NickR

Gallows humour. Love it. And by 'love' I mean 'it's all we've got left', and by 'it' I mean 'because everyone else nicked our snow'.

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!

Fair enough. Apologies for missing the point of some posts. And for bringing others down. I'll try to pipe down in future. Not much point continuing tonight given the radar. Might go for a walk. Night.

I haven't seen the explanation as to why yesterday's prediction of everything kicking off properly this afternoon failed to come to fruition. (I'm not trying to be difficult, I genuinely haven't seen this - yesterday it was all about late today. Now we're talking about Wednesday.)

But that was the low we all knew about and that several banged on about how once it cleared (Sunday), all would be right (white) in the NE, with showers bubbling up a-plenty. It did, but it wasn't, because they didn't. Why?

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.

But it can't just be luck. Something is preventing better shower formation. What is it?

And that's me being generous with the direction. More likely a smidgen more E'ly meaning even less.

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.

I can barely contain my mirth. :|

Jesus. That's awful. Seriously - we are supposed to be the region that gets it best from these, and we're literally the worst place down the entire East!

Does this count as the NE? Or this just trolling of the cruelest variety?

Our region is basically a one-trick pony for really decent snow: a N'Ely. When it happens, it's awesome. But I think we need to stop seeing E'lies as great news: they very rarely deliver here.

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.

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.

Resistance is futile.

Absolute rubbish here.

Hardly a blizzard - moderate graupel in wind.

To anyone not getting the showers. Don't worry. All you're missing out on is more sodding graupel.

Not that I want to make everyone reach for the cyanide, but this just sent from a friend in Kent... In the words of Jim Bowen, let's have a look at what you could've won...

This entire spell can do one.

There's a difference between taking as Gospel and dismissing as risible and clearly wrong.

You beat me to it!. My motto: if it can go wrong, it probably will.

Come in, there's plenty of room. Though the chairs will give you splinters, which will probably lead to an infection, a visit to A&E, and a resultant case of covid. Still, have a brew. The milk's a bit off, and will probably lead to horrific gut pains, but, you know, this is how we roll.