Chris Smith
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That Durham cluster is just passing through here now. -
Shh! It's headed straight for NickR.
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Intense cells that are barely a mile across aren't really what I had in mind. I'm eyeing those 10km wide cells over Scotland with envy. Yes. I have cell envy.
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Considering the veritable barrage of convection coming ashore - it's frankly amazing how little snow there's been.
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You know, I kind of had that impression, but thought it might just be me.
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The wrong type of snow - Wikipedia EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG
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Gotta make the most of 'em though, they blow through real quick!
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I'm new to cold spells in the North, having moved from East Anglia, where the typical North Sea experience is usually much like it is here today - lots of scattered cells, long spells of sunshine between, and plenty of soft hail as well as snow. It sounds like you folks who've lived here much longer than me were expecting something else?
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Just the luck of the draw, isn't it? Open cell convection - lots of gaps between cells. It would need some form of organisation for a more general distribution.
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Thundersnow in Humberside.
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I have no idea of the physics of it, but if you've ever experience lake-effect snow in the US, you'll be familiar with the banding; leading to some places having sunshine, whilst two miles down the road it's a round the clock white-out. Just the way it works I guess.
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Raining now, here at the 100m contour. Cracking beast so far!
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Esh, as viewed from Langley Park.
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The transition zone is very narrow again this morning. The bottom of the field up the bank opposite is green, the top is white. The rooftops on the top of the bank are all white, but not down here in the valley.
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Snowing at the 100m contour, not settling. I can see the roofs turning white at the top of the bank in front (220m).
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All the wintry action is further north at the moment, and forecasts for later in the week just look fictional.
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If that's headed down the North Sea, that's going to create some nasty sea surges down the East Coast.
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After moving here from the flatlands, it was new to me just how narrow the snow/rain transition is - especially when DPs are high. As I mentioned yesterday I'm at 100m and face a bank that tops out at 220m. On more than one occasion, I've seen the bottom of the field on the side of the bank green, when the top was white - it's that narrow, likely only about 50m. Which is why you get such mixed reports over roughly the same area.
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Could be we're pulling some warmer air off the sea as the onshore breeze develops to the North of the low developing over the Midlands? Areas favoured for snow all look to be West of the A1. Anyway, we have a decent covering here at the 100m contour, NW of Durham. Pretty wet, sticky snow mind - wouldn't take much to switch it to rain.
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Newcastle airport reporting freezing rain. Do they have de-icing equipment there? Flying home from Minneapolis one year, it was -5 and pouring with rain. It took bloody ages to queue up for and then get the aircraft de-iced.
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Update from the 100m contour; been for the lunchtime lockdown walk. I guess it's what my mum would have called "Frozen rain" as opposed to "Freezing rain". Is there a size limit to graupel? If not, then it's that - but some of the "stones" are quite large. Anyway - they look like frozen raindrops. It's settling, because last night's frost never left the ground.
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Best of both worlds - I get to move about easily down here, and if I want a snow-fix, I just walk up the hill! If I'm feeling intrepid, I'll stick the studded tyres on the mountain bike and ride up to Tow Law or Consett.
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Although I live at the 100m contour, I'm right next to a hill that goes up to 220m - so I can often measure the snow line by how far up the bank the green fields turn to white :). The opposite side of the valley is higher, but I can't see that from here - and usually in these marginal conditions, it's in the cloud anyway.
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Sleety rain now, at the 100m contour.
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It's a very sharp edge to the cloud canopy - it's lightly snowing here, but I can see the edge of the cloud sheet to the East. West of the Pennines seems to be freezing rain.
