Yorkshire & E England Regional Weather Discussion

[NorthYorksWeather]

 

On 25/12/2018 at 13:45, Winter Cold said:

Merry Christmas everyone! 

I hope you are all having a safe and happy day.

Let's hope January brings us some snow. Was nice to see a hard frost on the car last night but unfortunately even that had melted by the morning!

Let's hope next year brings us what we crave 

Well its quiet in here as expected and no sign of these thread picking up in the next week or so.

Facebook memories kindly reminded me of 4 years ago today which put a smile on my face, a runner moving into cold air was forecast to give a good dumping to parts of West/South Yorkshire.

Living in North Yorkshire I was quite frustrated by the forecast, so decided to take the other half to the Peak District for the day, in hope that we would see lots of snow on the drive home.

We weren't disappointed! We left Edale near Castleton at 5pm and we didnt get back home till around 10pm, mainly due to the amount of stranded drivers between Castleton and Sheffield.

I was driving a Vauxhall Vectra at the time, only FWD but had 4 good winter tyres on which coped well in the fairly wet snow.

We did however get stuck around Wadsley Bridge on the A61 in Sheffield as it became a complete standstill for around an hour and half, eventually managed to turn around and join the M1 near Meadowhall.

I do have some pictures somewhere that I'm going to try and dig out, but with this thread being mainly folk who benefited from this event it would be good to see some pictures to cheer us all up.

Probably the best snowfall I have seen so close to Xmas day itself.

@The PIT

Edited December 26, 2018 by vizzy2004

[Winter Cold]

46 minutes ago, vizzy2004 said:

 

Well its quiet in here as expected and no sign of these thread picking up in the next week or so.

Facebook memories kindly reminded me of 4 years ago today which put a smile on my face, a runner moving into cold air was forecast to give a good dumping to parts of West/South Yorkshire.

Living in North Yorkshire I was quite frustrated by the forecast, so decided to take the other half to the Peak District for the day, in hope that we would see lots of snow on the drive home.

We weren't disappointed! We left Edale near Castleton at 5pm and we didnt get back home till around 10pm, mainly due to the amount of stranded drivers between Castleton and Sheffield.

I was driving a Vauxhall Vectra at the time, only FWD but had 4 good winter tyres on which coped well in the fairly wet snow.

We did however get stuck around Wadsley Bridge on the A61 in Sheffield as it became a complete standstill for around an hour and half, eventually managed to turn around and join the M1 near Meadowhall.

I do have some pictures somewhere that I'm going to try and dig out, but with this thread being mainly folk who benefited from this event it would be good to see some pictures to cheer us all up.

Probably the best snowfall I have seen so close to Xmas day itself.

@The PIT

I remember this well!

It was chucking it down initially, then turned to snow in a very short space of time. Got deep quickly.

We were out for a family meal and got there ok in the rain and then it all went crazy and because it was marginal it was those big sticky flakes that built up quickly. Lasted a few days after too 

 

Edited December 26, 2018 by Winter Cold

[Stonethecrows]

4 years ago today. Ruskin park, Sheffield S6. Still argue with people today who don't believe this happened as it was such an isolated incident, people only a few miles away didn't see a flake and we got loads.

[Winter Cold]

I managed to find out 2 pics I took from 26/12/14; here's Crosspool, Sheffield on boxing Day night just as it was stopping:

[sorepaw1]

16 hours ago, vizzy2004 said:

 

Well its quiet in here as expected and no sign of these thread picking up in the next week or so.

Facebook memories kindly reminded me of 4 years ago today which put a smile on my face, a runner moving into cold air was forecast to give a good dumping to parts of West/South Yorkshire.

Living in North Yorkshire I was quite frustrated by the forecast, so decided to take the other half to the Peak District for the day, in hope that we would see lots of snow on the drive home.

We weren't disappointed! We left Edale near Castleton at 5pm and we didnt get back home till around 10pm, mainly due to the amount of stranded drivers between Castleton and Sheffield.

I was driving a Vauxhall Vectra at the time, only FWD but had 4 good winter tyres on which coped well in the fairly wet snow.

We did however get stuck around Wadsley Bridge on the A61 in Sheffield as it became a complete standstill for around an hour and half, eventually managed to turn around and join the M1 near Meadowhall.

I do have some pictures somewhere that I'm going to try and dig out, but with this thread being mainly folk who benefited from this event it would be good to see some pictures to cheer us all up.

Probably the best snowfall I have seen so close to Xmas day itself.

@The PIT

Good morning. At the time how did you find the winter tyres on your Vauxhall vectra. Ie climbing slopes or hills.

Sorry to ask the question. 

Im just interested. 

Hope you've had a good Christmas 

[Stonethecrows]

20 minutes ago, Winter Cold said:

I managed to find out 2 pics I took from 26/12/14; here's Crosspool, Sheffield on boxing Day night just as it was stopping:

Yes Crosspool always seems to be a bit of a magnet when there's snow around.

[Sara_south_yorks]

So nice to see snowy pics, as we are almost in January and i have seen no snow  

Hopefully it starts to at least turn cold soon! 

Anyways...wishing all of you all the best for 2019!

[NorthYorksWeather]

On 27/12/2018 at 11:07, sorepaw1 said:

Good morning. At the time how did you find the winter tyres on your Vauxhall vectra. Ie climbing slopes or hills.

Sorry to ask the question. 

Im just interested. 

Hope you've had a good Christmas 

Had 4 Michelin Alpin tyres on with good tread. Not gonna lie, apart from an overheating clutch there was nothing stopping me, no matter the incline Vectra just ploughed through.

[NorthYorksWeather]

20 minutes ago, snow*please said:

So nice to see snowy pics, as we are almost in January and i have seen no snow  

Hopefully it starts to at least turn cold soon! 

Anyways...wishing all of you all the best for 2019!

Tough one so far, surely we can see a repeat of 2013/14.

[MIKE LEVITT]

yet another snowless December in hull,amazing to think that the heaviest snowfall in the last 20 years in hull was way back in last week of November ,early December 2010.even the much hyped megafreeze last feb prouduced barely an inch in hull..

[ricey076]

6 minutes ago, MIKE LEVITT said:

yet another snowless December in hull,amazing to think that the heaviest snowfall in the last 20 years in hull was way back in last week of November ,early December 2010.even the much hyped megafreeze last feb prouduced barely an inch in hull..

None over hear in cleethorpes either ! Plenty of winter yet to come though!

[MIKE LEVITT]

id even welcome a cold,clear and frosty high,these mild,damp and cloudy highs seem more common nowadays.

[The PIT]

17 hours ago, MIKE LEVITT said:

id even welcome a cold,clear and frosty high,these mild,damp and cloudy highs seem more common nowadays.

Looks like you'll get you wish for a few days before the temps return to more normal values.

[Winter Cold]

Happy New Year everyone! I hope its a safe, happy and rewarding one for you all

[Aiden2012]

This winter is soo depressing 

[Kathryn Atkin]

Happy New Year everyone.  Well, the Sheffield Star is posting about snow and ice again, forecasting another SSW event around the 3rd/4th week of January, so what do you reckon?

[Cheese Rice]

The outlook is pretty dire for the feasible future. It's entirely possible that January ends up a complete write off. 

Usually I wouldn't be so gloomy but we've been locked into this pattern for so long now and the Met Office has pushed back any cold spell to the end of January. 

The wording in the meto extended outlook suggests there  could be some frontal snowfall which usually delivers to higher ground but that could be reserved for just Scotland. 

[4wd]

Bit of wet now over the moors today
 

 

[4wd]

15th December for the snow starved masses
 

 

[NorthYorksWeather]

1 hour ago, 4wd said:

15th December for the snow starved masses
 

 

Gonna have to sell up and move to the Moors Colin, at least there is a small bit of snow interest in the worst of winters so far! 2 snow events so far up there, albeit very small and fleeting.

[Beverley Lass]

Woweeee some sunshine !
It's a rare treat    

[The PIT]

15 minutes ago, Beverley Lass said:

Woweeee some sunshine !
It's a rare treat    

 

Just watched the Beeb forecast. Dull cloudy which it certainly isn't. Lovely Spring day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Jeremy Shockey]

yes , sunny , lovely blue skies , no breeze and 9 c here in East Yorkshire.......time to get out and do some gardening. ( not dull and boring at all ) 

[The PIT]

6 minutes ago, Jeremy Shockey said:

yes , sunny , lovely blue skies , no breeze and 9 c here in East Yorkshire.......time to get out and do some gardening. ( not dull and boring at all ) 

I hate gardening but I've cut the lawns as they were dry enough.

[MIKE LEVITT]

too cold to garden