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Frequent showers here in Sheffield. Snow showers moderate in intensity but they have now become more sleety. A patchy slushy snow cover on some grassy surfaces. So don’t be fooled for thinking Sheffield is getting a pasting - the wintry precipitation is simply too wet in nature. Generally speaking, I never get too excited about snow showers or frontal snow from a west or NWly. What I miss most is low pressures coming up from the south / south west having snow on their northern flanks. I remember and miss these annual snow events that gave a thick cover even in lower areas of the city - I don’t remember the last time this happened now. Something has changed.

And it begins in Sheffield. Albeit a light flurry.

Snowing lightly in North Sheffield. Sleet to start in lower parts - I have had to drive to mums who lives lower down.

There seems to be a hook in the precipitation as if it’s a forming low pressure area ?? If that’s the case the north side would embed colder are and cause the wintry nature of the precipitation.

Strange, my daughters called to say it’s snowing in town but yet here on a hill it’s definitely rain?!

Not in Sheffield

Yet another surprise heavy snowfall in Sheffield. Quite a deep cover now! Perhaps Sheffield in the sweet spot? Snowed for over 2 hours - moderate to heavy. About 12cm on the car now - see the pics below

Drove all the way from Sheffield to Manchester airport this morning. Nightmare of a journey given the much heavier than expected snowfall. Opened the curtains and had one of those surprise moments that most of you will have had at some point no doubt. As the trans pennine routes were closed I had to venture up the M1. At home in Sheffield there were approximately 8-10cm. Even lower parts of the city had a 5cm covering. The worst affected area was around Sheffield / Barnsley. It cleared soon north of Barnsley. There was gridlock between j34 -j37 = took 3 hours! Manchester was clear and green! The M62 summit also had a healthy covering but it soon receded on the decent. Manchester was clear. 5 hours late to pick up the Mrs - clearly disappoint she was! First pics of my local area and the 3rd is on the M1 Northbound J37.

The house is still feeling the cold but the snow is finally beginning to thaw @ 150m in Sheffield. Overall lots of hope but disappointed as others have said. Expected much more with an amber warning but the lesson is that the north easterlies dont quite make it happen here - we need a true easterly. The thing is that the charts all looked like a true easterly. And also the fact that this occurred in early Feb - what happened ???? Overall ok but expected at least 15 cms but got a max of about 6cm. Higher parts of Sheffield had about 10cm’s from the rain to snow event which ain’t bad. Here’s a pic from just now - still good cover

As it gets colder (I suspect) this last train of showers are Stockley more readily. Developing a decent cover at last! Phew

Parts of Sheffield have awesome snow cover- here are pics from Crosspool. Approx 8 cm

An Interesting tweet from BBC Wales weatherman Derek. Interesting graphic explaining the ‘Baltic streamer’ .... heading for Yorkshire!

Well being in Sheffield I won’t count my chickens before they hatch! In 2018 the bands never really alighned here, I remember it was across Nottingham and Derby one evening. And I’m sure further north in west York’s did better than here...so it’s a wait and see. Hoping we all get truly locked down

Grass and cars covered now in Shirecliffe, Sheffield 150m Thick but wet snow falling

Snow on the lowest ground of Sheffield in Attercliffe (Meadowhall area) right now - if very wet but snow nonetheless! If it can here it can in many other places. I do live at 150m so looking forward to driving home!

Ohhh Yorkshire friends.... check out yeh latest fax charts! Exciting reading. We have those streamer lines right across Yorkshire on 2 separate charts.

Yes where did that come from?? How do we interpret that, does it mean widespread showers or is it widespread snow??

Tweet from Sheffield’s Weston Park weather station from a few weeks ago. So officially Sheffield has had 2cm, 13cm and on another tweet they confirmed 10cm this morning. So a total of 25cm so far this winter....not bad and judging by ECM that may double!!! I’m sure Bradford, Leeds and certainly Harrogate have had significantly more but it’s good to see official data.

9cm at 9am this morning in Shirecliffe Sheffield but the thaw had began - constant awful drizzle / freezing drizzle (hanging off the washing line). Snow sliding off the car and falling from the trees. A good fall! Great ECM, UKM, GEM and also the 6z GFS para is great. Not so good is the standard GFS. Got to say the ECM called this quite well - it was right, this low pressure system is delaying the cold to the weekend - GfS was suggesting it would be here mid week prior to yesterday. Let’s hope the standard GFS is now wrong! From experience though a cold eastern US normally fires the jet and leaves us in milder weather. We will hope this doesn’t happen on this occasion.

Yes I’m begging to come around to that idea. Seems it’s moved north with northern areas of our region post prone if only temporary. It’s looking increasingly like the southern uplands / north east could be in for a huge dumping. Likely to see something in South Yorkshire but looking increasingly brief ??

Sleet falling in Shirecliffe Sheffield- more rain though

Oh bum! Yes seems to have stopped it northwards progress and now sliding back

Snow symbols (met office app) for at least a few hours right up Leeds! Something interesting may be stirring.

Whoever would have thought! Right I’m checking Sheffield’s!

These sort of systems or associated bands that move up from the SW give South York’s our decent snowfalls (apart from easterlies of course), they seem to hug the eastern side of the Pennines. So far I’m impressed that a 2ndry band has formed and pulling towards us - this wasn’t forecast so now hoping it intensifies.