shawty1984

I was reading that last night and all of today. Nothings really happening though

Considering all we got was graupel yesterday and most of today, there is hardly anything left of it.

Just had one on Teesside.

That's not nice, that's dandruff

Well I hate to say it, but if this is winter, roll on summer. So we are a day and half into this and most of it has melted. Yes there is potential there, but it's a day and a half lost already.

I'm not giving up, just being realistic. To get any meaningful snow to parts of Teesside that doesn't melt within that same day, you need something special like 2018 or 2010. I believe that most of us thought we would have some sort of snow cover by now which we haven't. I'm up at 4am tomorrow and I'm just struggling to see it with how wet everything is at the minute. With every shower that passes, it seems to be getting wetter. Basically I'm lowering my expectations. Then I won't be disappointed.

I'm trying to keep my hopes up that we'll get a good covering by the time the weeks out but I've got a funny feeling that this isn't going to go as we want it for parts of Teesside. Just drove home, as the showers get lighter, I'm sure they get a sleety mix. Anything that falls in the showers is just melting which is just making the ground wet again. I said this morning that Teesside will be lucky to get lying snow this morning, maybe I should extend that to all of today. I think we all thought by now that most of the NE would have a blanket of snow, even if it was just a cm.

While I'm keeping the faith, I really can't see much for Teesside from this.

The problem is, especially around Teesside, if the showers aren't intense enough, it's hitting wet ground, then inbetween showers, melting. Already seen it happen at 7am on the way to work.

Not sure what it's like else where but for places around the Teesside area, my personal opinion is we'll be lucky to see any lying snow by tomorrow morning, it's soaking wet.

Lol I know. The poster was saying sleet was snow showers.

Ok? Just you said sleet means snow showers.

It means rain and snow mixed.

Surely for places such as Teesside, they are going to be far too saturated for any snow to be beneficial anyway and thats if it does snow.

I think the misunderstanding was even mentioning 2010 in the first place. It's just basically like any year we get snow showers from the north sea.

People go way over the top in here. I'm willing to be proven wrong but tonight/tomorrow is not going to be anything like 2010.

How will this remind us of 2010

We still don't know properly what this week holds, pointless looking at a forecast for February.

Most likely because we don't get many decent cold spells. What you're asking is for there to be an agreement of something that's probably not going to happen.

2010 was more a North East direction.

If this is just a cold snap, cold enough for low level snow mid March, doesn't it put to bed the myth that once the cold and snow are here, it will be harder to shift? Something that was being said on the last cold spell too.

This is a weather forum, if they had done it on a computer forum you might have a slight point. It was rather amusing really. Back to the weather, what's the point of just being cold, it's boring and well, cold. Here we are in northern England just going into February in the middle of a cold spell, at night and it's raining/sleet. What an utter let down this has been and it just goes to show how hard it is just to get 'real' falling snow in the UK. The one time my area got falling snow with a cm or two covering at 10:30pm, was nearly all gone at 6am the very next day.

There is hardly any snow to melt, some of which has already melted.

With all due respect, it's like a sugar coating, nothing to write home about and any that is laying looks pretty wet. The warning for 200m asl will be because they will receive a proper covering.

Don't forget that was above 200m too.