rob-lancs

a lot of snow here at the moment, not sticking though, melted hail making it bad, if the hail would have lasted a little longer, could have some more accumulation.

OK - A lot of people have been saying its snow here when it really hasn't. I have a north facing bedroom window and it kept waking me up it was that bad. I see the metoffice have put out a weather warning for the north west with chances of further wintry showers. Anyway better get back on topic.

Heavy hail all night, I can't see any evidence of snow. All there is, is a dusting of hail giving at most a cm. Interesting to see Cheshire got an inch of snow. Am I the only one to just get hail? It just looked like polystyrene sheet on my car this morning as its all stuck together, only pellets of hail though, none of this golf ball stuff.

Need a lamppost to verify these things and even then its hard to know the composition. The key is watching how it falls.

another hail shower.

Another hailstone shower here. Very windy.

Just had a heavy hail shower which gave a sharp temporary temperature drop. Just watching sky news and they are reporting the odd thunder.

Just had a torrential hail shower leaving slush everywhere, only lasted a minute. My thermometer dropped 2C but is starting to rise again.

8mm so far of rain today, showery sometimes more heavy. Its 6.5C (6.21C dp) 1002hPa Windy, highest gust of 22mph at 11:21

What is it with these hailstone showers, i've lost count today!

Just hail stone showers here.

Plenty of hailstone showers today.

apologies for posting so late, went out at 1pm on christmas day and have just returned home after taking a trip to Crewe on Boxing Day after stopping over at someones house on christmas day, finding out the crewe v burnley match was cancelled an hour after arriving and stayed in Northwich. Anyway as you've probably seen from the other threads the snow got quite heavy in the afternoon on the 25th leaving an inch or so of snow. That's it really for snow in the area. about 1cm or so is still left on the grass in the garden. Ice starting to melt from the trees.

been out for an hour or so and snow showers on and off just like in the photos. I'm off out soon for the night, christmas lunch, christmas drink and then christmas sleep. Taking my camera as I'll be 200 m higher than I am now.

here goes: http://www.burnley27.fsnet.co.uk/dec25

really throwing down here - amazing stuff - taken some photos.

SOrry guys, its started snowing here.

I've woken up to some sort of dusting from when I don't know.

Just woken up to some sort of dusting of snow. The hills look covered and a relative in a higher part of Burnley says they have a load of snow.

temperature starting to drop here as breaks in the sky appear, looks like this band of rain at last has passed.

thunder apparantly in Bolton: http://meteocentre.com/lightning/map_sfuk....en&map=EuropeNW

windy and around 8C

Yeah best frost of the winter today! Not much snow on the hills, even Pendle. 1.4C

I think so, I never told anyone about my sprinkling last month apart from a post in here and it was added