

[Wildswimmer Pete]

Now continuous moderate rain and temp down to 2.3C. Light breeze.

[James M]

Wow it never ceases to surprise me how fast it can go from soaking wet to white!

[gregior]

pure snow now,no signs of it sticking even on cars yet

[karyo]

It has just turned to snow here!

[Cheshire Freeze]

8 minutes ago, Wildswimmer Pete said:

Now continuous moderate rain and temp down to 2.3C. Light breeze.

Must be the wind that is killing the chances for us-any breeze will mix the air too much. It'll turn back to rain further N&E soon too as the wind picks up from the west.

[SP1986]

1 minute ago, CreweCold said:

Must be the wind that is killing the chances for us-any breeze will mix the air too much. It'll turn back to rain further N&E soon too as the wind picks up from the west.

Indeed, it's raining even above 4-500m in North Wales at the moment. 

[Cheshire Freeze]

3 minutes ago, SP1986 said:

Indeed, it's raining even above 4-500m in North Wales at the moment. 

As I say I can well believe that. Extra height wouldn't make the slightest difference here.

GFS sees the wind speeds pick up from here on in further N&E so only the summits and much higher elevations will be seeing snow soon I would have thought.

Edited March 2, 2017 by CreweCold

[March Blizzard]

Just sat in my living room in complete darkness and silence watching it come down. Strangely relaxing and therapeutic.

[SP1986]

Just now, CreweCold said:

As I say I can well believe that. Extra height wouldn't make the slightest difference here.

To be fair the mountain forecasts said snow would only fall above 5-600m so Im not surprised. Even Moel Famau might miss the snow.

[toggerob]

1 or 2 cm of snow fallen here at 210m asl, still falling whilst looking out the window with the SLR.

[March Blizzard]

Really is quite heavy now, starting to settle on all surfaces.