North West Regional Discussion Feb 2021 onwards

[WillinGlossop]

2-3cm in places that was heavy little shower... 

[Had Worse]

1 minute ago, WillinGlossop said:

2-3cm in places that was heavy little shower... 

Just polystyrene layer for me.

[WillinGlossop]

1 minute ago, Had Worse said:

Just polystyrene layer for me.

Polystyrene and flakes really heavy.... hills revealing themselves all white again... crazy weather 5c to 0c in minutes 

[Don]

Some fantastic snow pictures from this morning! 

[karyo]

8 hours ago, Rush2112 said:

Best of both worlds, and you had a bonus snow event in Athens to boot.  Nice to have you back in the UK.

Thank you Rush! Yes, the Athens snowfall was something else.

[Cheshire Freeze]

Just had another heavy hail and snow shower. Everywhere white over.

[damianslaw]

Well if anyone come February next winter says 'that's it no chance of any more snow', I'll remind them of this April!

[Weather-history]

-5.1C here, that is cold for nearly mid April

[MattH]

Just sharing some pics from yesteday here in E Lancashire. Quite the rate event driven by a well established convergence zone on Sat evening and the slow-moving nature of the precip helping totals. Interestingly there were some very localised differences in accumulations. More western areas of the Rossendale area of E Lancs, including here saw lower totals than across more eastern areas nearer to the border of W Yorkshire, that highlighted by one poster day ago from Bacup where totals where much higher there than say 4-5 milea to the West. No doubt related to local variations in intensity and longevity of the snow on Sat evening. 

Regards. 

Edited April 12, 2021 by MattHugo

[Had Worse]

Morning All.

A cold graupely view greeted me this morning . That late intense shower yesterday evening had not melted and if anything looks to have been added to.

[damianslaw]

Another air frost this morning.. lost count how many we've had this month so far..  another fine day ahead.. turning into a much colder version of last April..

[toggerob]

-2'c overnight with a evident ground frost although the clear skies at 5am soon gave way to overcast and foggy skies, hoping for a good clear spell this afternoon to have a wander-around what's left of the snowfields around the Kinder/Bleaklow area.

[A Face like Thunder]

Bit of snow and ice on the car roofs from last night but another lovely morning, although very cold again.

[A Face like Thunder]

What a glorious day, I even got my washing dry on the line despite the chill in the air. Some lovely 'puffy white clouds' as Francis Wilson might have said!

[Had Worse]

Snap

[toggerob]

It was a nice day to be out and about in the Peaks despite the chill in the air and overcast skies earlier on this morning. Oddly enough its parts of the White Peak where most of the past few day's worth of snow has survived the thaw, and there's now barely anything up around Kinder or Bleaklow where it's been exposed to the sun despite the elevation.

[iand61]

A lovely sunny day and nearly all of my snow has gone, hopefully until next winter

amazing to think that less than 48 hours ago we had nothing then 6 hours later it was 10 inches deep, then it disappears pretty much as quickly as it came.

April is definitely the most interesting month of the year weather wise.

[cheshire snow]

Roll on spring proper and warmer temperatures

C.S

[WillinGlossop]

Lovely walk around manor park feeding the ducks... eventhough a few layers on felt nice in sunshine... quick pop to doctors for blood test then the shops to get ingredients to make seafood chowder with cheesy sourdough 

[SP1986]

I saw the CET is currently 5.7C which makes it colder than April 1989 (not rolling average)... but with temperatures in the day forecast 2-3C below average, even in the next week at least, and night time temperatures easily 4-5C below average, we could well see this years April CET competing with that of 1989. It does make me wonder, April 1701 must have been literally like January with a CET of  4.7C. Looking at the records, we're not going to be all that far away from the record coolest in sets like minimum mean, maximum mean, etc etc. 

[damianslaw]

Max of 9 degrees, min of -3 degrees, returning a mean of 3 degrees! Very cold for April, and we've had a run of similar means for about 8 days now, sometimes lower.. colder than many a week in winter!

[Weather-history]

Down to -5.2C

[Cheshire Freeze]

8 minutes ago, Weather-history said:

Down to -5.2C

Certainly a nippy one!

[Had Worse]

Lovely start again. The field at the back was white with frost but the sun has zapped it and temps are on the rise.

[Frost HoIIow]

-5.7C here was the low. A bit of an easterly influence in the next few days but it's April now. If it was January we'd be looking at max's close to zero. The sun is just too strong now and overpowers the cold continental air.