recklessabandon

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The wall in the first picture is around 4 feet high....as is the tree which you can see the top of now buried.....

Nice image....I reckon that back edge will take some time to get here still as it is streaming from the east to an extent, but once it has gone temperatures will drop like a rock.

Dont.

Cheers, sounds about right.

Does anyone have any suggestions of a place in the 'sett where the wind wont have modified the cover too much, would be interested what the 'level' total is by the end...I am sure we have surpassed 2010 now.

0130 it started snowing here....so 17 hours almost now....

Well this event is certainly going out with a bang, I feel sorry for that poor dude on BBC1 being posted out in Castleside like that, just mean! No idea how much has come down in this heavy band after sunset, but id guess nearly 3 to 5 cm now??

Consett had more than that in the last 2 hours lol

I just took some pictures from Medomsley Edge and compared them to the ones from 2010 I took at the same location......*drum roll*.....yup, 2013 is the clear winner....

Seriously. No one wishes they were in Consett anymore lol. Well not those of us who want to get anywhere this week....

WOW. Just been out for a walk to take some pictures, conditions aren't bad, they are lethal now, the Almighty help anyone trying to drive back to Consett now....snow is the heaviest it has been all day and the wind really whipped up. Snow at the edge of Shotley Bridge/Medomsley Edge was up to my knees and I am 6'2" (sorry not scientific). In the space of 45mins of walking around 3-4cm had fallen. I am concerned that Durham County Council will probably give up on Consett once they assume most people are home after 7pm.....big dig the morra to get to work!!! Dangerous out there. No other word for it.

It think its a radar error.....I don't think it exists. Anything more will be from this system we have now which is fairly self sustaining in terms or pulses of snow still.

NAE shows PPN rates remaining relatively high until tomorrow morning across the North-east. There is cross model agreement in falling T-wetbulb and freezing levels (as I suggested this morning) so continued PPN is more likely to bring snow toward the coasts. Im not sure about that mystery blob coming out from the near continent, I think that is probably made up, but it is worth noting that the back edge of this system has taken most of the day to travel the 80 miles or so from Sheffield to North Yorkshire, so I think the NAE might not be far out. Anyone checked the NNM models for comparison?

I Just looked outside. Its snowing. As it now has been for nearly 15 hours.

Just went out to clear the car off and though about clearing the street so I can get out. Changed my mind, made a coffee, car covered in snow again already. Could do with a JCB...

Because we are northern and don't matter.

Heavier snow now all seems to be north of the Tyne now, snow is a lot lighter and finer here too.

A lot of flights cancelled coming out of the low country so I would guess its pretty rough.

Cold looks like staying in-situ until the middle of Friday now....which, is quite a long way in forecasting terms.....

-0.5/-0.6C Medomsley station. Been steady all day.

It will get colder again as I have suggested as the system tracks north, some back edge snow is probable right down to sea level, whether the system is active enough to give a decent covering though is another matter.

The centre of this 'little' weather system has some 'warm' air within in, rather like the eye of a hurricane, though clearly not as active. This cell of warm air is currently running up the north east coast towards Scotland, surrounding this cell is much colder air to all sides. As the system continues to track north the freezing levels should drop almost back to sea level, whether enough significant PPN remains associated as it tracks north remains to be seen.

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