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    Northwest England regional thread 3 /3 onwards

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    It’s nice to see a change to the weather as it’s been ridiculously frustrating over the last 7 days. 1 inch fell here last Tuesday and then melted, and any snow on Wednesday was more just blowing in the air. Any snow blew away during the day. The wind was the most exceptional and interesting thing here, and the day time maxima. The minima temps were nothing record breaking, but still low.

    i was even expecting a bit of snow this morning before the rain started, but it didn’t even give that, so I do think that this part of the world will struggle for snow in the large teapot.

    im looking forward to warmer days and storms this sunmer, as we tend to do better with those.

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    Northwest England regional thread 3 /3 onwards

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    44 minutes ago, captaincroc said:

    Hi all.  Had a day or so with minimal Net Weather as I needed a break as my frustration was off the scale, the current radar is the weather God Swearing AGAINing on our chips :rofl:

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    The first belt to properly hit us with anything more than 30 mins of snizzle ( AND this actually has some bright colours on!) and it's the first one that is actually rain, you really couldn't make it up.  Speaking of  which I have been thinking about this spell and if I was to give it a headline it would be, "You Couldn't Make It Up..." as lost count the amount of time I said it... so, cons first...
     

    The most frustrating part was not having snow fall (much) in this rare set up, I know how rare it is and I am sick of slushy, marginal snow that if it does stick soon melts, so I knew any that would fall would stick. I wanted to take my nephews sledging and build snowmen but no, every bit of snow that fell literally covered in a layer of white dust which soon blew away.  Why did the showers work all there way across to MCR yet me, directly south they just died before arriving? Why did the fronts, any of which would have given me enough to have some fun in, die literally as they arrived...three times?!! I would rather it not be forecast than be on the wrong side of the 'edge' every time. I didn't have ridiculous ideas of what would happen, I knew the east would get hit and the usual places but I just couldn't understand how showers made it all the way across in some areas and not over here? The wind direction constantly flicked between NE NEE, E, SEE etc so some flippin' showers should have made it across in the strong winds. I wanted to see snow properly drift locally, I wanted to see Crewe actually get a blizzard and a decent covering. It has had a lot bad times recently and I just felt a fall of snow would have lightened spirits a bit. So to end the negatives, frustration is the main feeling as to be so close, SO many times, to a decent and memorable fall of snow - and have it last days -  but have nothing major is so sad.

    ...that aside I cannot say I won't remember or take any good things from this spell. I saw some sights I have not seen since I was a child. Seeing proper powder snow fall AND stick in Crewe in the daytime was a sight to see (be it literally a coating of dust :rofl:). Seeing it blow across the school fields next to my college and being whipped about was amazing to see. The below picture was when the only batch of showers made it across, ignore the flash on the left of the pic (I didn't take it, haha, of all days I had left my phone at home so my colleague took it for me) but you can see the sun on the right. The photo doesn't do it justice but it was pouring down with the snow blowing in sheets everywhere, really a sight to see. The colour of the sky was amazing.

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    I got to see Icicles, proper icicles, nothing I have seen since 2010. My house being on a hill did manage to squeeze a bit more precipitation from that crappy fronts so when the gales hit It did snizzle here and was something that I wouldn't forget. It was twilight when I got home and the wind was roaring and as it had just started the snow was blowing everywhere, be it there were small amounts, but it was blowing everywhere. I have never felt cold like it in the UK, no question. I walked to the shop fully wrapped up with gloves etc, by the time I got to the shop (2 mins away) my hands were numb and it actually worried me and it was just SO cold. The ground was frozen but dry, not seen that since i was a kid... the pic below is normally a muddy track but was frozen solid and looked dry.
     

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    Even with the minimal cover drifts did form and again were amazing to see as not seen drifts locally since I was a child... this was from my hill, nothing like this in Crewe, the empty patch wasn't snow melt, just blown dry.

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    Local ponds etc were frozen, which yeah I have seen in 2010 but was great to see.

    I think for me, coming from a lowland snow free zone, I will take away some nice memories and visuals from this spell. Was it amazing for me? No, but I have memories of visuals not I had not seen since being a child. It's just sad that with one decent fall it could have easily made it so.

    Going to put more pics/vids on my Instagram later today if everyone wants to get excited about my 2 inches...

    www.instagram.com/Benjaminstubbs

    What i will say is you got more than here. ?

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    North west regional discussion

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    41 minutes ago, annag said:

    Got the lightest snizzle in Newton le Willows. Apart from the initial fall on Monday, we’ve had hardly anything here. Snow bands keep fizzling out when they get here. Please let this one make it!

    Us newton-le-willowers have struggled this week!

    the band still doesn’t look exciting. Doing exactly what it did yesterday.

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