[Coldest minima recordings season 22-23]

Lowest here in Heswall, Wirral so far in this spell is -1.3C

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-0.7C here in Heswall, very icy underfoot though. Slight breeze from SSE. Still a bit of snowcover in parts

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11 minutes ago, russwirral said:

Quite an odd day for our location yesterday. Started off with some snow that lasted about 20 mins, then stopped, then came back on and off, then turned to heavy rain. Im in Bromborough about 5 k from the river. Meanwhile friends over in heswall and Irby it was smashing it down. As it happened we then travelled to a kids birthday party in Irby. Theyd had about 3" of the stuff. Roads were full and very difficult to drive on.  Then headed back to rockferry and they had a similar story to bromborough, a little bit of snow on th grass and car windscreens and roofs. Raining. Such different conditions over say a 10km stretch. The temp was actually colder in bromborough.

My back garden vs irby

Yep it was really intense for a time. There has been some melting overnight, I suspect most of the cover will be gone by afternoon if the sun makes an appearance 

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25 minutes ago, Weather-history said:

Weird convective activity at times 

The Isle of Man blob, if you run the loop, looks as though it develops a tentacle to grab onto the streamer  

"The streaming squid"

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Throwing it down with snow now. Fresh covering already. Eerily still and quiet too

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Snow mixing with rain now. Its quite marginal right now

Edit: now rain

I think its down to intensity for sure by the coast

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The cell that delivered the lightning has moved over and its now snowing here. This could last a while!

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Interesting, this storm is just stuck in the Irish sea and not moving, it must be the relatively warm sea temperatures fuelling it. Its definitely sea affect precipitation though

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Make that a full on raging thunderstorm in the distance!

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I'm hearing thunder from somewhere this morning!

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Rain is quickly melting any remaining snow as dewpoint are now firmly above 0C

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if it keeps raining, it will eventually melt the ice on the ground if it stays cloudy, because the rain isn't really supercooled, it's just slightly above 0C. 

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A breeze hads picked up behind the showers and it's absolutely bitter. Still slushy out there

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Going between wet snow and rain, a slushy, nasty covering. 

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We have graupel type snowy hail here... finally white!

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Heavy rain now, extremely dark to the east.

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Just now, Backtrack said:

Big flakes. Proper snow 

You forgot to prefix 'BOOM!' 

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3 minutes ago, Day 10 said:

Bit lighter now...

Excuse the palm tree

That tree looks confused.

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Still sunny, but also raining lightly. We may get some hail if lucky but it is 5C

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1 minute ago, Day 10 said:

It's on you doorstep mate...

It's become quite heavy there, we will see!

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5 minutes ago, Day 10 said:

Real thick layer down, temp is plummeting! Everywhere proper white, yesssss at long last something that resembles Winter here!

Wow its just sunshine here!

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48 minutes ago, russwirral said:

Thats nuts you escaped the frost.  We got to -5*c in Bromborough.  Proper white everything.  We are only say 4 miles away from you as the crow flies.

 

Saw that shower this morning from a distance, we didnt get it, but it was that lovely grey/ivory colour cloud that is just snow.

The moderate height is what does it. Plus being by the river. On the other hand we tend to do better for snow here due to the moderate height.

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I actually got rain from that shower before, surprisingly.

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Not much frost again this morning, currently slightly above 0C but there is shower incoming and it will probably be of snow

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I wonder if we might get some snow or showers this morning, though the temperature is borderline right now under clear skies. Currently 0.0C, dewpoint of -0.8C, let's hope that cloud doesn't raise both too much.

Minimum was early on in the evening at -1.0C, and after a rise in the middle of the night it went down to -0.8C overnight but recovered recently..  maybe cloudcover.