That shower is what we need tonight. I bet that thing would drop 2-3 inches its slow moving. Its looking likely the showers will spread south when the winds change later
I give it a 3. That spell in December does't happen often and was very cold. Then January had a spell. Both were relatively snowless though. Then this spell.
Some very slow moving showers in N. Northumberland. Hope the activity will move south. Still could get lucky later. I bet they would give a fair covering
Looking better. This is a nowcast situation. I can recall many situations where we were due heavy falls and it either was south in the Midlands or too far North into Scotland. And it was literally hours before the event before it became apparent.
GFS backing away from 100% snow chance at the coast and bringing in the reds. All the way from Thurs into Fri. You really need cold air for snow near the coast (10 miles) with an easterly wind
If you rewind the radar and watch back, you can see the wind curvature pulling any showers away from you and not even hitting N. Yorks. Northumberland/tyneside were favoured. You can thank the LP for that