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  1. trickydicky
    Pretty much sums up this winter that the streamers have set up to the north and south of me and the breakdown won’t reach me. Can’t buy more than a dusting this year.
  2. trickydicky
    I was just beginning to get annoyed that for the 2nd day running the snow was steadfastly refusing to go any further west than the edge of the Pennines. Then it started absolutely chucking it down and has put an inch down in about 10 minutes.
  3. trickydicky
    Groundhog Day here. Snow coming from the west has a last hurrah over Penrith and then dies in the Eden Valley so it never gets heavy enough to settle. If I had £10 for every time this has happened even just this winter I’d be laughing.
  4. trickydicky
    Your point would be backed up well if we had anyone on here who lived in Alston or Nenthead which have had more or less constant snow cover since the week after Christmas.
  5. trickydicky
    I remember ‘battle ground’ snow and transient snow to rain events at the end of a frosty period being a regular thing when I was a kid (90s). But now like you say they always miss us to the south. They always start off as looking like they’ll effect us and then a day or two out it’ll end up being shunted south.
  6. trickydicky
    Rain has started the process of turning to snow at Penrith. Some drops are big fat icy splodges on the windscreen. It’s still got a fair way to go before you can even call it sleet but it’s on the way. Earlier than I expected, and it’s 4c. Not sure it’ll be able to settle on anything mind!
  7. trickydicky
    Meanwhile the main BBC forecast is warning of 40cm of snow for north east Scotland tomorrow. That’s a fair old pasting.
  8. trickydicky
    Here’s hoping. BBC look north forecast just now only showed showers ‘that might get down to low levels’. Their app seems to be more in line with what you have posted however.
  9. trickydicky
    I can’t really comment for Manchester as I don’t live there, but I’ll take your word on it.
  10. trickydicky
    It’s going to be one of those events that have become pretty common in the north west over recent years, sleet and non settling wet snow to ground below 200m, at absolute best 150. All the usual places like Alston, Shap and the higher parts of the Yorkshire Dales we’ll get a tonking I’d say. Anything that comes with any kind of westerly is too marginal.
  11. trickydicky
    Strange day out there. There was a hard frost first thing but it started to rain at about 10 and has only risen to 1c. When I went out I expected there to be snow everywhere uphill of here but despite the rain the cloud is clear of the fells and it’s not even snowing on the tops at 800M+.
  12. trickydicky
    Stunning day today. Below freezing after a very cold start, frost on trees, snow on the ground, sledging and then a nice sunset. These are the days you look for when you start taking notice of the model thread in November. Shame there’s a thaw forecast tomorrow but we’ve had a pretty good cold spell since Christmas Eve really.
  13. trickydicky
    Langwathby. Usually pretty good for low night temperatures here. Fog might be holding it up a bit.
  14. trickydicky
    -7 here in quite thick fog. Coldest temperatures seem to be slightly further north in southern Scotland where it seems to be widely -10/-11 even to the coast.
  15. trickydicky
    I can only think that you’re in the shadow of the fells.
  16. trickydicky
    My relatives live in the west Cumbria zone of snowlessness... and even they’ve had a decent fall today. Also seen pictures from a colleague at Keswick with a decent covering there. Seems strange.
  17. trickydicky
    Some queer goings on this morning. Pretty much all of Cumbria seems to have had a good amount of snow overnight. Here I had snow all day yesterday and it was snowing at midnight. This morning the wind has got up considerably and there seems to have been a localised thaw of some of the snow here, perhaps caused by a bit of Fohn off the Pennines. Still got full cover but a bit damp looking. Curiously the worst effected place seems to be my garden!
  18. trickydicky
    It’s been snowing on and off here all day, mostly on, without ever amounting to much more than an inch or two tops. Snowing again now steady away but with much bigger flakes.
  19. trickydicky
    Nice photos. Just goes to show that you don’t need a lot of snow or mega cold to have a nice wintery spell. If you got lucky with one of the heavier earlier snow falls in this spell, like some places inland in the south of our region did, then you’ve had a good little cold snap. Up here we haven’t had a lot of snow at low levels, and what has fallen has been so thin it’s generally melted in the day, but it’s been beautiful on the fells with a lot of crisp days.
  20. trickydicky
    Snowing extremely lightly since about 7am. Even though it’s getting light you still have to look at a lamppost to see it. Seems to be the way this cold spell. Had 3 or 4 micro falls whilst a mile or so east the Pennines are buried. BBC forecast seems to suggest it’s going to snow most of the day here before it eases and then picks up heavier again in the evening.
  21. trickydicky
    Big feathery flakes now, very heavy
  22. trickydicky
    Currently -5 and snowing on top of a hard frost. Very wintry and scenic.
  23. trickydicky
    Impossibly light snow currently falling giving a sugary coating. I thought it had stopped but I went out and realised the flakes were just almost too small to see!
  24. trickydicky
    The Cumbria snow forcefield doing more excellent work today, pushing the snow to the south as usual.
  25. trickydicky
    If I had £10 for every frontal snow event that missed me to the south over the last few snowless years I’d have at least... £40 or £50.
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