The Northern Ramper
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8 minutes ago, iand61 said:
If I’m remembering right, we had some serious snow in January 82, certainly up here.
Apart from 79-80 and 80-81; the late 70’s up to the mid 80’s were great for snow.
I imagine if you did well then so would we in the Easterly set up of that period. It has been slim pickings since the 80’s bar some noticeable exceptions.
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I’m sat here watching the programme on the great snowfall of 1982 and wondering how did it go wrong for us?
I don’t remember 1982 (I was 5) but if this was my first experience of snow then it would explain a lot.
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Looks like there’s incoming heavy rain on the radar.
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Well this is a nice squall, the rains that heavy the dogs barking at it!!
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This rain is biblical
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Happy new year all, here’s hoping for a change in pattern sharpish.
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Good morning and a merry Christmas to you all from snow starved Newhey.
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34 minutes ago, CreweCold said:
To be honest I don’t know what people were expecting.
A Christmas miracle?
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18 minutes ago, iand61 said:
Aye it’s certainly getting harder to have a snowy breakdown.
a few in the mod thread we’re discussing the similarities between the current set up and December 78 and although I wasn’t interested in the weather as a 16-17 year old; I do remember that period quite well and is it turning into something quite similar.
A cold and snowy end to November ran into early December before things became milder and Christmas was certainly mild.
then things turned colder immediately afterwards with a New Year’s Eve blizzard of snow so fine that it found every gap in the window and door frames.
that was the start of the harshest winter I’ve ever witnessed with snow after snow and, up in the Pennines, little thawing.
we had drifts higher than the top of the living room window and there was constant snow around the higher parts of the town from New Year until the end of March.
oh and the world and his dog were on strike from December until we’ll into 1979.
doubt we’ll get a repeat but in a year of strange weather, you wouldn’t bet against it.
Some amazing photos online from that winter, imagine being two weeks away from that!
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I mean it’s hard enough to get the white stuff without the Manchester snow shield kicking in. (SE shadow)
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9 minutes ago, Joe Bloggs said:
Has anyone mentioned the Manchester SE’ly shadow yet?
I was just thinking that after looking at the radar, I hate it
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2 hours ago, Weathizard said:
Simply put, the northern half of the UK get a lot more snow generally than the southern half, that’s not controversial to say, it’s just true.
A true N/S split is normally when we have polar air incursions from the north battling against a low moving in from the Atlantic, meaning the northern side of the low often get snow, normally transient, whilst the southern side often get rain or are under HP influence.
In one of the runs last night we saw 13c on the south coast, and blizzards in Scotland.
Birmingham gets more snow occasions than Manchester on average and London gets comfortably more snow if fewer occasions than Manchester. Yes the far south struggle but so does Liverpool for example. Don’t imagine that we have copious amounts of the stuff up here, most of the time we are looking on enviously like earlier this week.
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Looks like we’ve had something at 165m
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5 hours ago, Chris.R said:
My prediction for tonight and tomorrow would be the following.
West of 2.4°W - freezing rain below 250 m. Rain or wet snow above that. Ice pellets below 100 m if surface cold is underestimated.
East of 2.4°W - Snow until late morning. After that ice pellets below 100 m; freezing rain 100–250 m; rain or wet snow above that.
Where is 2.4 approx please?
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Periods of sharp frosts have been as rare as snow events the last few years, a week or two of frozen temps were commonplace until recent years.
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Bone chilling out there
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1 hour ago, frosty ground said:
-3 here at the moment
Had a lovely drive to the lakes and back today my car registered -4 east of Cockermouth before you pass the lake that was 4pm BTW
was a winter wonderland up there with a dusting of snow and sun zero temps.
driving through the Blackpool and preston stretch temps hit the dizzy high of +1 which quickly fell below zero once heading down the M61
GFS 06z had a lot of snow Sunday the 12z not so much, some shower activity Saturday thou
Did you see the train?
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I would settle for any old snow to rain event Sunday if it means getting that Polar Westerly.
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29 minutes ago, pip22 said:
Looks to me that the models are heading for a slider scenario this weekend. I wouldn't be surprised if the low pressure shunted south every run and we won't get any snow at all!!
Looks like the Southwest are getting some more tonight
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When was our last snow event which led to snow on the ground for more than a day? 2018?
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31 minutes ago, Snowmad79 said:
No ice day here, even though it sure does feel like it. The the bit of sun we had warmed it up a litte as my station was reading 1.8c is now dropping again.
My van reading hasn’t got above -1.5 from Newhey to Harrogate and back.
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Are there any possible surprises or opportunities for the snow starved northwest this week does anybody know?
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2 minutes ago, iand61 said:
It’s not the north, it’s the northwest that’s the problem when it comes to snow.
the northeast doesn’t usually have any trouble getting plenty although they tend to do worse than us with summer warmth.
I agree with the your general thoughts though.
The East does nicely, the South may get less events but when they do they get clobbered. Our decent snow events are like hens teeth.
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19 minutes ago, Backtrack said:
Mad really isn’t it. We’re in the north and can’t achieve any ‘decent’ snow. Meanwhile those in the south have a slow moving snow machine over their heads. Madness.
They get the warmer summers and the snow in winter. Remind me again why we live in the north? Other than the cheaper pints
And yet some people buy into this snow starved south rubbish
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Model Output Discussion - New Year and Beyond
in Forecast Model Discussion
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I thought this myself yesterday, a complete waste of bandwidth.