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  1. Very frustrating day's snow-watching here in Hedge End (ignore my location, need to change it as I'm back down South now as of last Wednesday!) - 1-2cm between 9-10am, but the main event seems to have done everything possible to miss here, even with snow falling just a few miles W (e.g Romsey area from reports I've heard!), it's been wet non-sticking snow, sleet, or as we have right now, rain :-( The problem hasn't been the temperature/dewpoint, as this was all fine throughout the morning, never higher than about 0.6C for the temperature, which actually dropped during the late-morning period as snow approached then fizzled/missed. The problem really was PPN, the vast majority of which has missed by just a few miles, changing direction or weakening just when things looked promising. I think this afternoon always looked marginal, not least due to the upper temperatures rising above -5C @ 850hpa across the far South, so the window of opportunity was this morning and it didn't work out :-( Ah well - for what it's worth we got about 6cm of snow on Saturday morning which is certainly more than some got from that event in these parts! I was hoping that today's possible snowfall would at least leave us with as much snow on the ground as we had before it started, as I was all too aware of the marginality being an issue, and this area is notorious for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory when it comes to things going the 'wrong side of marginal' - unfortunately on this occasion, we were the right side of marginal for longer than quite a few other parts of the South, but just without the PPN.... this wouldn't have happened back in Durham lol Looking ahead, not sure about too many snow opportunities for our region (not on the scale of Sat or today anyway!), but hopefully we'll see less of the mild influences of the Channel, possibly more days with the temperature at or even below freezing for much of the day, particularly inland. Providing snow cover remains intact today (which it's more-or-less managing here despite the rain), at least some places in the South might just see a white Christmas, if not necessarily with snow falling from the sky! And as we've seen of late, the charts are still prone to changes, so I guess anything's still possible Merry Xmas all! :smiliz19: Cheers
  2. Hey guys - just to add to the collection of reports! I went up to Alnmouth and Alnwick yesterday morning (ironically an area not covered by MetO warnings when I set off at 9am-ish!), and there was a very heavy snow shower/period of snow, lasting around 30-45 minutes, around midday, after an earlier snow pellet-style shower right on the beach at Alnmouth, which settled everywhere! Some stunning views out to sea up there, and it did appear that the weather there was coming in off the sea, rather than off the land (A glance at the relevant radar imagery confirmed that once I got back to Durham!) Around 4-5cm of snow had fallen in Alnwick during that snow shower - we arrived there on a bus (a fun journey in itself from Alnmouth to Alnwick, that one! Lots of spinning wheels and effort needed to get up even small hills, due to the intensity and ready accumulation of the snow on the roads!) around 12:45, as it began to ease. The flakes were absolutely massive though, a spectacular sight A further very heavy snow shower back in Alnmouth around 2pm as we waited for a train back down to Durham. Fascinating stuff to watch first-hand, as the flakes changed from small pellets, to massive settling flakes, back to pellets and so on! We did notice though that anywhere south of about Morpeth, through to just south of Newcastle, had no apparent snow at all! This tallies with your reports and the radar images - but that was partly what motivated me to post this, so that you guys could get an idea of what had been happening pretty much all around you! Really unlucky not to have seen more snow in Newcastle itself yesterday, I feel! Then back to Durham by around 3:30. It was snowing pretty heavily at that point, but it was very wet snow, not really settling on roads etc, and certainly quite a lot less on the ground than there had been in Alnmouth and Alnwick (a couple of cms tops at that point). The snow did persist for several hours though, pretty much until bedtime! Lovely to see, and here, about a mile South of the city centre, there is a good 5cm or more lf lying snow, particularly on the grass. It struck me, walking through town this morning, that there was a good inch or so more snow here than down in the city centre, despite the very short distance between the two. There was a further hefty snow shower, quite out of the blue, around 8am today, but other than that it's been dry and sunny for much of the time this morning, with the snow thawing off the trees, but not really melting too much elsewhere. Hope that report is of use in terms of establishing the picture across at least some of the area! Cheers
  3. Hi guys - my first post so go easy! :lol: I'm from Southampton, but am studying at Durham Uni (having started my course this October). Unfortunately for me, as a big fan of cold and snow, I was back 'down South' for pretty much the entirety of the mid-Dec -> mid-Jan cold, snowy spell! I only saw the very beginnings of it overnight on the 16th Dec (more came overnight on the 17th I think? But I was gone by then!) But anyway, I am back in Durham now and so experienced the snow on Friday night - all 1-2cm of it! However, through the discussions on here and elsewhere (not to mention the radars of course!), I could tell that places nearer the coast were getting a "right good pasting" in terms of snow. When I heard that places like North/South Shields and the like had seen 10cm+ of snow, I knew I had to go and see that for myself! (Remember, I'm from Southampton, and have only once in my lifetime seen 10cm of lying snow - that was last February!) So basically I took the train up to Newcastle, then the Metro east towards "The Coast", eventually getting off the train in Tynemouth. It was very noticeable, even in the space of a few miles, that the depth of snow was increasing all the time as I headed East. Upon arrival in Tynemouth, I saw there was more snow than I have seen in my entire life! It was generally 13-15cm of level snow (!), but with drifts near the Priory well in excess of 1ft - and all of this on Friday night!! I took lots of pictures, too! (I also took a few of Durham as I made my way towards the train station) Apologies that there are rather a lot of them, but I did capture a lot of different scenes - I hope you like them! First of all, my Durham pictures Now, onto the big one - Tynemouth! I have visited Tynemouth once before, but it was a rather different day to yesterday - sometime a few Summers ago Looking across Tynemouth beach towards Whitley Bay These are my size 12 shoes disappearing in the snow A massive snow drift, with a scene more appropriate to the Arctic than to North Tyneside Also a couple of quick videos for you, too - both concerning snow depth :lol: http://www.youtube.c...h?v=4-46HEP4r6s http://www.youtube.c...h?v=1Xqy-lYFz1c They're only short, but just to give you an idea of the scale, really :lol: So yeah, I think that's all of them! Hope you liked them - I just noticed that a few of you were talking about how much you envied people right on the coast - you should have done what I did! :lol: £5.75 well spent, that train ticket to Tynemouth Cheers
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