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The rules don't say whether you can be sneaky and cover the snowman. Doing this effectively could probably make it last into April.

I would hardly call it a dumping! It's about a centimetre and not settling on all surfaces, it even looks like it's thawing on pavements. Anyway, the modern measure of a dumping is how many schools are closed!

See that nice gap in the precipitation between the south midlands and west Wales? That's got our name on it hahaha!

No, overwhelmingly they don't, which is the shown in the article I linked to. The only disagreement is on forums like this where people don't want to believe the evidence.

But then what if you don't accept the science? That's the problem.

Not at all - read the article and you will see that percentage response rate is normal - being a scientific journal even this assertion is referenced.

That's a tired and cliched, if not scandalous, get out. In any case, only 5% were climate scientists, the rest were involved in related physical sciences. Thus it appears La Bise has a fair point and the most vociferous and possibly entrenched and ill-informed arguments are taking place on forums such as this. QED

3146 were polled, 30.7% response rate. Here is the article from the journal, EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union. http://tigger.uic.edu/~pdoran/012009_Doran_final.pdf

I've been at the Climatic Research Unit and Hadley Centre and can actually confirm that there is a lot of debate going on about AGW, and although there is indeed a consensus that humans are probably at least partly to blame, the science, indeed, is not as settled as various media sources would have us believe (one way or the other!) The question of perception is an interesting one, as highlighted recently on wunderground. Polls in the US showed that 42% of Americans believe that - "there is a lot of disagreement among climate scientists about whether human activities are a major cause" of global warming". When the question was asked of the weather underground community, a group like here which one might expect to be more aware of the issues and have a fair share of 'meteo geeks', the percentage was higher at 56%. However, 82% of all scientists questioned, and fully 97% of the climate scientists who regularly publish on climate change agreed with the statement, "human activity is a significant contributing factor in changing mean global temperatures". http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMaste...l?entrynum=1184 Thus it appears La Bise has a fair point and the most vociferous and possibly entrenched and ill-informed arguments are taking place on forums such as this.

Light flurries here now, but now above freezing and not sticking where melted. Same old, same old.

Haha, still missing Warrington, awesome! The consolation is that the GFS is hinting that the NW chances improve later and continue through the week, whereas the SE may well be milder later on.

Some quite high freezing levels heading up the eastern side.

The forecast is for it to be mostly up the eastern side of the country, but the charts suggest that it should affect the NW too. I guess it may depend on the interplay with the Pennines as we have already seen.

I meant rain from the east, like may happen in summer when you hope it will be dry and sunny. Anyway, nice and sunny now, drip drip drip.

As the air crosses the Pennines and descends in your area it is enough to stop the convection and precipitation - same here in Warrington. Funnily enough, rain clouds seem to make it over the hills intact.

Your dustbin collection looks very pretty in the snow.

Pah, I can see blue sky in Warrington. The little snow there is could be mostly gone by dinner time at this rate haha!

Hoho, two lanes closed on the M6 in Cheshire.......because a lorry has shed a load of fridges! That should help lower the temperatures and help the settling! Interestingly, webcams show not much snow at Cat & Fiddle or down in Leek, and reading other area threads it has been very hit an miss.

Away from high ground I very much doubt it will stay totally unthawed all week.

Well exactly as I forecast Warrington area has naff-all, half an inch or thereabouts. Nuisance value only.

Well I could probably count the individual snow flakes that have settled in Warrington, there's so few they're in danger of evaporating.

I'm not being funny but that is ridiculous, those roads have clearly not been gritted. There's been ample warning and the snow is not that bad.

There should be a NO thread :lol:

How about naked ladies in the snow? D'oh too slow!!

The BBC national forecast map nearly always pans round this area without mentioning it!