Deep Snow please

Beautiful day today, nice and chilly. heavy clouds with no blue sky and a light breeze. Oh how glad I am to properly see the back of summers woes.

It's a bit wet outside again. Friday doesn't look great for us either.

Thankfully that intensity was pretty short lived.

Heaviest rain I have seen in a long time here now. Very Heavy+++, like someone pouring buckets out the sky. Flowing down the main road (Live quite a way uphill from it thankfully). If this doesn't deserve a flood warning hate to see the areas that did. You wouldn't want to be anywhere near this.

Feel sorry for everyone affected by this. Hopefully whatever damage there is only stuff and not measured in human terms, looks pretty bad.

Bring it. This farcical heat needs to go.

Can't come soon enough.

Another day where you wish it was a bit colder. Nothing worse than rain and wind in February.

It's the coastal warming effect, it happens all over in marginal events! It's just more noticeable here because where it might otherwise be the difference between a couple of inches or a few cms, it's the difference between snow and no snow over here..... Anyway, the north sea seems to have a firework up it's backside today, so we never know it might start penetrating the hills. I've vague memories of observing it do that in 2010 (but obviously I was more focused on the NE where I was actually living).

Showers off the Durham and Teeside coasts look to be getting more organised, could fire into South Lancs and Manchester should they get enough intensity about them to get past the hills.

The north west definitely seems pretty crap for heavy snowfalls. Regularly get a inch or two from a streamer or stray shower but never seem to get 6 inches+ (which is what I'd class as a good fall).

Yep, to be fair we all expecting them to do that overnight but they didn't so it's been a better snow day than expected. Maybe something tonight when temps start falling again.

Popped into to exactly the same, but spare a though for us North Westerners who missed out on that Dec 2017 event as it slid down towards you, you could say this your eventual payback. Now we just need a Scottish blizzard to sink over the border and all is equal with the world. Seriously guys out and enjoy this, snowfall like this is a rare treat. Keep the pics coming as well, they're great. Regards the intensification of the band, could it be the deep snow accumulations increasing moisture in the air and feeding more into to the precipitation?

Once the wind has switched the showers further north should start streaming in though.

Nothing too intense has really reached us from the east, this is no worse than Tuesday night so far, plus our depths our nowhere near likely to be 18-20cm such as in the areas of the south west (the only place that's actually deserved a warning out of this). Track of showers seems to have changed as well might be a while before we get anything heavy.

If only we could see one of those charts not out in FI. 14th Feb flipping hell

He's talking about the kind of stuff that clouds together into one big white blob and just coasts the ground in minutes, looks to be heading into tyne and wear right about now on the radar. Couple of cms out of that shower possibly.

Yeah but if anywhere near as much activity forms behind it as that streamer heading into NE England at the minute, or even if the wind turns enough to the NE then anywhere from Manchester northwards could be in business.

I tell you what that's seriously dumping some snow in places down south, 5-6 inches in places. It can take as long as it wants if it fancies keeping that intensity.

Some of those showers setting up really far out in the North Sea have the potential to treat the pennines as speed bumps, formation getting further and further away from the coast, which helps them travel further inland in my experience. Could be a snowier day than forecast, provided that low to the south doesn't get too far north (although that point we can worry about if it will reach us).

Wow. I got less snow than this from a few easterlies when I lived in the North East There's always a chance with these set ups, but didn't expect quite that much snow. Looks about back to where it was the on Tuesday on the pavement, deeper on grass as it didn't melt/get trod down as much. 4th day in a row with lying snow (even if it was starting to show bits of grass and pavement yesterday), 5th day of the winter with lying snow. Turning into a proper cold spell to remember now. Any more info on Sunday?

Met0 not expecting any of the showers to make it over the pennines tonight. Although read that before and got a few nice surprises. Although i am amazed at how little it's melted these past few days. Temps must barely be creeping above freezing by day.

Trying to decide whether to go cold and snowy or warm and wet. Cold and snowy in the end. -7.8C and 350mm

If a couple of decent streamers set up and the showers band together off them it could get over the hills, but I don't think that's all that likely. Had snow over here from an E'ly before I think - although not much has to be said. How much would it cost to flatten the pennies anyway?

Europe didn't miss the boat though really. The UK did. Much of Eastern Europe has experienced exceptional snow even for them.