cyclonic happiness

Just like I said a couple of days ago, the weather is finding more and more imaginative ways to avoid snow over this part of the Midlands. Although we had a soft hail shower earlier.....maybe that could count as this year's snow?

Don't worry, you can't call snow 3 hours away, let alone 3 days, it will not be bone dry.

Ziltch here, even though we were getting the showers, I guess it was just too wet. Well, I wonder what weird and imaginative ways the snow will find to miss us next week? :-D

Someone said thundersnow in Nuneaton??

Snowed heavily but didn't settle, too wet, looking at the next band it's 100% snow and not sleet, so it should do the business. And seeing how the blob over Coventry just developed on the spot, I'm hopeful of a good covering by morning :-)

Heavy snow here and blustery winds, not settling as it's very, very wet snow

It'll move about all over the place like Boxing day's did. Just watch the radar and lamp posts tomorrow. It'll probably end up giving the damn south east a ton and we stay in the dry spot again! lol

yes, the front with a good squall on it is almost here. Fun times ahead this week. Looks like the weather might actually do something interesting for once.

The NW snow risk maps are still showing plenty of scope for snow, not much has changed. Don't worry until the day :-)

I hope this comes off, images like these are really starting to peeve me off :-( Saudi Arabia http://www.burnews.com/news/2015/01/09/%D8%AA%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%82%D8%B7-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AB%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AC-%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%89-%D8%AA%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%83-%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%81-%D8%B5%D9%88%D8%B1-%D9%88%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%88

Had an hour of sleety snow which covered for around 30 minutes then melted, whereas 40 miles north had brilliant snow (27th dec 2014) Here was the other period of snow on feb the 11th last year, this didn't stick either :-(

As it is, we could get a covering of snow that sticks on wednesday and then melts on thursday? The thought of a whole day where we can play and walk and photograph in the snow, fills me with the most amazing sense of joy imaginable after what we've all been through the past 2 years :-D

Everyone is missing my point. When you watch the precipitation maps of Europe, fronts, showers, troughs, all have no problem moving across the continent , whereas the precipitation hits the low mountains of Wales here and died at the Welsh border, and forget northerlies for this area. So are the computers programmed with greater accuracy around the British isles , or are the Midlands just in the most unfortunate place in Europe?

Last night was actually 'interesting' in as much as I enjoyed the temps shooting up to almost 16'c, made me long form the summer and spring all the more. The latest models do not show anything for my area of note, even the snow isn't 'safe snow' (snow that doesn't melt a few hours later) I'd rather not bother at all, it just makes me sad watching what might have been. Still, we have 1.5 months left of winter and 1947 was very late and that was preceded by a stupidly warm spell.

just seen your signature and folk think that the Midlands doesn't get the most boring weather in the whole country!

Nice to see Jordan and Israel are doing much better for snow than 1000 miles north in the Midlands. I seriously think I'm starting to go mad!! ><

So you're saying lower mountain ranges on an island surrounded by a sea, have greater rain shadow than a continent with mountains 3 times higher?

The other thing I can't get my head around is how, if you watch the precipitation maps on meteociel or whoever, the centre of England is in the biggest rain shadow in Europe. It's like the fack that countries either side of the 10,000+ Alps are getting plenty of precipitation and yet we, the wettest part of Europe as an island, are in the most effective rain shadow of the 2,500ft Cambrian mountains. So, when a front approaches us bearing snow, it all gets dumped over Wales and fizzles out over the Midlands, then goes over the channel to France and peps up again, then crosses the Alps and is absolutely fine dumping tons of snow over the Eastern Block.

The moan is about the fact that I used to love the severity and variability of the weather in the 80s and 90s which is lacking now, also this is a moaning thread and I need to let off steam every now and then (who knows, might lead to convection and then thunderstorms and snow) :-D

I'll admit, the only weather of note are thunderstorms, but we only had I think two the whole of last year. There was a summer in around 2000 where we must have had at least 20. You do see alot of tornado activity around here during storms, I've got photos of 3 myself, and Nuneaton area always seems to get tornadoes lol. But that doesn't excuse the 95% of the rest of the year where the mono-weather happens.

I said in my comment before that it was in my area of the UK not the whole UK quote "where I live you'd marvel at the lack of weather".

We have sash windows and telegraph wires too. The resonance would not have changed so much in 30 years that it would prevent the wires howling, the whole road is 130 years old and on top of a hill, so that wouldn't have changed that much. Nope, the weather just is less violent than it used to be HERE.

The West Country is not the Midlands.

So basically you're saying that everywhere else has more violent and interesting weather than the most central town in the country? North Wales, Somerset, Dawlish are all on the coast, you move 20 miles inland and the wind will go from 90mph to 50mph, then go 100 miles inland, it'll be 30mph

Ok, a good example. When I was young in the 80s and 90s there were some really vicious wind storms about, the kind where you had to hang on to things like fences and had a genuine fear of being blown away or into the road etc. But the main thing I remember is the noise, I'd open the front door and the telegraph wires would be almost screaming in the wind. This happened ever year at least once or twice. I've not heard that noise since around the early 90s in this street or any one around here, which suggests that the weather is less violent, less varied and just less damn interesting than it was back then. It's not about hot and cold, it's about variety and extremes, and our weather is the least extreme it's been here for as long as I can remember (38 years old). That is what is frustrating me, not the lack of cold. I'd sell my granny for a spell of normal 'exciting' weather :-P