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Snow falling in west Manchester

Some snow falling in west Manchester and a slight covering in places.

More snow flurries in west Manchester

Yet another snow flurry rattling through. The ground is bone dry though

Another snow flurry in west Manchester

Another snow shower just passed through in Irlam

I think the word "blizzard" is going to be grossly misused over the next couple of days me suspects.

A couple of showers have broken out this side of the Pennines

Couple of showers have broken out to the west and northwest of me in Lancashire

A few snow flakes falling in west Manchester

Flakes of snow falling in the gusty winds

How I long for another snowfall like that of the 28th of December 2000. I stayed up in the early hours to watch this snowfall and boy did it snow! It was very heavy and lasted for about 3 hours and left this covering of about 5". Oddly on the Saturday before Xmas my aunt asked me if we are going to get a white Christmas and I said I think we will see snow but not lying on the day but I told her to expect a major snowfall between Xmas and New Year and it will be white from then until the New Year. This was before I saw the "week ahead" forecast on the Sunday (Xmas Eve) and I didn't have internet access in those days :lol: Morning of the 28th of December 2000 http://www.img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/zloty/Jan2903.jpg The 30th of December 2000: Rime on the trees thanks to early freezing fog, I recorded -14C in my back garden that morning

It was mostly dry actually

You have to remember another factor besides the lack of snow in the rarity of icicles these days is that buildings now have bettering guttering and insulation now as compared to say 20 years ago.

I saw snow on all 4 days of Easter and on the Tuesday afterwards. There was rain on Good Friday which turned to wet snow for a time that evening. On the Saturday, snow/hail showers broke out and spread southwards across NW england during the late afternoon On Easter Sunday, it was a cold frosty start and it was a dry morning, the showers rapidly broke out during the afternoon with some quite heavy snow and hail showers On the Easter Monday, it was mostly dry here during daylight hours but snow showers associated with a trough moved in from the Irish Sea and it was snowing heavily and this gave the covering On the Tuesday, the little low that moved through Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man leaving a good covering there moved into the NW of England and gave sleet and snow during the early afternoon. By evening it was snowing heavily and a severe weather warning was issued for heavy snow for Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Cheshire. Really weird seeing large snow flakes falling, snow on the ground, daffodils in full bloom, blossom on trees.

Here's a quirk of the weather, whilst bathing in warm spring sunshine during mid-Feb 1998 in Manchester, there were snow-cover on 2 consecutive mornings during mid-April 1998. Morning of the 14th April 1998: Heavy overnight snow showers left this covering Morning of the 15th of April 1998: Heavy snow left this covering

I'm not sure if you are referring to the article that I wrote in the TWO archives but there were some scattered snowfalls during the easterly at the end of January and early February 1976. The Queen opened the NEC at Birmingham in early February 1976 during a snowfall.

Hmmm I want to clear some facts up here Krakatoa erupted in 1883 and not in 1893 as stated The "Year without Summer" was actually the summer of 1816. The July snowfalls occurred during July 1888, although the snowfalls were really restricted to hills, it is often stated that the snowfalls occurred across low levels in the south but this seems unlikely

Dark, snow falling. Blowing in the gusts

I know what you mean it woke me up.

It was mostly hail here with a little bit of snow here

Hmm 1cm is a bit generous, I would say a slight covering and even partial at that.

Tremendous hail shower has left a covering.

Can't believe how narrow that first Tacoma bridge was, only 39ft or 11.8m and that includes roadway and pavement on either side! <_< A cricket pitch is 22 yards long, wicket to wicket, meaning the bridge was justover half a cricket pitch in length!!! :o :o

Here's some film footage of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse in Washington state, USA. Nicknamed "Galloping Gertie", it was a spectacular engineering failure. On the 7th of November 1940, winds of 42mph, sent the main span into torsional oscillations which increased in amplitude until the main span collapsed. The main bridge span exhibitied great flexibility in the 4 months it was opened to traffic before the collapse and this what gained its nickname "Galloping Gertie". The bridge collapse marked a turning point in engineering and aerodynamics that were not understood at the time. http://physics.kenyon.edu/coolphys/Frankli...ted/tacoma.html