Derbyshire_snow

Yep everything goes around us I would love to know why the hell hardly anything tracks overhead.

Guaranteed they either go west over the Peaks or just to the East of Rother Valley it is so frustrating.

I went up yesterday morning they had put the majority of it out the media sensationalised it as usual claiming it was Lady Canning Plantation and for those who know the area many will refer to the woods full of pine trees as LCP and from the reports they made it sound like it was the actual woods that had gone up. But in reality it was the heather above LCP that had caught fire near to Ox Stones that spread across the moorland. I think it is only by luck we had a cool easterly wind and cool tempretures and the wind direction pushing the fire away from the plantation. Had the wind been westerly and had we had the heat we had last summer the whole wood could have gone. Thankfully the damage is far less severe than it could have been.

Wild fire at Lady Canning Plantation and Ox Stones above Sheffield on Derbyshire border the wind is whipping the flames up and moving across the moorland. 20230531_005942.mp4 20230531_010339.mp4

You should try living in some parts of Sheffield storms seem to go North East South and West of us I have never known a place like it. It is so frustrating to say the least.

Having a laugh now everything is going 10-15 miles to the east yet again. I don't know what it is with Sheffield but the storms seems to go north east south and West of here it drives me up the wall.

I have witnessed Snow in Sheffield in May a few times can't remember the year exactly but mid 90s I think it was when we had a dumping of Snow in Sheffield that was quite memorable I was only young at time.

How are the roads coping I have to travel on the A1/A19 later.

As I am sure many Sheffielders will allude to we tend to get big falls of snow or none at all It is not very often we get just dustings of snow. The fall of snow we just had surely has to be a record for length of snowfall too must have easily been 28-30 hours none stop snowfall in the Southern half of Sheffield/North Derbyshire. Had this event taken place in late November early December like 2010 I reckon many parts would have come close to surpassing it. But what put pay to the chances of that was the lack of intensity of the snow for periods in the day which lead to thaws of the laying snow. I am sure those with more knowledge than can give a better explanation but I think it is the length of daylight and ground temperatures that played a big part in us not seeing falls that we experienced in 2010. One thing is for sure we must have the most extreme differences in weather pf any English city. You can go from 1 part of Sheffield and there be no snow and be pouring down with rain and then you could travel to another part of the city and it be a raging blizzard and a ft of snow. 2010 was something else though and totally different set up we got stuck under a persistent streamer and ended up with 2ft in places yet places 15-20 mile either side got a fraction of that. It would be interesting to know if there is a scientific reasoning for it rather than if being luck of the draw.

Yes at Owler bar it is.

As I said yesterday evening I wouldn't have been surprised with the highest parts of Sheffield reporting 50cm+ and Lodge Moor has 50cm level snow. I suspect it is close to 2ft at top Ringinglow which is a further 120m higher up.

That is from Gleadless in Sheffield near Norton Water tower.

Lowedges, Greenhill, Norton top of Herdings looks like they have hit around 40cm Thats a friends photo from Greenhill around 40cm and seen photos from Lowedges that show the same. I would hazard a guess Owler Bar Ringinglow will be 50cm+ Owler bar was shut overnight as blowing snow blocked the road and road up to Ringinglow goes above 400m and usually a good big deeper.

Someone had posted a pic from top of Derbyshire Lane in Sheffield with close to 40cm of snow.

From a friend in a higher part of Sheffield looks like between 30-40cm easily.

Current view been snowing here non stop for 26+ hours

Looked out the window and my car is stuck ain't going anywhere fast the roads are all blocked here all buses cancelled too.

Looking at the Winking man cam people won't be going anywhere anytime soon the road is completely buried in blowing snow.

It is mad we have a ft plus now and Blizzards and looking at webcams in the peaks roads are literally buried the A53 winking man shows the road is completely buried under blowing snow too it is unbelievable

Yep it is being whipped up big time there are reports of 40cm in the highest parts of Sheffield.

The same has hit here on Sheffield border we have a foot of snow now madness.

I would not like to be near any rivers after this could easily end up with 40cm+ here and a definite flood risk after.

Wow I fell asleep and woke up and the snow has gone into to. Overdrive full on blizzard out there I cleared snow off the patio chairs about 8pm yesterday evening and there is about 20cm fresh on that. I would say there is easily a foot of snow out there now here in Dronfield definitely was an Amber warning. Another thing to note is power/phone cables caked in snow wouldn't be suprised if many are brought down.

Just go up top of Lickey Hills for your snowfix plenty up there so I hear.

Yeah it is real noticeable the wind has really ramped up and the windchill is vile felt like - 6 according to the app it was horrid. This is certainly an even for the history books here.