paul tall

So about a cm or two then.

What an insane place Melbourne really is!

Well we only got a couple of cm fresh snow here in Newton Aycliffe. SErley's NEVER produce here, because we're juuuuuust south enough to be in the "rain shadow" of the N York moors with snow coming in on that trajectory. Normally places a few miles north like Spennymoor, Ferryhill, Durham just manage to get into the firing line while we get snizzle on the edge. Last night the radar was a horror show. So anyway, about 6cm lying, but the fresh stuff is very wet.

Snowing lightly here with a slight new dusting. The band of heavier stuff is edging westwards slowly.

It said potentially 30cm on the coast by the morning with County Durham missing out completely. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

Chomp.

Get a proper camera then.

Not being funny but can you desist from posting pics until you learn to post them the right way up?

I take it none of the people on here have looked at the Met Office site lately? It says light snow flurries tonight, light snow flurries tomorrow, and slight accumulations expected.

Look man, people on the coast are well known for lying about their snow accumulations, and the radar is obviously broken. On a serious note, SE airflow never delivers anything to Newton Aycliffe, Durham areas.

I just use the free 15 minute one on here, you can zoom in on your post code.

Are you 1 day old?

Nowt's happened?

How do we know that you haven't cut the first 9cm off your tape measure?

Tomorrow never comes. All you get is yesterdays that have already gone.

I hate south easterly flows. I need this to turn more easterly. Any chance?

Did you get your ice day then? Currently -0.9º here, which is the highest all day.

Ice day remains a possibility - we're under cloud so not too much fluctuation of the temperature, which peaked at -1.4º earlier, but has now slipped back to -1.7º at the time of day where the temperature usually rises.

No I was wrong. The first bad spell was in winter 09/10 which started in mid December 2009 and lasted until mid January 2010. I had something like 30 consecutive days of lying snow. The second bad spell was in winter 10/11, but also ended up being in 2010 too. It started on 25th November, with the snow depths being particularly deep from 29th November to 8th December. The snow that first arrived on 25th November was gone by 12th December, and then arrived again on 16th, lasting until 29th. So effectively the first bad winter was a solid month of snow mid December - mid January, and the second bad winter was the last week of November followed by a mostly snowbound December.

It's -3.7 here, yesterday at the same time it was below -5 yet the temperature peaked at 0.2, so I'd agree with you that an ice day looks unlikely - that said, no two days are ever the same.

The 2010 snow was the last week of November and right through December. If anything I'd say December is the optimum time for snow, especially if we're talking about keeping lying snow.

Must have been freezing fog deposits!

Has anybody had any snow overnight? I've just cleaned my car of 0.5cm of what looked like snow. And it seems to have been cloudy most of the night.

Well the heavy looking blob of snow headed for Newton Aycliffe dramatically weakened and thinned as it approached town, the heaviest stuff skirting to the south of town - so prospects look a bit better for Darlo getting heavier and more persistent snow. Net result here - 20 minutes of moderate wet snow that has now stopped, which added basically zero to the snow cover, other than a slushy mess on cars. Waste of time. Absolute waste of time.

Moderate snow now falling in Newton Aycliffe.