cheshireoak

-4,7 in the marginals, temp falling but slowly. Showers fizzling I reckon.

-7.5 in the marginals at 6.30 this morning now still -4.2 in the North facing, shady yard. I consider that Parky. Convective cloud tops visible to west on way home.

Yeah it's a frustration, especially here South of Manchester where Manchester's light pollution obscures the Northern horizon most of the time. The amount of local development isn't helping either..

Yes, local variations in East Cheshire can be stark. As Kasim mentioned earlier small altitude differences can make big differences in snow cover, but exact streamer orientation as controlled by wind direction can also create big snow cover variations. There are one or two significant local frost hollows in the area-the Dane valley can channel and hold cold air rolling off the hills, as can some of the hollows with lakes like Redesmere. I tend to think our coldest nights are (obs) high pressure conditions, but with snow cover on the hills encouraging cold dense air to sink and hold in the hollows. The macc-leek road by the canal where it runs through a shallow valley is another local cold spot.

-4.8 in the marginals, still falling. Beautiful clear and starry night-just had a quick stroll before bed- a case of getting far enough from house outside lights to get a clear view of the night sky! Sometimes light pollution really bugs me.

Yeah remember those. Coldest I can remember was 1981-did about -18.5 here (same time it did -26 at Shawbury). Absolutely wildly cold. Currently -4.2 and still steadily falling.

Should have been a question mark after sudden return to cold!!!!

Another interesting day in the marginals-didn't freeze that night, cloud sheet held on temperatures stuck at +0.4. Quite dense fog formed between 8 and 10am, after that skies cleared. Temps now-2.7 and falling-going to be a cold one. Not sure if we might get some snow showers Thursday/Friday. Some interest on Sunday with a weather warning and potentially strong gales after that gradual return to cold-hope so enjoying the drier conditions.

Well interesting day in marginals-decent snow until about 9.00am or so. Snow hung around until about 2.00pm then steady thaw, I guess as warm sector came through. Snow hanging around in Macc area but largely gone to south. Currently +0.5 and falling slowly with some cloud cover. Next couple of days look dry unless we get streamers setting up. (Unless I've missed something). Potential for wild and wet at the weekend.

snowing in he marginals about an inch down. Temp-2.5. Gonna be a fun drive to work

-3.7 and clouding over in the marginals- hmmmmmmm?

Currently showing-2.5 in the marginals. If it stays clear it could be a chilly one! Still some interest for snow, but lots of local variations I suspect.

still -1.1c in the shade in the brisk marginals-beautiful day. Still can't make much sense of snow potential in next few days-looks to be mainly north of region?

-3.6C in the crispy marginals, temps still slowly dropping in the shade. Beautiful morning here woodpeckers drumming and also had a bullfinch in the garden yesterday-a comparative rarity locally. Going to be interesting to see how streamer development happens and what this little low does-truly a nowcasting couple of days.

3.4C in the marginals-band of quite heavy rain just come through looks like its trying to clear behind it-is this one of the cold fronts with the colder air mass behind?

1.1C in the marginals, skies clearing red sunrise. Just trying to catch up after another covid blast and then back to work madness-so what the h**l is happening? can't make much sense of a possible sequence of weather for the week other than a bit colder.

apologies-just catching up. Don't think I can ever remember snow forecast that far ahead with what looks like at least a degree of confidence. interesting though.

ahhhhh overlooking the marginals-v dry and cold!

Yeah bound to happen when driving-I've got a couple of trips coming up. I guess the local factor is one of the reasons why snow is so hard to forecast. Just wish I had a little more altitude!

yeah that would be interesting. That's getting comparable to 1981. High pressure, embedded cold, snow cover and locally cold air rolling off the Peak district. locally I've seen a few minus 10 to middle teens in similar set ups. 1981 was memorable family van frozen into slush but it wouldn't start anyway cos the diesel had gone thick! Outstanding moonlit sledging though!

Interestingly Will, the old boys round here always used to reckon we got our biggest snows off a SE wind (wind blowing from Bosley cloud-I had to walk to Congleton over the fields 'cos the roads were filled in' etc, etc). I guess from a set up like this one potentially, with a low sliding through to the south. Straight easterlies usually sticks the marginals squarely in the rain shadow. Although I do like North Westers with embedded polar lows! (Can dream I suppose)

Just been out pruning village apple trees, fingers fully numb-that's not happened for a while! Boiler on blink (great timing) but wood burner working fine.

-0.3 in the marginals, cloudy. Trying to put off doing any work.

-1.5 in the marginals this morning. Nice white frost. Cloud sheet slid over from from the East mid morning. Now a raw +1.0

That's kind of what iIm wondering Joe (although I'm hoping more early- mid 80's!). The way weather patterns appear to work these days I wouldn't be surprised if we didn't switch very quickly from full Atlantic train to long term blocking with a slowly wandering High Pressure.