Cymro

Are there no other countries in the Uk bar England?

Of course because only a handful of people live in Wales(South East Wales is home to over 60% of the population of Wales, over 1.4 million people……give me strength! There’s nothing worse than London centric arrogance!

Wintry showers today, snow above 350m generally on the Bannau

-27 Braemar -24 Sennybridge

Very icy out there mix of hail and snow accumilated on most surfaces, rather surprised to see the temperature so low early on!

great post here’s the native and official name of Point Barrow ‘Utqiaġvik’

5.4 and 89mm

Can we all just agree that easterlies are boring for Wales 90% of the time? Roll on a late winter northerly or north westerly. Who wants boring old easterlies?

Are you sure you haven’t had frosts? Remember the air is dry so might not be visible but that doesn’t mean it’s not below freezing. My garden has been frozen solid and hasn’t once thawed since Sunday. A noteable cold spell but not for snow but constant low temperatures. This is pretty standard affair for easterlies in Wales IMO. But much better than rain and mild mush!

Is it at all possible that the all time Scottish record minima could be in danger tonight?

Judging by the Metoffice recent antics with amber warnings for dustings in England I wouldn't be surprised that we have no warning and a foot level snow. They just don't get Wales topography and population centres one bit within their warning system, it's one of the worst warning systems I have come across.

I may have sounded like scrooge a week ago but I’m not surprised or disappointed one bit as I expect nothing less from a boring easterly other than cold crisp days and dandruf. Don’t get pulled into the hype of the Mod thread where easterlies are concerned, bring me a Northwesterly any day!

Snap yr un peth fan hyn! Digon o eira mân ‘eddi ed! Ditto, plenty of fine snow today as well!

Jay, how long have you been a member of this forum? You should know by now that nothing is a done deal when it comes to the weather in Wales until atleast half an hour after it’s happened

Very persistent snizzle here most of the day, not amounting to much but more than I was expecting on the West side of the beacons!

Can we all agree one thing? For the sake of sanity? Automated weather app forecasts are about as useful as Gareth Davies’ kick last minutes of yesterday’s game against ireland. Don’t worry about them they are hopeless!

Lovely sunny weather today. I did try and lower expectations of snow here because easterlies are on the whole poor for Wales if snow is what you’re after! I see no reason to get excited for snow this week and any breakdown is being either pushed back or too progressive bringing rain.

It's a lot colder today than forecast, we have had heavy wet snow all morning with a temp of 1.9 degrees. Today was forecast to reach 6 degrees. I hope tonight's snow pushes further West because i firmly believe it will fall as snow to low levels once the cold air get's dragged with it and over takes it. It's cold already with showers off an Irish Sea (jst shows wat knocking two degrees of the Irish Sea (thanks to a cold Jan) has done. Works wonders.

We have heavy Wet snow falling this morning which was a nice surprise. Hopefully the precipitation tonight is further West than forecast, will keep me happy then, otherwise it will be quite a boring cold spell. Having snow cover could really help us hit record breaking cold minima, without it, it's impossible.

Paid a becso Jay I wouldn't take much notice of the Met Office automated forecasts, Last Sunday is case in point! Ignore them, they are meaningless 12 hours out let alone almost a whole week!

The talk of breakdown Thursday/Friday - which is great for prolonging the cold as it was Tuesday/Wednesday for disruptive snow moving in from the South West - but what that also mean is any meaningful snow cover (more than 10cm) isn't really evident in Wales for a good 7 days + and as I said yesterday this will be pushed back continuously. What we need is a slight northerly feed to the air stream even for a window of around 24 hours, enough to get showers across Wales. Happy to have an easterly then until the cows come home, it's long lasting snow cover I crave not depth of snow. It's really frustrating knowing that we will miss out on the opportunity of long lasting snow cover if it pans out like this, because once we have snow, the milder air will slowly dislodge the colder air and we will not have that lovely snowy spell. I know I'm being very IMBY because I really dislike easterlies (Apart from the Sunny weather element).

This is exactly the point I have been trying to hammer home. There's so much hype with easterlies and they do bring some of the coldest air but they almost always keep Wales dry. It's frustrating because if we were to get snow coverage this weekend it would have almost certainly lasted on the ground a week and brought notable cold nights. This is exactly why easterlies bore me!

A word of caution, snow charts far out re my point yesterday don't get hung up on them but as I also indicated LPs will get pushed further south as the cold air becomes entrenched leaving us mostly dry. Don't expect much snow in Wales (by much I mean 10cm+) for at least the next 5/7 days after that your guess is as good as mine. I'm just looking forward to blue skies and crisp dry weather with the odd fluttering flurry anything more is a bonus. Don't get sucked into the London centric media hype over this cold spell or disappointment will soon kick in.

As in a week this Sunday? I've seen the ECM charts they look tasty but will absolutely change before then so try to manage expectations. It seems to me that there will be snow but perhaps not the battleground frontal snow we want due to the colder air being further south. I wouldn't bank on them even reaching Wales in the next 10 days. But I'm happy with dry and cold for now and hope I'm wrong about the snow but past experience has taught me not to get on the smowmaggedon express those in the East of England are currently riding, Wales rarely does well on a whole from a convective easterly,

I don't think it will go down quite as memorable in Wales simply because it will remain mostly dry.