Deep Snow please

Mad how quickly this is thawing, sun way too strong. We need long blizzards/persistent snow/grey skies to keep snow these days. Hopefully some shower activity to get going tonight. Had to check that several times to check it wasn't someone sleeping in @Weather-history's shed.

Moving this discussion here as politely instructed by the mods. Found a few anecdotal reports and newspaper reports of snow in August as well - although seemingly not to such low levels - so my extension of hope can last that long. I've always preferred snow above any other weather type, sunny days that are cold or cool are fine, but hot muggy sunny days drive me to distraction, and if anything is going to fall from the sky I'd prefer it to be snow than rain (unless a thunderstorm), so as long as the models show some hope for snow I will continue my hunt for wintry weather through most of the year. Yes, returns will naturally diminish as the year goes on, but why not hold out hope.

Showers dying a painful death as they come towards the coast.

Why do snow fronts always fizzle out so quickly, but rain has no issue getting up here in summer?

Slight thaw at the top but sneaked some measurements in while the cloud still kept it about where it was this morning, probably a bit lower than what it was this morning but 2.5cm (1 inch) on the pavement, and 5cm (2 inch) on the grass. Wish I'd measured last weeks but think it's deffo more, feels more wintry anyway so must have been a heavy shower or two whilst I was sleeping. If we don't get something more substantial from either Thursday or Sunday I'll be a bit disappointed in this cold spell to be honest.

Probably not but you miss the point. Whilst winter is technically 1st December to 31st February there is far more of the year in which there is potential for it to snow. Snow has been recorded at relatively low levels in June in the UK (2 June 1975) and, so giving it until April before giving up is only common sense if the output shows nothing wintry; if the output shows potential unseasonable weather it could be as late as June or July when I stop looking for cold. People writing winter off in January bemuses me.

Always have faith

31st April. If there's nout by then towel in. As it stands three snow "events" here this winter already. Nothing substantial but enough to keep the appetite warm for a beast. Will be keeping the beady eye on the models for something more interesting until the end of April, we all know how changeable our climate is.

Looks to be heading towards you to be honest.

IoM shower is definitely setting up a streamer in it's wake now. Although there's an annoying gap in the middle that needs to close pronto.

Took me a minute to see the air traffic control monitors and windows in that and was thinking "wibbleing hell it's Gatwick bloke"...

Is that a fresh streamer setting up in the Cheshire Gap above Wales?

At least they told you not to come in rather than you telling them you couldn't get in Best of luck with it.

Is that big shower, snow, seems to be stalling - just need it to keep going a bit further south and it'll coat Preston. Developing bit on side should hit here.

Strengthening as it hits land as well, seemingly

Looks like that should affect Preston to Manchester and surrounding areas. Tracking SSW'ly so hopeful it should get here. Looks quite a prolonged shower as well where it does hit.

Making winter tyres a legal requirement would go a long way to solve this.

Guess it'll be low likelihood/high impact. So probs not going to happen. Back today, streamer seems to be extending northwards, could bring more of Lancashire into play.

I know this often gets asked half-jokingly but in all seriousness, given how often we see events like this correct southwards where snow is concerned, do they not re-programme the models to take account of such an evident northward starting bias? It seems like it would improve accuracy to do so?

To be honest this general area seems to do far better from streamers than low pressure systems anyway, they either dive south over the midlands or don't get far enough north from the south. Let's hope for decent shower activity today. Could in theory get a couple of inches maybe more from these showers now.

Looks to have grown a bit, not enough to get it over the border imho. Going to bed in the hope of seeing that over my house when i wake up.

At it's current rate of travel that Scottish low might hit us on Thursday instead of the one from the south west...

It will do, polar lows weaken as they hit land.

That storm gets close to us on the ICON. Doesn't develop on the ECM until later where it then heads above us. GFS sends it to Iceland They all agree on a storm around Wed 06 Feb.

Can you blame us. This winter has been dreadful. It's the end of January and I've had one decent snow event with a covering under a cm and a dusting from fairly heavy snowfall on both occassions. And it looks as though both the showers overnight and the low on Thursday are going to deliver nothing here, we're 2 months into winter, I'd expect a bit better than this. Many in this thread haven't even had a covering this winter, no wonder people are a bit miserable.