Northwest Weather Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards

[severe snowstorm]

 Iceaxecrampon Yeah, I was thinking last night that there could be an awful lot of people wondering why on earth all the schools are shut! I totally get why they made the call given the amber warning, and could still come to fruition, but looking more wet than white at the moment.

[Snowmad79]

Not a bean here yet despite what the radar is showing

[Iceaxecrampon]

Ribblehead flurries. Place to be. 


 

Always a good outing either by Road or Rail. 

[Joe Snow]

 severe snowstorm Schools closed in anticipation of heavy snow & an Amber warning in NE Wales too - MO will face a lot of slack if it turns out to be a bit of heavy sleety rain for the majority especially with the likes of Saltney, Connahs Quay & Deeside on the Cheshire West/ Flintshire border seeing their schools closed when they might just see sleet or rain at their elevation. It also dents confidence in the MO so when a big snowfall/ storm etc... happens Joe Public takes no notice. 

[Chris.R]

Give it time. Surface is just a bit more marginal than expected yesterday evening

[wrightc23]

I think I might need to sell up and move further north and gain some altitude. 

[loubie_4]

Sleet started here. 

[severe snowstorm]

 Joe Snow Yes, there will be a bit of a backlash if there is little or no snow. I have a lot of sympathy for the metoffice, they were absolutely right to issue the amber warning, but things did downgrade yesterday evening on the models unfortunately. Things could still change, but there have been intense echoes over North Wales for some time now, so the lack of reports in the Welsh thread is probably not a good sign.

[Garthvader]

 wrightc23 go further north than wigan

[Chris.R]

 Garthvader Wigan is great. Better than Crosby

[Snowmad79]

Okay so the PPN hitting here now but its just very light sleety drizzle at the moment.

Edited February 8 by Snowmad79

[Stratocumulus perlucidus]

Been raining here for about 2hrs and id say we more favourable usually for snow

[Chris.R]

Heavy sleet recently started.

[EastofWigan]

Raining here.  Metoffice showing heavy snow, accuweather showing rain. Normally the other way round 

[Rush2019]

Had a brief rain shower just after 6.30.  Just a couple of the 03z UKV charts of how it sees the next few hours. 

[damianslaw]

Radar is very misleading, much of Cumbria shown as pink last hour, and some green in terms of precipitation rate, yet its bone dry so far..

[Day 10]

 Chris.R

Weather wise yeah

[severe snowstorm]

Heavy rain, 2.6C.

[Geordiesnow]

 damianslaw

Evaporating before reaching the ground, the usual when conditions are right but the air is to dry! 

[jimben]

 damianslaw same here

[cheshire snow]

 severe snowstorm oh the joy.

BBC breakfast have there reporters in Mould and it was lashing down with rainAll the reporter said was it was cold.

what an absolute embarrassment this could be from the MO

in other news the rain is getting heavier here

[Rush2019]

Rain here, a bit sleety.  Dusting on the Cat n Fiddle, traffic is moving pretty freely.

[Chris.R]

It is looking more marginal than expected. I don't know whether the atmosphere profile is different than model or the surface is warmer than expected, or the positive 850s are further north quicker than expected or what but I did expect more snow reports by now.

[mountain shadow]

 cheshire snow indeed. I'm at 420 feet here in the Castlereagh hills and have gone from 36 hours of snow to 100% rain.

The precipitation has arrived early here and it's all rain.

[damianslaw]

 cheshire snow Think they better to move to top of Snake Pass instead.