Richard Lake

Can't wait to see the next chart.

@craigers Wow really, in Grimsby/Immingham we got absolutely pasted today.... I thought Donny would be less marginal for the white stuff?! Guess not.

Well I am very pleased today's snowfall, I didn't expect anywhere near as much as we got, at first it looked like diddly squat after 2 hours of wet-not-settling-snow until finally it got heavier and then began settling fast. In total must be around the 6 inch mark, Another 12 inches and we'll be at the Nov 30 Dec 2010 level - bring it! Lol am a greedy bugger!

Hello, Okay this really is starting to get on my wick now... please relabel the PREV button < and the NEXT button > ... the way you have it set up atm is not very intuitive - I keep hitting the damn >> button.

Radio 2 just reported the above... haha... old news... it just ain't going to happen anymore as far as the UK is concerned.

Morning, well that was a great surprise to wake up to this morning! After hours of rain last night with not a snowflake in sight what is this I see!? Didn't expect a dusting of snow here at all at all.

In reply to the OP. Absolutely not! However, I guess the mass populace has considered it already as we live in a country of wimps.

Was a tiny covering here last night in Immingham, settling on the main roads and cars, very marginal though, top end of Pelham Road was covered in hail/snow on entering the town at just gone midnight thanks to an intense hail/snow shower. As I reached the other end (less than a mile up the road). Very odd to see weather like this a) at this time of the year and B) this close to the coast.

Apparently according to the NW homepage - the temperature in both Norwich and 'Leeds and Bradford' is 0C right now - how accurate is this? Is this dense fog causing an Inversion? As for my location its being dense fog here all day (and yesterday) and it seems to be getting thicker still.

Anyone seen the netweather homepage, if you click Lowest Temperatures you seen Leeds and Bradford, and Norwich Weather Centre both at 0C at 17:48 - how accurate is that? Is the dense fog here (and presumably there) causing an Inversion?

All I can say this early on is a merely an observation, the Unisys SST anomaly map available in the Data Centre is in negative terrority very early on in the season in comparison to recent years since joining this board. For me, and my location this is very good news as they can only go lower from now on in. As much as I like waching the potential for convective shower activity arising from steep gradients between the SSTs (epic 18" snowfall Nov 30th 2010 being a recent occurrence here in Northern Lincolnshire ) and the airmass - it unfortunately (again for my location) leads to riding the 'marginality rollercoaster' throughout the winter season.

I too saw this bright light on Friday night, at first it looked like one of them White 'flare' fireworks slowly moving across the sky above the dock tower, but as I watched it I quickly realised it was moving at a much quicker speed. It trailed across the sky for at least 30 seconds, breaking up as it was doing so, I noticed it passing above low-level cloud before apparently breaking up completely in the distance to the West. Being a smoker, I've seen many shooting stars over the years, a flitting glance at a meteorite entering the atmosphere and breaking up in the upper atmosphere almost immediately. In my view it must have been an exceptionally large meteorite, as it broke up extraordinarily slowly in several 'stages' as it passed through several layers of the atmosphere until it was no more.

I reckon that top temperature for 'Humberside' (where is that place never heard of it since 1996) on the front page is way out... I was in the car just an hour ago and it says it was 4C. Very cool for April.

Lol this thread is always good for a laugh

Continuing in the same vein as TEITS, what I typically see in recent winters is one snowfall event leaving us with snowcover for a few days and thats it. Take Dec 2010 or should I say Nov 31st, people keep quoting Dec for some reason, it was one major overnight snowfall which gave epic snowcover followed by 3 weeks of cold. I'd love to see the return of winters were it was 3-5 snow events in quick succession or spread out through the season - rather than just one event and thats all folks.

I'd say 3-5 cms has fallen this evening so far, 7-10cms in places where snow still lies from last Saturday. Wow the netweather server is really struggling this evening!

Nice depth here so far, however considering its been moderate snowfall for just over the last 3 hours I would have expected more. The snow seems to be rather wet, surfaces like paths aren't as snow covered as foreinstance grassy areas which are having no problems at all.

At the end of this great video which I enjoyed from the beginning to the end it mentions a part 2 'the evidence' - any sign of it on youtube or elsewhere? Would be a great watch as well I feel.

Yeah and its cloudy here now, perhaps this will lead to dense fog as suggested by Craigers above.

Clearly nowhere near as much as last year (1ft+) for my location. Roughly 6-8 cms here, perhaps 10cms at best where it has drifted. As for current conditions, the freezing fog lifted about 9.30am, where the sun is overhead the slow painful drip can be heard. Against the backdrop of winters over the last two decades or more this is the second year in a row that we have seen a significant fall. Global warming my a-r-s-e! My thoughts are now turning to the end of this week and beyond, winds look set to turn back to the east late on followed by a northerly of some kind. If I was a betting man, I'd bet that we will see more snow in the next two weeks, perhaps significantly more - the trend in the models certainly suggests this is possible.

I wonder when this system is expected to stall - seems to be passing on straight through clearing most of the UK by midnight.

And very windy almost blizzard like... not particularly large flakes though. I also get the impression that winds are coming from the east as opposed to the west :S

The overnight GFS still looks good enough to eat.

That seems to be it looking at the raintodar though. That big swirl to the NE of Middlesbrough looks tasty though... doesn't actually appear to be going anywhere.. just spinning lol

Hope so. Pretty light though, graupel. No big flakes or nothing.