Yorkshire and E England regional thread 30 Jan 2019 onwards

[Guest]

Chunky hail shower just passed over in Dronfield, turn to sleet/wet snow on its back edge.

The hail was an impressive size

[The PIT]

Sleet then hail some fairly large then a pause then more sleet turning more to rain as the humidity shot up. Winds died away here so not a squall. Now passed through but good while it lasted.

[cowdog]

The 10 day forecast on this website (which is just the GFS output) has scared me, its showing over 170mm of rain for here over than next 10 days. It won't happen as its GFS, but it shows we are most likely going to keep getting an absurd amount of rain.

[summer blizzard]

Stonker of a hail shower just now with bits of snow. Loud enough that I could hear inside and turned everything white.

[bazookabob]

10 minutes ago, summer blizzard said:

Stonker of a hail shower just now with bits of snow. Loud enough that I could hear inside and turned everything white.

Just had it here in Garforth, white over with hail and some big winds with it! Very impressive! 

[MIKE LEVITT]

unless something amazing happens this could be the first winter in my 60 years that ive not seen a single snowflake fall in hull.we have had some very poor winters of late,but this winter has been the worst ive known..terrible

[Had Worse]

Any thunder in your neck of the woods.  Been afew strikes around Emley moor,

[Love Snow]

Just looking out of the window and you can see Emley moor from my house it’s pitch black so wouldn’t be surprised ! 

Edited February 18, 2020 by Love Snow

[Love Snow]

Absolute torrential rain now tho ! 

[Cheese Rice]

The showers should become wintry as the evening progresses, wouldn't rule out falling snow to low levels if intensity is there. 

[Spikecollie]

OH was out doing a planning survey on Harden Moor and reports getting soaked this afternoon, feeling hail and hearing thunder.

[The PIT]

Lightning and a sleet shower right now.

[Derbyshire_snow]

Anyone see that massive lightning bolt in Sheffield about half an hour ago I was driving back up the M1 and saw a huge flash over Sheffield way was sleeting heavily when I got home.

[Cheese Rice]

A great example of a rain shadow on the radar currently. 

[Winter Cold]

Seems to have been in effect all day, only recorded 2.4mm in total today

[The PIT]

Tomorrow could be interesting as it turns colder we could see some Snow as the cold uppers dig in.

[Winter Cold]

Fingers crossed! Need to take any opportunity to see a flake in this 'winter' lol

[cheese]

4 hours ago, Cheese Rice said:

A great example of a rain shadow on the radar currently. 

Indeed, a few spots in the air but otherwise nothing. Long live the Pennines.

[Gray-Wolf]

Not as dramatic as the MetO rainfall Radar makes out but still a mad few minutes as that squall passed over us here in the Upper Calder Valley!

I think the hail core sends back brighter echoes so the 'white stripe' in the plot was not as bad as I've seen such bring over summer when no hail is involved?

Stay safe folks!!!

[Guest]

Rancid day out there with squally winds and driving cold rain. I'll look forward to the eventual clearance to brighter weather later.

[Gray-Wolf]

MetO Rainfall Radar shows us under 'oranges/deep oranges' yet we have hazy sunshine and blowing drizzle???

Anyone else seeing similar in their region?

I'm obviously 'jumpy' about a day of heavy rain but of this is what passes as 'heavy rain' I'll take it!

[cheese]

Another pronounced rain shadow today. Maybe the rain warnings are for flooding due to water flowing downstream?

Edit: yes, their warning states heavy rain over hills.

Edited February 21, 2020 by cheese

[Slysi100]

1 hour ago, Gray-Wolf said:

MetO Rainfall Radar shows us under 'oranges/deep oranges' yet we have hazy sunshine and blowing drizzle???

Anyone else seeing similar in their region?

I'm obviously 'jumpy' about a day of heavy rain but of this is what passes as 'heavy rain' I'll take it!

Yeah we're right on the edge in Barnsley. We've got a mixture of sunny skies with occasional drizzle. I'll take that

[Gray-Wolf]

18 minutes ago, Slysi100 said:

Yeah we're right on the edge in Barnsley. We've got a mixture of sunny skies with occasional drizzle. I'll take that

It looks very 'orographic' in nature?

The run up to the Peaks/Pennines seems to be taking the biggest hit but then, by the time you're over the tops of the Pennines, you're entering the 'rain shadow'

Run the rainfall radar and you can see this in operation?

[Gray-Wolf]

Please let that be the back edge just clearing the Fylde now!

The river is now picking up so we don't need much more of this!