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We had a couple of inches down here last night, quite a bit still left. Hoping this stuff makes it for breakfast time. Colder air is undercutting behind so timing might be helpful after the freeze tonight. Glad to see there are some snow reports coming in. My folks like in Yarm and family across the NE, including Consett.

Seems to be turning more SE. Might even clip Northampton. Evidence of some showery bits forming outside of that which May give a flurry here. Though I'm still hanging my hat on the stuff moving southwards. Favorable conditions, minus 0.8C, dewpoint -2.2C my weather station says.

My comment was tongue in cheek but you never see ad-hoc weather warnings from the MetO overnight. You certainly won't see them on weekend. It's only us sad individuals in the small hours now casting.

The current fun and games might clip west Northants. Andy must be excited radar watching in Oxford. But for me the action is coming down from the North. Good freeze here with some leftover snow, and colder air will be undercutting as it moves south for very early breakfast time. I think it will be snow rather than the sleet MetOffice has us down for. Their forecast last night was way off. Civil servants you see, will have clocked off and someone might pop in late morning (tongue in cheek, but before the BGS got an automated earthquake detection system in place, it was often the bloke going in for weekend cover that was the first to know about, by which time there was a SKY TV team already outside - Folkestone earthquake 2006. I was doing some research with them.)

Do you think mid-south Lincs should be absorbed into a separate East Mids thread? Midlands thread is too big and general. Market Deeping/Stamford is only 25 miles NE of here and Peterborough even closer, yet we could be posting in 3 separate regional discussions with people over a hundred miles away!

It's eyes to the precipitation leaving the Scottish Borders and developing in Northern England for the East Midlanders 4-8am.

Yes it is. Same government region and same European MEPs. North Lincs is the Yorkshire and Humberside region (even though Humberside doesn't exist as as a county anymore - either returned to the East Riding of Yorks or unitary authorities of North Lincs (I.e. Sbad wordhorpe) and NE Lincs (I.e. Grimsby). So Lincoln is 16 miles from Newark, even Stamford which is 25 miles from here would technically fall under the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire thread. So what does the weather in Stamford have in common with the weather in NW Yorkshire when weather watching 150 miles apart?!

Because the weather in the East Midlands can be very different to the weather in the West Midlands and the Welsh Borderlands. Lincolnshire is in the East Midlands region, not Yorkshire and Humberside and the weather is more consistent with that.

I probably wouldn't class Oxford as the Midlands, but it probably shares it's weather with some areas that are such as south Warks and south Northants. For here I look towards Oxford for stuff spreading in from the SW on the radar with confidence, or Leicester from the NW or Peterborough from the NE. You can always tell you're in grey zone if you get two lots of regional TV. We get Anglia/Look East and Central/East Mids today. But Nottingham is a hell of lot nearer than Norwich!

It's the stuff over SE Scotland sinking southward which brings the threat very early breakfast time I thought. Never anticipated the showers from the north west to ever make it here.

It's been mentioned many times before but I really do think we need separate regional threads for the West and East Midlands. If there were to be an East Midlands thread I would take Lincolnshire out of the Yorkshire one. Then it would more accurately represent the government boundaries which the Met Office use. Whilst places like Glossop are in the East Midlands, it is near Manchester etc so I know it will never be perfect. But the Midlands is too big for a single thread. I know you have to define a border somewhere, which is why I check the SE/East Anglia thread to see what people from nearby places like Peterborough and North Beds are posting.

Thought the GFS 12z and 18z modelled last nights precipitation well. I viewed the 18z whilst stuck on the plane after landing at Heathrow for 50 minutes as there we no buses forthcoming to take us to the terminal! Arrived home after midnight to a covering from earlier showers, then awoke to about 3-5cm depending on the surface. Outskirts of town and in the village my son goes to school a consistent 5-6cm cover, 8cm in the fields. Due to a jack knifes lorry on the A6 just south of Rushden, not only did the 13 minute trip to school in Thurleigh took me 1hr 45 minutes it was then another 45 minutes into Bedford. There was still about 5cm about 3 miles north of Bedford but once in the centre only about 1cm. On the way home still a good cover in the fields out in the sticks despite the thaw. Anyway most lying snow here since March 2013, mostly thawed in the town centre, grass in the back garden still has about 2cm, which has frozen up now. Complete pain this morning.

Took me nearly 2 and half hours to drive into work, dropping my son off on the way. 15 miles, including the school drop in a village on my way. Left at 7.40, arrived work 10.10. There was an inch of snow though once upto the outskirts of town at 100m more like two inches. I just got back from Norway at midnight. Pathetic what happens to the roads and drivers.

For what it's worth I'm in Oslo and it rained all day only turning to wet snow after dark. It is only settling on the remains of previous snowfalls!

Sod's law it'll be raining in Oslo Wednesday and snowing here.

My mistake it is the BBC south-east news and Kaddy-Lee who is a proper meteorologist. Baby pics on Facebook shared by my mate. Must still be on Mat leave.I haven't seem him for 10 years despite Facebook. Only worked out his wife was her when he posted a clip of banter with the news presenters commenting on her bump.

Weather girl crushes eh? My flat mate at Lancaster University many years ago is now married to the weather presenter on BBC London, just had a kid. But he is some sort of internet security millionaire has lots of flash cars etc etc. so that's how.

Torrential rain here. And what irritates me further as we have had no lying snow in these parts so far this winter, after last week's disappointment, I thought "we'll I'm off to Oslo on Tuesday for 3 days, so surely will see snow". A few days ago it looked good. Now, even on Thursday it looks marginal, in Oslo. I'm cursing my luck. If I see no snow there I've got another bite at the cherry as off to Calgary in Canada last week of February (this is all work related, not a choice - rather snow on my doorstep). But the way this is going they'll be an early Chinook wind and it will 20 degrees.

Yes I wouldn't hold your breath for anything settling here. I'm from NE Yorkshire originally and miss the heavy snow showers pushing off the North Sea. That said they don't do so well from frontal snow as the Pennines tend to kill it off. It is trying again to turn from sleet to snow here.

I think what you can see from the radar is that the bands pushing up from the SW are beginning to merge as the low starts to slide SSE. There is no chance of any lying snow here unless things become a bit more organised during the small hours. All the showers here have started off as Sleet and only turn to wet snow in the heavier bursts due to evaporative cooling so the thermometer is up and down like a yoyo. If only it were a degree or so colder...

Wet snow in Rushden finally.

Beforehand with freezing fog and dull conditions I'm expecting snow grains. Whether anything of significance makes It I don't know.

I'm from the NE, in laws live not far away from you in Standish. The weather is taking the jaffa cakes literally tonight. I need to understand why the ingredients are there yet it is rain. As member 500 or so of netweather and years of model watching I was expecting the showers to be on the wintery side. Bit snow starved here. I keep promising my five year old son some snow, but it's all dog biscuits.

Well that was 80% rain. Dewpoint is 1C so expecting a better wintry mix. Grr.

I have the pleasure of announcing.... A sleety shower.