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Gaz1985

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  1. Well looks likely its going to be cold/cool late next week. What is more interesting CFS has been regularly showing this for a while and then on recent runs has been showing a significant cold spell with strong easterly and -10 uppers from 520hrs lasting to around 750hrs. http://www.meteociel.fr/modeles/cfse_cartes.php?ech=354&mode=2&carte=0&run=10

     

    That's way out in the unreliable, not likely to happen exactly as shown.

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  2. A friend in Manchester sent me this pic about an hour saying it was snowing. Is it a wind up? I have had a look on a few webcams of some the higher ground around Manchester and I can't see anything on them. I see there is mention of hail showers in the north west but looking at the windscreen it looks more like snow on the pic.

     

    It wasn't snow, it was very heavy hail that looked like it had snowed, even now a few hours later there is still a slight covering on my grass and some on the road and pavement. It was about 2 inches deep covering all surfaces when it first fell, heaviest hailstones for a long while here.

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  3. I get 'Greater Manchester' on mine but no one recognises it, people on the Western / town of Oldham are Lancastrians and people East of Lees are Yorkies or like I call myself - a posh ****

     

    You are just Oldham really, you shouldn't  be "Greater Manchester" to be honest, it was only in the 70's when you became a part of it when it expanded. In fact Saddleworth was at one time Yorkshire aswell as Oldham and Greater Manchester, so you've been 3 things in the past 100 years. Whereas this has always been classed as Manchester as is the Mancunian accent here with the vast majority. Just to the north of here the accent suddenly changes and sounds more like Yorkshire type or Bolton/Blackburn/Rochdale/Oldham or Peter Kay

  4. Its micro climate though trust me, best thing to see then what TWS or a qualified meteorologist thinks.

     

    Your making an age old mistake, thinking that because somewhere is further North, then it automatically gets more snow, Manchester is further North than Birmingham but Birmingham does better, I didn't think that when I moved between the 2 but now I have lived in both I know for a fact.

     

    Manchester has a micro climate too the north and east of the city does far better than the south and west, some parts of the city had no snowfall last Winter, we had multiple measurable events here with some drifts. So you can't just say Manchester does worse than Birmingham beacuse that's generalising

  5. Its micro climate though trust me, best thing to see then what TWS or a qualified meteorologist thinks.

     

    Trust me I've got relatives who lived in both places and they say Yorkshire/Saddleworth is snowier than Derbyshire, again not by a massive amount but at times noticeable. Words like High Peak gives off some sort of vibe to most people - as does the word "Highlands" in Scotland, when in fact some parts of the Highland council area are not all that snowy.

  6. Agreed but that proves my point, there are stonking areas in N Derbyshire / S Yorkshire and in W Yorkshire but Just (not by much), the surrounding areas of Buxton (the borough of High Peak) just probably shades it over East Oldham / Saddleworth.

     

    Higher areas will of course do better that isn't rocket science but I reckon areas at the same height in Buxton won't do as well as Saddleworth at the same height mainly due to being further north and with less of wall to the east to stop the snow bands from the north sea, It won't be a huge difference perhaps maybe 4-6 inches more a year on average, but it can also do with the positioning of precipitation bands too. Ask most Yorkshiremen/Saddleworth person and they would laugh if you said Derbyshire does better than them at snow. Also the word "High Peak" gives it this title of an Alpine feel lol I bet if people said something similar about Oldham or Saddleworth it would give off this same Alpine thought, the brain is a powerful thing when it comes down to simple things like words.

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