North West England Regional Weather Discussion

[Mokidugway]

Slap bang into our region 

[toggerob]

Snake Pass is currently shut, many motorists ignoring the closed-road signs assuming that because it's clear in Glossop/Ladybower that everything is fine on the summit. As I can vouch from experience, the summit of the Snake Pass is a completely different environment at 1600ft and any accident caused by ignoring the closed-road signs voids your insurance warranty.

 

[robbo88]

I drove towards snake pass and indeed it was shut. So I parked up in glossop and took my dogs out in shire hill. It wasn't very pleasurable haha. Wet snow and wind. My dogs got very muddy. Driving back to Tameside now, and it's just sleet.

What a rubbish cold spell this was, did we even get a frost?

Roll on spring!!

[itsnowjoke]

Snowing but way too wet to stick 

[northwestsnow]

Looks like the peaks getting hammered.

Imby been snowing moderately but not cold enougg to stick so just watching the snowfalling as it probs wont happen again until nov onwards..

 

[damianslaw]

On 09/02/2017 at 20:55, northwestsnow said:

.Icy cold feeling today in a strong bitter wind. Just on the edge of the precipitation band, we've even had a few blue patches in the sky. Not expecting anything particularly wintry, might see a bit of sleety stuff. The snowline over Lakeland hills is much higher than the Pennines oddly, currently 550 metres. We don't do well in easterlies for snow. 

[dodge]

Well for the 99% of the region that doesn't live at the top of farmer joe's farm in the highest peaks, this cold spell has been wretched.  Yes we've had the cold winds, and it's felt as though it surely must snow when it arrives.  Alas it's turned out to be an insult to winters past.  Yes snow flurries in the air, but of the non-stick variety as soon as it touches down.  There's a back-edge to the easterly band of icy cold wetness, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that this is the last swansong of a promising but ultimately disappointing winter of 2016-17.  I've already seen snowdrops sprouting from ground, let's hope they get a spring awakening in the next few weeks.

[Mokidugway]

I agree ,it's about done for me as I'm off to the canarian archipelago for 10 days 

[itsnowjoke]

Chucking it down and windy what a lovely Winter

Edited February 12, 2017 by itsnowjoke

[Mokidugway]

Dryness just about hanging on here 

[I Cumbria Marra I]

Was snowing at 250M, dry back home

[itsnowjoke]

Think I might have a whine then a wine 

[iand61]

what a horrible weekends weather

 so much promise turns into the sort of let down that only our region seems to be able to pull off and the end result of an afternoon's heavy snow is absolutely zero covering at 1000ft.

higher up its a different matter and the summit of the road from Bacup to Burnley was quite tricky in places with snow drifting off the fields but even up there little has actually accumulated.

down here it's now sleet at best and a horrible raw feel to the day.

[Frost HoIIow]

Yet another let down, been out and the wind is absolutely freezing yet away from hill tops all we can manage is rain and sleet?  sums up our vile climate.

[itsnowjoke]

It's absolutely wild here

[cheshire snow]

You just know as most of us turn our attention to spring warmth,the models will through out some proper winter charts just to prolong the agony.

C.S. 

[I remember Atlantic 252]

Just now, cheshire snow said:

You just know as most of us turn our attention to spring warmth,the models will through out some proper winter charts just to prolong the agony.

C.S. 

already happened on GFS

[Chris.R]

 Yet again no rain for almost a week. It really has been very dry this winter apart from the odd wet few days. 

[robbo88]

I know it has been a generally dry winter, but Imby it hasn't really felt that dry. Yeah ok there hasn't been hardly any storms or high amounts of rainfall.

 But even under the high pressure there were a lot of drizzly/misty damp days when it was forecast to be dry. 

As a result, apart from when it had been frosty my dog walks have mostly been squelchy muddy ones.

[cheshire snow]

29 minutes ago, I remember Atlantic 252 said:

already happened on GFS

Indeed it has quite a huge spread on the ENS from the 19th though.

C.S. 

[Mokidugway]

That's funny it's felt on the whole a dry winter and quite pleasant minus snow of course ,lol

 

[Day 10]

Close on 4 years now without more than 1cm of snow that lasted more than an hour, utterly depressing!

[toggerob]

Countryfile forecast mentioning the possibility of thundery showers here in the west for Wednesday, at least the weather this winter has been throwing all-kinds of variables about. January though was dire with that high slap-bang over the UK yet bringing nothing but clouded out days and consistent fog.

[I remember Atlantic 252]

Spring can spring in Feb, stronger sun, next week could be springlike, Tues 7th definitely was, saw WH timelapse, and definite sun convective clouds there, here too

[Jan]

I'm fed up up with this winter now,yet again so much promised then nothing happens. Off to Spain midweek, warm and sunny but an hour away I can have so much snow to play in.........perfect