The Midlands Regional Weather Discussion 19/01/2018 Onwards

[Sweatyman]

Just now, Staffordshire said:

Think I shall be too far south today, but the most important think is that Villa hammer the blues...

Sod off

[Barbmac]

Heavy snow shower here and sticking! Huge flakes. 1.8'C currently, very windy.

[MattStoke]

You have got to be kidding me.

[The Wolf]

For the first time in my life I will be cheering blues on today. I'm a Wolves fan of course! On to the weather nothing here and doesnt look much cop at all for the rest of the day. 

[Polar Maritime]

Full on blizzard whitout conditions here with 50p flake jobs..

[WalsallWeather123]

Considering BBC were saying they wouldn't be suprised if the snow showers reached as far as London, the fact that they're not even reaching the West Midlands is a let down but not suprised to be honest. Unless ARPEGE is on board, Im always skeptical

[MattStoke]

5 minutes ago, WalsallWeather123 said:

Considering BBC were saying they wouldn't be suprised if the snow showers reached as far as London, the fact that they're not even reaching the West Midlands is a let down but not suprised to be honest. Unless ARPEGE is on board, Im always skeptical

They're spreading into the NW Midlands. Main stream of showers is half a mile to my north. Showers to my west are dying just a few miles from me though. My luck has run out this winter but then, even when we've had snow it's been a lot less than was forecast and a lot less than large parts of the region. 

[marksp]

i,m hogging this set of showers hahah

 

[marksp]

oops, I,m in middle of the yellow blob to the far right

[weirpig]

Showers to hit central midlands this afternoon. Lots of activity at the moment

[WalsallWeather123]

Well Met Office have certainly upgraded length of snow period for Walsall so we shall see. BBC still nothing

[Terminal Moraine]

2 to 3cm lying now after more heavy snow snow showers in the last hour.

[BleakMidwinter]

34 minutes ago, WalsallWeather123 said:

Well Met Office have certainly upgraded length of snow period for Walsall so we shall see. BBC still nothing

Same here for Telford - I'm trying to keep a general mental note of who turns out to be most reliable and the MetO (forecast and warnings) really are best for Telford's precip - although they were lousy when I lived in Edinburgh, where XC were excellent - different software, I guess... for Telford, though, it seems MetO are most reliable for precip, esp snow, and XC and BBC are really poor. 

[BleakMidwinter]

Nothing here all morning, btw. MetO now reckons 3-7pm is the main probability, whilst BBC and XC reckon 12-1pm... watch and wait, watch and wait... 

[markw2680]

UP THE BLUES....SOTV

[Summer of 95]

Light snow shower just now

[nobble]

Cloud increasing last 15 mins 

and a stiff breeze 

here's hoping ?

[MattStoke]

Well, the Euro4 looks good this afternoon. In fact, showers are beginning to a line and head straight for me. It shows some settling snow too.

[marksp]

well models seem poor this morning, but what a great morning sat watching heavy snow showers piling in, nothing much settled here yet,

wish i had altitude of TM, but 190mtrs not to bad, great watching the snow blowing across the valley.

looks like lot more potential today and Tuesday

[Polar Maritime]

A winter wonderland outside here with full snow cover and persistent moderate sometimes heavy snow. Can't beet a good old NWst flow.. Blizzard conditions again currently with bad vis.

Temp 0.1c

Dp-0.7c

Wind chill -5.4c

Edited February 11, 2018 by Polar Maritime

[MattStoke]

Reallly heavy snow. Trying so hard to settle.

Edit: It is torrential! And it's settling! Wahoo!

 

Edited February 11, 2018 by MattStoke

[nobble]

29 minutes ago, Polar Maritime said:

A winter wonderland outside here with full snow cover and persistent moderate sometimes heavy snow. Can't beet a good old NWst flow.. Blizzard conditions again currently with bad vis.

Temp 0.1c

Dp-0.7c

Wind chill -5.4c

Purely westerly here

[Ian Ballinger]

Sleet & hail here, temp 6.5 strangely 

[Terminal Moraine]

The shower activity seems to be lessening to the W/NW on the radar so I've just been outside with my trusty ruler. 4.5cm lying now, and 5.5cm at 340 mts. The temperature ranges from 1.0 to 1.3 in the brief sunny intervals to 0.0 to 0.3c in the snow showers.

Edited February 11, 2018 by Terminal Moraine

[weirpig]

Snow shower just in Dudley. Fingers crossed late this afternoon is when more activity is expected