North West Regional thread 01/09/18 Onwards......

[Winter Hill]

Left Horwich for work at 3am in heavy snow shower. 

Got to Stockport @ 3:45 and was snowing there also. 

Some fantastic charts this morning.. keeping my feet firmly on the Ground though.

[Snow free zone]

51 minutes ago, Deep Snow please said:

To be honest a potent enough Beast from the East could actually give us quite a dumping, but it would literally paralyse and bury the East of the country if it was that intense. 

Well it didn't last year and i see nothing that suggests even anything remotley different for this winter ... perfectly illustrated by the fantasy chart posted above

Edited January 17, 2019 by Snow free zone

[Day 10]

1 hour ago, WillinGlossop said:

I’d take this 06z run from gfs any day....34cm yes please...

Erm, zero for here NO THANKS, West please!  

[Winter Hill]

53 minutes ago, Deep Snow please said:

To be honest a potent enough Beast from the East could actually give us quite a dumping, but it would literally paralyse and bury the East of the country if it was that intense. 

I agree that a good Easterly can give parts of the Region a good Dumping. Those in the east of the county more so.

last March looking at the Radar you could see some fantastic echoes over the Oldham & Rochdale areas. As they moved west you could see them dying, as they got to my area, they still gave a good covering but 8 miles away in Wigan they just got flurries.

[Deep Snow please]

5 minutes ago, Snow free zone said:

 Well it didn't last year and i see nothing that suggests even anything remotley different for this winter ... perfectly illustrated by the fantasy chart posted above

Those fantasy charts never come off properly to be fair. I don't know, I'm more hopeful about this particular cold spell than I have been about any since I moved over here from the other side of the pennines. I get why the caution, but it would be a bit sad to write this off before it even begun. Our best bet is probably getting this cold in first and the getting an also cold westerly flow in the aftermath but that's no just the realm of fantasy, it's the realm of narnia. 

[WillinGlossop]

15 minutes ago, Snow free zone said:

Well it didn't last year and i see nothing that suggests even anything remotley different for this winter ... perfectly illustrated by the fantasy chart posted above

Had 25-30cm snow with 2-3ft drifts feb/March last year and 80-90mph winds caused huge drifts over the fields/roads around here/Peak District.... a repeat without ferocious winds would be lovely...

[Deep Snow please]

2 minutes ago, WillinGlossop said:

Had 25-30cm snow with 2-3ft drifts feb/March last year and 80-90mph winds caused huge drifts over the fields/roads around here/Peak District.... a repeat without ferocious winds would be lovely...

You're also 300m above sea level, eastern parts of the country can, in the right circumstances, receive that sort of dumping from an easterly at relatively low sea levels.

[Iceaxecrampon]

46 minutes ago, Winter Hill said:

Left Horwich for work at 3am in heavy snow shower. 

Got to Stockport @ 3:45 and was snowing there also. 

Some fantastic charts this morning.. keeping my feet firmly on the Ground though.

.....hopefully slippy?

[Iceaxecrampon]

34 minutes ago, Day 10 said:

Erm, zero for here NO THANKS, West please!  

Yes - the bare wastelands of the Wirral and Fylde

[Stratocumulus perlucidus]

The bbc forcast has pulled me in

[shaky]

21 minutes ago, Stratocumulus perlucidus said:

The bbc forcast has pulled me in

What happened

[Stratocumulus perlucidus]

Snow from mersey coast!

[Stratocumulus perlucidus]

From 1100 tomorrow

[captaincroc]

20 minutes ago, Stratocumulus perlucidus said:

From 1100 tomorrow

Local forecast or national?

[Deep Snow please]

BBC and MetO both going with sleet here.

[Mokidugway]

Nice day ,roll on spring

[Stratocumulus perlucidus]

31 minutes ago, captaincroc said:

Local forecast or national?

Is on bbc news 24

[Stratocumulus perlucidus]

Becon in 3 mins will get photos

[pip22]

The met office says my location is going for rain tommorow but I got a feeling its probably wrong.

[Stratocumulus perlucidus]

[Stratocumulus perlucidus]

Bbc tv forcast looks to have it stall over our region, with low temps returnig tomorrow night

[cheshire snow]

Met office Text for tomorrow is sleet and snow over the hills no mention of low ground snow for us TBH next week has more potential 

C.S

[Stratocumulus perlucidus]

Thats what i thought always the day after tomorrow which is y the beeb forcast pulled me in

[frosty ground]

2 hours ago, WillinGlossop said:

Had 25-30cm snow with 2-3ft drifts feb/March last year and 80-90mph winds caused huge drifts over the fields/roads around here/Peak District.... a repeat without ferocious winds would be lovely...

The winds had blown most of the snow away, never felt such winds in such cold

[captaincroc]

5 minutes ago, frosty ground said:

The winds had blown most of the snow away, never felt such winds in such cold

Yeah, last March having -3c and gale for gusts was without doubt the coldest I have ever felt outside.  To the point it actually scared me as went for a walk and really started to feel unwell so turned back. Amazing to experience though.