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

[shadowfax]

Met office showing heavy snow in Bacup tomorrow when before it was sleet or light snow. 

As usual its a wait and see situation and as I'm working tomorrow it will probably happen, on the days that I can enjoy the snow nothing happens!!

[northwestsnow]

I just dont understand how we are getting wintry showers with uppers of -7/-8!!

Certainly altitude should be seeing snow at the backend of January for goodness sake.

Dew points below freezing.

850's -7/-8 

And still virtually no snow forecast.

We really do need an easterly as i say again, -8 uppers and no lying snow at the end of Jan is ridiculous.

[iand61]

37 minutes ago, shadowfax said:

Met office showing heavy snow in Bacup tomorrow when before it was sleet or light snow. 

As usual its a wait and see situation and as I'm working tomorrow it will probably happen, on the days that I can enjoy the snow nothing happens!!

Don’t worry, my shovel is ready and waiting for all of the potential snow i’ll be clearing this time tomorrow.

[cheshire snow]

40 minutes ago, northwestsnow said:

I just dont understand how we are getting wintry showers with uppers of -7/-8!!

Certainly altitude should be seeing snow at the backend of January for goodness sake.

Dew points below freezing.

850's -7/-8 

And still virtually no snow forecast.

We really do need an easterly as i say again, -8 uppers and no lying snow at the end of Jan is ridiculous.

On shore winds so knock 2c of the HPA So more likely the HPA Are around -5c Ideally we real nead -10 uppers from a NW To stop any marginality.We had the same 10 days ago if I remember correctly

Its the Irish Sea that kills us every time for our region.

C.S

[Had Worse]

29 minutes ago, iand61 said:

Don’t worry, my shovel is ready and waiting for all of the potential snow i’ll be clearing this time tomorrow.

Thats a big hand by the way

Edited January 30, 2018 by Had Worse

[iand61]

4 minutes ago, Had Worse said:

Thats a big hand by the way

That one will be handy for keeping in the car......just in case.

[severe snowstorm]

39 minutes ago, cheshire snow said:

On shore winds so knock 2c of the HPA So more likely the HPA Are around -5c Ideally we real nead -10 uppers from a NW To stop any marginality.We had the same 10 days ago if I remember correctly

Its the Irish Sea that kills us every time for our region.

C.S

As I've said previously, I'm sure this hasn't posed an issue several times in the past with similar uppers and dew points etc. I'm going to check back in the archives at some point this week to check my memory isn't deceiving me!

[Had Worse]

11 minutes ago, Dexter said:

As I've said previously, I'm sure this hasn't posed an issue several times in the past with similar uppers and dew points etc. I'm going to check back in the archives at some point this week to check my memory isn't deceiving me!

I bet its all those wind farms in the Irish sea and Rossendale area. They are mixing out the uppers.

[Mokidugway]

In Manchester I'm not happy, in fact I'm quite sad 

[dodge]

Expecting cold rain, intermixed with a smidgeon of wet sleety slushy crap tomorrow.  Thankfully I've not invested the high levels of wishful interest I did in the much vaunted but ultimately disappointing north westerly a few weeks ago, so anything remotely wintry will be a surprise bonus.

[swainclubber]

Moving house to littleborough tomorrow. Will gain 20m altitude and 2 miles further from the tropical paddys pond. Could do without snow til after 2pm haha. 

Edited January 30, 2018 by swainclubber

[Chris.R]

I’ve told you all before what the big problem is here with this set up. The wind. It’s far too strong. Perhaps you could get snow with these 850s if the wind was much lighter. As it is, it was never looking like snow to low levels this week as nothing lower than  -8 850s was ever forecast and the wind was always looking far too strong. 

[Chris.R]

 Next Tuesday looking like a better set up.  Let’s hope it holds together. 

[iand61]

It shows how poor conditions have been when i’m getting excited at waking up to thundersleet.

 

[shadowfax]

Missed the thunder but just took the dogs out and its settling on the grass.

[iand61]

4 minutes ago, shadowfax said:

Missed the thunder but just took the dogs out and its settling on the grass.

Forecast just showed plenty of white across the Pennines, especially later in the day so we could get something after all.

[severe snowstorm]

2 hours ago, Chris.R said:

I’ve told you all before what the big problem is here with this set up. The wind. It’s far too strong. Perhaps you could get snow with these 850s if the wind was much lighter. As it is, it was never looking like snow to low levels this week as nothing lower than  -8 850s was ever forecast and the wind was always looking far too strong. 

I appreciate what you say about the strength of the flow and agree that could modify the air, but once you get further inland this would surely be less important? I guess the other issue is the original source of the air in a NW flow, arctic, N Atlantic etc etc, which is probably also an important factor.

[Mokidugway]

Rough nite here ,just about to do the last 90 miles of my adventure,i.e. Drive to ulverston ,lol

[northwestsnow]

Heavy hails storm here with a few flakes blowing around, all is white again..

[Had Worse]

A dusting on the tops as I look towards the Snake Pass. 

I' in Glossop at the moment and there looks to be hail/ Snow incoming.

[frosty ground]

Hail / Sleet / snow over the last hour

[northwestsnow]

euro4 looks pretty good for after dark with showers turning increasingly to snow

Think thats a first!!

[northwestsnow]

Looking at all the output this morning i would expect higher parts round here to go white overnight and quite possibly stay white until next week.

I am talking about 350m plus tho..

[northwestsnow]

saturday suddenly looking very interesting!! Precip hitting colder continental air on 6z GFS!!

[pip22]

Heavy hail and sleet shower here coating everything except the grass here.

 

Edited January 31, 2018 by pip22