The Midlands Regional Weather Discussion 19/01/2018 Onwards

[Sweatyman]

Great intense shower has given a lovely covering in Bournville just?

[shaky]

An all snow event again for midlands friday!!looks really good for everyone aswell all day!!!anyone know what the temps are on ecm for friday!!yesterday was showing -2!!

[Dancerwithwings]

Currently here -2.9

Edited February 27, 2018 by Dancerwithwings

[markw2680]

Decent shower just has left everything nice and white, shouldn’t melt either as there is no sun tonight, unless of course the moon melts it. Odd today how it was melting with temps around 0c

[snowstorm27x]

Heavy shower just blown through here. Everywhere White in an instant.

[shaky]

Euro4 temps for thursday are crazy!!temps of -4!!850 temps of -12!!dew point -7!!but hardly any snow compared to ecm!!

[Sweatyman]

7 minutes ago, shaky said:

An all snow event again for midlands friday!!looks really good for everyone aswell all day!!!anyone know what the temps are on ecm for friday!!yesterday was showing -2!!

So many different forecasts. Are we expecting snow Thurs Fri and Sat in Brum? Or dreaded icy rain

[shaky]

Just now, Sweatyman said:

So many different forecasts. Are we expecting snow Thurs Fri and Sat in Brum? Or dreaded icy rain

Freezing rain is mainly south of the m4!!midlands is all snow and remains cold saturday aswell!!

[MattStoke]

10 minutes ago, shaky said:

An all snow event again for midlands friday!!looks really good for everyone aswell all day!!!anyone know what the temps are on ecm for friday!!yesterday was showing -2!!

24 to 28'F/-2 to -4C.

Edited February 27, 2018 by MattStoke

[nobble]

Massive shower that lasted 5-10 mins covered everything about 20 mins ago ??

[Sweatyman]

1 minute ago, shaky said:

Freezing rain is mainly south of the m4!!midlands is all snow and remains cold saturday aswell!!

Cheers shakes!!!

[I remember Atlantic 252]

1 minute ago, Sweatyman said:

So many different forecasts. Are we expecting snow Thurs Fri and Sat in Brum? Or dreaded icy rain

bbc though so poor, updated and no mention of Friday at all

[Snowyowl9]

-5.2c

[stokepa31]

1 minute ago, I remember Atlantic 252 said:

bbc though so poor, updated and no mention of Friday at all

Thats because they dont want to  speculate. lots of water to go under the bridge re friday. 

[I remember Atlantic 252]

Just now, stokepa31 said:

Thats because they dont want to  speculate. lots of water to go under the bridge re friday. 

A keep thinking you're in Stoke! ay I know it's too far away, may mislead people

[tyson99]

Met office app now as ( North Nottinghamshire ) no snow what so ever for Friday !!! 

 

[Vmistry]

2 hours ago, Ryan05 said:

here's hoping Nottingham gets a couple of similar showers tonight because after dark they will stick & should put a decent covering down.

if not Friday is probably our last throw of the dice to see a decent snow event even if it does only stick around for 24 hours. Unlike other parts of the Midlands, Notts did not do very well back in December, this winter for us will be a tale of what could have been.

However with a glass half full attitude, if we can keep these showers coming in over night we should wake up to a decent covering tomorrow, & hope Friday turns out special to save Winter 17/18 for us East Midlanders

 

 

Neither did Leicester tbh, only got about 2 inches back in Dec whereas everywhere else in Midlands got much more. Leicester hasn't had more than 3 inches since 2012!!

[MattStoke]

This is as far as the BBC forecast went. 3pm Thursday. Snow for most of the Midlands but dry in the far north.

[markw2680]

9 minutes ago, I remember Atlantic 252 said:

bbc though so poor, updated and no mention of Friday at all

That’s because it’s only Tuesday and it keeps chopping and changing

[I remember Atlantic 252]

2 minutes ago, MattStoke said:

This is as far as the BBC forecast went. 3pm Thursday. Snow for most of the Midlands but dry in the far north.

Ay, we need it further NE, could be looking at a foot in Hereford area, 1cm slush here

[Herefordweather]

1 minute ago, I remember Atlantic 252 said:

Ay, we need it further NE, could be looking at a foot in Hereford area, 1cm slush here

We had 20cms in December. No chance we’ll beat that!

[weirpig]

This low is causing a headache. It certainly favours the west  however I expect most in the region to see snow 

[stokepa31]

2 minutes ago, Herefordweather said:

We had 20cms in December. No chance we’ll beat that!

If i had to pick somewhere to be for the next 48hrs id come to you. I think you will do very well

[Bishop Brennan]

24 minutes ago, Dancerwithwings said:

Currently here -2.9

Time to set out for my usual evening stroll, methinks. Gotta keep up with the exercise, a little bit of cold ain't no excuse!

Bish

[BlueHedgehog074]

As longs as the 850 hPa temperatures stay below 0*C, which it certainly should do on Thursday (and again, hopefully on Friday and Saturday), freezing rain shouldn’t be an issue. Does seem to be continued uncertainty about where and how much snow could fall towards the end of this week. But would be really surprised if none fell at all between Thursday and Saturday. Especially the further South you are in the region (But hopefully all of us cold and snow fans will see plenty of the white stuff)!  

I must admit, I do love how the 12Z GEM keeps the cold continuing into next week with further disruption to Lows to our South-West resulting in a continuation of Easterlies over the region.