Mcconnor8 Yep. I've seen people saying this spell saw the absolute maximum temperatures possible in the current client, however, it could have been a few degrees higher like you said.
Back home in Longton and there are actually some small piles of snow up against walls so it must have settled here earlier while central Stoke saw nothing.
andy_leics22 If I'm reading the models right, that intense band is our only hope of seeing proper snow, but it's showing as rain just to my south on the radar.
Arpege continues to tease.
Snowing more now. Chunky flakes. Nice to see despite no settling, and bemusing given the automated forecast shows it has now turned to rain whereas earlier it showed snow when we had sleet.