Well, if we can’t end the year with ice and snow then today’s sunshine and springlike conditions are a decent consolation and certainly a welcome improvement over the drab crap of the last few days.
a bit coolish out of the sun but good for being outside and a few hours work means that all of the front of the house has had a good power wash.
Is this the main course or just the starter as looking at the radar there’s nothing much behind when it clearers eastwards in the next hour or so.
i was under the impression that the heavy band was due in the early hours so not giving up on white conditions when it comes light in the morning.
Crap game, bloody cold sat there but 1-0 to the clarets.
oh and my forecast is give it 10 minutes and then it’ll be coming down hard in your part of the world.
just hope it’s snow you get.
As others have said, a few degrees colder and all of that rain would have given a lot of the region a decent dumping.
We ended up with this from a similar set up a few years ago and it even managed to hang around for a day or two.
Not expecting much more up here although after it took until 12th December to get our first flakes of the winter, it’s nice to get a few days where at least a chance of something white exists.
Same up here, rain since late morning, heavier during the afternoon then it became lighter but back on the heavier side again now.
At least it stoped a repeat of last nights early bonfire firework display from happening.
Looking at the forecast and the early Met O advisory, I’d be more concerned about the potential rainfall up here in the Pennines rather than a snow threat and TBH I’ll be surprised if we even see a flake of wet sleet.
happy to be proved wrong though.
After a frustrating day of seeing everything either west or east of here, my first storm of the day and it seemed to appear out of nothing north of Manchester.
absolutely hammering it down at the moment.
Yeah we’re never going to beat the south when it comes to heat but we can take them on with rain.
we’ve had thousands of years of practice when it comes to wet weather.
it sounds like it’s eased off a bit here but our little stream on the other side of the garden fence is pretty well full to the brim now.
Rochdale centre never used to flood but seems to be threatened with flooding pretty much every year now.
the flood siren has been sounded at Walsden at the top of the Calder Valley so no doubt those at Todmorden, HB and Mytholmroyd won’t be long behind it.
over the hill here in Bacup no flooding yet but still hammering it down.