Midlands Regional Discussion

[snowangel32]

Its raining heavy looks like a bust for me. On to the next one gd luck those further North and east

[Fozfoster]

Light rain here at the moment

[I remember Atlantic 252]

90's were good days, the real snow to rain events!

[MattStoke]

Just dry in my part of Stoke.

Edit: Now just plain old rain. How boring.

Edited December 15, 2018 by MattStoke

[nobble]

Rain here last 45 mins or so !!

[MattStoke]

Not a good app if it can’t even get the current conditions right.

[Fozfoster]

light rain but temps dropping!

steady at 1.7c now

Edited December 15, 2018 by Fozfoster

[cyclonic happiness]

Just rain here, but the dew point is -2.9'c so you'd think it'd be at least sleet.

Maybe it's freezing rain, but it's too early to tell?

[DIS1970]

Temp 0.8C now here, but still raining, not a even a flake mixed in.

[I remember Atlantic 252]

9 minutes ago, DIS1970 said:

Temp 0.8C now here, but still raining, not a even a flake mixed in.

Absolutely no way can this be wintry, how did anyone expect it to be, upper air temps over 5C

[Sweatyman]

well egg on the face of those daft hi res models Arpege etc. What a waste of time lol

[I remember Atlantic 252]

Just now, Sweatyman said:

well egg on the face of those daft hi res models Arpege etc. What a waste of time lol

believe in GFS called it correct every run

[DIS1970]

2 minutes ago, I remember Atlantic 252 said:

Absolutely no way can this be wintry, how did anyone expect it to be, upper air temps over 5C

I'm not surprised, it's just the local forecast was to initially start as light snow then sleet, but there was nothing, but the actual air temp has continued to drop over the last hour or so. 

[Polar Maritime]

Freezing rain here with car frozen solid..

Temp 0c 

Dp -1c

[ianbillmorris]

Raining in Chesterfield, according to one online weather station temps are 0.6c so it's fairly close to something "interesting" but suspect we will just get normal rain.

[Terminal Moraine]

Freezing rain here with the occasional blob of sleet mixed in. Temp' is -0.7c. Very icy underfoot. and elsewhere.

[Dancerwithwings]

Ive been out and about it's just rain, so glad that freezing rain didn't happen here, but God it feels so cold in the rain here, no snow anywhere in the Midlands it seems.

On the Net weather Snow app its showing all rain, but in the last 30mins all so, its starting to show snow in the North on our region 

[Snowyowl9]

22 hours ago, I remember Atlantic 252 said:

Xmas day on 12Z, still chance of few flurries, 384 chart though yuk

Last time it snowed Christmas eve and gave a dusting still an atlantic low but looking at it you can see why it snowed.

[snowangel32]

Arpege and euro4 got this completely wrong. Looking at other regional threads cant see much snow anywhere. Complete non event.

[Dancerwithwings]

1 minute ago, snowangel32 said:

Arpege and euro4 got this completely wrong. Looking at other regional threads cant see much snow anywhere. Complete non event.

Hopefully in 9 to 10 days time things are and could be very different 

[Summer of 95]

Nothing but cold rain, temp started rising well before the front arrived as often seems to happen with W/E battlegrounds nowadays. 0C at 9pm, 2C at 9am, no chance of snow or freezing rain if it keeps doing that.

 

[Gord]

Horrible day...and anyone who doesn't follow the weather wouldn't see it any different to any other wet day we've had so far this Autumn.

Lots and lots of examples of the what's happened today to compare to in the past. Typical winters day in the West Midlands. The forecasts were near the mark for today though.

2018 has been a brilliant year for weather and it's a shame the final month is all a bit typical so far. But won't let it detract from what has overall, been a really decent year. 

Wind really starting to pick up out there now and the rain becoming really quite heavy...and still a lot more rain to come. One of those situations where we'll probably record today's highest temperature overnight. So something a little different there I suppose.

 

Edited December 15, 2018 by Gord

[beefy201]

Forecasters near the mark really we were in the yellow zone for snow and ice met office is performing shockingly at the moment and have been for the last 16 months 

[Snowyowl9]

Think everybody will agree nobody likes this weather if they were to stand out in it for an hour.

[Walsall Wood Snow]

I never seriously expected accumulations today or anything but I did think there was a fair chance of at least sleet or even snowfall. Unfortunately it's just been cold rain. 

Edited December 15, 2018 by Walsall Wood Snow