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Pretty much in the middle of amber warning area ...can't remember it going past yellow a couple of weeks ago despite receiving a relative pasting.
Surely we won't see a repeat of those crazy blizzard/drifting showers again so soon? They seem to be suggesting that.
I'm a little surprised they've gone amber over yellow...especially with it being the weekend so less commuters/traffic about.
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3 minutes ago, bearing said:
Thought Nottingham was pasted by a streamer the other night.
It was we done very well out of it that night and the day/s before best snow for 15-20 years at least. Obviously people wanted more tonight but we never do well when it's warm vs cold air....has to be pretty much a straight easterly aimed towards us to make things happen.
I'm not fussed about tonight....happy for a quick thaw now. This week will live long in the memory.
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Zoom into a place called Wirksworth (south of Matlock) and play the radar ... it maybe a radar error on anomaly but there's a small blob of torrential snow which hasn't moved for 2 hours? If you are under that it must be dumping meters.
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9 degrees in Norwich on Sunday according to the BBC. The warming is going to be more rapid than is being suggested by the charts maybe? Had pretty much everywhere above freezing. 4-5 Newcastle and Edinburgh. Wind arrows more southerly than south easterly.
I don't trust them with regard to precipitation, I do with temps.
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Looks like that's it for us with regards to any significant snowfall. Can't complain though woke up to 10-15 centimeters big drifts against walls, it was bleak and felt surreal like being in a different country. With the wind, the drifting of the lying snow was understated in the forecasts...quite a few times I got a face full of the stuff. I can't remember a more dramatic event for us in the the last 20 years. The Beast from the East really did deliver.
Now it's time for the West Mids to have their day it seems
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7 minutes ago, PolarWarsaw said:
Looks to me like Nottingham has gone from zero to hero, hit the absolute jackpot tonight. Constant streamer for the last couple of hours, with more orange echoes on radar currently. Probably got some of the highest totals in the midlands now.
Just measured window ledge 2 inches currently (city centre) still falling ,lightly though. All that is from tonight, obviously not huge amounts but looks great and very orange with light pollution. I think Lincoln/Grantham will have some really decent totals.
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Playing back the radar between 8 and 9 pm Nottingham took an absolute direct hit from that streamer. Mansfield (the usual profiteers) got nothing out of it! Show's how localised it all is.
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2 minutes ago, kev238 said:
Quite an astonishing turn of events in Nottingham
Snow streamer set up and dumping a serious load of snow!
Just looked out the window! Crazy scenes this there is a decent depth now everywhere is white...this event has really delivered for Nottingham...often does from the east....and these showers have been a lot more powerful and prolonged than forecast.
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The one that hit us just after 3pm was incredible. Bigger than any of yesterday. Torrential snow + very windy looked amazing then drifting / full on white out. Haven't seen anything that intense since the early 90's. Pity they are only showers but you can't really expect prolonged stuff with that kind of intensity.
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Hmm, BBC still going for the SW hit on Thursday with moving as far north as Yorkshire 15:00 on Friday.
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Keeping the cold but not as cold . A very slow, cloudy warm up by a degree or so every day until Monday (approx 5 degrees) when it will be too warm for any precipitation to be snow. Disaster !
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It's showing more to the South West which means cold wins out (for most of us) but no snow unless you are in the sweet spot which looks to be South Wales with the most North Easterly tip being Bristol.
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For my area I'm apprehensive about Friday. So many times before I see it stall just north of Oxford/South Birmingham, I don't think it'll make it to the North Midlands.
Can't argue about some of those beefy showers today though....genuine whiteout blizzard conditions at times (if for short times) and city centre snow on pavements when leaving work, not often you see that.
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Wonder why that pilot didn't fancy holding? I'd be quite peed off if I was a passenger.
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What on earth is up with this aircraft ?http://www.flightradar24.com/EIN724
Looks like an Irish airline travelling to Ireland to me?
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Why are people posting obs now of something that has nothing to do with tomorrow's (non) event?
Government meeting
This country makes me ill sometimes.
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Yesterday, 11:42
Seen this scenario many times before. It will head south, probably northern France and the channel getting the worse. You only need be concerned if you live on the South coast as you may get of it....but living on a coast you'd expect it to be windy.
The Met Office are slowly morphing their warnings any further north to that of rain (1-2 inches nothing special) so they don't look too silly after telling everyone in the midlands and the home counties to "be prepared" .
My post from yesterday at 11:42am. Ahead of the charts, ahead of the Met office. They should really use historical data when working out the weather charts....if I can call it without weather tools, I'm sure they can with.
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Why would people want a downgrade? Why be afraid of this "storm" it's exciting is it not? I'm guessing we all live in brick houses (unlike those places in the rest of the world that have real storms who all seem to live in wooden houses
) and work in brick built buildings.Sure there is about a 1 in 5 million chance of being hit by a falling tree on your way to work but even if that is a concern you can book the day off.
It's nothing to be scared of.
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Haha doen't that run show literally no wind? Going to take some explaining that. I told you's they are using the rain as a back-up plan.
"Well there wasn't any wind but it still rained heavy for a bit during rush hour"
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Seen this scenario many times before. It will head south, probably northern France and the channel getting the worse. You only need be concerned if you live on the South coast as you may get of it....but living on a coast you'd expect it to be windy.
The Met Office are slowly morphing their warnings any further north to that of rain (1-2 inches nothing special) so they don't look too silly after telling everyone in the midlands and the home counties to "be prepared" .
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Still snowing fresh covering of a good few centimeters now on top of what we had. Must be over 10 cm out there now in very urban area.
I make that at least 27 hours of continuous snowfall.
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What a day...counting last night 18-20 hours continues snowfall...most of it has been light/moderate but enough to give 7-10 cm bang in the middle of the city. Would have been carnage if it fell as moderate-heavy.
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Turned out to be quite an event (well better than expected) in Nottingham a good 4 centimeters even in areas near the city....rush hour was just a nightmare though.
Show me the sun now please.
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This looks like a massive non event now. Especially when looking at those crazy scenes in America. Best we can hope for is a minimal covering that will look nice but I don't think we'll even get that.
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A good 2-3 inches on the cars/untouched roads - since about 8pm every time I've looked outside it's been coming down, some very heavy, some light but very persistent . It's horizontal due to the wind also with the associated drifting. It's just like the event we had 3 weeks ago on the infamous streamer night.