summer blizzard

Your looking at a rubbish radar then, try this one. http://www.meteoradar.co.uk/home/maps?bg=0

http://www.meteoradar.co.uk/home/maps?bg=0

The stream battering Hull will get you.

I noticed that too when i went out. Why is this, its beautiful? Radar other than showing a few small gaps suggests game on and the heavy precipitation is pepping up ever further west. Met Office suggest heaviest snow from midnight. Leicester is into hour 10 of their snowfall which puts us past 2am here.

Assuming you got the same forecast as me then it seems snow is forecast to be light until midnight (logical as the precipitation peps up from the east) but then what is weird is that from 06:00 we are forecast 9 hours of heavy snow with an 80% chance. Where will this come from! Indeed, radar shows Hull to York eastward under very heavy snow. I'm pleased to say that i called this earlier and with dew points rising on the coast there is good evidence of an increasing easterly element pushing the heavier precipitation further inland.

Perhaps but given its success today i shall be going with the NAE whether the Met Office or GFS go against it or not. Good, my parents live in Birkenshaw (4 miles away - other side of Birstall) at what i think is a similar height.

Off to Morrisons so should be exciting.

Travel update.. Anybody travelling buy bus should prepare for the worst, whilst all Arriva services are currently running they are no longer serving the small villages (facebook updates) Must be getting pretty bad outside urban Leeds now, Hardstead Moor, Winybank, Chickenly and Norristhorpe are no longer being serviced. Winds will turn increasingly to the east through the night as the front completes its pivot though its more a transfer of energy since the showers are pretty much absorbed. Looks to me like the eastern block is now becoming the dominant part of the front as well.

The operational run has 12 hours of snowfall, unfortunately my faith in it has gone given that it is forecasting cloud for now whilst we see heavy snow. It's probably a lighter patch, radar shows no gap.

http://www.meteoradar.co.uk/home/maps?bg=0 The showers and front have now merged all the way upto Newcastle so it will be interesting to see how far west the pepped up precipitation goes.

I'm not really sure why people are mentioning showers, the radar below clearly shows that the side of the front we are getting is strong and that the showers have now been absorbed at the coast which is pepping up the front as you go further east (Hull looks great). Heavy snow, low visibility and no sign of it stopping anytime soon.

We probably won't get that much but over 5cm is entirely possible. Also its the precipitation to the south which we are getting.

Technically the showers have linked to the front so i'm not sure we can call them showers anymore but it does appear to be pepping up. Heavy snow with small flakes in Leeds, will venture out soon to evaluate.

The front seems to be most intense along the coast so i certainly wouldn't mind being in Scarborough, Hull or Grimsby.

I'm at LS2 but my parents are at BD11 which is much better for snow. Much heavier now although flakes are still very small.

He be fine. I see little evidence of this break up for our part of the front (look pretty much like the NAE predicted). Very low visibility with small snow here, i await some intensification.

Have to say that the Met Office have been pretty poor, somebody please tell me what's light and patchy about the radar.

Anybody in Sheffield or so getting it settling on roads or is grit still overpowering it.

Well the main batch seems to have swallowed the rubbish strand whole so the snow has now set in for the night. Also as i suggested there is now a clear linkage between the front and the showers which is throwing them further inland

I recall somebody saying that we were forecast uplift so i would assume that explains the 10-15cm forecast for some places in West and South Yorkshire, being close to the Pennines this uplift should love you.

It's likely to be pretty heavy, all indications are that we will see a long period of moderate to heavy snowfall lasting most of the night. Most likely well into the night.

I'd say 10cm is a good bet.

Sprunehorpe will be hit by the front first.

The shower band is moving further inland, its just the orientation thats keeping them from you/

You need to take lots of pictures.