North West Regional Discussion 30 Jan 2019 onwards

[Thunder Snow]

Gusty rain/hail showers 

[jam2010]

Don't know where it's come from but heavy hail here!

[Had Worse]

And if by magic, a cluster of showers pop up... in land ????

[jam2010]

would of been nice if this was snow but a layer of white hail is something i suppose.

[Had Worse]

Could be a trough feature

[Miamay]

Some strong gusts here 

[Spah1]

See everyone next Monday for another let down. 

[dodge]

Last little cluster of showers which deposited a bit of hail here, mostly spawned just west of the M60...didn't emerge off the Irish sea... bizarre...Alice in Wonderland weather tonight and on that note I'll send my dizzy and slightly cold-ridden head to bed.

[Had Worse]

more showers spawning from nowhere ??

[Weather-history]

 

17 minutes ago, dodge said:

Last little cluster of showers which deposited a bit of hail here, mostly spawned just west of the M60...didn't emerge off the Irish sea... bizarre...Alice in Wonderland weather tonight and on that note I'll send my dizzy and slightly cold-ridden head to bed.

Just had a graupel shower now. Very odd.

Does anyone else think it has been a bust? 

 

[Spah1]

my god

not too far north Scotland getting pasted

bugger all here

 

[Allseasons-Si]

7 minutes ago, Had Worse said:

more showers spawning from nowhere ??

Yes,you lot in the NW keep on spawning the showers then dumping snow here,well when i said dumping,more like a dusting,it has been a bit pathetic though to say the least

[Mark_p]

Long time lurker/rare poster weighing in. As others have alluded to, the frankly weird thing about this synoptic has been the lack of precipitation. I was never under the impression that we'd get low elevation settling snow from this but considering the conditions in place I am baffled by the lack of shower activity. I imagined a typical 'pm shot' type of weather over the past 2 days with some interesting convection - sunshine/hail maybe a bit of thunder action. But nothing. It's been dry as a bone imby and at work closer to the coast - I think I've seen 3 hail showers (all less than 5 minutes long.) Very odd and beyond my knowledge to explain why when the building blocks all seemed to be in place. The only notable thing has been the wind.

[Weather-history]

Showers form, they move on but why are showers are not constantly developing then? They seem to just pop up. It's almost as if there are small pockets of instability floating about and they need a tiny bit of orographic lift to trigger them as they hit the land.

Amazing how there have been hardly any showers along the north Wales coast. 

[Allseasons-Si]

@Weather-history

don't take this as a gospel but i think the winds are too strong for orographic lift immediately on the coast and there for take place further inland,that's the only conclusion i can think of. 

[Frost HoIIow]

It is bizarre that the showers are hitting the buffers half way between Northern Ireland & Isle of Man. This has been a consistent thing in that area since last night. 

[Thunder Snow]

20 minutes ago, Spah1 said:

my god

not too far north Scotland getting pasted

bugger all here

 

Dont worry its rain 

[Weather-history]

1 minute ago, Frost HoIIow said:

It is bizarre that the showers are hitting the buffers half way between Northern Ireland & Isle of Man. This has been a consistent thing in that area since last night. 

If you look at the 12hr rainfall accumulation on netweather radar, you'll see how dry the Irish Sea has been. Remarkably you can make out the Solway Firth indentation on the 24hr rainfall accumulation chart 

[Spah1]

as expected the 18z GFS completely gets rid of the scandy high

[Frost HoIIow]

22 minutes ago, Weather-history said:

If you look at the 12hr rainfall accumulation on netweather radar, you'll see how dry the Irish Sea has been. Remarkably you can make out the Solway Firth indentation on the 24hr rainfall accumulation chart 

Think I'm done with this Winter now. Today just rubbed more salt into the wound. If we get a snowy March then great but after this garbage Winter I wouldn't bet a lot on it happening. We'll probably get a warm one like 2012.

[Mucka]

23 hours ago, Frost HoIIow said:

A warming climate means Winters like this one will happen more frequently. Winters are definitely not as cold or as snowy as they were when I was growing up. (Born in the 1950's) Okay it was never like Canadian or Russian Winters but they were for sure more wintry compared to these days. Something has changed & it's steadily going in the milder direction.

I'm 57 and don't think there were many snowy winters, I do remember more frost and high pressure though.

Next winter could easily be snowy and cold, at least in part.

 

[Weather-history]

A stream of showers in the Merseyside/Greater Manchester corridor now but it feels too little too late. If this was happening this time yesterday, then it may have been more interesting. 

[Had Worse]

Sleet wet snow here.

[More Runs Needed]

Just graupel here but melting pretty quick

[SP1986]

Heavy rain showers here. Think this one is a bust now. Plenty more opportunities for snow though through late winter and Spring