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What can I say? I echo what others have said today. It should have been better. It's been awful. And I don't care how it comes across, it's made a thousand times worse by seeing so many other places get winter wonderland scenes. Now up to half a metre in parts of Kent. Kent. When was the last time we got close to that away from the usual high spots up here? A nationwide flop would have been much easier to take. As P-M said, things are bleak right now, as we all know, and maybe that's why this hits home more strongly than it otherwise would have. Might be a good day not even to bother with the radar - not least because it also serves to remind you how much so many other places are STILL getting!
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And this wasn't predicted when people were saying it would be Sunday day/Sunday night/Monday morning/Monday PM? Or was it there all along, but we all missed it while many forecast apps got it? BTW I notice the continuing cold conditions and (genuinely) potent reload next week have now disappeared. Unless the end of Feb/very start of March can pull something out of the bag, this will be one of those awful events that everyone else down the East remembers as a great event. Could be a while before we get such apparently favourable synoptics again.
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Newcastle will get a few decent blobs. Gateshead down to at least Darlo, naff all. We are literally the worst part of the entire East coast. Still it's not like there's nothing else good happening in life to make up for this disappointment. Oh, hang on, yeah, this was the little bit of joy in the lockdown, covid-ravaged winter. JFC.
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I see people getting graupel (mainly) showers and no one without height having any proper snow and proper snow accumulations of any note. We do ourselves no favours by making out that even 10% of people have got anywhere close to what people were predicting on Friday for Saturday, on Saturday for Sunday, and on Sunday for today.
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OK, so it's gone Monday afternoon. So what's the latest excuse, sorry, reason why the predictions didn't materialise? I'm serious: I'd like to learn. First it was the low hanging round, then lack of heights (was it?), now...? Whatever, the fact is it's been pushed back and back. We're now more than 48 hrs on from when we initially expected it to be snowing decently. And here we sit. I'd like to learn because false hope is a fool's game.