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    Midlands Regional Weather Discussion

    in Midlands Weather Discussion

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    2 minutes ago, MattStoke said:

    Interesting in terms of a spell of squally winds and strong winds, and maybe some hail. Next to no chance of snow down here from this front. Showers following later may be wintry, but again mainly over hills.

    Yep interesting weather  if not snow then bring on high winds and storms   not everyones cup of tea but i love it.

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    Storm Barra

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    1 hour ago, Ross90 said:

    For 75 - 80mph winds? Yes it's a bit blowy and you'd expect some travel disruption but not shops shutting. I don't remember that happening here even when there were 90mph winds, people just avoided going out until it eased.

    Exactly. I understand airing on the side of caution but as you say prob max 80 mph winds  seems a little ott. 

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    Midlands Regional Weather Discussion

    in Midlands Weather Discussion

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    1 minute ago, shunthebartlett92 said:

    It depends what youre comparing it to though. Youre also in a more elevated area than here giving you a slight advantage. I'm talking about almost directly west of birmingham city centre which Stourbridge is. On a southern UK level we have a chance with any wind direction (bar SW'lies) depending on the upper air temps. Easterlies can reach here but you need a good level of convection and some minor troughs to keep the precipitation pepped up, but we've had some great snow days from easterlies that said.

    Hmmm im not convinced on the sliders being direct hits, theyre notorious for getting corrected to the south closer to the events. They do sometimes strike the jackpot though.

    I understand the altitude bit. To be honest it's very rarely a winter goes by without me seeing snow. Last winter was good as you say  many snow events  2012 was also decent. It's even snowed today  abeit  wet snow   

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    Midlands Regional Weather Discussion

    in Midlands Weather Discussion

    Posted · Edited by weirpig

    29 minutes ago, shunthebartlett92 said:

    It's not frustration, we do ok here (Although we never have the highest falls west of birmingham, there's always somewhere that will get more) we had several decent days of lying snow last winter which was absolutely brilliant. I went hiking during the snow days last winter up to the sheep walks and shropshire hills and it was superb. I think we fared better than Birmingham itself (less heat island effect though) but not the levels to the north of birmingham up towards stoke. Northwesterlies will always be my preference here as the battleground events either tend to sink too far south (M4 corridor of doom) or be too sleety around here as dewpoints are too high. But that said, last winter was superb for this area, one of the best i can remember save December 2010!

    Really?  My experience is that best of snowfall always favours the west midlands. Mainly due to many hilly areas I also find that 9 out of10 times sliders  battlegrounds are always a direct hit. Cheshire gap are also great  even easterlies deliver due to lack of height right across the eastern side and Europe 

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    Midlands Regional Discussion Feb 2021 Onward

    in Regional

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    1 minute ago, MattStoke said:

    Yeah. Shame that particular outcome for Saturday has no support from other models, but the general output across the model suite does bring the potential for a few sliders as low pressure moves north west to south east rather than the normal west to east movement. Such a setup can deliver the goods for our region.

    Fax chats as a low bang over the mids at the weekend  anyway watching brief for now 

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