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    Winter 2022/23 - Moans, Ramps & Chat

    in Spring Weather Discussion

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    4 hours ago, Cambrian said:

    We have about 3-4 inches of snow lying here this afternoon, more on the higher ground around, about 6 inches at around 1000ft and 8 inches around 1200ft, built up over the last 3 days. It’s the 8th day with falling snow and the 14th day with lying snow so far this winter. It’s a nice benchmark reached as in a normal good winter we typically talk of 2-3 weeks of lying snow (when all added up), more in a really good winter. Then we get winters like the last one, where we struggled for any settling snow at all.

    Yesterday evening and overnight was interesting, the temperature slowly rose during the day to +1, there had been occasional showers all day, but it turned misty and there was a period of persistent light snow in the evening, settled a further half inch by 10 pm and another inch by morning. It stayed around 1 degree until 10pm but kept snowing, it felt like a small warm sector, but kept snowing through it. Temperature dropped away to freezing by midnight and down to -3 by morning. 

    Just above freezing at the farm this afternoon, but because the humidity is a tad lower and because we had a -5.5 degree frost the night before the snow fell, there is not the slightest thaw, as indeed there wasn’t all through yesterday either. There’s been a couple of snow or soft hail showers, but a beautiful day besides. It has fallen very calm so I’m expecting a hard “snowfield” frost tonight. 

    Here are some photos from my walk this afternoon. The first is a view of the dell, and the second and third are of some of the surrounding tops. I think that those are fox footprints in the middle one. Plenty of shower activity still around, none of it shown on the radars, not for where we are today at least. The wonders of the Irish Sea and the beautiful Cardigan Bay once it’s got stirred up!

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    If you have some snow, enjoy it. If not, enjoy the rest of a lovely winter’s day. I’ve really enjoyed parts of this winter so far, even though we’ve had to endure some extended periods of very wet weather, and no doubt will have to again, there have been some really good days too, and what is often the most interesting part of the winter is still to come. The little bit more light in the afternoons is very welcome too. 

    Great pictures! Remarkably similar to landscape round here 👍

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    Winter 2022/23 - Moans, Ramps & Chat

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted

    Let’s put to bed once and for all that Pm/Nw/Nnw flows cannot/will not deliver. Whilst not an “Epic” week this week has surpassed expectations with several inches of Snow in many Western areas which has lasted through the daytime. Proper low minima at night and low maxima during the day has ensured that this is a most acceptable cold spell which I’d take any year.

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    Model Output Discussion - New Year and Beyond

    in Forecast Model Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Northwest NI

    14 minutes ago, Nick F said:

    Don't remember snow via a northwesterly being a possibility for lowland Britain, especially the south, back in the 00s when I first joined the forum or back in the 90s or 80s even, but they seem to becoming more common for getting snow than easterlies in recent years! Think Dec 2017 was a good example, but think there's been a few occasions since too.

    Would be a great future trend as much more likely and achievable than the fabled Beast from the East

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