North West England Regional Discussion Thread 15/1/2018 onwards

[James M]

Light snow now falling

[wrightc23]

MetO has just upgraded my location to heavy snow for the next few hours, surely not?

[Stratocumulus perlucidus]

1 minute ago, wrightc23 said:

MetO has just upgraded my location to heavy snow for the next few hours, surely not?

Me too!!! Im gonna have a coronary!

[Weather-history]

9 minutes ago, Day 10 said:

Dear God can we have 1 hour of falling snow, that is all I ask in this snow desert called the Wirral, Amen.

It snowed in the middle of May 1935 on the Wirral 

[Winter Hill]

Starting to turn to snow here 

[Wardlegacy]

3 minutes ago, wrightc23 said:

MetO has just upgraded my location to heavy snow for the next few hours, surely not?

They have just downgraded my location and Buxton to no snow and just rain starting this afternoon 

[The Northern Ramper]

6 minutes ago, northwestsnow said:

probably similar to here- wet outside but i can see snow in the air..

I'm beat now, the fifth straight winter chasing scraps.

[Darren Bown]

Rain and slight sleet falling 1.7c. Wow.

[northwestsnow]

Can see quite a lot of green appearing to my SW ..

[damianslaw]

Snow pepped up a little in the last hour but still fairly light and quite sleety in nature, so not really covering all surfaces, it wouldn't take much though for this to happen just a bit more intensity. I think the heavy stuff isn't due for a couple of hours, but thats when the front will be moving through and it probably won't last long. Will wait and see. Many fell roads are closed now.

Going to take a walk now, above 200 metres, so shall see what its like there. 

Always more special when it snows on a lazy sunday morning, less traffic about, few people around all adds to the solitude and special feel.

[dodge]

Heavier stuff is on the outer fringes of Manchester now, but will the rain/snow shadow open up to the east of GM?  Seen the odd bits of sleet coming down but nothing newsworthy.

PS - Just reading through the  wiki for Winter 2010-11.  Really was quite exceptional.  Will we be referring back to that in 20/30 years time like our ancestors did for '47 & '63?

Edited January 21, 2018 by dodgeredee

[Chris.R]

 Quite a strange mix of partially melted snowflakes, some ice pellets and raindrops now. Getting heavier again. 

[Day 10]

It's turning to snow, cheers God i'd knew u'd be listening. Just getting the Christmas tree back out.

[Chris.R]

Just now, Day 10 said:

It's turning to snow, cheers God i'd knew u'd be listening. Just getting the Christmas tree back out.

 :-) Brilliant! I’m going to be the last one at this rate. 

[Joe Bloggs]

Just plain old rain here 

[Osca31]

Moderate snow , ground very wet.

[Chris.R]

Apps show heavy snow for me now as well. 

[Weather-history]

Very sleety almost see the flakes. 

[Deep Snow please]

Light snow here. Hopefully it'll settle though when the heavier stuff comes through rather being a repeat of yesterday's nice for five minutes but miserable by lunchtime affair of heavy snow falling straight into slush and melting away - could have been 2-3 inches from that I reckon.

[I Cumbria Marra I]

Very wet snow here

[Chris.R]

 Here we go it’s turning. 

[karyo]

According to the gfs precipitation charts it should be snowing across the region now. A classic example of the gfs overdoing the wintry element.

[northwestsnow]

sleet.

Lovely.

got trouser filler written all over this.

Edited January 21, 2018 by northwestsnow

[Spah1]

Light sleet rain mix in Chorley. 

[Day 10]

So close to all snow