Flake news

Should start to hear the toads croaking this week.

Need a photo of a snowy moonlit Sycamore Gap, or else I don't believe you

Some proper snow showers in the north east this morning, very heavy and prolonged. Like an impressive final flourish at the end of an otherwise underwhelming fireworks display.

Yes the reality on the ground hasn't matched what a quick look at the charts would suggest. 15 years from now someone will browse the archives for this year and think "wow that must have been really cold and snowy", but the reality has been much less exciting.

I don't know if these posts are meant to be trolling, but I sense that the majority on here just want spring now too. 3 months of high anomalies to the north have struggled to produce anything properly memorable for much of the country.

Just popped in to hank you all for bringing the word 'graupel' into my life.

Underwhelmed by the North Sea snow showers this morning. if it's a 'machine' it's running well below capacity due to unresolved operational issues. Mornings getting lighter, spring suddenly feels in touching distance. A bit of warmth to ramp up the new year won't go amiss now.

But it's not nailed on, & for coldies it's absolutely *screaming* potential.

"And don't you eat that yellow snow..."

In a couple of weeks time the sun will begin to shine, the birds sing and the flowers bloom for you before the rest of us. Winter will become a distant memory and you'll wonder why the hell you ever wanted cold and wet slushy snow in the first place.

Well colder countries mandate winter tyres, some of the tyres are so effective they gouge the road up. Vaccine delivery vehicles will probably have winter tyres but that won't stop them getting stuck in queues behind those that don't.

...yet for all that I genuinely can't recall a single ice day all winter in my town (although to make up for it, I have had about 300% of the normal rainfall).

Even the Beast was at best slush on the beaches where I am

The twitter guys post NH charts of massive +anomalies to the north and then the up-to-date NWP promptly blasts out a 945mb storm to the NW of Scotland. Who to believe?

It makes me laugh how people sometimes post a chart from like t=+6h then just write "much better!". It's all very confusing sometimes.