alr1970

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

Mersey shooting up again, now higher than its peak last week.

Stopped again here now, but it's what falls upstream that's interesting to me.

Depends how bad. Manchester usually falls flat at the least bit of snow, though it's a hilly place so it can vary over a couple of miles. But everywhere has its limits.

I think that's unlikely, we have the Environment Agency to issue flood warnings when it gets bad. Those are better focussed on the area at risk. There's no agency with overlapping responsibility for warnings about other extreme weather types in the same way as there is for rain (except perhaps health warnings for heat, but the MetO don't issue yellows for that).

It's been back and forth from Ukraine to Liverpool recently. I heard it yesterday, went right over our house, a very characteristic sound. I wonder what it's carrying?

The Trent level looks like this: whereas my local river, the Mersey looks like this: We always get a sharp peak like that, as the top of the catchment isn't very far east into Derbyshire, so it all drains out quickly. Most of the area of the Peak District drains to the East, and takes a lot longer to go down again. I'm guessing we'll get a challenge for the highest ever level some time on Wednesday, depending on how much of a rain shadow we get from Wales. That highest level is from the Xmas 2015 floods, I think.

It's still yesterday's warning, I expect an update before lunchtime.

I don't know if I posted these at the time. Trafford Park Centenary bridge deck being lifted a cm or so by the wind at lunchtime. Rolling waves on the Ship Canal The last HGV to not make to over Barton Bridge, on its side.

Yes! Barton and Thelwall were both shut. Took me my normal time to get home from Trafford Park to Chorlton. On my bike past solid stationary traffic the whole way.

Same here. Perhaps the wettest day since the Xmas 2015 floods?

All this lovely snow and no-one can go and enjoy it. Next winter is going to be so busy...

We were forecast 1c today, it topped out at 3c from a low of-3c. There's just enough frost left on the lawn for some of the snow to stick but hard surfaces are all wet.

I don't think I've ever seen an ensemble chart like this before. Remarkable agreement all the way. Not to say it's right, just in agreement with itself.

Stopped here now, without turning to rain. Another "better than all of last winter" covering. VID_20201229_092537.mp4 It is rather wet underfoot, like a March snowfall of years gone by I think it will melt by lunchtime.