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There's another covection line coming in behind but it's dying... in fact everything coming from the west now it's dying as it's lost all it's energy.

Amazing how everything has greened up with heavy rain earlier

No just might rain... the main cell just avoided here but saw the liggtning

Huge flash of lightning before.. amazing line of cbs

This may be the latest I've seen trees in an unresponsive state. I've never seen trees without new leaves here in late April. There could be a lot of damage if we get an early cold winter. It looks exactly as it did in January

copious amounts of hazy mist.... it might just be haze to be honest.. the pollution in the troposphere must be awful today. Looks like India rather than UK.

No snow here... some light drizzle shower before, but the welsh hills got pasted by something before.

Has a short period of wet sleety snow this morning, then it quickly turned to rain, and that's what we've had since.

buggery hell its snowing/sleeting in mid Wirral. Well I never. .. Not settled though yet

Still light rain, showery nature here at 100m asl

Still light rain, showery nature here at 100m asl

oh niceee I wonder what it's like on the other side of the Dee here, I can only imagine it's snowing around Halkyn/Pen y Ball - I may see white hills tomorrow from here

still rain here, quite gusty too, feeling colder but quite high humidity as well

gee torrential rain and strong winds

I think Diane is waving her conductor stick around..

heavier rain now.. it looks like rain too!

height (ie getting taller), demonstrating happy tendencies

it's not snow, it's very fine drizzle, which can look like snow in certain situations

very definitely rain here but it's very light anyway, doesn't feel that cold.

Here is a question.. Here in the picture below is a palm tree taken in Wirral about an hour ago. This is a subtropical palm tree, of course because, as you are aware, Wirral has a subtropical climate (no brainer really). The question is: Will this palm, after all the rain tonight and tomorrow grow; 1) 1cm 2) 2cm 3) 5cm 4) The size of a house

haha I think you must be as fed up as we are from seeing little snow ;-) Light rain here and fairly mild, currently 5.6C

Metoffice suggests this, as ice is included in the warning, and doesn't necessarily limit it to inland, and besides, ice generally won't occur dangerously where freshly laid snow is, but it will be dangerous where the ground is wet, or snow is melting on impact, and undergoing the process of settling.

epic adventure for penguins who had to waddle their way over the equator to get to this frozen barren wasteland. The alternative, is what you just mention, except Wirral who will champion the growing of coconut palms, and tropical Yuccas.

If we look at the warning and analyse it closely, you get the sense that actually, the Met-office may well be concerned that snow could cause disruption to low levels too. The first wording they use is "Not currently expected to be disruptive at low level areas in most places".. this suggests actually yes there is a risk of heavy significant snow even down to low levels but it's too early to say, as it may change.. if they issue an amber warning, they may also alter the yellow warning for low areas, or perhaps, even include some low lying areas in the amber warning as they say "in some places" too, perhaps meaning..some low levels areas could see significant snow.. though at this current time, it is not expected. The warning also says that lying snow could occur almost anywhere even at low levels, though here, amounts will be fairly small at 1-2cm. They also say it could be localised - which ties in well with the previous statement. However they do say that the snowline will retreat during the day, as it will get milder - and places like Mid-Wales and West Midlands have been removed off the warning, so it is going to be further north than expected.

Snowdon is going to be buried.