North West Regional Discussion 30 December 2020 onwards

[dodge]

Still very light sleet here...no chance of lying until it becomes heavier.  Radar does look like closing the light stuff gap we've been in for a few hours, so might push a late show for something a bit decent before close of play.  Ice warning out tonight.

2 minutes ago, Geordiesnow said:

Not even 1% sleet here! 

To be fair it looks like for most of the region so far, it's more wet than white, unlike those in Yorkshire, stunning scenes over there.

Yep...I've seen the 5ft snowman...you know you've had a decent fall when you can build a snowman that high!

Edited January 14, 2021 by dodge

[Iceaxecrampon]

Yorks regional thread interesting - looks like a major event over there moisture piling into the pennines meeting NW airflow proper battleground.

[SnowWatcher2]

Finally some proper snow starting to fall.

[damianslaw]

Patchy cover, snow still sleety and not particularly heavy.. so no cover on roads still. I can see trees covered only 20m or so higher.. will take a walk up to 230m soon and see what a difference 100m makes.. lots of roads impassable in Cumbria right now.

[James M]

Turned to snow here eventually but just little to low down for it to stick (0.8°C). Just 20 minutes away in Holmfirth my colleagues are having a proper snow day!

[Spah1]

24 minutes ago, Iceaxecrampon said:

Post of the Day

Not sure why , but hey ho. 

[I Cumbria Marra I]

Actually looks like sleet now, not far away from snow, probably get 2 mins of snow then the ppn dries up after bissing it down for over 18 hours wait and see

[Geordiesnow]

4 minutes ago, damianslaw said:

Patchy cover, snow still sleety and not particularly heavy.. so no cover on roads still. I can see trees covered only 20m or so higher.. will take a walk up to 230m soon and see what a difference 100m makes.. lots of roads impassable in Cumbria right now.

Not a very encouraging report there. Yorkshire has hit very lucky with the timing of the snow starting and intensity of PPN which has all kept the freezing level down.

The North West meanwhile took much longer and it's too late in the day to get the snow level down, so it looks like for most, a non event, not unexpected here but I'm surprised more of Manchester seems to be more wet than white.

[WillinGlossop]

Heavy snow end of m67 mottram was starting to lay, get to Hadfield snizzle back home snizzle

[Frost HoIIow]

Non event here. Just a bit of sleet so far. It's just not been heavy enough for evaporative cooling to kick in.

[Wardlegacy]

All snow now but far too light 

[SnowWatcher2]

...?? what hope have we got when they can't even get the past correct.

[Geordiesnow]

16 minutes ago, Frost HoIIow said:

Non event here. Just a bit of sleet so far. It's just not been heavy enough for evaporative cooling to kick in.

I dont think its intensity as such, the air is just not all that cold I'm afraid. Colder air with moderate/heavyish intensity would bring snow to most levels I would bet.

The rain is trying to turn sleety here but it's not exactly sleet in the true sense. Its ashame really, just not meant to be.

[Frost HoIIow]

6 minutes ago, Geordiesnow said:

I dont think its intensity as such, the air is just not all that cold I'm afraid. Colder air with moderate/heavyish intensity would bring snow to most levels I would bet.

The rain is trying to turn sleety here but it's not exactly sleet in the true sense. Its ashame really, just not meant to be.

It's definitely cold enough here. It's actually dropped throughout today and not risen, just a touch above freezing right now. But we've lost the intensity of the precipitation that we had first thing this morning when it was a bit milder.

[Backtrack]

Sleet. 1C

[frosty ground]

2 minutes ago, Frost HoIIow said:

It's definitely cold enough here. It's actually dropped throughout today and not risen, just a touch above freezing right now. But we've lost the intensity of the precipitation that we had first thing this morning when it was a bit milder.

Certainly cold enougth just light PPN, Settling at home in Moorside not so much in Oldham thou the grass is getting that white tinge to it now.

[Iceaxecrampon]

06z

GFS for this evening?

[dodge]

Precipitation dying on it's feet - to be honest all this was within my expectations and east of the Pennines were in the best spot today....but while they'll be keeping their snow cover overnight as temps drop, we'll just have icy patches to deal with.

[SnowWatcher2]

850hpa dropped, shame the PPN dropping with it

[Snow free zone]

1 hour ago, Dan B said:

Snow's coming down here in Walton le Dale, Preston now

 

Temps dropped to 1ºC but everywhere is sodden, so doubt it'll stick unfortunately 

Nothing but rain and sleet in this part of Preston 

[PennineMark]

Well I'm confident we've more snow than at any weve point so far this winter. Can't be mithered getting a tape measure out but I reckon we've got the grand total of 15mm on cars/wheelie bins etc. If it keeps up we might scrape the magic 2cm

[Iceaxecrampon]

Just now, Snow free zone said:

Nothing but rain and sleet in this part of Preston 

....as per.

[itsnowjoke]

Few flakes falling nothing sticking ground to wet

[Geordiesnow]

6 minutes ago, itsnowjoke said:

Few flakes falling nothing sticking ground to wet

The ground could be bone dry and it still won't stick if the snowflakes are too wet! 

Ground can be soaking wet and snow can settle aslong as the ground/air temperatures are cold enough. We all make the same mistake of assuming the ground is too wet for snow to lie. 

[Chris.R]

Throwing towell in. Precip not heavy enough. Bring on next week.