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51 minutes ago, northwestsnow said:

I honestly dont know how i got all them snowy setups in my younger days, this part of the UK is utterly garbage- even North westerlies are bobbins for me and thee.

If Carol Kirkwood is right about sunday i think im close to giving up on this winter.

You've just forgotten about all those times it didn't snow, and believe me there are lots of them

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The same people once again making the same complaints about weather warnings.

Warning are not guarantees of snow in your backyard, over night something changed, clearly the temps didn't drop away as expected, but there wasa risk of snow and ice hence the warning.
 

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You have to laugh at the greater manchester sized gap in the ppn on the radar. Then again the Met office app downgradrd last night so was expected.

A few flakrs of snow blowing in the wind still

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2 minutes ago, prolongedSnowLover said:

Should eventually get colder uppers from Scandinavia once high retrogresses towards Iceland opening a Northerly blast

Classic retrogression, but it ain't quite right (for the UK at least)

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Hmmmmm Easterly (Not cold) but south East Europe is having an early spring.

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192 ---> 210 

Atlantic can only go under as shown in the two charts above,

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Is the low going south east?

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6 minutes ago, shaky said:

Really quiet in here right now!!nothing WOW has developed on this run i assume aswell then?!!!if its better than the 06z i happily take it!!

Atlantic digging further south. Its a change at least,,,, Possibility of some snow on the northern edge dependant of the track

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So what has happened to the heavy rain today?

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15 minutes ago, Summer Sun said:

GFS 06z gives temps of 13c for some for a very short period

Quite a temperature contrast 

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Maybe a few bans will stop some of you behaving like children.
@Paul

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A pretty wintry forecast by the Met Office for my location, remove today and saturday afternoon and it wouldn't be far off a winter wonderland.

 

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Just now, nick sussex said:

OMG this GFS run is going to get the cold in much more quickly .

Digging upstream trough and the high heading ne ahead of it.

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As above you can see the Jet has really dug south compared to earlier Runs.

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Is the Rain over the Irish sea tomorrows front?

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21 minutes ago, Chris.R said:

 The initial front will be rain but the post frontal showers will be in -9 850s so I think that should be good enough even for the coast. 

" Ice will be the main hazard across Northern England and Wales."

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It's gone darker here, not as much sunlight getting through.

Might turn everything icy, it will once we get to sunset

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3 minutes ago, captaincroc said:

-1 degrees here but the snizzle is only settling on minimal areas. Really confused as thought it would stick everywhere due to being below freezing??

Clouds are think and enougth solar input to make surface like roads and paths warm slightly.

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1 minute ago, itsnowjoke said:

What's coming down is not sticking it's just making the ground wet 

Temps starting to get above freezing now and with the snow being light it won't stick.

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The temp was below freezing last night no frost due to the dryness of the air. 

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1 minute ago, Backtrack said:

It’s decaying, but this thing is expected to clear the south coast. The met office were going for a spell of heavy snow at one point. Wind direction tells me that the Irish Sea will have something to say about the weakness tho. Let’s see

Some heavy echos still out at sea. 

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2 minutes ago, Backtrack said:

I don’t believe dandruff was in the forecast 

It really was..... It is  a decaying front afterall.

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Just now, Backtrack said:

Unless this picks up it’s gonna be a bust. 

Typical we finally get the cold air and precipitation, but it’s the lightest most pathetic excuse of an Atlantic front ever. 

What you have is what was forecast.... Only a bust if you think it was going to be something worse than it is.

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Tuned heavy here now, looks like the showers have pepped up ahead of the front which is till over blackpool.

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Light snow here now.