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think its time to watch the rest of practise 1, get a nap then watch practise 2, by then we should be in the really heavy stuff at daybreak

no way , really? lol

oops. Mine is perfect. Practice one now getting under way with Riccardo

This is only the beggining, wait until the front arrives and stalls a bit, the stuff we have now, ahead of this front is just a bonus, wait until the really heavy stuff arrives by daylight! talking around 5/6am The temperature will drop like a brick through a glass house, along with the dew points..should be the best we've seen since going back to the 90's.

Finally looking great here, sticking everywhere, coming down really heavily. Temperature down to -0.6C, Dewpoint -2.1C

the front is not here, it's moving at a turtle speed, I don't know if the stuff we get will affect your area during tomorrow, unless it moves further East.

flakes are getting a bit bigger, winds are really starting to pick up here. Car is completely white, roads are white, rooftops white, pavements have been gritted about 1 hour ago with salt, so im not using them as a point of reference since snow is unlikely to stick to it. The front looks like its stalled... cloud and snow moving north eastwards, but the front looks completely stationary

Officially, the National Weather Service defines a blizzard as a severe snowstorm characterized by strong winds causing blowing snow that results in low visibilities. The difference between a blizzard and a snowstorm is the strength of the wind, not the amount of snow. To be a blizzard, a snow storm must have sustained winds or frequent gusts that are greater than or equal to 56 km/h (35 mph) with blowing or drifting snow which reduces visibility to 400 meters or a quarter mile or less and must last for a prolonged period of time — typically three hours or more. what people are in fact reporting is a snowstorm rather than a blizzard

what with practice 1+2 on sky sports F1 Hd and now the snow here..bliss lol

It is really coming down now, the roads have a dusting, the pavement and roofs. Can see the flakes getting a little bigger too, non of this wet stuff

its not that its light, its just tiny flakes giving the illusion its light. I have the same thing here, and everything was wet, but starting to stick to everything now, but not much accumulation yet though, but i can tell you its heavy. That dusting has just occured.

rowing boats to the ready then ? hahaha

you could be right, however that doesn't explain the snow only event over liverpool at the time, normally we do a heck of a lot better here, than liverpool, usually we get just as much as runcorn does. pretty much par for par with runcorn actually

starting to accumulate on my car roof, bonnet still wet though

I think we'll have to see about that, because from what i am seeing, while the intensity is quite heavy, its more of the small wet flakes than anything else, and with everything being wet, it doesn't fill me with much optimism at this stage, but there is a long way to go yet what gets to me the most though in all of this, the surface temperature was actually well below freezing / sub zero, so I can't understand where that rain ever came from.

id like to see an improvement in the quality of this snow. If it continues on like this during tomorrow, i'd very very surprised to se a cm or two. The roads and pavements are wet. Went to put the dog out in the yard, and where it has some how remained dry, there is about 1 cm of snow cover, along the window ledges about half of that. Still wet snow. We'll have to see what daylight brings because thats when I think we'll see the best of it where we are.

now we have heavy non sleety snow, but its wet stuff. Coming down quite thick too, no covering yet, since the rain did a number on the floor.

as long as it continues on as snow, and doesn't revert back to sleet or snizzly stuff..still we have a very long wait ahead for the main stuff, looks like 4/5am earliest judging at the slowness of the front

It just started snowing, from what I can see, heavy too. Not sure about the wind though, it's not that windy here it seems. It's going to have do a heck of a lot of snowing to cover the wet ground. Looking at it, it does seem to be of the wet variety..and the wind i did not notice, is blowing outside. I can see a white sheet of snow past the lampost, think i will use the garden security light instead..halogen

Yes, I am telling you, nothing is actually falling, we had some light drizzle a little bit ago, and since then nothing. Its very bizarre

rat suarez supporters should be shot hahaha

would be our luck, that it completely misses hale altogether. Not even one flake, no sleet. Just had light drizzle again..how is this even possible?

quite interesting, since we have absolutely nothing. This snow seems strangely selective where it wants to fall don't you think?

send it to me, seems Im in a blackhole of nothing. Snowed in runcorn, snow in liverpool, snow to the north of me by a couple of miles, snow to the east of me. I dont have access to the main charts, so I have no idea if their is a small warm sector or not, because given the snow all around me, I find it perplexing, it makes zero sense

Heard a report they had some wet snow about 10 minutes ago. Liverpool airport claiming light snow. Looking outside, it's doing nothing