Gray-Wolf

We went to Chester Zoo on my Son & my Birthday (March 18th) in either 04' or 05' & that was a 21c day! (next year was Fereeezing!!!!)

Those sat behind the barricades are truly 'dickless'.......explains a lot to me!

Well the Calder Valley shower has turned the paths/roads white again! We too appear to have more potential upwind but I suppose this forecast change in wind direction might skewer that if it's earlier rather than later tonight? It will be interesting to see if any new shower also show an 'Orographic Tweak' just before they arrive?

Just looking at the NetW 'precipitype' Radar of the next shower inbound and , once clear of the M1 & before Leeds, it began to intensify? It has kept on for a couple of frames as it passed Leeds and over Bradford....

My 'MetO' rainfall radar is down? The off shore appears to be back on the NetW radar though?

Don't you know it!!!

Well its still BLOODY COLD out there and I've got to walk the Mutt!!!! 1/2 hr 'till it all goes live!......do I want a shower in my face for 1/2 the walk? (as the wind blows!) Maybe I do!!!

I daren't look in my feed direction any more! Whatever arrives arrives.....end of!!!

The last ones main pulse kept over Cragg.....I even wondered if it'd pop a flash & rumble it looked so dark? The stuff coming in over Scarborough/Brid looks pretty angry? That'll be here in 2 and a bot Hours I reckon?

Our last shower here hit at 4:45ppm At 3:30 it was a diddy thing completely inside the York Ring road Before it hit Leeds it had grown and really put on a spurt by Bradford giving us a good layer By the time it was through there was a bigger blob over the ring road headed our way I make it's eta 5:45pm!!! I wonder if this one flares some reds on the meto radar when it reaches Bradford? Behind that it looks like near constant precipitation?

Looking at NetW radar this shower did seem to undergo some 'intensification' as it approached Leeds? These slopes giving our showers a bit of a boost from here on in I wonder?

Big Shower arriving in the upper Calder Valley.... EDIT: Is there such a thing as a 'Snow Devil'? (like a 'dust devil but of snow?) as once just ripped through the Car Park out back!!!

Anyone else noted that, after all that rain yesterday, surface are now bone dry?

Until those colder uppers arrive nothing is getting beyond Leeds down line of that coming in from the coast? Maybe beyond midnight we might see that start to change?

Our monitor is not used to the new channels potential so we keep getting forecast spikes way, way above that which we actually see? Anyone east of the works in the upper Calder watch out! We're shipping tonnages of water like you could not imagine!! But you will become used to!

Annnnd back to snow.....

Back to rain here? Must still be rate of precipitation swinging the snow in when its coming down hard enough? But it's coming! I'm not walking the dog 'till its here!!!! (he had a 'splash & dash earlier so we're good!)

Turning here in ''Royd (100 or so ABSL?) Take the Dog in an hour.....it'll be pure snow and settling by then I reckon?

I think you need remember that the first ice lost is cork in a very large bottle of bubbly? It may need the blunt tool of 'temperature' alone to melt it/remove it but once it's gone? But the vast majority of the next phase of losses will be gravity driven and not need temp's help at all? Though 'small', as a percentage of the total mass of contents , that there cork needs be removed before the real action can begin? As we advance in our understanding of 'glaciation/de-glaciation' I've met with some head slapping realisations about just how rapidly an ice sheet can destabilize/disappear? Just remove those corks eh?

The run up the A65 was full of road flooding/field flooding Got home and our new channel only just touched 2m...well below the 'low level land might flood' river height! Thank you E.U.! I can rest easy in my bed again now!!!

Well, over 200m was a white out around 1pm and though the road conditions had eased on the return (5pm) it was still snowing above 200m (ish)

Beggar! Hills above Hebden (Midgley Moor) turning white & we've not set off yet!!!

teabag! I've got to get to Hellifield & back before it turns to snow!!!

Running the gauntlet tomorrow as we need to drop F.I.L.'s shopping off up in N. Yorks borders (up the A65?) We aim to be home by 6pm but I wince every little shift west that the late afternoon snow forecasts make!

Most of us will just and up 'radar watching' on the day will we not? The fact that WE WILL have conditions across our region demanding that anything falling out of the sky will be snow is surely enough isn't it? (sorry for those bang on the coast as yours might be wet stuff?)