Midlands Regional Discussion Feb 2021 Onward

[PolarWarsaw]

5 minutes ago, Arctic Hare said:

Here in N Worcs there was a dusting overnight, which has mostly evaporated now. Occasional showers of very small flakes, but that's all. Nothing remotely approaching another dusting, let alone a covering. We look to be in between two streamers here, and that's how it goes sometimes. Not too upset though as my hopes weren't that high for this far west. Currently 1.3 °C.

Unless you enjoy dandruff, then 95%+ of what you are missing isn't worth looking at out of the window. 

[BLIZZARDMAN]

2 minutes ago, sheikhy said:

Honestly mate its complete whiteout!settled rapidly everywhere!!

Yes coming down nicely in Leicester

[MattStoke]

21 minutes ago, Eskimo said:

I think the any snow melt is honestly down to the sun's strength. We are ~7 weeks from the shortest day of the year and solar radiation has increased by roughly 15%. These small margins make a difference when you aren't really seeing much snow at all. You wouldn't notice it if you had a dumping. 

It was the same here in early January.

[NixShep]

3 minutes ago, sheikhy said:

Honestly mate its complete whiteout!settled rapidly everywhere!!

snizzle in hinckley

[Convection currents]

3 minutes ago, sheikhy said:

Honestly mate its complete whiteout!settled rapidly everywhere!!

Just small flakes - light snow here!

[andy_leics22]

Had a sugar dusting overnight and now we've been sitting in a gap in the PPN for hours The Northampton snow shield is operating at full power.

 

 

[weirpig]

Oh dear  not the best to be honest     of course it may pick up later  but as it stands   a let down.   Thank goodness we have had a few events already this winter 

[Rickent]

15 minutes ago, sheikhy said:

And booooom !!!!whiteout here!!

bugger, I'm in Loughborough now, suns out here.

[snowangel32]

Heavy one looks to be heading towards the brum area soon.

[MattStoke]

7 minutes ago, weirpig said:

Oh dear  not the best to be honest     of course it may pick up later  but as it stands   a let down.   Thank goodness we have had a few events already this winter 

At least it’s not been bone dry and slate grey stratus covered skies across the entire region like some made it out it would be

Edited February 8, 2021 by MattStoke

[I remember Atlantic 252]

heavy one arrived, but probably just wet the ground like all morning after 9am

[stokepa31]

Steady snow in North Coventry curtesy of a nice streamer but alas tis above freezing and its melting on contact 

[Arnie Pie]

7 minutes ago, snowangel32 said:

Heavy one looks to be heading towards the brum area soon.

Looks to be just north and south of a direct hit

[DerbyshireDales]

We are right in the middle of all the streams so far. They are going above and below us. I’m guessing somewhere is getting the amber warning snow, we are just the unlucky guys in the middle of them. Ha ha. It’s snowing here now, but looks like just a short blast according to the radar. 

[snowtimenow]

Why the Amber warning ??? Nothing to shout about here Mansfield 

[sheikhy]

My god this streaner keeps giving guys

[Storme]

14 minutes ago, Rickent said:

bugger, I'm in Loughborough now, suns out here.

Yeah it's half sunny here. Completely stopped now.

[Snowy L]

1 minute ago, DerbyshireDales said:

We are right in the middle of all the streams so far. They are going above and below us. I’m guessing somewhere is getting the amber warning snow, we are just the unlucky guys in the middle of them. Ha ha. It’s snowing here now, but looks like just a short blast according to the radar. 

Yorkshire and Lincolnshire suffering just as much as us, most cant get more than a dusting because the sun undoes all the work from the showers. Amber warning looking silly now.

[Supacell]

Not exactly a dumping but this is what we have in Belper

Met Office Amber warning expires at 2pm. Expect heavy snow to start piling in here at 2:01pm

[BarometerCat]

23 minutes ago, sheikhy said:

Honestly mate its complete whiteout!settled rapidly everywhere!!

Bring it on!  Just picked up here a bit.  Not settling so much, looks a bit wet on the ground. loads of streamer activity to come I hope!

[snowangel32]

4 minutes ago, Arnie Pie said:

Looks to be just north and south of a direct hit

Yep in a sandwich how unlucky is that. But those Radars do have wiggle room so could still hit us.

[Diamond Joe]

Pretty pathetic attempts here this morning but hey ho doesnt matter in the grand scheme of things

[Gord]

The ground really isn’t freezing up hard enough during this easterly. Another effect of the source of the easterly being less cold? On my dog walk this morning, there was still too much squishy mud and the snow is struggling settling and staying.

And during the big event in the southeast yesterday, it took an age for the snow to start settling it seems.

In our snow events earlier in the winter, the ground was primed and ready to go. In 2018, we already had some harsh frosts leading up to the easterly proper.

The parameters are a little bit Swiss Cheese this time it seems.

Edited February 8, 2021 by Gord

[PolarWarsaw]

6 minutes ago, snowtimenow said:

Why the Amber warning ??? Nothing to shout about here Mansfield 

The warnings have been a professional joke since they failed to deal with the slider a few Sunday's back. 

Even then, they added an amber warning when the event had all but ended. 

[Shezale coventry]

Ermm i know i have been sarcastic about the snow here but in the last 20 mins its started to hammer it down in coventry everything is getting covered asap! WOW