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4 hours ago, ronan said:
I've just had the Drone up. I'll post some pics later.
I thought that was the drone pic above
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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!
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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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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27 minutes ago, ronan said:
A 10 minute shower has left everything white again. Wasn't expecting anything tonight
Missed that. Just went out to check after seeing your post and sure enough a wee fresh covering.
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8 minutes ago, mountain shadow said:
Direction of travel NW to SE says you may yet see some action in County Down later @mountain shadow
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15 minutes ago, ronan said:
Ha I actually was to pick up a delivery. It's fair coming down here now
It is indeed. Heavy snow showers like this for next few days gives the winter a bit of interest
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9 minutes ago, ronan said:
You heading into Maccie D’s @ronan
A few more heading our way in next hour or so
edit: actually just started snowing again just now
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25 minutes ago, ronan said:
That shower that just came through was the best of the Winter. Proper big flakes and a nice dusting on the ground. Yellow warning out for snow and ice from MET
Yes not much competition to be fair
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11 minutes ago, Purga said:
I see GFS 06z takes the crapological route
The models are a bit bipolar at the moment. Pun intended.
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2 minutes ago, Allseasons-si said:
Time to wrap it up,...great output this afternoon/evening
i am ready for some surprise snow of which i am sure will happen at an IMBY near you
goodnight guys
Locked and loaded (and primed)
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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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Just now, *Stormforce~beka* said:
It has hasn't it?
No, no it’s real
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27 minutes ago, Ali1977 said:ECM mean something like this hopefully
For a minute I thought that was photoshopped
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Don’t know why people care so much about the Exeter Update. It’s the ultimate fence sitting/ hedging bets option there is.
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Maybe it’s because we live in the dreariest most boring place in the world climatically speaking, though Jules in Slovakia thinks he’s got it rough. The effort involved to get anything interesting, especially in winter, leaves one exhausted. Then you watch as the most unlikely escape to mild, verifies.
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2 hours ago, Sperrin said:
Away from the depression on the mod thread it's interesting to note that the PM flow could give us in the North a Christmas day surprise later in the evening. Accord8ng to the snow rows a 90% chance of snow Christmas evening/night.
Happy Christmas to all on here, hopefully your weekend is full of more fun than the scrooge fest in the mod thread
Be nice
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Posted · Edited by Northwest NI
From the roof of my workplace today. Snow hanging in there rightly