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    Northwest Weather Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards

    in Northwest Weather Discussion

    Posted

    Lovely morning. A light frost to start. It’s crazy that we’re forecast showers today from an easterly wind, the flow is light. In winter, any kind of easterly setup doesn’t produce as the Pennines gobble up absolutely everything. 
     

    Hopefully the forecasts are wrong (as they so often are) and we can stay dry & sunny as you’d expect from an easterly this side of the Pennines. 

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    Northwest Weather Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards

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    Almost into May on the 00z and we’re still getting hit by relentless sub -5C air, and pretty much the only place relative to our latitude being hit by strings of constant low pressure. 
     

    There’s no end to this is there? We can’t call a 3 day blip a pattern change. More like a relief whilst the AO trends negative again and gives us the worst possible outcome to it. 
     

    Really starting to suffer now. It’s been autumn since last July, I was hoping for some spring warmth & sunshine. May is my favourite month. 

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    Northwest Weather Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards

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    It just can’t do it can it. It just CANNOT stay dry. Lashing it down, temp fell to 14C from almost 19. 
     

    im sick of it, the outlook isn’t great either. When will it balance itself out in favour of high pressure? It’s just not fair anymore- I’m bored of checking the charts to be disappointed. 
     

    it hasn’t stopped raining since last July. 

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    Northwest Weather Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards

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    Echoing thoughts above, I’ve had enough of this ‘winter’. Where’s the high pressure? Where’s the cold, crisp days and the frosty nights? Where’s the winter season as a whole gone?

    I really hope this isn’t a theme for the rest of the year. We have to really hope for a dry & sunny spring/summer period. Those with SAD must really be struggling (such as myself). 
     

     

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    Northwest Weather Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards

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    This event was always going to be a transient affair for ground below 400m, I can’t see any meaningful downgrades or anything to get too stirred up about. 
     

    Plenty of moisture hitting colder air, starting as rain, colder air undercuts for a few hours turning it wintry before turning back to rain around 2pm for all of us away from high ground. 
     

    In this particular battleground, the mild, sub-tropical air wins out. It was always looking like a wintry mess at lower elevations. However, get the intensity and you’re going to benefit.  
     

    That warning map from @Kasim Awan’s Facebook page is silly though. You can’t have an immediate rain shadow for JUST Manchester and no where else. Too many memes and stuff on that page mate, you could have that as the best and most informative non-government meteorological page in the UK. 

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    Northwest Weather Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards

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    Much harder flicking through our beloved regional forum without viewing quoted posts. Hopefully it gets swiftly knocked back on the trial and we can resume ease of reading. 
     

    We actually got down to 1C last night. Only 4 degrees below our forecast minimum, not too bad 😂 was clear until about 3/4am. Cloudy now. Looking forward to a sunnier day tomorrow. 
     

    In my opinion, winter is finished now. There’s nothing on the charts that’s remotely cold. February notoriously in recent times doesn’t deliver (and I’m wanting some spring warmth now anyway after we hit 15C the other night. It’s wet my appetite). 

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    Where did the quote button go?

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    As someone who is a very active user, this really feels like a step back. Most users won’t be able to quote on their phones or tablets by selecting specific portions of text, especially the older members who aren’t as tech savvy.

    Flicking through the forum since this ‘upgrade’ makes for a much harder read and it just looks overall way more untidy. I can see why it might work in certain threads such as the model thread where half a page is sometimes taken up by image quotation, but for me if there was an option to turn it off, I would. 
     

    That’s my opinion as an IT professional, not a novice user. 

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    Northwest Weather Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards

    in Northwest Weather Discussion

    Posted

    29 minutes ago, Alexis said:

    As always, depends where you live. Best snowfall for a few years here, although it didn't last very long. -7 at night is pretty good too.

    I'd give it a 7/10

    We’ve had a -7C, snow falling on Monday night, Tuesday morning, and Thursday night. Some snow cover since we had the original fall on Tuesday and persistent low night time temps. 
     

    Day time temps weren’t as low as I thought and we didn’t really get any significant snow, something that I’ve been chasing for about 3/4 years here now. 

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    Northwest Weather Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards

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    And just like that, the cold spell is over. Weeks of model watching and finger crossing and it all boiled down to a Tuesday that was just slightly too mild for the snow to properly stick around. 
     

    It’s been cold but not super cold. The sun has been welcome and it’s been nice seeing the elusive, super rare white gold falling from the sky. 
     

    We’re just about to pop above freezing here and when we do, it’ll be the last time those digits are recorded for probably around 2 weeks. 
     

    Last nights min was before midnight when we dipped just below -3C. Here comes the Atlantic steam train. Hold onto your hats, going to be a mad, mad weekend. 

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    Northwest Weather Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards

    in Northwest Weather Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Backtrack

    Winter is firmly on hold after tomorrow with the usual autumnal default resuming. 
     

    Talk of ‘the next chase’ etc on the model thread. There is no next chase as far as I’m concerned. Just a few teleconnectic background signals that rarely mean anything, or the usual chopping and changing at 10/14 days out.  The rest of January can now be written off and February has the stronger sunshine so any snow cover becomes really hard to hang onto. 
     

    ‘Winter’ yet again is going to draw to a close without delivering a significant snow event in my opinion. I suppose it’s something we just need to get used to now. 
     

    Then again, you’re statistically more likely to see snow at Easter than Christmas 😉

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