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We got this from a similar set up in January about 3 years ago, can’t remember the date but it was very localised and areas lower down and only a couple of miles away had no more than a couple of inches.

I was coming home in the car wondering what the hell the huge 27 and 28’s in the sky just to my north were. if they fell to the ground it would certainly hurt

Sorry but you can’t blame folks for being pessimistic when the form horse is for everything remotely interesting to downgrade into mediocrity. i haven’t looked at the models close enough to give a honest opinion but if what others are saying comes close to true then we could/should be looking at a decent wintry spell with plenty of snow for the lucky few. as for myself, i’m refusing to get overly excited at least until it enters the reliable timescales or better still until I see heavy driving snow falling. to many last minute let downs turn you into this and it is, after all only the weather.

Tell me about it, the amount of potential i’ve cleared off the drive this winter is unbelievable. some mornings I couldn’t move for the damn stuff.

I needed a couple of new tyres on my car so took the plunge and went for all seasons ones. with all this potential about you can’t be to careful but with these on and my virtual shovel in the boot i’m sorted. just hope it’s not the wrong type of potential that falls.

Can’t wait for the weather warning for fog to turn into a non event like the others this season have done. i hate fog though so no doubt this one will be seriously underestimated. as for next week, i’ve got my virtual shovel ready for the serious dumping of potential i’m expecting to fall.

No chance, it’ll just give us a mild sector while the rest of the country gets buried in snow.

Just sat with the remnants of flu and no beer.

I’d bank the 2 feet of snow shown IMBY on the 2nd chart. not be telling anyone about it just yet though, better wait until T+1hours to be on the safe side.

Bloody hell pip22 and I thought it was just because we lived at the northern end of the Gulf Stream and it’s endless feed of overheated seawater. if we have to wait for volcano’s then knowing our luck we’ll just end up with no difference in winter and even more crap summers from it.

Spent much of last night awake listening to the wind howling as it bounced over the Pennines. it’s not often it happens, even less so in recent years but an easterly seems to be effected by local topography and the result can be some quite serious gusty winds which a couple of years ago managed to destroy three fence panels. not to bad this time but noisy all the same. now the cloud has moved in and a few of the forecast snow grains are blowing about in the breeze. not my ideal version of winter weather but a bit more seasonal than mild and wet I suppose.

North UK will be Scotland and we’ll all be in the warm section. and if it goes completely belly up and the snow all heads for southern Greece then no need for them to apologise for getting it so wrong; it is the UK after all and these things happen. role on spring and northern blocking.

Ed you’ve never been to Bacup we are a bit prone to exaggeration up here but it’s a bloody cold bleak place at the best of times.

Certainly of those days where the heat of the sun is needed to melt the frost off the ground and cars and as much of the front of our house faces north, an ice day is looking likely.

Same here, slippy walking home from the bus yesterday evening with frost on top of what was left of a heavy hail/sleet shower earlier. looks like a nice,usable winters day coming up though.

Possibility of a bit of snow for the northwest region, no chance it’s only January. come back in April, maybe something to see then.

If they’re gritting here then there must be little chance of ice. unless they are just going to drive around testing the flashing beacons again.

You can be pretty sure that if the showers had been snow then they would have passed to our north or south but they’re not and they didn’t and it’s just plenty of cold rain.

Well that’s the outside lights all taken down for another year. just the tree and other bits and then it’s back to normal again. as for the weather, it sure is breezy out there.

Warnings have been shunted southwards and now tie in more with this mornings forecast of where the strongest winds are likely to be. it could be quite nasty overnight and in to Wednesday for coastal areas and those with exposure. as for the present, a bit of sleet mixed in when the rain first started but now is back to the default setting of plain cold rain.

Yes, short lived but could be pretty bad for coastal areas of north Lancashire, south Cumbria. if it stays on that track, my location, although quite exposed at the head of the valley should be far enough south to miss the worst but a 50 mile southward shift and I’m right in the firing line.

This mornings BBC news forecast is a bit at odds with the Met O warning areas with the presenter showing the worst of the winds overnight and clearing quickly on Wednesday morning but the yellow warning for most areas south of Cumbria doesn’t start until tomorrow. is the track of the system slightly more southerly than forecast yesterday and will the warnings update accordingly or is the forecast using old material. either way though it’s going to blow a few post Christmas cobwebs away and possibly remove my outside lights before I have chance to.

I’ll take your word for it shadowfax. felt that out of sorts today that I can’t even be bothered to go to the window but on the plus side, at least I should be hungover in the morning.

Peeing down, not a lot else to say other than have a happy new year and a prosperous 2018 everyone.

I was around and in my part of world, up in The Pennines it was lengendary. the finest powdery snow that piled high at the front and back door. the best part though is that it marked the beginning of what was probably the last truly severe winter.