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    Cold Spell Discussion

    in Spring Weather Discussion

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    Me neither. I don't care what it's like so long as it's cold enough for overnight frosts. I've taken to calling winter the mud season around our part of the world — but an overnight frost means I can go for a walk without slipping and sliding around and I don't have to wash floors every other day.

    I can't stand having to clean the mud off my trainers every time I go for a walk :gathering:

    Cold, hard grounds make walking on much better.

    Back to the mud this weekend though :drinks:

    Midlands Cold Spell Discussion

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    Plenty of snowfall around today, over 12 hours of almost continuous albeit mainly light snow here. Just imagine if the block had been that bit further East, the Atlantic system would have rushed in quicker and then stalled here whilst maintaining heavy PPN !

    I take it you're not a Megson fan then, Ian? :D

    I think overall this cold spell has been satisfactory for most of us, BUT with the notable exception of Derby and Nottingham.

    Midlands Cold Spell Discussion

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    Not sure if we had any snow after 10pm last night, but a little more of a thaw than when I went to bed.

    Went outside abotu 9.30pm, and had a heavy snow flurry, which was instantly starting to stick (flakes were landing on wet surfaces, and whilst became translucent, the structure was clearly visible). However, right at the end of the shower, it turned to drizzle.

    Just off on my way up to Warrington now, so will be interesting. Looks like i'm driving in the dry slot, and will probably miss the ppn potential over Derby this morning.

    With regards to Tuesday...who knows. We had good conditions here yesterday, but still had a thaw and no accumulations. I know that there was talk of there being milder air, but I still can't see it. Just one of those unfortunate situations. So Tuesday...could be fortunate, might be unfortunate. Potentially, its possible, but its also marginal.

    Moving forwards in the week. Generally, ground temps look like remaing around 1-2oC at max (currently 1oC here), with a potential trend for these to creep up a little to around 4-5oC moving towards the weekend/early next week.

    High pressure to our east is never far away. Fingers crossed that it starts to make in roads. But, being the 11th of Jan, the timespan for another cold spell or period of wintry weather is a plenty :blink:

    You're not missing much, pptn is exactly the same as yesterday, rain/sleet/poor quality snow as I like to put it :cold:

    We had another couple of cms last night but I think we can expect a quite steady thaw today with temps higher than last week. I an already see it disappearing off the roofs around me and our road looks slushy whereas last week it was just snow compacted over ice.

    Its been a great spell though hasn't it?

    No not really for those who live in Derby, Notts, Kettering, and probably Leicester

    We had about an inch before Christmas, and 2 inches last week.

    That's worse than last Feb, and not even remotely close to being memorable to be honest...

    Midlands Cold Spell Discussion

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    I'm not going to write this event off just yet - didn't the GFS show the heavier pptn to appear over the Midlands around midnight and stay there until 6am tomorrow?

    Yes but it's about 50/50 between rain and snow, and the odds are even worse for the Tues/Weds event.

    Precip isn't the issue here, the temperature is :(

    Midlands Cold Spell Discussion

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    Yes but people are having light to moderate snow and nothing is showing on the radar! Also I believe that some down south are getting a pounding from the snow and again nothing on the radar! Radar,s no good better off just looking up and seeing whats falling good.gif

    The snow is offering no accumulations and isn't in any way significant tbh.

    Midlands Cold Spell Discussion

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    Yes, increasing cloud cover will send the temps up, will be interesting to see where the mercury gets to under the frontal band tomorrow, from my experience the heaviest snow falls in the UK with the temp between 1 and 1.5C, but I don't think we will get quite that high tomorrow.

    Ian, from what I've seen of the charts it doesn't look as though the furthest inland parts of the midlands will be seeing much temperature rise before the end of next week - is this correct?

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