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  1. Light snow falling again.

    Must admit to being a little surprised considering how the snow showers became less frequent during the afternoon. I would have expected more of a clearance and sharp frost.

    Maybe it is not quite going to be like that.

    EDIT: Just seen your post dodgeredee - what the radar suggests sounds more like it!

  2. Its been snowing here as well for about 10 minutes and everything is covered in a fine layer again topping up the gaps between the thick snow that has not yet melted. Looking at the radar there are clumps of precipitation popping up to the north of us which will hopefully keep coming.

    Shadowfax

    Just had a look at the radar and seen all those showers further north, over the borders and north-east England - which is what I imagine you are referring to.

    Let's hope some of that makes it our way! smile.gif

  3. met office/bbc forecasts tend to focus on urban areas, therefore milder than the rural areas, often significantly

    Quite true - because they are the major population centres. Temperatures stated are also sea-level temps. I believe, which makes a huge difference.

    The models have though been suggesting, very strongly, temperatures well below average - partularly overnight minima. Incidentally, the maximum temp. where I live today was a meagre 0.4c. - it is below freezing now of course and the projected cold spell has barely started.smile.gif

  4. I think the radar is showing just how much the Pennines can kill off the showers from a North Easterly flow. Fragmenting all the time. Certainly gives support to those advocating we stand a better chance of getting more snowfall from a direct Easterly, than a North Easterly. Tyneside is the area to be today lol

    Too true. I can actually see the dark clouds over the hills to the north-east - and they are just sliding down the eastern side. I've seen it so many times.

    Directly overhead clouds are patchy resulting in a very light snow flurry.

  5. Thanks for posting those photos ONO.

    I always appreciate it when others are able to provide the rest of us with the opportunity to see the snowfalls which have occurred elsewhere.

    I find it of great interest and it helps keep the spirits up when snow is largely absent - to any significant degree anyway - in ones own area.

    Cheers. drinks.gif

  6. I wish we could stop this SE'erner bashingsad.gifdry.gif

    Some of us actually try to venture to other regional threads and spread a bit of goodwill. I've visited a few other threads and posted in there with good wishes both pre xmas and afterwards.

    Hi Tamara

    To be honest I have been totally fed up with what has been going on in that regard, to the extent that I have barely posted in the thread for my region today - such has been the nature of the conversation at times.

    As you point out in your post below, the model thread is there for discussion of the model output - not for discussion of ones own prospects for snow. Some fail to appreciate this and hence moan, complain, accuse people of bias and self-interest - most of this being completely unfounded in my honest opinion.

    I almost hesitate to say this but how many of those who may be regarded as the worst culprits actually have the technical expertise to converse or articulate themselves in a meaningful way with the more knowledgeable members who post on that thread, many of whom just happen to live in the south east. That does sound like elitism or arrogance - it isn't meant to. If I were capable of having a discussion at their level with Steve Murr or Nick Sussex for instance on matters meteorological I would, however I do not yet profess to have a scientific working knowledge of the subject, and I know that.

    Hence I stay out of the model thread by and large for that very reason. Discussions of will it snow IMBY are for the regional thread as said.

    I for one hope that this entire issue begins to dissipate sooner rather than later and may I wish everyone wherever they may live - especially fellow members in the south east corner on this occassion! - a very happy new year.

    Happy New Year to all. drinks.gif

  7. Keep a close eye on Saturday folks- looks like that trough for Saturday is being progged further and further south and west in successive runs, introducing the chance of snow showers heading in from the Irish Sea (John Holmes first referred to this possibility in the model output discussion, and looking at the current set of outputs I agree).

    John has posted a very good summary imo regarding the current prospects in the said model thread only a short while ago. Definitely worth a look.good.gif

  8. As JACKONE posted in the main model thread, if the winds alternate between northerly and easterly, north-west England can be hit by snowfalls if the northerlies acquire a westerly component to the flow. The alternative is that a polar low forms over the Irish Sea.

    Regarding any easterly component, purely looking at this from an IMBY perspective experience has shown me that a straightforward easterly tends to deliver just as easily.

    Now I am aware that this is not necessarily the case for many others in the north west - particularly those near the coast. Equally southeasterlies or northeasterlies are not nearly so dependable.

    Quite true too about those others further west having their best opportunities for snow from a northerly.

    I do live in the east of the region and have to say that in the event of a pure easterly I never watch the local north west forecasts because they are usually wide of the mark for my locality - I watch those for eastern england. drinks.gif

  9. I could be wrong, but it doesn't look like its going anywhere yet sadly. What a foul mess this is.

    Typical of systems to get stuck over us when they're falling as RAIN. wallbash.gif

    That's what the radar appears to suggest. Having just seen a bbc forecast the preciptation should be out of the way - moved south, fizzled out etc - by tomorrow, so it could be a slow process.

    Cold thereafter - so something to look forward to at least smile.gif

  10. Continuous Blizzards all day, yet just a few mins down the road in Oldham town centre there is no lying snow!! Just taken these pics, its a white-out and many local trans-pennine routes are closed

    Great photos! good.gif

    Amazing really to think that those were taken just up the road from me - it does illustrate very well what a difference that extra elevation makes.

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