Frosty the Snowman

A covering of a cm to an inch or so I imagine. Impressive more for the fact it's somewhere between the 10th and 15th snow day this year than depth. Seems to be doing it's best to rain on it since I woke up around 5 though with a good old 'wintry mix' Looking a radar it looks like just in wrong place, and wrong side of marginal for anything disruptive, snow to both north, south and east, should be impressive if shortlived totals further east and high up though!

Tbf they go ape at any met o posts posted in there. If you want to slide them in they need to be a throwaeay comment in a primarily mod related post.

I think there's a good metereology reason but I don't know it myself. Closer to lose will often be lower asl though so might be more that Tbf with the mets track record I'd be jumping for joy and feinting with surprise if I actually got 8 hours of snow but it points in the right direction I can't see your height above sea as on phone but think someone in Chorley had 60m down, that and 200m will be completely different

Your lower in elevation and closer to the coast?

Seen some videos of that phenomenal. Storm is currently somewhere near the west coast of America, I imagine the Atlantic would kill it on the way here. Anyway just looked on MetO - if it comes up this may be the biggest late upgrade I've seen gone from an hour or two of snow and a hour of rain and sleety from 3am to 7am to 8 hours of snow with 5 of those heavy snow from 2am to 10am.

Interesting met office has me down for sleet overnight, BBC down for snow and accuweather for snow. Guess it's early night now and get up around 4am to see what's falling.

With our snow events always correcting south it would only be fair if this dumping over Scotland did a southwards shuffle.

Worth keeping an eye on. Worst time of day for it to arrive though.

Is the weekend a right off now then, with everybody looking at Tuesday?

Wouldn't be horrendous and was accurate last week, could do with a northward correction imby

Tell me if it's there on Monday night

As I think we cleared up by PM it mainly seems to be an elevation issue, which makes sense on rain to snow as it turned more quickly and some of the more marginal shows over the days after might have stayed as snow rather than rain lower down (which makes sense a few was forecast 200m+). But yup this weekend looks like yet another snow event sinking south and leaving us with nothing. I think the issue is that most of us are not going to care if this sinks south and stays of rain, it's the frequency of these sinking south and ending up as decent snowfalls for the midlands that is utterly grating. I didn't live here in Feb 96 (and wouldn't be old enough to remember it) but youtube makes think I'd love it - what direction did that come from?

This is weird, I'm not even a millions miles from you up near the town centre - 30-40m more elevation admittedly. I think I've just been lucky with the marginal and showery events then. That said there was reasonable snow in the park down at 100m asl a couple of times, bizzarre. It's not been historic snow, but there's been several days where it's snowed for hours and hours on end and as said once had a total of 4-5 inches here - including half thawed snow from the previous event on the grass admittedly. I found that 27 December to 10/12th January people remarkable in that there was some snow on the ground each day, which is unusual for this area.

Are you still talking about the snow. What's your height above sea level? I can only assume you live at a much lower one, or the complete opposite end of town to me and managed to miss some of the heavier snowfalls recently. Was somewhere between 4 and 5 inches anyway.

What you on about? There was 5 or so inches of snow here a few weeks ago and snow on the ground for about 10-15 day with 3-4 separate snow events last week in December first two weeks in January. Anything we get after that is a bonus. Been a great January for this town. No huge dumping but not shabby at all.

If I read 'mainly in Wales and the West Midlands' on one more snow forecast

That'll finish with a northern extent around Birmingham then?

I knew you'd be discussing this, we've been have a similar conversation up north threads about southerly corrections. It'd be nice if it didn't but that looks great for the midlands south.

Weekend looks promising.

I'd have moved to Blackburn by now if I was you.... I've only been here a few years, and seen 4-6 inches several times. I was in the North East for 2009/10 and 2010/11 - both of which were knocking on or over a foot of snow, 2013 was less impressive over there but still a decent fall.

It's so frustrating. I'd probably not move down there on account of it as we tend to get more snow in general play as it were, but they do seem to a) get deeper snow when they do get a good event and b) do really well with these sort of events. It feels crappy to moan when we've had the snowiest month I can remember since moving here, or actually since 2010/11 anywhere I've lived, but that 6-8 inch+ snow fall - which is what I class as a significant event, just seems to allude us.

Your snow totals make some depressing read in your signature. How the hell did you manage less than 10cm in 09/10, 10/11 and 12/13

The latter. Snow is the compensation for cold weather.

Well the pigeons seem to like this cold drizzle and thawed snow, even if none of us are.

Yup, I did a reverse Shearer Always found it a tad odd Blackburn bothered to name a road after him round here, and we settled for the statue. He might get a stand named after him one day though, either if we move stadiums (highly unlikely) or he carks it - tbh I'd advocate renaming East or Leazes after him.