Snowmaggedon

. Which low land areas of the region will bear the brunt of tomorrow's snow?

Looking good for us then on Monday, any developments on the Tuesday snow event?

According to the initial reactions on the Model Discussion threads, the snow potential has been upgraded for out region in the GFS

. That suggests the more South and East you are in the region, the more snow you will get

When you say it's borderline for the NE, do you mean it's borderline for the more Western parts of the region or for all of the region?

Haha I was thinking that, the BBC and Met Office does show snow over Teesside on Tuesday and Wednesday so maybe I shouldn't take everything for gospel

According to the latest weather warning put in place by the Met Office, the snow on Tuesday is not expected to be widespread for our region and it appears as if Teesside will miss out

Yes that was also the case in Teesside. Do you reckon we could come close to those totals this week? It appears as if we could see some significant accumulations this week, even though it appears to have very little to do with the SSW

Presumably you'd have to be living quite high up to get that sort of depth? Or does this include all areas

We must be! Bring it on!

It looks like we could expect major disruption to the region next week

Looks like another snow event on Tuesday as well as Monday, getting excited now!

So can we expect the Met Office to put in place a weather warning in place for Monday?

What people must remember is that the Met Office believe that this weekends cold spell has nothing to do with the SSW, so if there is any mild incursion next week it may only be temporary until the effects of the SSW are seen

Sorry, I never really read his post properly. It actually says that the chances of snow have increased for those North of Birmingham, so it's all looking good

"Some fascinating analysis from UKMO for weekend. Snow probability increasing later Sat for places such as Birmingham etc, but heavy rain event to south, until retreat of rear-edge into early Sun offers wintry potential further south. However, UKMO focus firmly on developments into Mon with potential for "significant snow event" into W Country and environs. UKMO GM heavily modified to EC for this stage: raw GM and MOGREPS track of low to E/N not favoured solution. Confidence re Mon still too low for any early warning." Ian Fergusson has just posted that on the Model Discussion Thread. No mention of NE Eng.

Let's get this party started!!!

"Thereafter very uncertain, but most likely to remain colder than average." The phrase very uncertain shows why nobody should just jump to a conlusion and take each chart for gospel as even the Met Office don't have a clue what will be the effects of this SSW. Having said that, the latter part of the sentence suggests they expect the SSW to have a positive impact in terms of cold and snow.

The experts don't seem to expect anything significant in terms of cold until the latter parts of January, so I wouldn't be suprised to see the charts produce some absolute corkers in a couple of days time. Anything we get before then in terms of snow and cold should really be counted as a bonus.

Nobody should really be writing off winter at this stage, especially when we tend to get most of our cold in January and February. I'm sure I read a post from GP a couple of days back who said he didn't expect the charts to get interesting until after the New Year so we must remain patient...

Will the North East of England be one of the worst hit areas if the expected severe cold spell occurs next week?

Very heavy snow now in Middlesbrough, the sun has also disappeared so hope it lays quick

Snow has gone AWOL in Boro, the Met Office has forecast heavy snow for this evening and tonight, so lets see what happens

Very light snow falling in Middlesbrough now

Absolutely nothing falling in Middlesbrough