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I'm quite content with the current "official" description for a white christmas, however, for me personally, I'll call it a white crimbo, when there's lying snow outside on crimbo morning.
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Rain just materialised out of nowhere here. Clear skies one minute, hell I was looking at the stars. Then in a few seconds it all blacked out, then started raining... Something. The same strange thick water droplet rain.
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February seems the most common snow month for us up here, is it the same for the south Walians?
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Few powerful gusts of wind here now, and it's raining, er.... something quite heavy on the Velux window.
It's not quite rain, it seems too solid, but it's not hail, or graupel either. Kinda like really dense water droplets if that makes sense. I've seen plenty of times over the years, but never known what it's called.
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Well, whatever this strange precipitation is called, it's now bucketing it down. Torrential "stuff" falling from the sky. Alas with some normal rain mixed in too.
The temperature is very low here, somewhere between 1 and 2 degrees, so I reckon the mountains are getting a good coating of christmassy icing.
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No reports from north Wales? It looks as though it is copping it on the radar.
Just woke up now (been bedridden last two days). It's currently snowing on and off here, but it's not sticking. I would be shocked if it wasn't staying in the mountains though, but I can't see them from the house.
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nice map?!?
I'm guessing that's supposed to represent the Bristol channel?
Really could be any of a number of places!
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and the topic of the thread in question is...................
Er... Dunno. But we're in the "Autumn" discussion area, so it's anybody's guess, just like this weather system
Confusingly, the RADAR images are showing precipitation over Wales, which just isn't happening. In the regional discussions, it was said that this often happens because ice crystals in the atmosphere reflect the RADAR signal back, mimicking the appearance of rainfall.
Which makes it even trickier to get a grasp of what's going on!
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Sigh. I'm off to play Skyrim for a bit.
At least there's always snow there.
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glad to see we're still alive! i nearly shot the dog just in case!
anyone on the south coast got any strong winds?
Then I blame you and your lack of dog sacrifice for our snow drought!
You did not please the gods!
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You also find the radar does this with snow more than rain, i expect its picking up is the snow forming in the air which will reflect the radar signal and hopefully when the air can no longer hold its weight we will see snow falling. I am not a radar expert at all, but this seems to be a common observation every winter. I just think the ice crystals in the low cloud reflect back giving interpretation that its falling percipitation.
Ah, now THAT would make sense, yes. Good call.
Nice area of precip now Wales, looks like the NMM has under-estimated the amount of precip that is being left behind by the front. All good news for Welsh chances of snow in the next hour or two. I think snow reports should become much more frequant from now on.
What precipitation? There's nothing falling!
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Very little over anglesey or the n Wales coast on net weather radar.
MetO RADAR is showing almost all of Wales being rained on.
Something's not tallying up.
Attached is their RADAR for half ten tonight. We saw absolutely nothing like that. (image courtesy of the Met Office, obviously)
Most curious.
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Jackone... As I live in caernarfon nw wales I can confirm that there is no precipitation falling from that on the radar! Well gutted!
What do you lot think with the fact there is no precipitation falling from that precipitation over nw wales?
Definitely nothing here. I'm slightly more inland than Caernarfon, right under supposedly heavy precipitation according to the radar. However, it's not just "not raining", I can see the stars, dammit!
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Blackrose - I've been keeping an eye on the car thermometer recently, and it tallies very well with two other electronic thermometers that I have, as well as the nearest weatherstation output.
I have no idea if this is common across all car thermometers though, or even across all MkV Golfs!
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That;s a good sign then, Jackfrost, since the main snow event is supposedly a few hours away yet.
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Yes but it's far more interesting having members post the individual reports in here
Of course, yes. Still a nice graphical view of the country, giving an overview of what's going on.
Interesting that it currently indicates snow in Bournemouth and it also indicates it has been snowing in Eastbourne in the last hour? I wonder whether anyone can confirm this. I can't see it as conditions aren't ideal at the minute.
They're mainly observations sent in by the public, so they should be accurate. With the caution of course, that one man's snow, is another man's sleet.
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Hows it looking under the rain band then folks, are the temps falling?
Anyone living at a decent elevation having wintry precipitaion yet?
I found the MetO's observation site earlier, it's dead useful for keeping track of temperatures, rainfall etc across the UK. Check it out - faster than asking others.
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You guys seen this from the MetO?
Great for watching the temperature and weather across the country as things change...
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Been in bed all day feeling rundown like crap. But if we get some properly snowy mountains tomorrow, NOTHING is going to stop me from getting the snowboard out, hehe!
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Oddly, the MetO's observations show that it's been snowing in Capel Curig, Snowdonia this afternoon. I wouldn't have called that.
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Worth keeping an eagle eye on, for sure.
Maybe worth bearing in mind also, is that the maps / views are rotated with relation to each other, which amplifies any immediately perceivable differences.
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Sigh. Some linguistic issues are afoot, I fear.
When I said "I don't see it", I guess I should have said "I don't concurr". That is to say, I don't agree that it is showing any worthwhile deviation... YET!
It is still far too early to tell. Wait until the low has actually formed, then we'll have something to look at.
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Here goes. I'm sticking my neck out!...
18z FAX charts from Wednesday are the latest I can see - and they are almost bang-on with the MetO predictions.
Looks like a very slim chance of snow to Wales after midnight friday morning (/ Thursday night), with a slightly greater chance for you in the south. Still very marginal though.
There's a good chance of colder air being pulled down from the north after the system passes, which means lower temperatures, and a greater chance of any snowfall sticking around longer. It also means that any wintry precipitation that develops in the aftermath has a better chance of making it to lower ground. Say, below 300m.
Like I say though, very marginal. Don;t get your hopes up for the white stuff - but polish those sleighs / sledges ready just in case!
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The low hasn't formed off the parent depression yet, but the primry depression looks much further north than GFS and ECM modelling to me. Only an opinion, what do I know, I'm probably wide of the mark.
I don't see it. The low is forming way out to the west, there's no visible indication of anything yet on the yr.no link.
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Anyone seeing any snow in North Wales and what are the temps and dewpoints like please?
No idea on the dewpoint, but it's currently 4 degrees, zero wind, zero rain just slightly north of Caernarfon.
We had a burst of strong wind and heavy rain at around 11pm, that lasted for about 20 minutes.
No useful search results in local forecasts
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Excuse my ignorance, I'm not entirely sure if this is the correct area to post this question/bring something to your attention.
I've noticed that I'm having real difficulty getting forecasts to show anywhere meaningfully close to my areas of interest. It becomes a real guessing game to gifure out what the closest location that's in your list is.
I'm based in Snowdonia, so the weather, and altitude, can change quite dramatically 5-10 miles at the next road.
It would be helpful to have a searchable, navigatable map, rather than an incrutable text entry box, which does nothing upon entering somewhere not in your list.