Far north and northeast of England weather discussion

[snowmackem]

Yay, we have snow. Not lying yet, that's one for the morning! That makes the grand total of 6 days this winter here that snow has fallen, pathetic but probably twice as much as the last two winters put together. Loads to come over the next few days too, yeeehaaa!

[Mick Ormiston]

1 minute ago, snowmackem said:

Yay, we have snow. Not lying yet, that's one for the morning! That makes the grand total of 6 days this winter here that snow has fallen, pathetic but probably twice as much as the last two winters put together. Loads to come over the next few days too, yeeehaaa!

I think it's only about six days it hasn't snowed up here in Consett since Christmas.

[Continental Climate]

Currently hailing in Boro no real sign of snow yet but it feels bitter. 

[snowmackem]

23 minutes ago, Mick Ormiston said:

I think it's only about six days it hasn't snowed up here in Consett since Christmas.

Haha, nananeenana! Joking, I know what it's like there, only 20 mins away, I PROMISE, I am NOT  jealous of you mate, at all lol. I think for all up here it has been a better than average winter. Well, it will be by the time we are done. Living here in the "lowlands", every winter, almost without fail, I see family and friends living in Essex, London, Bucks having more snowfall than us here in Tyneside, boils my weewee to hear the Southerners complaining that we get all the snow! Not true, unless ya live in Consett lol. Cheers bud, enjoy this week

Edited February 7, 2021 by snowmackem

[Continental Climate]

Just checked the radar and it's not really happening in the North Sea for us atm. If things don't get going soon I think we can call tonight a bust. 

[Phil Blake]

I'm disappointed we didn't get at least a covering tonight. Let's hope the north sea does it's thang

[Continental Climate]

Possible start of the shower activity in the northern part of the region. Northumberland looks good but nothing further south.....yet!!

[Phil Blake]

9 minutes ago, Continental Climate said:

Possible start of the shower activity in the northern part of the region. Northumberland looks good but nothing further south.....yet!!

Indeed there is some activity starting to pick up in the north sea. BBC has me dry until midnight tonight

[Continental Climate]

3 minutes ago, Phil Blake said:

Indeed there is some activity starting to pick up in the north sea. BBC has me dry until midnight tonight

There is no getting round it this has been a poor start to our cold event. I've been round all the other regionals and most of them have been describing little or no snow in their areas. Anyway today has got to be better I suppose.

[Continental Climate]

Unbelievably my weather phone app has said the temp has actually risen in Middlesbrough going from 0c to 1c lol you couldn't make it up. 

[**!!**]

We've gone from pretty much nothing to this heading our way in just over an hour so it can't be much more of a wait...

[Phil Blake]

I've just driven to work and the temp fluctuated between 0 and 1c. A few flakes in Durham city

[geordiekev]

Looks like we might get that Atlantic Omega I've been harping on about.

Pretty Please GFS

[Continental Climate]

The north Sea seems to be waking up but the showers don't look very beefy just yet will probably just produce flurries when they hit the land. 

[Smoggieontour]

The North Sea snow machine does seem to have activated at last!

My preferred lampost has malfunctioned though, absolute disaster.

[garylaverick]

Still patience needed, you can see the low clearing through Germany now and it'll start to head west, this is what's preventing the snow machine firing up proper at the minute. 

Edited February 7, 2021 by garylaverick

[Continental Climate]

A light flurry in boro now but no way will stick at this rate. 

[geordiekev]

If anyone's seen the GFS it ends quite spectacularly with a whopper of a Northerly and a strong Atlantic block.

I call it the Angel

[J-Man]

Woke up to not a grain of anything, disappointed.

[J-Man]

Although checking the radar can see the steamers lining up, just need them to become heavier.

[Continental Climate]

Well the BBC have just massively upgraded darlington snow chances from 40% chance of  light snow showers to over 90% chance of heavy snow showers for 8am today. Not giving ppl much warning though is it? 

[seabreeze86]

North Sea now getting going albeit later than thought should be a decent day although Monday and Tuesday the snow showers should be much heavier 

[Vee89]

Nothing at all here overnight

[Jarrow Posh]

I was expecting at least a dusting this morning.

The radar shows the North Sea coming to life now though so hopefully we will get some snow soon.

[Snowmaggedon]

A dusting of snow on cars the only positive is that the ground has dried up so any snow today should accumulate.