North West England Regional Weather Discussion - 09/12/2017 Onwards

[I Cumbria Marra I]

12 minutes ago, Frost HoIIow said:

I think they are too far west most of the time and even closer to the influence of the Irish sea. They get first prize for rain though lol

Too far west when its a NE'ly or E'ly, too far east when its a NW'ly or N'ly, cant win

[itsnowjoke]

Well I think I will give this thread a miss for the foreseeable as it's taking up way too much time in my life so I wish you all A Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year enjoy 

[itsnowjoke]

And if you believe that you will believe anything

im glued to this place

[itsnowjoke]

But the good cheer still stands 

[Mokidugway]

1 minute ago, itsnowjoke said:

But the good cheer still stands 

Nearly opened the champagne then 

[WillinGlossop]

21 hours ago, Dkeane3 said:

 

[WillinGlossop]

Fairly heavy showers incoming 

[itsnowjoke]

2 minutes ago, Mokidugway said:

Nearly opened the champagne then 

Ouch

[Chris.R]

You couldn’t make it up. Lightning earlier just to the West of me, now just to the East of me, but both just slightly too far away to hear. 

[iand61]

1 hour ago, itsnowjoke said:

Still raining 

Just come back from Burnley myself and I didn't have to climb much up past Towneley Park before rain turned to sleet and the road was covered in snow at Deerplay.

more like sleet again here though.

[dodge]

50 minutes ago, I Cumbria Marra I said:

Too far west when its a NE'ly or E'ly, too far east when its a NW'ly or N'ly, cant win

You need a potent Polar Low to form and drop south from south west scotland, then you'll get buried.  Trouble is, they are few and far between.

Here and now, getting a few sleety bits in the mostly falling rain.  Expecting zero fluffy whiteness tonight.  Sharp frost tomorrow night though.

[iand61]

1 hour ago, shadowfax said:

Have a good time and enjoy the sun.

Thanks Sf, even if the poorest weather the Canaries can throw at me will be an improvement on what we've had up here this week, even more so considering what other parts of the country and our region have had.

Back Christmas Eve, hopefully to a winter wonderland.

[Chris.R]

some instability associated with this trough for later. Maybe the lightning will stop avoiding me then.

No sign of a frost here for the for seeable future. 

[Stratocumulus perlucidus]

1 minute ago, Chris.R said:

some instability associated with this trough for later. Maybe the lightning will stop avoiding me then.

No sign of a frost here for the for seeable future. 

I doubt it!

Sticking weather cock out at us! 

!

[iand61]

30 minutes ago, WillinGlossop said:

Well if that was tonight then then don't worry, I was right under the red area and at 1000ft I only got heavy sleet.

at 1400ft it was probably a whiteout but I think some decent altitude is going to be needed for anything other than a slush fest tonight.

[Mokidugway]

9 minutes ago, iand61 said:

Thanks Sf, even if the poorest weather the Canaries can throw at me will be an improvement on what we've had up here this week, even more so considering what other parts of the country and our region have had.

Back Christmas Eve, hopefully to a winter wonderland.

As long as your not on la Palma can get some blustery weather there 

[iand61]

4 minutes ago, Mokidugway said:

As long as your not on la Palma can get some blustery weather there 

Isn't La Palma the one where half of it is considering splitting from the other and moving to the USA

[damianslaw]

Not paying much attention to what has been falling outside, but looks like we just had some sleety rain, uppers and temps not quite low enough for snow, but wouldn't take much to lower them to a level for at least some wet snow, especially if precipitation is heavy, aided by evaporative cooling.

There was a very patchy slushy cover first thing this morning.

Can't help but feel if this was a month on from now then conditions would be less marginal and snow would have fallen from similiar set up. The fells no doubt have a very good cover now, but it looks like a major thaw will take place by the start of next week, so no nice snowy fells to look at in the run in to christmas.

[Mokidugway]

1 minute ago, iand61 said:

Isn't La Palma the one where half of it is considering splitting from the other and moving to the USA

Yep taking a big chunk of the Atlantic with it too 

[WillinGlossop]

12 minutes ago, iand61 said:

Well if that was tonight then then don't worry, I was right under the red area and at 1000ft I only got heavy sleet.

at 1400ft it was probably a whiteout but I think some decent altitude is going to be needed for anything other than a slush fest tonight.

Just heavy sleet/wet flakes here.... slushfest...

[Chris.R]

Lightning near @Backtrack

[C11ady]

Drove from Leek to Buxton earlier and got stuck in a almighty blizzard drifting snow, was stuck for 1hr due to jackknifed Lorry.

[itsnowjoke]

Snowing but not sticking big fat flakes

[itsnowjoke]

[itsnowjoke]

Can't tell off photo