Started building around an hour and a half ago, wondered if it would be feeding the stuff we have over the Midlands. Sadly it seems to be breaking up over Stafford.
He's starting to sound like them in the Wales group. They're wishing any semblance of snowy PPN to drop on them. That is despite them having around 80 foot of the stuff already...
Yes, we did great that year. We used to be collected early, much to the disgust of the local kids, from school as the bus companies couldn't guarantee to get us home at the usual home time.
Luckily I remember 1982, our village was cut off for around a week before diggers could get to us. I remember seeing and playing in drifts that were easily 15' high and we made tunnels in drifts on the local lanes. I'll have to have a look through my mom's photographs to see if I can find some with the snow on.
The anarchy of it all and the feeling of not being able to do anything to stop it has really hit me this week. Just shows how feeble we really are when Mother Nature bares her teeth.
Putting the snow and freezing temperatures aside for a moment, how long have these high winds been blowing for? Feels like we've had them for over 40 hours now, that must be pretty unprecedented.
The radar seems to be pushing the leading edge a bit further North, it's been stuck around Stafford but seems to have edged up to just south of Stone. It's only started moving north in the last 10minutes.
We need our own small group, call it something like Mid/North Staffordshire Regional Weather Discussion.
What weather do we excel at in this neck of the woods? Perhaps we need to switch alliances...
The worst part is that we're continually lumped into forecasts as having the same chance as those areas you mentioned, when in reality we should have a separate forecast.
It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand