North West England Regional Weather Discussion 23/04/2017 onwards

[Wardlegacy]

The met office app has now updated and has changed the heavy snow all day tomorrow to light snow in the morning. I am in Bollington so not looking great anymore. Snow today though! Let’s enjoy

[karyo]

Snowing nicely again

[Joe Bloggs]

Belting it down at Salford Quays.. was just live on BBC News. 

[griff74]

Really ramping up now, I'd give it a 6/10!! 

[Drift]

Seem to be right on the northern edge of this streamer at the minute, can only hope the centre widens. Although a bit of snow settling readily.

[damianslaw]

The band of snow looks like missing us in the main tomorrow, unfortunately, I'd rather be 100 miles distant of it, than about 20! - alas we may see a bit - will wait and see , it could easily nudge north a little more than predicted. Temps certainly won't be marginal.

So our best chance is today, winds are programmed to turn more southwesterly/westerly as the day wears on - so we may see some hefty homegrown showers this afternoon - fingers crossed, a couple of cm would do. Not much to ask?

Cumbria always seems to get the snow when no-one else does - we are a climate to ourselves, NW airstreams are generally no good, unless we have a trough/frontal feature, southwesterly/westerly unstable polar airstreams are a different matter - we can be buried!

[Iceaxecrampon]

21 minutes ago, Day 10 said:

Still nothing here.

Yes latest bbc forecast 8.15am still showing snow pushing up to the middle of the region.

Latest GFS charts:

Forecast still looks similar to yesterdays warning.

The Fylde is exactly on the frontal Northerly cut off 

As for Cumbria........

[karyo]

Big chunky flakes now!

[Joe Bloggs]

http://www.raintoday.co.uk/mobile

Looking good. Our current shower (south Manc) originated Blackpool and moved through Preston. A nice line of showers forming. 

[Iceaxecrampon]

2 minutes ago, damianslaw said:

The band of snow looks like missing us in the main tomorrow, unfortunately, I'd rather be 100 miles distant of it, than about 20! - alas we may see a bit - will wait and see , it could easily nudge north a little more than predicted. Temps certainly won't be marginal.

So our best chance is today, winds are programmed to turn more southwesterly/westerly as the day wears on - so we may see some hefty homegrown showers this afternoon - fingers crossed, a couple of cm would do. Not much to ask?

Cumbria always seems to get the snow when no-one else does - we are a climate to ourselves, NW airstreams are generally no good, unless we have a trough/frontal feature, southwesterly/westerly unstable polar airstreams are a different matter - we can be buried!

Yes - At least there is the altitude factor thank goodness - we once went for Blencathra via Halls Fell Ridge a few years back - nothing  - although driving to the Langdale Valley it was buried in the stuff - microclimate in itself an interesting and difficult day

[northwestsnow]

1 minute ago, Joe Bloggs said:

http://www.raintoday.co.uk/mobile

Looking good. Our current shower (south Manc) originated Blackpool and moved through Preston. A nice line of showers forming. 

I'm not happy, in fact I'm quite sad missing me AGAIN 

[Had Worse]

Looks to be a streamer setting up with the target being Glossop and Hadfield.

Light gentle flakes falling as I type but there looks to be a few more meatier courses on the way.

[karyo]

The shower has now cleared. Nice little covering but how long till it melts...

[I'M NOT RALLY HERE]

3 minutes ago, Joe Bloggs said:

http://www.raintoday.co.uk/mobile

Looking good. Our current shower (south Manc) originated Blackpool and moved through Preston. A nice line of showers forming. 

Yes it looks like anything coming through Preston should hit Manchester. Big shower imminent.

[northwestsnow]

1 minute ago, karyo said:

The shower has now cleared. Nice little covering but how long till it melts...

Not long..still at least you got something...hoping the wind direction changes getting hacked off with missing pretty much everything where iam

[damianslaw]

6 minutes ago, Iceaxecrampon said:

Yes - At least there is the altitude factor thank goodness - we once went for Blencathra via Halls Fell Ridge a few years back - nothing  - although driving to the Langdale Valley it was buried in the stuff - microclimate in itself an interesting and difficult day

The fells are plastered white all over - is a christmas card scene though amounts are quite small. It looks superb against the blue sky. I'm confident we will see some snow showers later this afternoon and through the evening.

[Drift]

Just a steady trickle of light snow showers, following a few meatier ones this morning.

[karyo]

Looking at the radar, there are two distinct streamers, one from the Isle of man to Blackpool and the other North Wales into Cheshire. As the flow turns more westerly through the day, everybody will get a chance.

[karyo]

2 minutes ago, northwestsnow said:

Not long..still at least you got something...hoping the wind direction changes getting hacked off with missing pretty much everything where iam

The showers will be going right till the evening so plenty of chance.

[Stratocumulus perlucidus]

There are no planned meto warning updates so far for sunday according to ian ferguson on twitter

[damianslaw]

3 minutes ago, northwestsnow said:

Not long..still at least you got something...hoping the wind direction changes getting hacked off with missing pretty much everything where iam

Yes its been very frustrating seeing the cloud out to our west just drifting south. 

 

[karyo]

1 minute ago, Stratocumulus perlucidus said:

There are no planned meto warning updates so far for sunday according to ian ferguson on twitter

From amber to nothing? They are a joke!

[John_T]

Just a few flakes in the air now with a centimetre of cover.

[Stratocumulus perlucidus]

1 minute ago, karyo said:

From amber to nothing? They are a joke!

There keeping the warnings as they are for now. Last run hasnt changed their minds

[Winter Hill]

Whiteout in Horwich