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12 hours ago, WillinGlossop said:
Nostalgia… January 1940 Glossop
wonder what the top of Woodhead Road, snake pass and Woodhead pass would’ve looked like? Plus Buxton and around…https://glossopheritage.co.uk/ghtarchive/snow1940/
Looking at the snow that had blown down into Glossop, the top of Woodhead was probably clear
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As already said, prospects not looking good for snow over the Christmas period and the falling out and wrist slashing is well underway in the Mad Thread.
Over a week to go yet so maybe things will change for the better but history tells us that if there is a way for the UK to grasp defeat from the jaws of victory, we will find it so I think the best option is to just open the curtains on Christmas morning and pick whichever of the following sums up your mood.
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7 minutes ago, WillinGlossop said:
20cm lakes (where we are going for Xmas) or 30cm in Peak District choices choices
Only a poor 16cm here but I’ll take it, especially with Christmas dinner being within walking distance this year.
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9 hours ago, Iceaxecrampon said:
What volume Ian? And routes? I’m intrigued. Southern Fells vol my favourite. Absolute legendary works.
Volume 3 the Central Fells, mainly as Langdale is the bit i have spent most time in and are most familiar with.
unfortunately I don’t have the complete set as just picked them up randomly in second hand book shops many years ago.
I have some of the larger books he did with Derry Brabbs as well, covering the Lakes as well as the Pennine way, coast to coast and Scotland.
TBH his Pennine Way book as as good a reference to the walk as you will get.
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1 hour ago, cheshire snow said:
Merry Christmas you filthy Animals
A Cold NW flow just in time for Christmas.
Still plenty of time for it to change but it’s unusual to have the possibility of a region wide event rather than the usual that one towns gain is another towns loss.
TBH though it looks like it may have more of a westerly feed to it as a north westerly would usually leave here and the rest of East Lancashire dry with the showers passing to our west down towards Manchester.
I’ll definitely take the potential though.
Just had a three day enforced break from here thanks to our mobile phone and internet provider having local “mast issues”
I was that bored on Sunday night that I actually picked up a book with pages in it and spent a decent couple of hours walking the Lakeland fells with the late great Alfred Wainwright rather than reading on my IPad
lesson learned was not to have all of your IT eggs in one basket
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1 minute ago, Rain Lady said:
Electric flicker -- have a torch ready. Can hear gusts approaching like express trains.
Aye I can hear it roaring through the trees.
a proper fence panel rattler.
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Rain has eased off a bit over the last 20 minutes or so but I can still hear it being blown against the windows by the wind.
definitely not an evening for outside plans.
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14 minutes ago, itsnowjoke said:
Hi weather is terrible can you all say a prayer for my little doggie woggie who’s currently fighting for his life at the vets been there since yesterday so sad he’s only 1 year old and the vet bill is astronomical
chucking it down and very gusty
Sorry to hear that,
hope everything turns out ok for you.
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Flood warnings out for both the upper and lower Irwell catchments now saying that they expect the heaviest of the rain this evening up to midnight.
Same on the other side of the hill where the upper Calder catchment also has a warning.
maybe they are expecting that the mass of rain further north is going to be heading south.
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Some seriously bright colours showing on the radar around the Yorkshire Dales/ upper Ribble Valley.
We are at the bottom edge of it at the moment and it’s hammering it down here so it must be pretty moist further north.
no surprise that there is a yellow rain warning across parts of the north.
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26 minutes ago, Rain Lady said:
err what?
Gone VERY black and vey windy. Rain started 10 mins ago. Clouds down on fells now.
Bambi lurking in the bushes.
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Dog sitting for the afternoon so decided. To take him out while it was fine.
not the best plan as fine lasted about 15 minutes then drizzle became horizontal rain so it was quickly abandoned until conditions improve, knowing our look around June.
it wasn’t all depressing though as I managed to get within 20 feet or so of this lovely creature before it disappeared into the undergrowth.
plenty about locally these days but it’s still nice to spot one.
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Very wet morning but signs of it brightening up a little now.
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Looks like the forecasters got the timing of the rain spot on.
Started here about an hour ago and it’s hammering it down now so the next few hours at least look grim.
hopefully it will clear through to give a drier period this afternoon but it’s interesting to see that we have got a buy one, get one free offer on yellow warnings today with both wind strength and rain amounts looking to be an issue as the day goes on.
Just hope we can get this grot out of the way and the models come good with something colder and more seasonal as we reach Christmas
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Dry start to the day here but the Met app for my location is showing heavy rain symbols for almost all of today and Saturday with nothing drier until into the early hours of Sunday.
thankfully this isn’t backed up by the forecast which at least showed gaps between periods of rain but I think unless you like wet conditions, the next couple of days are going to be depressing especially when last weekend, in conditions favourable for snow, we couldn’t buy a shower.
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Almost 30mm of rain in the last 24 hours and almost 20mm of them in the last 6 hours and just when it looked like the clearance had arrived, it’s started raining heavily again.
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We might have missed out on a warning but we certainly haven’t missed out on the rain.
absolutely torrential on the journey home and roads are like rivers especially the bottom of the one out of Bacup centre towards Todmorden.
yellow warning in place for the upper Calder catchment but so far nothing for the Upper Irwell on this side of the hill but 24mm rain for the day and 8mm in the last hour shows how wet it has been this afternoon.
Hopefully though i don’t think I will be venturing outside again before morning.
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15 minutes ago, Weather-history said:
7th December 1882: One of the biggest snow events to hit the region
Regional reports
A fascinating read as always and nice to see that it is possible for what looks like a channel low to dump large amounts of snow across all of our region rather than stopping at the north Midlands.
meanwhile back to early winter 2023 and I can hear the rain bouncing on the conservatory roof.
The default conditions of mild and wet are back again
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Another thing I have noticed about Met Office weather warnings recently is that they spend the briefest amount of time talking about what is possibly going to happen with the weather with a full rundown then of every way that you may be affected and what you need to collect together in order to be prepared.
Nowt wrong with that but do I really need to be told that my bus or train may be affected by heavy rain anymore than being told that my feet may get wet.
IMHO they should just give us the figures behind the warning whether it be wind speed, rainfall amounts of snow depth and let us carry our or own risk assessments.
Sorry but rant over
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11 minutes ago, Spah1 said:
Not confusing at all
The biggest confusion to me is that all western facing regions apart from one seems to have a warning.
no guessing which is the region missing one, especially that there didn’t seem to be anything unusual about the system approaching.
just a bog standard front coming in from the west/SW so you’d have expected that western upslopes of the Pennines at least would have been in the firing line for some heavy rain.
That said, if it’s not a warning for snow, I don’t want one.
heavy rain and flooding doesn’t float my boat
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33 minutes ago, severe snowstorm said:
A cold and frosty morning, -3.1C.
Haven’t stuck my nose out of the door yet but I could see the frost on the bathroom, velux window.
looking at the forecast though it’s probably going to be the last one for a while with the coming days being rain, rain and more rain
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No surprise that as soon as the chances of snow falling disappears, we suddenly become in the firing line for every weather system on offer.
Cold and bone dry or mild and wet, seem to be only only choices on offer in north west England.
personally I’ll take the first one.
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Snow is slowly thawing up here but I’ve still had to clear the remainder off the drive so that the cold rain can get to work in removing what’s left.
lower down though it’s probably a different story, certainly little or nothing left as I went down the Calder Valley to do a job at daughter and boyfriends house this morning.
just hope that the temperatures keep above freezing tonight otherwise todays thaw will be lethal.
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2 hours ago, Iceaxecrampon said:
Been awake since 2:45 am.
Dark Very Dark
The Cold Icy Lancashire rain.
Been to the Care Home to see my Mother19-4-28 - 4-12-23
Rest in Peace Mum
Sorry for your loss, RIP.
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Northwest Weather Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards
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I’ll take that for here but you probably better not post it it in the Mad Thread