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Well last April was very dry. Maybe some snow overnight tonight

A wet mild start to the day Temp 6C low 3.8C, Barometer 995mb falling, Wind F1 S, Rainfall 1.4mm

Sheffield Shield activating this lunch time after letting a short sharp shower through. Hence it was a case of looking at distant dark clouds which looked thundery and the odd light rain shower here. Hopefully better tomorrow but annoying the old shield is alive and well.

A very mild day with sunny spells and light showers the Sheffield shield activating to prevent any stormy showers from approaching. Max temp 13.1C, Now 10.1C, Barometer 994mb rising, Wind F3 WSW, Rainfall 1.2mm

Can't see it being Urban heat island because if you listen to the forecasts the adjustment is a lot more than 0.xx degrees.

Sunny Sheffield having a fairly mild day cloudy at first now sunny spells and showers. Temp max so far 12.9C now 11.3C, Barometer 993mb steady, Wind F4 SW, Rainfall 1.2mm so far today.

Well the last event brought 31.8mm of rain which funnily enough is about the same as the last two major marginal snow events.

Dry mild start odd patch of snow still around surprisingly Temp 8.2C, Barometer 993mb steady, Wind F2 SSW, Rainfall 15mm

A cold day Snow quickly turned to light rain and a steady thaw has continued. Still got full cover btw Max temp so far 2.7C, Barometer 996mb falling, Wind F1 NNE, Rainfall 25.8mm

Freezing rain on top according to TM. Very nasty if it is. Not freezing here just steady melt. Remember the ground is warm so attack from below.

Early snow down to low levels rain at five in the morning snow by six ceased snowing at 08:45 and turned to rain but left 5.5cm of snow. Steady thaw in progress. Temp 0.3C low 0C, Barometer 1002mb falling rapidly, Rainfall 16.8mm including snow

Steady sound of drip drip drip. Steady thaw here.

Turning to rain now.

Local forecast has changed back to Snow. Raining at five o'clock snowing at six. So in two hours it's managed to dump 5.5Cm of snow. A pleasant surprise to wake up to. We are not at 250 metres

Temps 2.8C dropping slowly.

After cold with light showers one of these briefly wintry this afternoon Max temp 4.4C now 3.6C, Barometer 1016mb steady, Wind F2 ENE, Rainfall 0.2mm

Okay doke my take of things. Head for North Yorkshire and north England as those areas should do well. For Sheffield Rotherham very little chance in the way of Snow and if you want too see it head on up into hills. May turn to sleet at times or wet snow lower down in the heavier bursts in the early hours otherwise rain. The problem is that we will depending on the rain to be heavy. If it's light kiss it all good night. Better in Leeds Bradford still marginal but if the rain is heavy it should do the trick more easily than further south. Wouldn't be surprised to see the higher areas to get a slushy covering at snow before it disappears rapidly in the morning. Met office forecast shows sleet for Leeds and Bradford which isn't so positive. Whatever you do don't sleep in folks. Those in North Yorkshire lucky so and so's Just popped in the south western region and nothing being posted in there which indicates just the wet stuff and no snow. Nothing in the Welsh discussion. So unless they are all getting typsy in the pub it's just brollies at the moment. One bit of good news the temps are lower than GFS has forecast bad news forecast updated and back to sleet it did show snow briefly again today.

Sunny Sheffield finished on 3.7C -2.6C below average. Average max 6.9C -3.0C below normal. Average min 0.5C -2.3C below average. Rainfall 138.3mm 217.1% of average Strange to have such a cold month a wet month as well. 2nd wettest for us on record since 1955

Had a quick look earlier and things looked a bit more favorable will look again when GFS finishes it's run. There does seem a bit of a timing issue between local forecast and GFS where the local forecast was a good four hours difference.

Cloudy very cold spots of rain Max temp so far 3.3C now 3.2C, Barometer 1017mb rising, Wind F2 NNE, Rainfall Trace Yesterday 2.7mm

Quick look at 00 oz no real change. Local Forecast now showing the expected forecast. Rain. Will have a more detailed look later today.

Cold cloudy start Temp 1.7C low 1.6C, Barometer 1014mb rising, Wind F3 N, Rainfall since midnight nil

Just to let you it's sleeting here. My thoughts so far for Sheffield rain and perhaps some sleet at first this changing rapidly to rain. So a wet night and day for Sunny Sheffield. The place really to be is north Yorkshire you should get a covering and this should last a fair while. Further south than that probably more sleet than snow away from the higher ground and will be turning to rain during the morning. North Yorkshire should see it turning to rain around lunch time.

A very cold damp day with drizzle returning later in the afternoon Max temp 3.8C now 2.9C, Barometer 1006mb rising, Wind F3 NNE, Rainfall 1.2mm

GFS has the front coming in much quicker than shown on the met app. If it is correct rain should arrive sometime after nine tomorrow evening. Just had a look at John Holmes guide and we now have a marginal situation where earlier yesterday we didn't. By morning it will be rain for all though and if we're very lucky may scrape a few hours may scrape a few hours overnight although this very small chance and more likely in the peak district. Chances still very small and the next few runs may swing either way.