Aaron

Yeah I'm seeing some cloud breaks, the satellite shows extensive cloud breaks to the east of here, the sun was shining a few minutes ago, not forecast at all as it is supposed to stay cloudy all day. Guess we'll have to wait and see. It's moments like these that I remember why I never take any notice of the automated Met forecasts.

No snow, but it's bloody cold in my house this morning. -0.5C and icy. At least the sun isn't shining so hopefully no melt at all today.

Looked at the hourly forecast for Whitkirk on the Met website - they have the heavy snow icon twice, tomorrow morning and tomorrow evening. As Cheese Rice mentioned, the rainfall prediction shows some hefty showers moving south, reaching Sheffield, they must be expecting something us mere mortals cannot see.

Definitely a few flakes falling here. Think your hunch may be correct Russ, the clouds that have developed above are rather dark, temperature has fallen a fair bit too.

Gotten a lot cloudier for sure in the past half hour. The sun is now hidden. Doubt it's anything of note other than typical fair weather cloud as you say. Hoping to get a dusting overnight though, could do with a top up.

Exceptional that despite blaring sunshine for over an hour, there has been very little impact on the snow cover, everywhere is still white. Even the roofs have snow still and some icicles have not melted. Feels warm when the wind isn't blowing but that isn't often! Temple Newsam was pretty wild with blowing snow lowering visibility at times, one of the roads has seen more snow 'accumulate' from the nearby fields. Cars were even slowing down as they probably couldn't see very well. The snow drifts continue to grow.

Sunny and 1.2C here, little to no thaw on garden though. Haven't even registered any snow melt yet. Dew -4.0C.

I'm just wondering how long these drifts will last - I didn't dare go in the deepest drift I found as I wouldn't have been able to get out, but it must have been nearly as tall as me. It will take a lot to shift those monsters any time soon.

Sun has been out a few times, but has been hidden for a while now, temperature has fallen slightly.

I wanted to get out before the sun comes out as it is trying to do now. Hope we don't get too much melt today.

More pics from my morning walk.. insane drifting for a low-level location. Didn't see these yesterday! This is usually a path.. not today.. it's a glacier - over a foot of snow there and I could walk on top of it.

Seems like drifting to me as I can't imagine you have accumulated that much snow in such a short period due to snow falling from the sky, unless you had snow that rivaled the snowfall we had in Leeds on 25 Jan. On TWO, you mentioned you have drifting from the nearby field in your garden, which would make sense.

Who is taking pleasure from that? I think you are imagining things that are simply nonexistent.

There are some decent drifts in Temple Newsam, but the area is generally flat and built up, unless you stick around Garforth and that area where there are plenty of open fields. Still rather impressive though for an urban area.

That being said, there is a general depth of 15 - 23 cm in my front garden as I just measured it right now.

Amazing variation, the snow there is considerably deeper than here, and no more than 10cm at best on tables. The radar was utterly useless last night.

We had an ice day today, with overcast skies, but managed to record some snow melt in the gauge - the sun has enough energy to heat up certain surfaces resulting in snow melt, even with cloudy skies and subzero temperatures, but nothing significant, and no melt on the garden, just on the roof. If tomorrow has sunny spells like forecast then it will really damage our snow cover. The good thing is, we may have drifts until April even here at low elevation, and probably until May for very high routes - that would be great.

Snow still falling here, -0.8C We do have a bit of dripping, but as a result we have icicles forming. Despite it being cloudy, the sun still has enough energy to heat up certain surfaces resulting in melt i.e roofs.

Christ, you're in Canada and you're looking at the UK in snow envy?! You don't hear that very often.

Wow, suddenly very windy with snow being blown off my garden and off the roads and into the air. If only the snow was heavier.

Getting quite windy at times - just went outside, a lot of drifting.

Definitely gotten worse here, flakes are still smallish but there's a lot more of them and the visibility has fallen a lot.

Alright, I've done a few measurements and there's between 7 and 9cm on the lawn, but barely a cm on my garden path. Some good drifting though. Certainly a lot of variation and in my immediate back yard the warning was definitely not justified, but a few miles can make all the difference.