alr1970

This morning's dusting has gone, not melted, just gone. Beautifully sunny now, and with the dp at -12 and a strong breeze, I hung the washing out, it should dry nicely.

Maybe I should have left the winter wheels on the car...

Lovely here, got two loads of washing drying outside, for the first time this year.

A record 72% of the lower USA is currently snow-covered. (Records are only 18 years old). U.S. Snow Cover Reaches Record High Across Lower 48 States WWW.BLOOMBERGQUINT.COM U.S. Snow Cover Reaches Record High Across Lower 48 States

Gorgeous out there this morning, just been out on the bike with no gloves needed. Time to dig the shorts out! 1/3 of my broad beans appear to have survived the cold, but the sufficient have perked up nicely this morning.

Well, the Greeks spell it with one sigma, Λάρισα. Warner here today, my carefully curated pile of ice is melting slightly. Doesn't seem much windier than yesterday. I'm waiting for the warmth tomorrow to see if my broad beans has survived. They're quite hardy, but several days below freezing may have some for them, especially with the wind blowing them about.

DP at MAN now -13, humidity 34%. Lowest since when I wonder. There were some very dry days in the summer 2018, with DP of 6 when the air temp was 25. I remember there being no condensation on my beer from the fridge.

Still 0C here, was -4.5 overnight. On my morning exercise ride, I rode my bike straight across the top of the last puddle remaining from Christoph near the river. It's still a couple of inches deep so either frozen solid or thick enough to bear my weight.

Yes, if it wasn't for the wind it would be a lovely day out!

Same here, and there was bits of blue sky showing through this afternoon too.

It has been mostly dry here all day, at least only very light rain at times. Nothing enough to stop me getting my new raspberries planted in the garden. They were delivered Tuesday and I wanted to get them in before the ground froze. Job done, not time for a .

Going off the GFS ensembles, tomorrow night into Sunday looks best if it's snow you want. Very cold but dry thereafter.

OMG, locations are back on message headers on mobile. That will make tracking snow reports much easier.

I am not hoping for a repeat of 2018, we only got a dusting here. It looks jolly freezing in this photo though. In fact, I remember cycling up a street with drifting snow blowing past me, like in an Antarctic documentary.

Normal for Norfolk. In an easterly. Normal for here too. GFS ensembles look good, but I've seen that level of agreement a week out fail to materialize in the past.

It's a '6'. There are no zeroes anywhere else on the map. No snow gets no shading and no number at all.

Much as I love snow, it's not much use of we aren't allowed it to enjoy it. So let's keep disruptive events until next winter, the last thing we need is disruption to vaccine distribution.

Seconds out, round two. VID_20210123_105901.mp4 VID_20210123_105901.mp4

MEN reports that the Mersey was 2cm below overtopping. If true I'd say the snow saved us from that by delaying the injection of that water into the river.

The Mersey is dropping now, the sluice into Sale Waterpark basin is now closed. There's a convenient line on the riverbank showing how high it got last night.

It's an impossible job for the gritters, so wet and heavy. I imagine they're concentrating on the motorways. I just had a bike ride around Chorlton, the roads are very slushy, no problem with grip as my tyres just cut through to the tarmac no problem. All the puddles have already cooled enough to support a skin of slush from the fallen snow. The Mersey doesn't look any higher here than it did at 1515. Surreal standing on Jackson's Bridge with the water less than a metre below my feet, with snow all around and still falling gently. A once in a lifetime experience I think. https://youtu.be/dgMWwoQ5FXM

Not this snow, it's incredibly heavy and dense, I'd say another 10mm.

About 60mm here since this all started. The Sale Waterpark flood basin sluices are open, for the first time since the 90s according to the team on site there.

The Mersey in Chorlton/Sale at about 9 this morning. Jacksons Bridge Environment Agency staff preparing to open the sluice into Sale Water Park flood basin. Lower paths on the river walls flooded. At the Princess Road crossing