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With my IMBY head on I’ll take that

As already said, a massive contradiction between the snow warnings shown on Wednesday and Thursday to the sunny skies and bone dry shown on the app. the only thing that gives a chance of snow here is the cold temperatures being modelled but this could end up being the least snowy snow warning ever issued.

Aye A380 it is. see it quite a lot in the summer, circling above here before landing at Manchester and I’ve always wanted to fly on one so that’s something else I can tick off. it certainly beats our usual of spending 5 hours cramped on a plane only fit for a couple at best.

Aye it’s probably just a need to see it once from us. Thailand and the wider far east, maybe we’ll be back again in the future. we were on the point of booking a cruise from Sri Lanka back to Jordan in April but I don’t fancy paying a fortune to run the gauntlet through the Gulf at Yemen or risk it being cancelled at the last minute so that will have to wait until things calm down again.

Anyway enough of this will it won’t search for a flake of snow in winter. We’ve just booked two weeks holiday and for the first time ever, will be heading east beyond the Med so although it’s not until late September, Thailand and a few days in Dubai on the way home here we come. can’t wait

If there’s even the slightest chance of something cropping up to remove our snow chances, it will happen.

We’re off down to Manchester shortly to meet up with friends and as I’m still not clear of a nasty chesty cough I’m wrapped up like I’m going on a polar expedition. probably end up sweating walking about.

CertInly a bit on the Turf last night. as for the rest of my experience…….no comment

It’ll be interesting to see if the Met put up a warning for Tuesdays snow later this morning or think it still too far out to be considered worthy. Northern Ireland have a warning for Monday which was issued on Friday so it’s probably just down to confidence.

Nice to see plenty of snow symbols for here on Tuesday. will they still be there nearer the time, it’s still all up for grabs but it’s an improvement on anything showing yesterday. Either way it’s going to be damn cold next week.

Great chart, probably the best one of the winter. especially that tiny white dot that shows there may be a chance of snow somewhere near me. 5 mile westerly correction anyone

Typical, every bloody low heads south and leaves us dry apart from the one we want to stay south which then moves north, but not enough to give us snow, just enough to stop us getting it

I’ll be disappointed if that’s all we have had by then in other words I’ll be disappointed

Seemed like a decent event but one that I seem to have forgotten about.

On a Saturday as well, what’s not to like

Post it in the mad thread then someone can utter those famous words, southerly correction anyone

Given that the final path of weather systems nearly always ends up at least a hundred miles south of where initially forecast, I can never understand why the models don’t factor this in at the time. Surely it would improve their status when it comes to their level of accuracy and overall standard. as for snow prospects, after showing nothing but cloud and dry for the last week, I’m finally showing a single flake on Wednesday and it’s in daylight hours when I can get out of work and enjoy it Just a shame it likely be gone by the next update

I’m in the east of the region and certainly should have the altitude but not putting my last fiver on a snowfest. Maybe a covering at times as the fronts head south early next week but the current default in cold set ups is for anything coming in from the west/sw to stay well to our south and, even the forecasts are pushing the mid week system south to a point where it is a midlands south event at best. I didn’t take a lot of notice of the science behind the weather growing up in the 70’s and then into the classic winters of the early 80’s but we certainly got some heavy snow events during most years and I’m not talking a couple of inches. snow was measured in excess of a foot up here in the Pennines and crucially hung around for days and sometimes weeks so whatever the direction of attack, it was not only possible back then, but probably the most likely set up. Frustratingly it’s now the complete opposite.

Annoying to see that once again, one posters gain is another ones loss with a band of snow that be driven across in a matter of an hour. what it is with weather fronts in this damn country that they can barely be regional, never mind country wide when on the other side of the pond they give major dumplings that’s stretch across hundreds of miles. It’s not like we don’t have plenty of ocean to tap into but we never seem to have a weather system that ends up any more than a local affair. Anyway I think I’ll keep out of the mad thread.

Full on IMBY ism in the mad thread again this morning. Makes me glad I’m off to work

As happens 95% of the time. keep our southern friends happy I suppose and probably allows us to stay colder with a chance of shower activity from the north/northeast but full on snowy frontal events are practically non existent in our part of the world these days with the usual set up being a few flakes before milder air and rain takes over again. The app for my location is now showing nothing but dry out as far as next Tuesday so I think that the above scenario is probably the one which will play out, at least with the first battleground. interesting though that the BBC forecast is still showing a significant area of snow this time next week reaching well into our region so unless it’s old data, they have their eyes on something.

Can hear the members in the Mad Thread screaming southerly correction anyone not that they’ll need to scream, it’ll probably happen anyway.

Met app shows it bone dry although mainly cloudy here as far it goes out on Monday so a good opportunity for everything to dry out but yet another waste of a cold spell. From an IMBY perspective, and given the northerly air source, I’m not overly confident that we’ll see anything much in the way of snow next week either with the usual wishbone effect limited things to coastal and exposed areas. I’m happy to be wrong of course but unless we get embedded troughs, the east Lancashire drought may last some time.

Southerly correction then Cheshire Oaks car park can get a covering

It was that busy in mad thread this morning some had to go into the SE regional thread instead Bet you couldn’t get through the door at times.