Northwest England regional thread 3 /3 onwards

[Chris.R]

Precipitation ETA about half an hour and temp currently 1.5°C, dp -0.6°C. Looking pretty good. 

 Looks about on time according  to the last taf. 

Edited March 8, 2018 by Chris.R

[severe snowstorm]

The rain/snow looks like being further North than the metoffice warning suggested. Looks great for our region.

[Chris.R]

3 minutes ago, Dexter said:

The rain/snow looks like being further North than the metoffice warning suggested. Looks great for our region.

. Yep; just hope that doesn’t mean the on-shore winds will have more of an influence later. 

Edited March 8, 2018 by Chris.R

[severe snowstorm]

15 minutes ago, Chris.R said:

. Yep; just hope that doesn’t mean the on-shore winds will have more of an influence later. 

Yes, I guess it depends how strong it is as well in terms of the influence it has. We will be fairly close to the low centre so shouldn't be too strong. I think you and I probably hope for opposite wind directions to each other! The SE wind normaly results in bad rain shadow effects where I am. However, lighter winds should mean less of an impact from this. We'll see...

Edited March 8, 2018 by Dexter

[Chris.R]

 Right, here we are, 5 minutes or so to go. Expect it to start as rain at least but you never know.

 1.5°C/-0.5°C. 

Edited March 8, 2018 by Chris.R

[Chris.R]

Yep started as rain. Let’s see what EC can do.

[Chris.R]

Caernarfon metar now reporting snow at sea level. 

[cfallon]

Heavy rain in bury at the moment 

[Weather-history]

Looks like its snowing on the hills of North Wales

[severe snowstorm]

9 minutes ago, Chris.R said:

Caernarfon metar now reporting snow at sea level. 

Very intense precipitation there so evaporative cooling?

[Chris.R]

 Bits of sleet now here in the heavy rain. A robin has woke up early, I can hear it singing merrily. 

[Chris.R]

3 minutes ago, Dexter said:

Very intense precipitation there so evaporative cooling?

Yep

[Weather-history]

6 minutes ago, Weather-history said:

Looks like its snowing on the hills of North Wales

Lighting effect or do i see snow on that road?

[Chris.R]

 Precipitation now partially melted snowflakes/raindrops 50-50. 

[Chris.R]

One or two un-melted snowflakes now appearing  in the precipitation. Evaporative cooling doing a good job. Temp dropping away. Precipitation getting heavier.

[Chris.R]

Looks like wind is performing  a cyclonic loop which wasn’t forecast. That should keep it off-shore for a bit longer. 

[Chris.R]

A sferic 60 miles to the south. Interesting. 

[Chris.R]

Precipitation now 70% fist sized snowflakes, 30% raindrops. Very slight accumulation starting to form so big are the flakes. 1.4°C/-0.3°C.

[carl1980]

Snowing here,large flakes

[severe snowstorm]

Just light rain here atm. Looks like intense precipitation is required for snow. Rain shadow doing a fine job of shredding precipitation here, as expected.

[northwestsnow]

drizzle/rain here in Oldham..

Cant see as much a hint of sleet.

[severe snowstorm]

Maybe rain shadow having less effect than first thought. Heavy rain with large flakes mixed in now.

[northwestsnow]

Looking at raintoday the peaks destroying the precip before it reaches here, not too fussed really , i got my snow fix last week

[Chris.R]

Omg proper snow now, huge flakes. Didn’t take long to turn at all. Got a dusting already. 0.9°C/-0.6°C. 

[severe snowstorm]

1 minute ago, Chris.R said:

Omg proper snow now, huge flakes. Didn’t take long to turn at all. Got a dusting already. 0.9°C/-0.6°C. 

You were well outside the metoffice warning area as well! Just goes to show how tricky these things are to forecast and to be fair to the metoffice, they did stress uncertainty with regard to Northern extent.