russwirral

Im in bromborough and its really white here, more than a slight dusting. Im near plymyard. Id say 1cm-2cm

-5*c here... penetrating everything

good detail Chris, appreciated

its a good point and to be fair the adult in me, does not think the same as the childhood urges. So when it snowed here yesterday I was glad it just got on with melting, as I always seem to think its magical, but the reality is I cant do much when it snows. Im the type of person who likes to do alot, Golf, run, fish, mountain walk etc. So usually when it snows, theres a realisation the day after that i can do none of these things. The point you make about big disruptive snow, ive only seen deep snow (ie 6") once or twice and that was when i was a kid. I spent the days off school sledging and goofing about in the snow. I wouldnt do any of those things currently - i might go for a walk to the pub to see it everywhere but thats it. So the reality is, perhaps I dont want the snow, I just want the event. Purely becuase they dont happen very often. Its a rare extreme. Same as wind and rain. Im facinated by the numbers and how big they can be in whatever theyre measured, but it quickly becomes inconvenient when reality of life returns. Ill still love the snow and cold. But id love to have the event, and quickly crack on with things i like.

The NW have really done well out of this, we had the snow, and now we have the sun. The south have had none of either Today they have all the cloud from the thing they could have had. very hard to take that.

just checked y weather station and can see it only went sub zero about 90 mins ago and continues to fall. Has been around 2/3*c all night

Remarkably dry here in Wirral. Had alot of ran/Sleet before i went to bed about 12 ish. Was expecting an ice rink, and whilst it was icey this morning and cars were encased in ice. The floor seems relatively dry and ice free. Must have evaporated quickly under the dryer colder air

remember everyones Combi Boilers stopped working because of the frozen drain pipes. There were videos shared widely where you had to pour boiling water over the pipe and the boiler kicked back into life.

Heavy sleet on wirral. Big fat flakes mixed in. Temp is rather high at 3.5*c

Arpege has showers into Merseyside by end of the day tomorrow,

yeh - temps are going to drop like a stone. Will be awful out there.

overnight, immediately after the rain clears.

I think AROME nailed this, totals were very accurate, radar echoes looked spot on too

Aye - this has turned into a much bigger event than i was expecting. we got just over an inch, maybe an inch and a half, which would sit quite high up the top 10 snowfalls for the last say 15 yrs?

Keeping an eye on this LP to the north, its meant to be making its way through Scotland currently, but from the Radar it looks to be about 100 miles further south hitting NW England.

About3cm here

Still pouring down with snow. Womt be long before theres 1cm cover. We dont normally get snow showers in these setups, this is rare. Bit of a surprise this.

I reckon north of liverpool towards manc will do well from this. Already white. Decent flakes.

Getting heavier acrually maybe up to a 6/10

Moderate snow everywhere going white

Low dewpoint, big gap between air temp and dew point

Im.sure the video forecast is on youtube. I remember the event well, ive got photos from Liverpool. It was carnage. Buses couldnt get out the tunnel. I had to go and rescue my brother from the top of Erskine street, he had been stuck in the car for several hours on ice in traffic jams with no food or drink. It was his birthday and a 30 min drive home took us over 10hrs. Probably the last disruptive snow spell i can remember around here. Photos Liverpool Jan 5th - Google Photos PHOTOS.APP.GOO.GL 14 new items added to shared album

Northwales radar looks healthy

AROME sets up a large streamer over northern Lancashire If correct this could be similar to the event in Dec for Cumbria

AROME is the model for this afternoon Much more enhanced features for tonight, and makes much more of it going into tomorrow too