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3 minutes ago, winterof79 said:

Thanks for your input Kasim looking tasty over the border.

Any chance you can have a look at west yorkshire as im a bit worried about the effect of the pennines our side

I wouldn’t worry about snow crossing the Pennines from the west.

past experience tells us that it seldom has a problem doing so and often peps up as it hits West Yorkshire.

Its the other way that it often struggles but I think you’ll be fine.

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27 minutes ago, Ramp said:

What apps do people use? I have met, beeb and iPhone app but all are useless.

The beeb currently showing more than anything else as regards snowfall which is unusual.

Just looked at the BBC one and it is showing snow on and off throughout the evening and into the early hours of Sunday which would give at least a festive covering for many.

the last forecast I saw was also updated and did at least focus on a bit of snow crossing northern England this evening rather than going straight into Sunday.

the Met app for my location has updated, by removing the solitary flake it was showing at tea time so it’s a case of now casting.

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6 minutes ago, WillinGlossop said:

Definitely could be interesting… love a good now cast when it comes to snow… could reap the rewards if we’re lucky  

wow looking at ECM run… tonight & Sunday into Monday wow

Just hope the Met and Beeb see it

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35 minutes ago, Day 10 said:

One other quick post.

Upgrades from the ECM!

If the charts are anything to go off then the Met need to change their app for here pretty soon.

Looking at that, I am right in the sweet spot but apart from the slightest chance of a snow shower later this afternoon and rain on Monday, it’s dry throughout.

As already said, the Met and Beeb are either way of the mark or know something we don’t

as for this morning, no snow here but everything as white as it’s possible to get by frost alone.

edit, just watched the BBC breakfast forecast and their still having non of it with nothing up here and more interest in rain further south.

Mondays event is also south of us so somebody is way off the mark, hopefully the BBC.

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Can’t wait for 3am on Sunday to see my single flake fluttering past the lamp post.

At least it’s an improvement on teatime when nothing at all was showing.

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6 minutes ago, matty40s said:

Blackpool is only 50 miles away, you dont know what you've been missing...

Don’t worry I’ve plenty of those lights in my time although not for a few years.

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3 minutes ago, Had Worse said:

So on your birthday you'll become iand62

No thankfully it was the year I was born and not my age so I can stick with it until I go to that great snow storm in the sky

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Looking at the Met app, it’s drier than a camels backside here until at least Thursday and even then it’s a rain symbol to coincide with the arrival of milder air.

nothing at all before that with even my lonely two flakes showing in the early hours of Sunday now firmly binned.

I’m sure that cold didn’t always mean dry in winters when I was growing up but maybe I have just watched too many versions of A Christmas Carol.

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1 hour ago, Had Worse said:

Of course, if you want snow, you need cloud. Id go for snow as it is getting rarer than the Aurora borealis

Well that’s nailed on then, we’ll have enough cloud to stop clear visibility but the snow will fall somewhere else.

nearly 62 years old and I’ve still to see the northern lights

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Not dropped too far here and currently only -2c

possibly a bit of cloud cover with us being so far east in the region but no signs of any more snow overnight, just the remains of that from the night before.

watched the BBC forecast and, as already mentioned, it showed the chances of a more organised area of snow crossing the region later on Saturday so maybe a covering for many to wake up to and a festive feel on Sunday.

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Just had a quick peek in the mad thread and to say it’s all a bit confusing is an understatement.

The best I can grasp from it is that somewhere in the UK may get a bit of snow sometime over the weekend and beginning of next week.

could be north, south, east, west or the bit in the middle and it could be anything between 1 and 6cm and where this will happen seems to be dictated by the location of the individual posters with the only chart shown being the one with the snow immediately over the poster’s location.

I can’t see everyone being right and there’s far more chance of everyone being wrong but I’d imagine that the safest bet is that it will remain cold over the next few days which means that someone may get some snow from anything that falls from the sky.

Back to today, last nights slight covering is still fully intact on our shaded drive and front lawn but it’s gone from anywhere with sunshine.

Jo on Granada just been hinting at a few snow showers over the weekend but nothing more substantial than that.

 

 

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7 hours ago, Iceaxecrampon said:

+72 GFS 06z looking festive 

Slight northerly correction please

Not being greedy, 30 miles or so will do and maybe another 20 towards the east

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Lightest of dusting here but reading the other posts it looks like the heavier showers were north and south of me.

Hopefully we’ll see a bit more in the way of showers as we head into the weekend and I’d certainly like a bit of snow falling when we do a bit of Christmas fair visiting on Saturday but if not, just being cold and festive will do.

just watched the BBC. Forecast and she talked about a breakdown into next week as a weather system comes in from the west.

strangely though she happily mentioned a spell of rain and introducing milder air without talking about the snow graphics showing as the front came across the country.

That said, we haven’t had a half decent snowy breakdown for a few years and the classic ones of the 70’s and 80’s seem impossible to get these days so she’s probably right that it will be a two flakes then rain event.

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Went down to -4c overnight and briefly reached 1c this afternoon but back below freezing again now.

as others have said, frost remained in shaded areas throughout including the north facing front roof of our house which now has two days frost on it.

nice to see a couple of snow symbols on the Met app for the early hours, probably won’t happen but for the first time this winter, operation move the car up the drive will commence once my wife is home and parked up.

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18 minutes ago, Day 10 said:

Hmmm

That’s more like it although I could do with a bit more of a westerly flow to get it further inland.

Better go and check that the cooker works or stock up on microwave meals

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7 hours ago, Day 10 said:

It's crazy, been following it for the last 3 Winter's and each Winter has trended lower than the last. It definitely helped the coast with those marginal events last year.

 

I can see why the Hyperbole Thread is excited now.

I'm sure a red warning will be issued in due course

A snow shower pushing south at the weekend.

Imagine the chaos if that one heading south collided with the one just crossing from the Channel into Kent.

Probably be looking at approaching a cm from that lot so we’re definitely in red warning territory

Shades of 47 and 63 with footage of Just Eat drivers clambering over snow drifts pulling sledges of cold Chinese and burgers while half starving customers try to find the instructions for using the cooker in case they don’t make it

Channel 5 are already gathering together the usual celebrities to tell us how they somehow managed to survive the mm’s of slush from the white hell that was early December 2023.

 

 

 

 

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2 minutes ago, Iceaxecrampon said:

Sorry Chaps. 
Not Sunday now it’s Wednesday

…….for Cumbria

Just make sure you don’t nail it down too much.

sorry for sounding like someone from the Mad thread but could i do with a 50 mile southerly correction 

 

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Yorkshire dales are pigging out on my showers

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10 minutes ago, Scuba steve said:

Microclimate

It’s all that salt air that does it

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1 minute ago, Scuba steve said:

Only rain here which was expected  soon cleared to leave a bright cold day 

At 9000m asl you’d expect to get a bit of sleet at least

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1 minute ago, A Face like Thunder said:

I can see blue sky in the distance but it seems to be taking an awfully long time to reach here in S Cheshire.

It’s barely reached here, a bit brighter at times but the clearance never really arrived.

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8 minutes ago, Iceaxecrampon said:

Thursdays out chaps. 
It’s Sunday now 

Nailed on

Just hope they’re better nails than those that were holding Thursdays

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Good to see the showers getting a good few miles in from the east coast 

Still giving up a long way from here and not even sure whether they are wet or white but it’s a start.

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Didn’t amount to anything in the end but nice to see a bit of snow falling as the back edge passed through.

27th November for the first sign of anything wintry is pushing it a bit up here but it’s probably a sign of the times and even the great winter of 78-79 didn’t give us anything until the very end of November and even that was a blink and you’ll miss it affair with mild soon taking over and then nothing remotely wintry until almost new year.

At least this is a continuation of the cold though rather than a return to mild andthat a couple of rogue showers make it across the Pennines in the coming days.

could be a few surprises across the region.

 

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Starting to turn to big flakes of sleety snow here now.

3.2 c so probably not amount to anything but maybe a bit of a covering on the tops before it clears through.