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Lancashire Lass

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  1. Last post for a while. I'm taking a break. I'm obviously ramping this too much.

    Temps down to about -6C tonight, coastal areas could be a little warmer as a brief westerly tint to the wind is picked up.

    Other than that, enjoy.

    Bye.

    Thought I was in the Backtrack thread earlier :p

    Come on Backtrack you say this every year. Stop being daft, take a breather, go walk the dog, enjoy the crisp sunshine and blue skies.

  2. Difficult to tell how this will pan out. I can think of late January 1995 breakdown, a couple of days after the Yorkshire snow event, we had an all snow event and the snow actually stuck and we had a temprorary covering. It never turned to rain, it just stopped and then there was a slow thaw. Then there was the New Year's Eve 2000 breakdown which looked like it could produce a temporrary snow event but was a non event on the whole.

    Then going back to early January 1986 when it was epxected to be a snow turning to rain event but it stayed as snow and there was no thaw. I think we can only sit back and wait with this but i feel the sooner the fronts occlude the better for snow prospects here.

    How did coastal areas do with the March 2006 snow event?

    They did quiet well from what I remember.

    'The M6 south of Lancaster, Lancashire was badly affected by snow and the A588 near Fleetwood, Lancashire, became impassable'

    http://www.torro.org.uk/site/snow_info.php

  3. An occluded front lying north/south over the UK brought some of the worst snowfalls in 50 years to the Borders regions with up to 50cm of snow falling across Dumfries and Galloway on February 6th 1996. Warm moist air from the Atlantic was forced to rise above cold continental air. Snow was formed at the junction between the warm and cold air masses, falling along the line of the front. The front extended to the south coast, bringing many cm of snow across Devon, Dorset and Hampshire. The occluded front was followed by a depression moving in from the Atlantic, bringing further frontal conditions and further snowfalls. The clear skies behind the occluded front brought low temperatures overnight with the slushy snow turning to ice.

    http://www.petermilf...er/archive.html

    post-9615-0-08365900-1328212926_thumb.jp The stalled front, perfect NW-SE tilt.

    Matt Hugo just tweeted this not long ago :winky: :

    Matthew Hugo@MattHugo81

    Check this out - http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/brack1.gif | http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/brack1a.gif - Talk about a stalled frontal zone!

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