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It's snowing in some parts of Sheffield, if you can call it snow. More like frozen Scotch mist in our neck of the woods, but it has managed to put a thin white blanket on everything. Temp is now back down to zero and we might get a single centimetre of lying snow out of this feature if it continues on it;s current track

Without downloading all the Google Earth gubbins, just go to the Earth Tools site http://www.earthtools.org/ select your location and zoom to it, then click on the 'height' button on the left panel

No point counting your chickens 'til they're hatched - do let us know what you do get (if anything :lol:)

I don't have anything but a max-min thermometer, but I've had it calibrated and it's properly sited out of the sun and protected from the wind. Just checked it and the temp is now 1°C - up from zero at 1045. The front does seem to have speeded up and is now showing snowfall west of Birmingham, and it isn't yet showing any inclination to veer off eastwards so it looks like an evening of radar/lamppost watching in store The 'Sheffield shield' doesn't affect us too badly - at 1100feet ASL we often get good snowfall when many nearby areas are marginal if not hopeless, and over the last few years have done reasonably well in spite of the generally mild winters; most years we have at least one snowfall in March as winter cocks it's leg on the way out.

Very picturesque here this morning with walls, trees, bushes etc plastered with a thick coat of icing and just over 1cm snow on the ground. We're still getting occasional flurries of snow but seem to be on the edge of showers heading up in to Lancashire. Temp has be stuck on 0°C since about 1500 yesterday, there is a slight thaw going on but it's probably the result of solar radiation penetrating the mist; not a breath of wind either, when it comes the snow falls vertically. @ NCC1701...all the BBC graphics I've seen suggest that tonight's front will slide off into the North Sea before it can impinge on South Yorks. I hope they're wrong of course but the MO FAX charts have been supporting what they're saying.

Radar echoes now light and patchy although there appear to be a couple more areas of ppn approaching S. Yorks. Clear skies behind so another frost here tonight. Accumulation here is little more than 1cm so far. All eyes now on tomorrow night's episode which looks to be confined to Lincs and Humberside, but on the BBC national forecast there was the suggestion that it might affect S. Yorks on the western margin.

It's been snowing here for about 30 mins but is very fine stuff and not very heavy either - bit like icing sugar. Still not showing as snow, or even sleet, on NW radar. Temp is still below zero and the frost is still heavy on the grass from early this morning. This could last until midnight and give a good covering here. As I type it's pepped up a bit - getting heavier but no big flakes yet.

Thursday's ppn looks like giving Lincolnshire a good helping of snow with a possible northern incursion to Humberside. http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/forecast/10209 OTOH it could track a little further NW.

That front that has been giving all the rain in the SE today is tracking back inland - there seems to have been some earlier uncertainty in the Meto office over where it would go. It seems now to be coming our way bringing some colder air with it. How kind Tomorrow's FAX chart http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/brack0.gif

We had a band of slight drizzle about an hour ago of which just a little was frozen. If NW radar ppn type is to be believed low lying eastern areas are getting snow from the same band and the dividing line between rain, sleet and snow seems to be moving gradually westwards. There is another band of ppn coming in from the west but I suspect that will be rain too. Temp here is +2.5°C, dew point at Buxton is +2.0°C - 30 minutes ago at Donnis Nook they were 1/-3 so definitely colder in the east.

Looks like the front stalls in an arc over the north sea with the SE under the bottom end and Scotland under the top. It shows up pretty well on the GFS UK PPN charts. Much of the UK will be in a dry zone.

According to NW radar the advance party of that ppn is already into Lancashire - snow falling over on the high ground east of Lancaster. We have two 5-day forecasts from the BBC today, one at 1150 and another at 1850, usually given by different forecasters.

January was 'interesting' to the west of Sheffield. We had to get a local farmer to dig us out with his JCB and one of the piles of snow he left is still a couple of feet high today. I'd like 10123 to be correct with his forecast - hopefully it will be confirmed on the Countryfile forecast tomorrow.

They don't normally turn out in this neck of the woods for a bit of frost, they might turn out for 20cm of snow....after they've done the bus routes in Sheffield.

About the same here. More snow perhaps tomorrow afternoon/evening according to the lovely Lisa (a real weather model), although there are lots of gritters around in our area tonight. Have the council been told something different ?

Damn ! - wrong again....it's just started snowing here

We've had some drizzly rain this morning so if it's rain at this altitude I'll be surprised if today's showers arrive as snow anywhere.

Monday's Fax chart looks 'busy' - any snow in there ? http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/brack4.gif

Another hefty shower here - everywhere white over again. Looks like the showers are dying out now north of the Wash The new radar is great...I can pinpoint the house on full zoom, postcode now redundant!

We had a covering from overnight showers and several further showers today but settled snow has melted in the sun even at this altitude. Accumulation in the deep shade is around 1cm. Temp is currently 0.5°C windchill I suppose about -4 or -5 °C. What's on the agenda for tomorrow ? Fax chart is showing a front across northern England - will it amount to anything significant ?

Another potent shower NW of Sheffield, - it's been snowing for about 30 mins with a little more to come according to the radar. The snow from this morning was mostly intact on the ground, I'm wondering now if I may need to break out my new plastic shovel in the morning.

Had a light dusting here in the last hour...temp is currently -1°C. Nice little streamer edging in just north of the Humber and according to NW radar some of these showers are making it into Lancashire.

Of course we should. I most enjoy changeable weather - a few days of wet and windy followed by a few days of calm and sunny...whatever the season. Too much of any single type quickly becomes boring <_<

Not too bothered about more snow - we've had our fair share already this winter. What would be welcome is some sunshine - is it too much to hope for from a relatively stable HP system ? Or would settle for sunshine and occasional wintry showers.