captaincroc

Hi mate Yeah, normally looks a bit poo but these charts below show some sort of either streamer or front...so who knows? Not holding out any hope though!

There seems to be a 'bump' in the isobars in this chart. Wouldn't this normally indicate a front?

Hi all. Had a day or so with minimal Net Weather as I needed a break as my frustration was off the scale, the current radar is the weather God Swearing AGAINing on our chips The first belt to properly hit us with anything more than 30 mins of snizzle ( AND this actually has some bright colours on!) and it's the first one that is actually rain, you really couldn't make it up. Speaking of which I have been thinking about this spell and if I was to give it a headline it would be, "You Couldn't Make It Up..." as lost count the amount of time I said it... so, cons first... The most frustrating part was not having snow fall (much) in this rare set up, I know how rare it is and I am sick of slushy, marginal snow that if it does stick soon melts, so I knew any that would fall would stick. I wanted to take my nephews sledging and build snowmen but no, every bit of snow that fell literally covered in a layer of white dust which soon blew away. Why did the showers work all there way across to MCR yet me, directly south they just died before arriving? Why did the fronts, any of which would have given me enough to have some fun in, die literally as they arrived...three times?!! I would rather it not be forecast than be on the wrong side of the 'edge' every time. I didn't have ridiculous ideas of what would happen, I knew the east would get hit and the usual places but I just couldn't understand how showers made it all the way across in some areas and not over here? The wind direction constantly flicked between NE NEE, E, SEE etc so some flippin' showers should have made it across in the strong winds. I wanted to see snow properly drift locally, I wanted to see Crewe actually get a blizzard and a decent covering. It has had a lot bad times recently and I just felt a fall of snow would have lightened spirits a bit. So to end the negatives, frustration is the main feeling as to be so close, SO many times, to a decent and memorable fall of snow - and have it last days - but have nothing major is so sad. ...that aside I cannot say I won't remember or take any good things from this spell. I saw some sights I have not seen since I was a child. Seeing proper powder snow fall AND stick in Crewe in the daytime was a sight to see (be it literally a coating of dust ). Seeing it blow across the school fields next to my college and being whipped about was amazing to see. The below picture was when the only batch of showers made it across, ignore the flash on the left of the pic (I didn't take it, haha, of all days I had left my phone at home so my colleague took it for me) but you can see the sun on the right. The photo doesn't do it justice but it was pouring down with the snow blowing in sheets everywhere, really a sight to see. The colour of the sky was amazing. I got to see Icicles, proper icicles, nothing I have seen since 2010. My house being on a hill did manage to squeeze a bit more precipitation from that crappy fronts so when the gales hit It did snizzle here and was something that I wouldn't forget. It was twilight when I got home and the wind was roaring and as it had just started the snow was blowing everywhere, be it there were small amounts, but it was blowing everywhere. I have never felt cold like it in the UK, no question. I walked to the shop fully wrapped up with gloves etc, by the time I got to the shop (2 mins away) my hands were numb and it actually worried me and it was just SO cold. The ground was frozen but dry, not seen that since i was a kid... the pic below is normally a muddy track but was frozen solid and looked dry. Even with the minimal cover drifts did form and again were amazing to see as not seen drifts locally since I was a child... this was from my hill, nothing like this in Crewe, the empty patch wasn't snow melt, just blown dry. Local ponds etc were frozen, which yeah I have seen in 2010 but was great to see. I think for me, coming from a lowland snow free zone, I will take away some nice memories and visuals from this spell. Was it amazing for me? No, but I have memories of visuals not I had not seen since being a child. It's just sad that with one decent fall it could have easily made it so. Going to put more pics/vids on my Instagram later today if everyone wants to get excited about my 2 inches... www.instagram.com/Benjaminstubbs

Joking aside, it wasn't meant to properly get here until 5pm and you can see the proper stuff on it's way...we shall see.

You could literally draw it on...

You couldn't make it up...I have watched it march north with no hesitation or disintegration and then it hits Crewe and the past few frames it disappears over us. Honestly, it's been the theme of this spell

I think tonight is our best chance...as long as it's below freezing. haha

Haha. Well here should be similar, my hill should be below freezing then which is good.

Please be below freezing...please be below freezing...please be below freezing...please be below freezing...please be below freezing...please be below freezing...please be below freezing...please be below freezing...please be below freezing...please be below freezing...please be below freezing...please be below freezing...please be below freezing...please be below freezing...please be below freezing...please be below freezing...please be below freezing...please be below freezing...

Taken with a ton of salt but could be worse...

Where can I see the latest temps? Plus when do they start to decrease normally in the day? As REALLY hoping it nudges below freezing in time for the precipitation.

Yeah, you hit the westerly streamer but South Cheshire missed it. I remember watching it nearly crying! haha. Then the front moved south and we got a small covering from that. My friend worked in MCR and travelled their every day, her school was shut for over a week!

When you had that streamer overnight a few days ago we had nothing. Where I live had a bit more but literally nothing in Cheshire.

Tell us - fooooking - about it!!!!!!

Yeah, when this spell goes it's all about warmth then! Slushy lowland snow I don't care about, bring me sunshine! haha.

Yes, that was why I was so frustrated yesterday with that front as the temps were below freezing so even a moderate fall would have stuck and could have been played in... today on Crewe it is forecast to be 0c but I know it will be probably 1 or 2c as it was -1c at 8am and the only way is up. So if we do get anything from that front it will melt as it arrives around 3pm (the warmest part of the day). If it was meant to be heavy then game on but it's meant to be - if it does even reach here - mainly light. A bit gutting really, I am just hoping the temp does drop quick and the snow does stick, as my nephew who is 5 hasn't seen a decent (Snowman building) fall in is life.

The Lake Effect snow in Ireland is mental! To be honest, that's what I thought might have happened to the East Coast rather than individual showers? I expected more constant snow, just like Lake Effect.

That's the strange thing, it's after the front. You can see the front on there...it moves in around 3pm, light snow for a few hours then stops and clears. the heavier 'showers' arrive a good few hours later... I wonder what model they use?

I think I probably speak for a few that now we are in March it takes a hell of a great set up to bring decent low lying snow. I have had a few falls which either melted or just stuck for a day or so, so the thought of slushy borderline snow doesn't excite me now. I am looking for spring warmth. Haha. If a big Channel Low or a big exciting fall is forecast in the reliable then that would be pretty exciting but my choice now moves to warmth!

Yeah, it's a weird one as i know the percentage is low but it's not just localised, it covers S Cheshire and most of Staffs? Maybe the front clears to showers?

Just checked my forecast and it's there too?!?! Not getting my hopes up at all but anything would be a lovely surprise. *edit* recently updated too? Maybe new data?

My friend has sent me this...a screenshot of the Biddulph App forecast...yes i know they can be sh*te but what the heck are they expecting tonight!?! The 5pm light snow from this belt is there but look at tonights forecast...Heavy Snow all night??! Anyone shine a light?! haha

Isn't today suppose to be our first day above freezing? When are the winds due to subside? Just wondering as if that band hits us tonight could be a few cms blowing about. To be honest, I think as an area we are done with this spell now, every front has just missed us so even though most models forecast it will hit us, the precipitation is forecast to be light and the Cheshire Bowl snow dome looks in full working order too. It's been frustrating to watch but it's just a fact that we do live in a rain shadow. We have been under some precipitation on the radar but light falls, yet to the west and east they soak it up. We really need moisture laden features to allow enough energy to stop the shield.

This wind is something I have found fascinating, it literally came out of nowhere, yes it has been breezy but literally at a click of a switch it went gale force, no exaggeration. A bit like how the winds pick up before a storm? Anyways, going back to your point, did the Met Office not see this coming as bad? Was the winds part of the 'unknown parameters' of this spell? My house was rocking yesterday on this hill top the same as storm Doris etc.

Snap! Your conditions are the same and I was literally thinking that if we had any decent snow falling it would be absolute chaos as it's blowing across the road anyways.