Thundery wintry showers

I didn't update for the last five days. Conditions for Lancaster on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday: Dull and drizzly. Max 9C, min 7C. Thursday: Similar, but became extremely foggy, and got up to 10C. Friday: Dull and drizzly. Max of 11C. However, at last, it's now chucking it down with rain, which suggests to me that the front bringing the relief from the dampness and drizzle is now upon us. Temperature dropping quite a bit as well.

Sorry to aggravate anyone, but I'm noticing the slight deviance from the topic of "snow reports". (PS I deleted the posts that had no relevance to snow reports, hope that's alright with everyone)

There are some remarkable Cb clouds drifting to the west and south of Lancaster. The sun is casting orange/red/pink effects on the clouds. With temperatures of 5C and white trails in the coluds, it's a safe bet that hail, sleet, snow or some combination of the three is falling from them. Now all we need is for the wind to get an increased westerly component, and there could then be fun. Can't see it happening though, at least not before the clouds die away.

I don't see why they're thick enough to do that, since although in the short term they increase their wages, in the long term they lose wages as a result of people dying and their relatives and friends claiming compensation. "Sustainable development"? "Long-term thinking"? What are they? In the meantime I can report that Sunderland & South Shields had nothing more than sleet last night.

Apparently the North East had a similar predicament to New Year's Eve, with snow falling and settling from about Newcastle westwards, and sleet on the east coast.

Temperature fell to 3C, but now warming up, with sleet turning back to rain.

Rain has turned to sleet in Lancaster. Similar mix, really, it "feels" like cold rain, but if you observe the precipitation, the rain is actually mixed with melting snowflakes.

There was allegedly some torrential rain and hail in Lancaster between 2.30 and 4.30 pm, on an otherwise uneventful day. With the temp falling to 3.4C, I suspect there was probably sleet or wet snow as well. I was indoors, away from windows and hence the weather, for just 2 hours today. 2:30 to 4:30pm. :evil:

Steady temperature of 5C here in Lancaster, with short-lived hail showers. Past experience tells me that if we have any really heavy, prolonged hail (or sleet)showers the temperature is likely to fall to around 3C, given that my location is being warmed by winds off the Irish Sea, but at the moment the showers are too short to have an impact.

I know what you mean. Also if you have a shower cloud and precipitation can be seen coming from the base of the cloud, it can look like a tornado.

Sleety rain here too. The shower started off as rain with a temperature of 6C, but turned sleety as the shower got underway and temperatures responded.

Somewhat less mild than that in Lancaster, where it's currently sleeting.

Lancaster gets the first sighted wintry weather of the day! Doesn't happen very often! :lol: Currently sleeting. The shower started off as drizzly rain about 20 minutes ago, with a temperature of 6C, but the temperature fell, and the rain turned to sleet and wet snow.

Absolutely calm and clear until 5 minutes ago, now torrential rainstorm. Temperatures, at 7C, were close to average.

Here in Lancaster the rain is torrential, and sounds like a roar, it's so heavy.

A very heavy hail shower in Lancaster, with large hailstones at the beginning of the shower. Some sleetiness afterwards with the temperature falling rapidly from 6.5C to 4C.

Two reports of wintry stuff since I came back to Lancaster University: Friday 9 January: Heavy hailstone shower at 2am. Sunday 11 January: Hailstone shower at 9am, sleety snow flurry at 1:30pm. Getting exciting, as it's not supposed to be cold enough for snow at low levels yet!

There was snow in Newcastle. Where I was, however, on the east coast of Tyneside, we had nothing more than sleety drizzle and the temperature stayed above 2C. Strange- that's 2 snowfalls I've largely missed because I was on the east coast while inland areas got some significant snow, yet on neither of the occasions was the wind coming off the sea!

Half-decent day here, really, sunny, max 7C, with some patchy cloud.

The West Coast was never going to be an ideal place to live if you want snow. The west coast of Lancashire is warmed by the Irish Sea and sheltered from the north and east by mountains. Further inland, or even further north, it's a different story, however, as the snow reports from other areas of Lancashire show. In Tyneside the temperature has risen, as the snow has eased off almost to nothing. We saw a dusting of snow earlier, but it's now melting.

Still snowing, but only light snow, and only a partial dusting on the ground.

THE SNOW IS SETTLING! Temp just above 1C I've started a New Year tradition when every time we have snow cover at New Year, at midnight I go outside and write "A Happy New Year" in the snow. But with the way things are at the moment, I don't know when to do this- it may be that it'll warm up soon, making now the best time, or if the snow will keep settling, making midnight as good a time as any, maybe better than now. Optimistically thinking, the milder air is still a way away to the west at present. And yes, it's still snowing around Lancaster, according to the Morecambe stats, albeit having wamed to about 1-2C.

Tyneside update: now snowing, with near-blizzard conditions. Not currently settling, although it's trying, the ground is kind of slushy, as the snow is only partially melting as it hits the ground. If the temperature stays the same or rises from now, this will be my lot; however, if it falls by another 0.5C, the snow will settle. I will update in a little while; in the meantime, there must surely be snow cover over Northumberland and Durham if it's close to that here.

Very, very strange. The snow was supposed to be stuck over the Eastern side, while western areas were supposed to just see rain. Official reports from Morecambe (where if anything they tend to overread the temperature) shows a current figure of 0.7C, with precipitation currently falling in the region. This has certain implications as far as my University location of Lancaster is concerned, particularly as it's just 5 miles SE from Morecambe and about 50m higher up. Tyneside? Currently 3C and sleeting. I don't understand... but why does it never seem to happen this way when I'm in Lancaster!?

Tyneside has completely missed the wintry weather this time round, in stark contrast with the previous cold snap where Tyneside was one of the heaviest affected areas. On 27 and 28 December we maxed at 4 or 5C, and it was sunny with showers restricted to regions west of the Pennines. Last night got down to -2C and today was sunny and frosty with a maximum of 2 or 3C, frost on the ground all day, and snow showers drifting along the North Sea. A pleasant enough spell IMO with the sunshine and the frost, but where did the widespread shower activity that I mistakenly predicted go?