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thanks to Cheese Rice for a clear (read easy to understand) look at the models for the next couple of days. not sure i want the 70mph wind on tuesday but thanks for the mention of the irish sea convection which could cause showers over isle of man and then into northern ireland and north west england. i have hovered on these boards for many winters and i would agree that because many of the guests are looking for cold this thread has ended up looking into FI, even in my honest opinion T144 is too far out to be accurate or reliable! also what's wrong with a HP if it brings fog or frost? dull and dreary is still weather have a safe happy and healthy New Year to eveyone.

sorry no pictures this time. i havent got a SLR camera which probably get the resolutiion better. your mountains are so far away that they just look like the sky on pictures taken with a 9mp compact. sorry. stay safe

having stalked these boards for many years, i still dont understand how to clearly read all the numerous models. i tend to defer to the 12Z GFS as my favourite. as far as a cold spell goes over Christmas, we shouldnt need to wish for one as we had one last year! it's amazing how short our memories are. sustained cold and freezing conditions are only lovely and awesome if you dont have to continue normal life and work. we have to remember all the people and all the planning and organisation.who work tirelessly to maintianing our safety and our services throughout all the cold weather. we have had a skittering across the tops and wet snow across the central belt of the isle of man already in the past couple of days. i also would agree that the temps will rise a bit but with the wind i wouldnt call it much milder. with family coming for christmas i'd rather they arrived safely and got the chance to travel home safely too. now cold around my birthday would be great instead.however i cant check that as its just about a month out so toooo deep in FI. stay safe

love the photos Liam. we can see your beautiful mountains from over here. i exclaimed when i saw them from the road coming down Richmond Hill, Braddan. awesome white against the blue sky. we only have a skittering across the tops and some wet snow at lower levels in the central belt from that Cheshire streamer last night. stay safe.

exactly verglas! skittering of snow over tops, nothing down here in Port Erin, maybe a little on the top of south barrule up The Sloc. drizzly sort of a day with showers on and off in douglas. think the buses had a scare as they were back on within 40mins! chaos i agree. however still would like some snow to take picutures of. we did get sooo much last year it was amazing, but dangeroous. just would like a fine layer to be all pretty. not sure i want rain and gales for Christmas but i can guess thats what we will get!

http://www.doits.co.im/weather_stations/Pt%20Erin%20New.jpeg this is the Port Erin Commissioners weather station. not sure how well this will work to show my current weather. the equipment is on top of the local RLNI station. did anyone see the excellent episode of COAST today? all round the isle of man and surrounding isles they went. some lovely footage of my blessed isle please stay safe

praying that all these charts dont come off! i live in the irish sea! please people can you mention the isle of man as well as the irish sea in your posts? the sea is not just a sea! its got at least one island in it! nnnooottt liking this one bit stay safe everyone whatever the outcome!

i live in the isle of man - right under that "pink" patch! there are 85,000 other people who live on this rock with me! i have already packed my overnight bag, emergency supplies are in including candles in case of power failures, truely praying that this doesnt happen. local met office giving gust up to 85mph, locally storm force 11. i live on the coast but high enough up not to be lashed by waves. i hope the department of infrastructure give out sand bags to low lying coastal areas for peoples homes. i hope that all companies that deal with power, telecoms, road/sea/air safety, media etc will be ready to deal with the aftermath. stay safe.

Kinda really hoping that at least one of these storms gets downgraded or misses the UK. whilst the Isle of Man didnt suffer as badly as we could have in respects of damage or lack of power or accidents (one tree down across a main road on the east coast), we have been suffering with lack of some supplies, imports from the Mainland and further a field. in relation to this there has been much angst and agression towards both the Government and the only passenger/frieght company, which i dont believe is particularly helpful. i am afraid that these possible storms will raise the tension and angst of the public against both. if everyone plans well then the distruption could be minismised. on a personal note i dont like driving in the high winds. will keep my eyes on the boards and met office both here and in the UK. stay safe all.

lying snow on the uplands and in areas where the sun hasn't reached since 28 Nov 2010 and a fresh covering on the uplands yesterday and over night. so in all so far with this cold snap (not sure that's quite the right word to use!) 11 days of lying snow here on the Isle of Man. not sure that it will remain over the coming days of less cold (not daring to call it mild) but looking at the models the cold and snow showers are set to return mid week next week so guess we can notch this december up as one of the coldest in recent memory. good luck to all out there that cant get to work or school and to those that have come to harm or crisis during this time may your God be with you. ><>

not sure if am the only one from isle of man on here, or if u have had reports? mountain snaefell road closed on monday reopened yesterday, and is now closed again due to a nice covering of snow. log on to the manxradio.com site and link to webcams, look at the laxey road cam is IR and shows good snow hope to be able to report more tomorrow!! watched the trough come down from scotland and join with the lil low north of wales over the irish sea, but is now moving away again. going to go clearish and cold, so we have a freeze. laying snow on hills from monday through to today but little or none at lower levels. no pics as have been at work all week, no way near as bad as you lot have had it, booohooo the joys of living in the middle of the sea! hoping now that the wind has changed to northerly/northwesterly we might get some from a shortwave/trough/cheshire streamer PLEASE!!! no school/work closures (only primary school Ballasalla closed one day this week - no heating - not weather related), no major travel distruption other than the mountain road closed and some flights delayed/cancelled due to your snow have fun, stay safe, travel only if you need to. God bless you all.

Hi all, long time no post i know, love all the new improvements, have been lurking but thought i should report snow in Isle of Man on Tuesday! Mountain (snaefell) road closed all morning! please find attached a pic of Autumn Colours with a skittering over the hills in the background. Location: Glen Vine, 6 miles from the east coast. Time taken: 12noon. Camera: Nokia n73 mobile camera. have attached it as i have not got the ability to "script link" - sorry. take care, stay safe.

hi cyclonic and jimben - yes you're correct, snaefell = snow hill in Norse. the island was conquered over a thousand years ago by the Vikings, who left behind a rich heritage and the longest running parliment in the world. many place names have basis in Norse language and many others are in Manx, our native language. but hey i'm off topic! both of you are welcome to PM me if you'd like to have more info on the Island. good luck lamp-post watching tonight - i think we've seen the last here.

hi has snowed on and off since early afternoon. earlier i said i'd post a short video (mobile phone) but its too big to upload. so here are a couple of pics. the first one is the car park at work at about 4pm (douglas east coast) and the others are later in the day 7pm ish in Peel (my home town west coast at sea level). we were progged possibly maybe wintry showers on a blustery wind. we actually got more than we bargined for! there are 4 closed road orders at this moment due to snow and ice in and around the centre of the island (Snaefell) and there was at least one accident earlier in the evening on a minor road in the west due to the conditions. i'm dead chuffed the 8 yr old in me is now willing it to do it ALL NIGHT, but sadly i think we've seen the last of the ppn. sorry to those who havent had any when it was progged and yipppeee to those who got some. roll on the rest of winter - will we see any more? ?tuesday..... take care, stay safe, and God bless all who are working in this tonight.

continuous light snow here since 1:30pm ish, settling lightly now and then. have short 1 minute video taken with mobile that i'll up load at home. more wintry than i expected from this set up since the pennines usually stop the snow getting here which they have again, but there appears from the radar to be a little trough spanning the irish sea and guess where's in the middle of the green/blue blotch?! yes clever people the isle of man!! take care, stay safe.

light graupel flurry here in the Isle of Man! wintry shower much earlier than expected from looking at Netweathers snow risk pages, wasnt predicated to arrive til after lunch. our met man are still erring on the side of caution and saying that there "might be" "may be" some light wintry showers but mostly dry. i suppose they're correct but the child in me says SNOW!!!!!!! DO MORE!!!! WANT SNOWMAN!!! WANT GO HOME BEFORE THE BLIZZARD!! (thats a good point as if it was to blizzard, which i doubt, the roads are dreadful and i live in Peel (west coast) and work in Douglas (east coast). its only a 20 minute journey on country roads but not always easy in the snow. take it easy those of you with real snow, stay safe.

yes i am aware that we have our own Met office, but they dont provide 5 day forecast (only biefly to one/two days out) or daily/hourly observations like the Met Office UK site used to. i am unable to find any sites showing wat weather/temperatures etc have occurred over the last 24 hours on the island. so unlikely to be reporting in the current conditions area any more however i have found a current conditions site by one of the ATC officers at Ronaldsway Airport. Any way good luck to all those still using the UK Met site.

Hi Verglas have you noticed that the Isle of Man is not covered by observations or forecasts!!! no ronaldsway information at all. thank God for NW!!

Hi all, stay safe in this storm. Registered max (?gust) 55 mph in douglas at my mum's between 5pm and 7pm as father reset the windometer following them returning from lanzarote. Meto obs site showing gusts of 64kts at 7pm as we were driving to resturant this evening. wild night driving rain and lots of tree debrie on the roads and standing water. my peugoet would hardly go along in a head wind actually had my foot flat on the acclerator and was losing power!!! will try to report max wind speed reached tomorrow if dad lets me know. take care ><>

Hi All Three or four flashes of lightning with thunder some way away at 3am this morning here in the Isle of Man, accompanied by heavy rain (?hail at the beginning heck of a sound against our sky lights), wind picked up too. lightning affected the reception of the bedroom radio tuned to the local radio station (Manx Radio). Driving the 12 miles to work today was interesting with many large floods across both carriageways of the main roads to douglas. frustratingly slow traffic travelling at 20 miles an hour!! as if we've never seen localised flooding!! lots of interesting weather around, severe gales forecast for Sunday, last of the leaves will fall i guess, doesn't help the drainage. stay safe ><>

Hi all hope everyone is staying warm and safe. heavy rain and snow here in isle of man, lots of roads just passable, husband slid to work along ballamodha strait stating moderate snow lying from upper foxdale to past st marks. snaefell mountain road closed until further notice. just rain here in Peel but really cold in the strong southeasterly wind. hope this is allowed herewith link to Department of transport cameras over snaefell. DOT Wedcameras countryfile forecast interesting, might be on for more flurries off that northeasterly later on in the week! bring it on! what a pity this isnt january as we would have had snow weeks rather than the odd snow day! Bless you all and thanks for some fanastic pictures

hi all have posted report in General snowfall discussion part 3, but will post here too. hail at 10:30am, 12:45 (lunchtime) and now at 22:00ish from that blip on the Meto radar (21:30). no snow yet but hey its great to be lamp-watching in November!!

maximum temperature at the airport (Ronaldsway) METO recording of 10C current conditions Ronaldsway: Current observation data: Valid for 2000 UTC on Saturday 19 November 2005 Temperature 3 °C Weather Mostly Cloudy Pressure (MSL) 1032 mb Pressure trend Rising Wind speed 4 knots Wind dir N Wind gust N/A Visibility 60.0 km Douglas (DOT weather station info): Douglas - King Edward Pier Wind Speed: 7.7 Knots (8.9mph) Wind Direction: W 276 Degrees Max Gust in last 15 minutes: 1.1 Knots (1.3mph) Max Gust since midnight: 9.2 Knots (10.6mph) @ 01:21 Tide Height: 2.1 metres (to local Chart Datum) Air Temperature: 3C / 37.5F Relative Humidity: 83.7% Last updated: 19 November 2005 at 21:15 Douglas - Breakwater Wind Speed: 7 Knots (8mph) Wind Direction: W 263 Degrees Max Gust in last 15 minutes: 7.8 Knots (9mph) Max Gust since midnight: 19 Knots (21.8mph) @ 02:15 Peel (again DOT info): Peel Breakwater Wind Speed: 6.6 Knots (7.5mph) Wind Direction: S 178 Degrees Max Gust in last 15 minutes: 10.6 Knots (12.2mph) Max Gust since midnight: 16 Knots (18.4mph) @ 02:39 Tide Height: 1.4 metres (to local Chart Datum) Air Temperature: 3.9C / 38.9F Relative Humidity: 84% Last updated: 19 November 2005 at 21:03 beautiful sunny crisp day, with virtually no wind so all the smoke from chimneys and bonfires just hanging low in the air. long may this lovely weather continue, and wouldnt it be wonderful if it was followed by snow

Hi all retrospective report on yesterday morning. left for work at 8am when got to work logged on to DOT website to find the temperature recording at 1.5C! really beautiful awesome golden sunrises the past two days! moon rose today with chilly looking yellow hue (ozone?) at about 7pm. current conditions here in Peel: Peel Breakwater Wind Speed: 10.3 Knots (11.8mph) Wind Direction: SE 135 Degrees Max Gust in last 15 minutes: 12.8 Knots (14.7mph) Max Gust since midnight: 21.6 Knots (24.9mph) @ 11:56 Tide Height: 1.9 metres (to local Chart Datum) Air Temperature: 5.3C / 41.6F Relative Humidity: 70.1% Last updated: 18 November 2005 at 21:03 and douglas: Douglas - King Edward Pier Wind Speed: 12.2 Knots (14mph) Wind Direction: SE 136 Degrees Max Gust in last 15 minutes: 9.2 Knots (10.6mph) Max Gust since midnight: 10.8 Knots (12.5mph) @ 07:35 Tide Height: 2.6 metres (to local Chart Datum) Air Temperature: 7.7C / 45.8F Relative Humidity: 60.7% Last updated: 18 November 2005 at 21:07 Douglas - Breakwater Wind Speed: 12.8 Knots (14.7mph) Wind Direction: SE 141 Degrees Max Gust in last 15 minutes: 18.1 Knots (20.8mph) Max Gust since midnight: 20.8 Knots (23.9mph) @ 01:32 no cloud cover that i can see, and have already started "lamp watching"! wishful thinking???!!

Hi all less frost and ice on cars and fields today than yesterday. nearly skidded the car round a bend up the Eyreton Lea road to the Strang yesterday morning and had to use the windscreen de-icer to clear the car, but not today. person at work reported that her lock was frozen. another lady was on call wednesdaynight into thursday and was called out at 5am when she had to defrost the car and then again on the way home an hour later even to defrosting the condensation on the inside of her windscreen (new Hyundi Getz)!!