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You might think so but after a long and cold winter at this altitude we hope to have seen the last of the snow. Lovely spring-like day here apart from the temp which is just 2°C but might get up to 5 by this afternoon, but the sun is warm and the birds are a-courting so we'll be happy not to see winter again until December Fax charts have HP sat over UK out to 120hrs so any serious ppn seems unlikely.

No snow...no show ? We had a couple of hefty snow showers this afternoon but nothing stuck and it's snowing now in fact. I expect to see some snow tomorrow but it won't stick. The temp here seems to have flat-lined at just under 2°C. Winter seems to have worn itself out and is only just keeping Spring at bay.

From my sailing days in the area I seem to recall the incoming tidal flow along the south coast is west to east and the wind on the north side of this low will be east to west so there ought to be a dampening effect on the tidal surge...but then I'm guessing too :lol:

I find XCWeather useful in tracking this low in Spain and France, http://www.xcweather.co.uk/ES/observations http://www.xcweather.co.uk/FR/observations - the French view also includes the south coast of England. According to the pressure overlay the centre of the low is just north of Asturias. Yes the Gascogne Buoy is quite close to the centre.

We had a few snow flurries in the past hour. Tomorrow looks more promising according to the BBC forecast although with temps at around 2°C for the next 36 hours I doubt it will settle except on very high ground where temps could stay around zero.

Sleet turned to snow here about 0950 - variable intensity and sticking well to grass but not hard surfaces. Won't be surprised if it reverts to sleet or rain later. xcweather forecasting snow for Sunday - the first day of Spring

Nothing spectacular here - about 3cm overnight but I don't know if it did turn to rain as I went to bed at 2330. Fairly rapid thaw now underway in a thick fog. Will be interesting to see if we get a return to the cold air but I suspect we're at winter's end. No complaints though - it's been a very good winter up here in the hills and many years since we needed a farmer to come over and dig us out with his JCB. BBC are suggesting serious gales for the weekend but mainly in the south of England,...I hope ! - it's like living in the Falklands up here in windy weather. :lol:

We're in the 'gap' at the moment. I'm not going out to check my thermometer but at Buxton it's been a steady -0.7°C since about 1800 although the DP has been slowly rising, now up to -3.9° from about -8.0° this afternoon. Guesstimate of accumulation since 1645 is 2cm. More to come according to the radar but the big question is will it turn to rain before dawn ? Hopefully the back edge will clear before it does.

Three bands of ppn at the moment - perhaps the first two will merge as they move north ?

First flakes here...very light but definitely snow. Temp at 1630 was back down to zero after a high today of just 1.5°C

Appreciate what you're saying but I tend to focus on very local conditions. We have still a good covering of lying snow which I expect will not melt very much today - a fresh easterly that will keep temps down, it only briefly hit 2°C yesterday. With weather arriving from the S or SW I tend to use the weather station at Buxton as an indicator of our situation - it's at the same height as we are and without any urban influence. http://www.buxtonweather.co.uk/ My only accessible ppn forecast is the NW free GFS chart which has this for 0300 tomorrrow but I know that's not a promise

A deep band of snow arriving S Yorks around 2100 tonight. Carol K was offering the same this morning but suggesting it would turn to rain on the back edge. Not conditions I would like to be caught in on the Mortimer road...although we use the Sugworth road to Bamford - it's less of a switch-back around Agden and is used as a shortcut to the A57 by the Sheffield based gritters so is often cleared when other minor roads are ignored. I'll be surprised if it does turn to rain here given the elevation and time of day.

Very quiet on here tonight....suppose everyone is chewing the charts in anticipation of tomorrow evening ? We're supposed to be visiting friends in Bamford tomorrow evening but after seeing the forecast by Rob Mcelwee I doubt we'll go; don't fancy coming home across Strines Moor in driving snow.

An all too brief affair but it was good to see so many who usually miss the snow get a nice dumping. Sunshine here...and very fine snow. Temp is up to 1.0°C from -4.0°C at some time during the night. No frost under the snow so there must have been a fair bit of latent heat in the ground from yesterday's sunshine. Snow depth generally between 8 and 9cm.

Very thin snow from 0600 to 0700 but has been moderate occasionally heavy since then. About 4cm deep so far but more to come - can see the back edge of the band on postcode zoom in NW radar so perhaps another hour or so to go. Temp here -2°C. News 24 forecaster suggesting snow tomorrow may come as far north as South Yorks. Birds in the garden are frantic but there's no point putting stuff down for them - it would be covered over within minutes.

You would get fed up of shovelling the stuff....at least I do when there's fresh snow every day but I've got a plastic shovel now so it's not such hard work. Temp here is -3°C, I wonder how low it will go before the ppn rolls in.

Snow looks certain. If you can actually get to Stocksbridge in the morning I'd forget about going up on the moors. You can do a nice round walk to Langsett reservoir by sticking to the lanes.

It all sounds very encouraging for an interesting week ahead. Noticed that Met Office now have advisories out for Sunday and Wednesday... http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/yh/yh_forecast_warnings.html On Wednesday the ppn has "the potential to give accumulations of more than 15 cm of fresh snow in places." I also noticed that http://www.xcweather.co.uk/ is showing continuous snowfall from 2100 Tuesday through to 0600 Thursday for Emley Moor. Could this be a little OTT ? :lol:

Can I breath out now ? :blink: eumetsat suggests you'll get hit. http://www.sat24.com/

I think you'll get lucky tonight gobby....as far as snow goes anyway

About the same as we had in High Bradfield.

Just short of an inch here, soft powdery snow lying on a thin layer of frozen snow; everything very pretty in the sunshine this morning.

There is quite a large hole in the ppn between York and Nottingham, but the snow should continue in many places as the LP system drifts eastwards. http://www.sat24.com/ @ NCC1701. Our first child was born in the winter of 1962/63 - a memorable winter that was

The ppn now seems to be fragmenting with holes appearing in the radar echo all over the place. Still snowing here but don't expect it to last much longer. To be followed by a frost in the small hours according to the BBC so it could be an interesting commute tomorrow for those who still have to....thankfully I'm long retired Next episode Sat/Sunday ??

I can't see where the heavy snow is coming from on the radar - it all looks very light stuff to me. It could though last for a few hours yet and give perhaps 2-3cm in some places. Accumulation here is about 1cm so far.