Frosty the Snowman
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Just now, SnowWatcher2 said:
Lets hope Saturday stays this way, we need it after this performance.
Let's see how the rest of today goes before writing off this event.
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5 minutes ago, Spah1 said:
It couldn’t reach, could it???
It's got this far, just started. So quite possibly will get to you.
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12 minutes ago, Hairy Celt said:
We were being taught in metric from the first year primary in the mid 60s so you have to be pretty ancient (or uneducated?) not to know what a cm looks like!
And the conversion rate of inches to cms was still being taught as a refresher when I left school 5 decades later.
You'd need to pretty young not to be able to do the conversions in your head
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Covering here this morning. Nice sight to wake up to.
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3 minutes ago, Geordiesnow said:
Suspect that would cause the same issue tbh. Our best set ups is probably a big low over us with proper cold air wrapped around it giving persistent snow.
Of course a trough does help aswell I bet. That said Carlisle got battered with snow in 2018 so perhaps the dry air issue is probably more of issue with stratuscumulus, if/when we get proper convective cloud, that might not be an issue? As I said, the radar may look full of it but reading the other threads, I suspect not everything showing is reaching the ground.
Wrong choice of words, I mean the front of the low for the end of the week from the west. A trough feature spring up somewhere would nice though. I think we got one at some point in 2018 but it was so windy nothing settled - however that could have been early 2019.
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3 minutes ago, Geordiesnow said:
PPN evaporating before reaching the ground, the air is just going to be too dry on the western side of the Pennines I think.
Can't bring the front in quick enough then.....
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6 minutes ago, Thunder Snow said:
Really in carlisle nope nothing at all a few flurries on the wind
Well if that ain't a clue to go to sleep and stop staring at the bloody radar nothing is.
Looked like you were on western edge of a proper streamer few hours back
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2 minutes ago, Thunder Snow said:
Well think I'm going to call it a night the showers just ain't reaching here
Radar suggest you should buried by now though?
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Another complete let down then, really thought I'd have seen some real snow by now rather than dandruff.
Up early tomorrow to see if outs falling overnight then, Easterlies are dung.
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7 minutes ago, damianslaw said:
Sara Blizzard on BBC news (great surname!), said first time she had heard of snow streamers in her 22 years of forecasting - where has she been for 22 years? Take it she means she has never had to use the word streamer in any forecast, but anyone with an interest in meteorology should have heard of the term you would think.
Looks like a streamer will develop to affect possibly SE parts of the region - looks more of a Humber to S Derbyshire affair.
Further north could see showers band together in lines through tomorrow. As ever a day of radar watching.
Today though has been very underwhelming, the flurries representing the never ending adverts you used to have to watch before the film started on the cinema screen!
She's a weather presenter rather than a meteorologist at least going by her wiki and Twitter (the ones who are both tend to be quite prissy about making the point they are both).
Pretty sure they used to just call them 'bands of showers' on telly.
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1 minute ago, winterof79 said:
And I can't see it either
It's not anything you could class a streamer, just more coastal instability than you might expect being fed from the southern low.
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Looks like the instability to the south and that instability to the north are trying to get together....
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3 minutes ago, Joe Bloggs said:
I must have imagined all those pictures of huge snow drifts just outside Rochdale in 2018 .
I don’t think anyone is trying to “spin” anything btw , that’s a bit of an unfair dig IMO.
To be fair an event like this is probably one of those where Lancashire should be split from Greater Manchester and Cheshire.
There awful here. Bloody awful.
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2 minutes ago, Joe Bloggs said:
Yeah my app has upgraded too if anything. Lots of heavy snow symbols for East Manchester for tomorrow morning, I’d suggest UKV looks good.
I wouldn’t worry about the fax chart.
Downgraded here, quite clear the apps have this further south
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2 minutes ago, Mark88 said:
Sara blizzard just did a right ramp on bbc northwest weather.
Wouldn't expect any less
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3 minutes ago, J-Man said:
As the low pressure, now over NW France, moves away it will allow the unstable air to our north (currently circled in your pic) to move south and allow the north sea to create convective showers which will be pushed in on the easterly wind.
Edit: misread your post, seems your adding to my point.
It was an oversimplified picture for someone asking what to look at on the radar, all they needed to know was their looking for the same level of instability off the coast of NE England.
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5 minutes ago, Vee89 said:
Trying to keep the hope here.. although rather wishing I hadn’t told my 6 year old it was coming, must have been asked 100 times.
Fairly new to looking at radar, can anyone tell me what I’m looking for.. at the minute just looking at what’s over us at the moment.
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Intensity now ramping up just below Scarborough - could be the start of something of any interest rather than this fluff we've had all day
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2 minutes ago, SnowWatcher2 said:
Even if that was to reach us - its not going to do much at them rates, currently dandruff falling here bring on tomorrow...
Look North - some more potency beginning to fall in in the North East - as far South as Durham, should keep sinking this afternoon/overnight.
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23 minutes ago, iand61 said:
Seems to be a few prams losing toys in the SE thread at the moment.
for Christ sake it’s a good job they don’t live in this region where even a threat of nothing is usually downgraded.
meanwhile my persistent fall of snow continues, it’s the white frozen version of the type of rain that wouldn’t even stop the cricket but it’s better than nowt.
Even for most of them, the real interest was after the front cleared.
I think that stuffs beginning to make it this far west, dandruff+
Seems to be more persistent though, and definitely more life in the radar.
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Seems to be some intermittent dandruff making it across here.
Surely if showers this light can get this far west, question marks over whether actual snow showers can tonight into tomorrow are moot.
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Looks as though that band over Kent is finally on the retreat which should open up the North Sea for business as the afternoon progresses.
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4 minutes ago, frosty ground said:
Noy every winter this happens
Looks Great!
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North West Regional Discussion Feb 2021 onwards
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Cat and Fiddle starting to look good.