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4 minutes ago, Penrith Snow said:

Just sitting here Waiting for North Sea convection to start......

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'.

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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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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.

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1 minute ago, Smoggieontour said:

That's a chart from 1991 Nick, he's explaining why it snowed so heavily that night.

People have already explained several times the reasons for the lack of snow over the last two days. Asking over and over again isn't going to change anything.

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.)

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1 minute ago, Freezing-Point said:

 

This will be why... An LP crept up from the south.   By the end of that day there was 50cm in SE.  46cm longframlington and widely 30cm plus along the east coast.  

 

 

 

 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?

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2 minutes ago, P-M said:

The skew charts TWS showed earlier. Needs to be unstable right up to 750mb we aren't there until about Wednesday. The final day of the snowmageddon forecast 

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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Just now, Freezing-Point said:

Showers are just too scattered.  I remember about this time of the 1991 blast showers frequency just kept  increasing on a day similar to today.  5" before bed.  I remember looking out and shower after shower was piling in no respite.  Whiteouts.  Woke up with 12" on the grass.  Must have been a proper streamer.  No such luck this time

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

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Just now, NickR said:

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

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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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3 minutes ago, Fairweather Teessider said:

That's actually hilarious

I can barely contain my mirth.  :|

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Just now, garylaverick said:

12 hours accumulation snow shield activated.

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!

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Just now, NorthYorkMoorsSnow said:

Proper heavy snow here it just keeps on coming non stop for the last hour or so  

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

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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.

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1 minute ago, doctor32 said:

The thing is, some places are seeing decent snow showers and frequent ones where they have aligned.

 

Obviously for some like yourself and to some extent myself, the showers just aren't falling right at the moment... Just one of those things unfortunately.

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.

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3 minutes ago, Smoggieontour said:

Don't do it! Half the forum has already defected to the Nick R camp, keep the faith. Hopefully the change in wind direction improves our luck. Never had so many near misses in one day before.

Resistance is futile.

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Absolute rubbish here.

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Hardly a blizzard - moderate graupel in wind.

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

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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...

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This entire spell can do one.

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7 minutes ago, Smoggieontour said:

The MetOffice were forecasting 2-5cm per day or 10-15cm where streamers hit.

If we just took weather forecasts as gospel, then this forum would be pretty redundant wouldn't it.

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

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Just now, P-M said:

Yeah straight for the humber

You beat me to it!.

My motto: if it can go wrong, it probably will.

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Just now, Phil Blake said:

Latest fax looks great but pretty poor effort so far for Durham CLS Washington areas. The snow has all gone from the city centre now and anything that falls is now just melting within minutes. Oh no think I'm joining nicks negative crew lol

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.