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Still pelting it down here, not stopped since mid-morning. Very impressive in its longevity and radar shows more to come. Went out for a walk in it for a couple of hours around lunchtime and, while it was pretty nasty for a while walking into the teeth of it, it was interesting to see the difference coming from elevation (I went down to 85m and up to 200m). Also evident was westward facing hollows often having very limited snow, showing the effect of the high winds pushing it horizontal. Eastward facing with greater depths than elsewhere for the same reason.

Aaron Roberts How is it there? Can you see across this side?

Seeing if I can post a video. Across the valley looking at the top of Sowerby, the church is at around 200m. IMG_0205.MOV EDIT: Hmm, that didn't work. What am I doing wrong?

I've got a vantage point from my window whereby I can see the snow line. Was about 200m about half an hour ago, now dropping so it's mostly snow here at about 150m turning from sleet as the temperature drops to zero as predicted by MetO.

Amber for here (Pennines, as elevation kicks in, so unsurprising), the one downside is the high winds making it a tough one to walk around in and to get pictures before the melt starts overnight. It happening during the day is likely why they've gone for the amber so soon. Even so, I expect schools and businesses that try to open, finding themselves in a tough situation by mid afternoon. Good luck to anyone across the area.

All that Arpege is doing is giving southerners false hope! Greater gnashing of teeth in the MOD thread will ensue when 'snow north of the M4' doesn't happen.

At this point I find it useful to look at the Wetterzentrale graphs, as it splits down temps/dew points and precipitation. This is UKMO but you can switch to Arpege etc. The UKMO has temps higher by about 0.3 degrees on the 6z as opposed to the 0z, matching ECM and Arpege with GFS slightly higher and ICON a bit higher than that (the latter being the only one to push temps in the chosen area (Halifax in this case), but not dew points, above freezing). https://www.wetterzentrale.de/en/show_diagrams.php?model=ukmhd&var=92&geoid=49708&lid=OP&bw=1

Nice little surprise this morning across Calderdale. Something like this was modelled a week ago but then dropped seemingly never to return.

Favourite photo from today (about 11am). Around Pye Nest, Halifax.

Same Same here. Flakes sticking if not on roads/pavements but too few to make much of a difference.

Turned to drizzle now. Just been through the town centre and it's snow free! You can see a clear snow line on the hills around now. Back of the house, in the sun, it's all gone but the front. which is always sun free, it's still there on the area in front of the house and pavement. I could say that I had a couple of extra inches today but, in truth, it was the bottom half of the snow on the roof sliding off with a massive crump.

Comically missing us here at most points. A bit too North, a bit too South! Spent an hour just off the southern edge of a lovely area of snow. Oh, well, we did well out of the last week anyway.

Gone a bit wintry mix at the moment, below 150m-ish looks borderline for now.

Just started getting a little bit heavier here but radar shows it should be lighter! Seems like the heaviest stuff is going south of here when it arrives.

Ah but the warning was for other people, not them. How were they to know that there were hundreds of others who thought the same? I bet, when pushed, 90% of them had no reason that they had to travel at that time of the day or on that route.