The Calm before the Storm

Just had a couple of heavy snow showers in Lichfield. The radar looks promising for the next few hours. Fingers crossed!!

Snowing heavily in Lichfield now for 30 mins. Good covering on all surfaces!

Snowing moderately in Lichfield. Yay!!

Hi. I'm looking for the member list but can't find it. I want to search for a member whose name I can't remember but I'll know it when I see it! How do I do this now? Cheers. P.S. Also really liking the Christmas skin!

Snowing here in Lichfield. Great news as I thought it would start as rain/sleet. Bodes well for later!

Hi PG. Yes I agree! I'm sure we'll both remember this in years to come! (If I forget - please remind me!) TCBTS

Enjoy Blizzards!!! Still coming down here moderately. TCBST

Still snowing here moderately. Had 12.5cm on friday which had reduced to 9.5cm this morning on settling/thawing yesterday. Now we're up to 14cm depth and that's excluding snow melt so fantastic! One delighted snow fan!!! TCBST

12cm of level snow here on the patio table, much deeper on the grass though (not measured). Snow has eased a bit but still moderate. Radar not looking so good now as earlier. Still really pleased with the amount though. Roads around Lichfield gridlocked! TCBTS

Great isn't it!? Now 9cm level snow on our patio table. That radar sweet spot hasn't moved from over us for an hour or so now. Best snow for years!! Yayyyyy! TCBTS

Been snowing heavily in Lichfield since 9am and now it's a complete whiteout, big flakes as well. Just measured the snow depth and it's 7cm. Eldest daughters school is closing at 10.45am. Best snowfall since Dec 2010! Bring it on! Looking at the radar we're right in the sweet spot. Fantastic! TCBTS

Today should really help keep the CET suppressed if our coniditions here in South Staffs are replicated elsewhere. Currently the mean here for today should come in at around -7c, a truly remarkable figure. What would be really interesting would be if we could go the entire month without a single daily CET exceeding 5.1c (monthly average CET for Dec). Now that WOULD be impressive!! Might be worth a flutter.

Let's hope so as this winter has given us nothing so far. The Lichfield snow shield has scuppered our chances yet again!! :lol:

You called??!! Light rain here. Temps falling away. Only rained lightly since midday so if it does snow heavily it should settle ok.

I'm reasonably confident that I'll see a good spell of snow from this but I'm hoping that I don't get too much rain beforehand. My location could be quite good in this kind of setup. According to the 06z GFS by 6.00pm the precipitation should be falling as snow. Fingers crossed! The Peak District could get a pasting from this as well. Got a nice covering of snow yesterday evening which gives me confidence that this will be just the right side of marginal.