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  • Location: Ashton u Lyne lancashire 102asl.
  • Weather Preferences: Snow & sunshine
  • Location: Ashton u Lyne lancashire 102asl.
4 minutes ago, itsnowjoke said:

Any update on where abouts the front is now

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  • Location: North west England/East Lancashire/Burnley
  • Location: North west England/East Lancashire/Burnley
2 minutes ago, Chris harry said:

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So it's just chilling in Ireland then

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  • Location: Heswall, Wirral
  • Weather Preferences: Summer: warm, humid, thundery. Winter: mild, stormy, some snow.
  • Location: Heswall, Wirral
31 minutes ago, Mokidugway said:

Maybe if very lucky 2 0r 3 grams :closedeyes:

Not milligrams??

It'll be very interesting to see where the precipitation turns red on the weather type radar as that will outline where the true cold is.

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  • Location: Heswall, Wirral
  • Weather Preferences: Summer: warm, humid, thundery. Winter: mild, stormy, some snow.
  • Location: Heswall, Wirral

Goood good. Actually it's very unusual to see pink/red echoes from the remains of the showers covering well out into the Irish sea which means there's no chance of rain or sleet on the coast even. It'll be just snow all the way.

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  • Location: Pemberton, Wigan, 54 M ASL. 53.53,-2.67
  • Weather Preferences: Winter - snow, Irish sea convection. Summer - thunderstorms, hot sunny days
  • Location: Pemberton, Wigan, 54 M ASL. 53.53,-2.67

GFS 12Z is showing  some precipitation for Wednesday morning associated with a veering of the flow under 517 dam thicknesses and -9°C 850s. Could be exciting. It is also still Showing -9 850s for Friday and again on Monday. 

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  • Location: Pemberton, Wigan, 54 M ASL. 53.53,-2.67
  • Weather Preferences: Winter - snow, Irish sea convection. Summer - thunderstorms, hot sunny days
  • Location: Pemberton, Wigan, 54 M ASL. 53.53,-2.67

 Just a note: I was given to understand that the precipitation type radar was based on model forecasts rather than real-time data. Can’t confirm this though. 

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  • Location: Heswall, Wirral
  • Weather Preferences: Summer: warm, humid, thundery. Winter: mild, stormy, some snow.
  • Location: Heswall, Wirral
Just now, Chris.R said:

 Just a note: I was given to understand that the precipitation type radar was based on model forecasts rather than real-time data. Can’t confirm this though

It might be but it's probably a fairly accurate indicator of where snow is falling .. it's definitely not 100% proof as I've experienced but in general it gives a fairly representation of the situation.

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  • Location: Pemberton, Wigan, 54 M ASL. 53.53,-2.67
  • Weather Preferences: Winter - snow, Irish sea convection. Summer - thunderstorms, hot sunny days
  • Location: Pemberton, Wigan, 54 M ASL. 53.53,-2.67
12 minutes ago, SP1986 said:

It might be but it's probably a fairly accurate indicator of where snow is falling .. it's definitely not 100% proof as I've experienced but in general it gives a fairly representation of the situation.

 Agreed. 

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  • Location: Pemberton, Wigan, 54 M ASL. 53.53,-2.67
  • Weather Preferences: Winter - snow, Irish sea convection. Summer - thunderstorms, hot sunny days
  • Location: Pemberton, Wigan, 54 M ASL. 53.53,-2.67

Some information on precipitation type radar. A bit general but gives you an idea.

Precipitation types

Some displays provided by commercial weather sites, like The Weather Channel, show precipitation types during the winter month : rain, snow, mixed precipitations (sleet and freezing rain). This is not an analysis of the radar data itself but a post-treatment done with other data sources, the primary being surface reports (METAR).[22]

Over the area covered by radar echoes, a program assigns a precipitation type according to the surface temperature and dew point reported at the underlying weather stations. Precipitation types reported by human operated stations and certain automatic ones (AWOS) will have higher weight.[23]Then the program does interpolations to produce an image with defined zones. These will include interpolation errors due to the calculation. Mesoscale variations of the precipitation zones will also be lost.[22]More sophisticated programs use the numerical weather prediction output from models, such as NAM and WRF, for the precipitation types and apply it as a first guess to the radar echoes, then use the surface data for final output.

Until dual-polarization (section Polarization below) data are widely available, any precipitation types on radar images are only indirect information and must be taken with care.

 
 

 

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  • Location: Medlock Valley, Oldham, 103 metres/337 feet ASL
  • Weather Preferences: Cold, snow, thunderstorms, warm summers not too hot.
  • Location: Medlock Valley, Oldham, 103 metres/337 feet ASL
Just now, Mokidugway said:

Been on Irish thread , not much happening yet if at all.

As usual they're in the pub, too p1ssed to notice what's happening. :rofl:

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  • Location: West Cumbria, Egremont 58m (190.3ft) ASL
  • Weather Preferences: Cold/snow winter, Warm/hot summer, Thunderstorms, Severe Gales
  • Location: West Cumbria, Egremont 58m (190.3ft) ASL

Just had a bit of graupel

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  • Location: Heswall, Wirral
  • Weather Preferences: Summer: warm, humid, thundery. Winter: mild, stormy, some snow.
  • Location: Heswall, Wirral
4 minutes ago, Weather-history said:

Looks it, Euro 4 12z looks out already, precipitation into Ulster now, east of Londonderry.

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Of course it will slow down a bit as it comes up against the block.. it's quite impressive how that block may slow it down though if you think it would normallt take 5 hours or so to get here when the precipitation is not being pressed back. But it could actually taken another 8-9 hours to reach the west coast

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  • Location: Wirral, Merseyside
  • Weather Preferences: Snow & Thunderstorms
  • Location: Wirral, Merseyside

Evening my fellow nutjob's! God it's blooming cold out there now, are we all ready for Snowmageddon!!! :rofl:

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  • Location: Heswall, Wirral
  • Weather Preferences: Summer: warm, humid, thundery. Winter: mild, stormy, some snow.
  • Location: Heswall, Wirral
4 minutes ago, Chris.R said:

Some information on precipitation type radar. A bit general but gives you an idea.

Precipitation types

Some displays provided by commercial weather sites, like The Weather Channel, show precipitation types during the winter month : rain, snow, mixed precipitations (sleet and freezing rain). This is not an analysis of the radar data itself but a post-treatment done with other data sources, the primary being surface reports (METAR).[22]

Over the area covered by radar echoes, a program assigns a precipitation type according to the surface temperature and dew point reported at the underlying weather stations. Precipitation types reported by human operated stations and certain automatic ones (AWOS) will have higher weight.[23]Then the program does interpolations to produce an image with defined zones. These will include interpolation errors due to the calculation. Mesoscale variations of the precipitation zones will also be lost.[22]More sophisticated programs use the numerical weather prediction output from models, such as NAM and WRF, for the precipitation types and apply it as a first guess to the radar echoes, then use the surface data for final output.

Until dual-polarization (section Polarization below) data are widely available, any precipitation types on radar images are only indirect information and must be taken with care.

 
 

 

Oh that's really interesting and useful.. so it takes in actual real time data to process the weather type in most cases. 

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  • Location: 150m asl Hadfield, Glossop Peak District
  • Weather Preferences: All
  • Location: 150m asl Hadfield, Glossop Peak District
8 minutes ago, Day 10 said:

Evening my fellow nutjob's! God it's blooming cold out there now, are we all ready for Snowmageddon!!! :rofl:

Well some of us will dream and some will sample reality.

Great to be in the cosy NW reg thread. I have decided to muse over the MOD thread as any comment (relevant) is still deleted.

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  • Location: Clayton-le-Woods, Chorley, Lancs
  • Weather Preferences: Snow
  • Location: Clayton-le-Woods, Chorley, Lancs
1 hour ago, itsnowjoke said:

Any update on where abouts the front is now

Just look on rain today 

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  • Location: Brighton (currently)
  • Location: Brighton (currently)
9 minutes ago, Joe Bloggs said:

Yes Euro4 continues to be the party pooper. Hope it’s wrong. 18020612_0512.gif

Me too! It even has the dreaded rainshadow over Manchester.

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