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Just now, griff74 said:
I know, you should of seen the looks on people faces when I went past, they actually looked scared for me. Learn't my lesson back in March when I lost it on black Ice and ended on morphine and a trip to the hospital with smashed ribs and broken hand.
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What a turn around after 5am we got a decent covering... add in un-gritted roads and clear skys before dawn = CHAOS. Been a while since Ive seen cars skidding all over and a big crash. Not sure how I got back up here on my scooter... back end went a couple of times. Squeeky bum time for sure.
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Absolute scrap. Nothing most of the night except for a snow shower just now. The tops look a little white though. Bummer
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1 minute ago, northwestsnow said:
absolute joke this is turning out to be - zip here.
LOL unbelievable that were stuck under a wedge of nothingness still. Only comfort is that big blob of Red in the irish that will coming through the snow gap straight at us!
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1 minute ago, northwestsnow said:
yes craig anything from now on will be snow for you- just getting a bit concerned about the wind direction, it was supposed to be WNW - it isn't and probably explains why its mainly dry..
watching the irish sea and hoping..
Yeah we seem to be stuck between minor streamers coming off the North Sea and the main band of ppn but it does look like we will eventually get blasted overnight at some point. Fingers crossed pal
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3 minutes ago, northwestsnow said:
gfs18z says 0 am to 3 am as my only chance of snow!!
should be cold enough hoping for a few cm-
should be between 0 and 1 degrees and dps uppers decent.
if i wake up concrete i give up.
Well conditions are certainly ripe enough now, especially up near the Moorside area. After all the rain we now have a bit of a graupel dusting. NEED PPN URGENTLY
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4 hours ago, Chris.R said:
I for one am happy to see a move to cold zonality or whatever you want to call in in the models, we do well from battle ground situations, especially when there is an off-shore flow ahead of the lows. Can think of loads of examples of such that have delivered, 23rd Dec 2009, 13th Jan 2010, 18th Feb 2010, 18th Jan 2013, 25th Jan 2013,22nd March 2013, Boxing day 2014. You can stick your Northerlys, too early in the season.
As a long time snow chaser on here it kills me to say "me too for mild". Riding a scooter in this weather is scary stuff.
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We have dandruff falling now in Oldham East so the showers although weak are just about penetrating this side of the pennines. Obviously not expecting much but a heavier burst of ppn wouldn't go miss
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30 minutes ago, Daniel* said:
Very nice
I am litterally a couple of streets down from there
Still pummelling down here.
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Looks like I got home from the night shift just in time. Sky has gone dark grey and orange and its pummelling down with huge 50p flakes.
Better than last year/ winter already.
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Nice covering of snow after some heavy snow showers in Shaw Oldham. Should better on the tops where I live.
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2 minutes ago, Luke Best said:
And the year was?
Looks like a similar evolution to End of Nov 2010. Where the atlantic linked with HP over the pole, didn't end up a full on Greenland high but more of rubust wedge of HP to north of the UK, more an Icelandic HP. Gave the goods for a lot of people that year. Could be wrong but sure Steve will pull out another date :P.
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2 minutes ago, V for Very Cold said:
you've got to wonder where the logistics companies (and the bookies) are getting their info from!
Or are they all Daily Express readers???
LOL i was going to add "and they don't source their weather data from the like of Doomy Express". And they don't drop updates out like this willy nilly. Being a huge company they obviously pay Met Office for a professional service
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1 hour ago, frosty ground said:
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/learning/snow/snow-in-the-uk
The actual stats show something different especially for your coastal location.
Memory is a pretty deceptive tool.
Absolute rubbish those charts. Oldham is in the fairly snow-less zone on them but we do actually get quite an amount over the whole winter. Classic setups that send snow our way are always missed by there forecasts too, I've lost count how many times we are forecast nothing and get hammered.
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No idea how this winter will pan out but I was under the impression it will be mild & wet. However the large delivery company I work for has issued this update today and it has been many years since a bulletin like this was dropped out, make of it as you will
Interesting
Quote**** Peak Weather ContingencyWe have been tracking the anticipated weather conditions for the peak trading period - due to the increased likelihood of snow this year we have made the following provisions:- 150 weather contingency trailers on standby across the country.
- Proactive gritting at all sort centres and largest service centres.
- Stockpile of grit, shovels and personal protective equipment is already in stock across all sites.
- City and rural service split in key cities e.g. Aberdeen to allow isolation and continuity of service.
- The ************ is monitoring anticipatory weather conditions in real time and will proactively. communicate to clients as weather changes and if adjustments need to be made in the event of adverse weather.
Should you require any further information please get in touch.Kind Regards,***** ******** ****** ******-
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After torrential rain, Sleet and hail here so slightly slushy
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Well, this bloody rain doesn't want to give up. Hardly naff all through winter and then none-stop monsoon weather into spring. Watch it dry up when that cold northerly is pulled down this week.
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Lol already turned to rain. Flooding by morning. What a joke of a winter we just had. Roll on next soggy assed winter.
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Heavy snow up here an HR ago. Calming down alot but already 2-3 inches. Roads are murder and our trailer yard almost at a stand still.
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I have to be honest. After viewing the charts over the weekend and then reading the comments this morning I thought winter prospects were heading for a disaster, not to mention the lack of posting from people like Mr Murr etc but I have to say, to me there is some slight improvement on yesterdays modelling at least. No sign of any dreaded bartlett or euro high as some have mentioned in recent days and its just as likely that a Scandi High could develop.
I think we are in one of those classic periods of model watching where you need to take anything past T120 with the biggest dose of salt you can grasp.
With that said even if FI on this morning models verified it would still feel relatively chilly with no endless mild muck in site and certainly no stubborn highs to our SE / E.
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Proper snow here now. Big fat juicy flakes.. gonna be a very interesting day today
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Snowing here in Oldham east, even at low levels in Shaw area. A dusting on cars atm.
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Absolutely pounding down with rain, monsoon style. Who ever says autumn has been benign is blowing bubbles out of their rectum.
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Still pummelling down here.
North West England Regional Weather Discussion 23/04/2017 onwards
in Regional
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Not expecting anything this far inland. There is too much of a northerly component and broken cloud. Draw a line From Blackpool to Birmingham and those on it and to the west of it are good to go. Those on the east.. Dry and bitter.
This mornings Snow hasn't melted in the slightest here so I won't complain