North West Regional Discussion 30 Jan 2019 onwards

[cheshire snow]

Not a bad met office text forecast for Sunday if snow at this time of year is your thing

C.S

[Chris.R]

6 hours ago, cheshire snow said:

Not a bad met office text forecast for Sunday if snow at this time of year is your thing

C.S

 And now they’ve gone with a really vague outlook. 

[Had Worse]

Greetings all. Hope to be back posting more soon. Family illness and a bereavement to contend with.

Ironically 15 March could be a cold wet and even snowy affair for the funeral.

[Chris.R]

If the flow could slacken off by another 20 mph then Sunday night would be a snowfest around here. As it is looks like the wrong side of marginal with the wind being so strong. 

[Miamay]

Raining !!

[iand61]

12 hours ago, Chris.R said:

 Minimum 4.9°C, nowhere near a frost as I expected. Maybe places in the far east of the region have got one? 

We got one but by 8 o’clock it had all disappeared as cloud moved in.

rain pretty much constant since mid day and hammering on the conservatory roof a few minutes ago.

all in all a poor day.

[The Northern Ramper]

Tomorrow morning looking interesting.

[feb1991blizzard]

36 minutes ago, Ramp said:

Tomorrow morning looking interesting.

No doubt even with your slightly less altitude you will still be seeing a dumping while i will just get sleety rain.

[itsnowjoke]

Very gusty this morning 

[The Northern Ramper]

8 minutes ago, feb1991blizzard said:

No doubt even with your slightly less altitude you will still be seeing a dumping while i will just get sleety rain.

Haha yeah, I really don’t understand why though it’s like you live at the areas unluckiest postcode.

[The Northern Ramper]

6 minutes ago, itsnowjoke said:

Very gusty this morning 

I had to drag myself out of the pit and drop my car at the garage, the walk back was bloody awful

[itsnowjoke]

Just now, Ramp said:

I had to drag myself out of the pit and drop my car at the garage, the walk back was bloody awful

Just had a notification from met office for wind I thought that meant today it’s for Tuesday

[The Northern Ramper]

1 minute ago, itsnowjoke said:

Just had a notification from met office for wind I thought that meant today it’s for Tuesday

I just hope Cheltenham isn’t affected this week, the only week of the year I don’t want it.

[feb1991blizzard]

1 minute ago, Ramp said:

Haha yeah, I really don’t understand why though it’s like you live at the areas unluckiest postcode.

It is just luck really - a proper winter and this place would be great - 09/10 was quality here but missed that by 6 months - interesting though the older people mention the 70s where they used to get 3-6ft drifts all the time - where as in the West Midlands the 80s was king - due to the Easterlies, im presuming the 70s was polar NW flows as apart from the late 70s, it doesn't look that snowy a decade looking at the retro charts - perhaps less marginal then due to climate change not having any effect

[itsnowjoke]

Hail here

[iand61]

1 minute ago, itsnowjoke said:

Hail here

Plain old peeeing it down here.

[WillinGlossop]

4c hail,sleet....windier than when we last had a named storm.... oh well.... looking forward to some possible snow overnight/ tomorrow....

[The Northern Ramper]

1 hour ago, feb1991blizzard said:

It is just luck really - a proper winter and this place would be great - 09/10 was quality here but missed that by 6 months - interesting though the older people mention the 70s where they used to get 3-6ft drifts all the time - where as in the West Midlands the 80s was king - due to the Easterlies, im presuming the 70s was polar NW flows as apart from the late 70s, it doesn't look that snowy a decade looking at the retro charts - perhaps less marginal then due to climate change not having any effect

I moved to Mossley in the mid 80,s and woke up to knee deep snow plus drifting on a few occasions in my school teen years. Mossley Hollins school was well located for snow days.

[Spah1]

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[The Northern Ramper]

12 minutes ago, Spah1 said:

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Honestly believe this will be a nowcast event and I’ve seen us in the warning area and get nothing on many occasion so I’m not worried by this.

[cheshire snow]

Manchester and Liverpool Airport TAFS are both indicating the snow risk tomorrow 

C.S

[iand61]

44 minutes ago, Spah1 said:

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One warning area i’m glad that i’m not looking like getting an invite to.

just don’t fancy a few cm of wet slush but up here I wouldn’t be surprised to see something.

[Chris.R]

Oh hello! Where did this little southerly tracking low spring from for tonight. I do well from knees.

 

Looks like  a classic  cyclonic loop of surface winds. Pretty likely to see a period of snow then; or at least rain to snow; maybe like 8th March last year. Exciting.

 Then tomorrow night another snow chance. As I have said probably the wrong side of marginal for me at the coast though. Quite a lot of CAPE and low T500s however so maybe some convective action. 

Edited March 9, 2019 by Chris.R

[winterof79]

Wish Yorkshire thread was lively.

It's like the forum of doom

Good luck snow lovers 

[feb1991blizzard]

4 hours ago, Ramp said:

I moved to Mossley in the mid 80,s and woke up to knee deep snow plus drifting on a few occasions in my school teen years. Mossley Hollins school was well located for snow days.

Yes, i have been thinking by that school looks good when i get the 350 bus, mind you the only place i could afford round there is in that dodgy part, thats probably near 1000ft, top mossley probably even higher and the Hartshead Inn probably the hotspot, they get proper dumpings there.