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I think there’s a lot of truth in the 200m rule. It’s amazing how often i’ve driven home from Manchester and rain and green has turned to sleet and then settling snow as I got half way up the Rossendale Valley, about 200 metres. Beyond that it would be thicker in the town centre at about 250 metres and more still at home.

Plenty of altitude here but we still often struggle with snow. TBH most of the North West region is pants when it comes to snow.

Go easy on me but after the slightest dusting in late October and not a flake since, the one think I don’t want to do is wake up to a covering at stupid o’clock on Thursday morning when I have an early start to a meeting darn sarf. if it can wait until about 8 ish i’ll Be happy.

Can’t speak for others but up here the last 24 hours have been awful with strong gusty winds and continuous drizzle and at times heavier rain. it really is depressing stuff, especially given that anything remotely cold and more seasonal is continually at least a week to ten days away. personally i’m struggling to think of a period of more turgid non discript weather than what we have had for the last couple of months. role on summer

Enjoy mate. there were a couple of bars on the sea front selling bottles of Corona at a dollar a time. we only stopped off for a couple of days on a cruise, it would have been a matter of hours but for some essential maintenance but I liked the place and for any scouse visitors feeling homesick it has a large shopping mall near the cruise terminal called Liverpool.

RIP Diane As others have said, she got a bit of light hearted stick on here due to her mild ramping but in most cases she ended up being proved right and when snow was definitely on the cards she had the cheeky smile that makes you think she did actually like a bit of the white stuff. to me she was like a non posting member of this thread and I for one will miss here on the television.

My thoughts are that it will be summed up by a big fat

On over Christmas and last week

Nice mate and a damn site better than our relentless, mild damp and murky crap. enjoy and i’ll stick any snow we get in the freezer for when you get back. looking at the forecast, I should have enough room.

Snowed in at the airport until March and nothing but drones in the air to show had bad the drifts are where you off to Moki.

Nothing to say that others haven’t summed up already. role on light nights then at least the gloom can be seen for longer.

It tends to be windy around late December early January here but it’s more to do with diet than the position of the jet stream it has been a bore fest so far though and if we can’t have snow and cold then give me gales.

All looking a bit downbeat in the mod thread tonight with the “nailed-on” snowmaggedon being pushed back again and now scheduled for around mid summer. never mind at least we’ll have some light nights to enjoy the sledging.

Bet it’s Darn Sarf.

As others have said, the worst kind of winter weather and it certainly felt damn cold sat on the football this afternoon.

Unfortunately.

Hopefully it will come light again on Saturday morning, if it doesn’t we’ll start to worry.

Nice, we did the Pacific coast of Mexico on a cruise a couple of years ago. it seemed hotter than the Cacun side but the Corona was just as cold and a bit cheaper.

Still a bit murky but a damn site better than the fog and damp of Christmas Day. it’ll certainly go down as a foregettable one, weather wise. hope you all had a good un.

Same here, everything was white when we walked up to the pub last night, a couple of hours later staggering back it was just damp and misty. Woke up now and it’s thick fog so although seasonal, it’s hardly festive.

A bit more seasonal this morning with the wet from two days of pretty much constant rain forming ice on the car that put last weekends effort to shame. anyway at least it’s stopped raining and with the sun out, not a bad day and if no snow is on offer then i’ll certainly take a bit of frost over rain, rain and more rain. I’ll probably still be popping in here a bit over the next few days but in the meantime, can I wish all fellow members a Merry Christmas and hope you get all you wish for, unless it’s snow and then i’m sure your going to be disappointed.

Still raining

Just seen the forecast and it showed a narrow shower stream coming in off the Irish Sea right across our part of the region. if it had been snow we’d have had a decent covering by now but then again, no doubt the stream would then have had someone else’s name on it. thankfully the weather map did show it clearing through late morning so we live in hope.

Is anyone else wondering how bad tomorrow is going to be if this is the “better” day of the weekend. absolutely peeeeeeing down here.

Always more likely to occur than heavy snow at Christmas.