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  • Location: Shirley, Solihull
  • Location: Shirley, Solihull

getting the impression from model forum that Friday could go one of four ways

1, Heavy snow then low pulls south keeps us in cold

2. Heavy snow then a warm up

3. Snow misses us to the south but keeps us in cold

4.  It comes North but brings freezing rain after some snow

takes your preference

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  • Location: Bewdley, Worcs; 90m asl
  • Weather Preferences: Snow and sun in winter; warm and bright otherwise; not a big storm fan
  • Location: Bewdley, Worcs; 90m asl

A tiny bright echo on the radar smack dab over Bewdley has delivered! An icing sugar dusting on the ground now, the first actual settling snow today. Temp down to -1.2 °C, so unsurprisingly it's not melting.

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  • Location: Kensington
  • Location: Kensington
4 minutes ago, Arctic Hare said:

A tiny bright echo on the radar smack dab over Bewdley has delivered! An icing sugar dusting on the ground now, the first actual settling snow today. Temp down to -1.2 °C, so unsurprisingly it's not melting.

What I noticed from that shower. It intensified from nothing  good sign maybe ? 

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  • Location: Telford, c.150m asl
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, ice, cold
  • Location: Telford, c.150m asl

And now if all the weather could just hold off doing anything difficult until about 1:30am, in the area between Telford and Manchester, it would be appreciated... :)

My chap has just set off for an evening out, with the car suspension groaning under the weight of all the food I've forced him to take with him, cans of coke, and blankets, jumpers, woolly socks, hats, gloves, mittens for over the gloves, waterproof rip-stop nylon sheet, five kilos of dishwasher-salt granules, a shovel, nylon broom, spade, torches, reflective hi-viz armbands with LED lights... 

I am assuming all of it will come back untouched (okay, apart from maybe the coke and the sausage-rolls and the packet of Twixes!) but, well, if he needs any of it, he'll be in a situation where he'll be glad of all of it!

It can deluge with snow, but after 1:30am in the Manchester-to-Telford line please!

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  • Location: Longton, Stoke-on-Trent.
  • Location: Longton, Stoke-on-Trent.

Model Output thread is frustrating. All comments on the models just focus on the south.

They also keep pulling out the ICON and the GEM. Two of the worst performing models for our part of the globe.

The trouble with situations like this is that the model output and forecast graphics look rubbish for snow yet the warnings and written forecasts tell a different story. If's because the models and graphics are useless with showers.

GFS gives me just -2.4 inches of snow this week despite showers on Tuesday and Wednesday and a long spell of heavy snow Friday.

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  • Location: Solihull, Midlands. (Formerly DRL)
  • Weather Preferences: Sunshine, thunder, hail & heavy snow
  • Location: Solihull, Midlands. (Formerly DRL)
17 minutes ago, Diamond Joe said:

getting the impression from model forum that Friday could go one of four ways

1, Heavy snow then low pulls south keeps us in cold

2. Heavy snow then a warm up

3. Snow misses us to the south but keeps us in cold

4.  It comes North but brings freezing rain after some snow

takes your preference

One definitely seems the most appealing!

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  • Location: Bromsgrove, Worcestershire
  • Location: Bromsgrove, Worcestershire

Well didn't expect to see any snow today but was pleasantly surprised. :)   

 

General consensus that the midlands don't do well from easterly's , that right ? :gathering: 

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  • Location: Knowle, Solihull - 400ft (122m) ASL
  • Location: Knowle, Solihull - 400ft (122m) ASL
20 minutes ago, Diamond Joe said:

getting the impression from model forum that Friday could go one of four ways

1, Heavy snow then low pulls south keeps us in cold

2. Heavy snow then a warm up

3. Snow misses us to the south but keeps us in cold

4.  It comes North but brings freezing rain after some snow

takes your preference

Option #1 gets my vote every time :good:

But if I had to choose between either a big snow event and a warm up OR less snow but remaining very cold, I'd probably plump for the second option overall. Snow events which eventually lead to milder conditions never quite do it for me, even if the initial snow is pretty significant.

Bish

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  • Location: Longton, Stoke-on-Trent.
  • Location: Longton, Stoke-on-Trent.
24 minutes ago, Diamond Joe said:

getting the impression from model forum that Friday could go one of four ways

1, Heavy snow then low pulls south keeps us in cold

2. Heavy snow then a warm up

3. Snow misses us to the south but keeps us in cold

4.  It comes North but brings freezing rain after some snow

takes your preference

It will be number 4, but the freezing rain will only be in the south for a time and will not affect the Midlands. It's what the warnings and forecasts suggest and it's what the models have shown for days. People in the model thread are just hoping it goes a different way because they live in the south.

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  • Location: Solihull, WestMidlands, 121m asl -20 :-)
  • Weather Preferences: Cold and Snow -20 would be nice :)
  • Location: Solihull, WestMidlands, 121m asl -20 :-)
29 minutes ago, Diamond Joe said:

getting the impression from model forum that Friday could go one of four ways

1, Heavy snow then low pulls south keeps us in cold

2. Heavy snow then a warm up

3. Snow misses us to the south but keeps us in cold

4.  It comes North but brings freezing rain after some snow

takes your preference

No 1  pleeeeeeease :wink:

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  • Location: Wildwood, Stafford 104m asl
  • Weather Preferences: obviously snow!
  • Location: Wildwood, Stafford 104m asl
31 minutes ago, Diamond Joe said:

getting the impression from model forum that Friday could go one of four ways

1, Heavy snow then low pulls south keeps us in cold

2. Heavy snow then a warm up

3. Snow misses us to the south but keeps us in cold

4.  It comes North but brings freezing rain after some snow

takes your preference

likely is brief leading edge snow Friday, then a warm up

no1 though my preference

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  • Location: Coventry
  • Location: Coventry

One small snow shower today in coventry today but its bitterly cold..not really looking in terms of snow in coventry for the next few days and im not even going to mention friday potential as reading the mod thread is confusing me big time

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  • Location: Barrow-upon-Soar, Nth Leics, 50mASL
  • Weather Preferences: Deep snow, biting winds, frigid temperatures and thunderstorms
  • Location: Barrow-upon-Soar, Nth Leics, 50mASL

Light snow on and off all day here with a couple of heavier bursts.  Not amounted to much but hope this is just the beginning of a memorable spell of weather :cold:

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  • Location: Burton-on-Trent (90m), Larnaka most Augusts
  • Location: Burton-on-Trent (90m), Larnaka most Augusts

Dont see where the heavier showers are going to come from for this evening. If anything its getting lighter and patchier in the NorthEast.

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  • Location: pelsall, 500ft asl (west mids)
  • Location: pelsall, 500ft asl (west mids)

not dissapointed as today never really looked like anything but passing showers , 

but dissapointed with tomorow as it has downgraded substantially 

but with that thought it could easily upgrade out of no where too 

, great to see these showers leave a covering straight away , unlike the comedy wet snow we are used too

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  • Location: Longton, Stoke-on-Trent.
  • Location: Longton, Stoke-on-Trent.
3 minutes ago, weirpig said:

The low on the euro 4 misses us. But there are a rash of showers 

Which also miss the west of the region.

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  • Location: leicester
  • Location: leicester
4 minutes ago, weirpig said:

The low on the euro 4 misses us. But there are a rash of showers 

Is there a rash for the east midlands aswell mate!!!rather have the showers if they are heavy!!

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  • Location: Knowle, Solihull. 122m ASL
  • Weather Preferences: Snow!
  • Location: Knowle, Solihull. 122m ASL
57 minutes ago, BleakMidwinter said:

And now if all the weather could just hold off doing anything difficult until about 1:30am, in the area between Telford and Manchester, it would be appreciated... :)

My chap has just set off for an evening out, with the car suspension groaning under the weight of all the food I've forced him to take with him, cans of coke, and blankets, jumpers, woolly socks, hats, gloves, mittens for over the gloves, waterproof rip-stop nylon sheet, five kilos of dishwasher-salt granules, a shovel, nylon broom, spade, torches, reflective hi-viz armbands with LED lights... 

I am assuming all of it will come back untouched (okay, apart from maybe the coke and the sausage-rolls and the packet of Twixes!) but, well, if he needs any of it, he'll be in a situation where he'll be glad of all of it!

It can deluge with snow, but after 1:30am in the Manchester-to-Telford line please!

BleakMidWinter - you crack me up! ???

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