iand61

Thanks for that Bt, I better leave it out then and find the sledge.

Shovel is ready but does the blue indicate rain? If so i might as well put it away again.

There is always the scenario where the snow arrives over the region, becomes stationary and the cold air is never mixed out. After a 48 hour fall amounting to over 2 feet the easterly finally wins out and we are plunged into a 3 week long deep freeze. Highly unlikely i admit as even a moderate version of this became extinct 30 years ago but we can always hope.

Just went out to the bin and was met by three tiny snow flakes passing by. It's stopped again now but who said we wouldn't get anything from this easterly

Nowt here at the moment although the radar is showing some light showers starting to come over the Pennines from Yorkshire. Can see us getting much but enything is better than the nothing which is being forecast.

yes it's next weeks forecast after the biggest invasion from the east since Genghis Khan gives up without as much as a wimper.

Showers from the East are making it quite a way in land now looking at the satelite. It all seems a little to marginal today though with some in the Yorkshire thread reporting snow although others, even with considerable altitude only getting rain. Personally I can't see them making it over to this side of the Pennines as the current alignment is pushing them NW but with only a modest change to more of a westerly direction we could be in with a shout. That said i can't imagine much falling and even with altitude, it could be sleet at best.

same here. it goes with what the GFS snow risk map is saying but completely against MetO and BBC forecasts which show us dry enough for the next 5 days to warrant a hosepipe ban.

Think of this as a trade off and sacrifice today's snow which, looking at temperatures will be at best slushy and worst rain for deeper embeded cold and a greater chance during the coming week. Or get the Prozac ready for when the East gets buried under feet of snow and the NW becomes, as is often the case in these circumstances the Sunshine State.

1.4'c and has been fairly steady for the last couple of hours.

Whether it's phantom or not, only those sitting under it can answer but the problem is that must people currently sat under it will have to be in boats. I want to share your optimism here and hope you're right with the direction the arrows are showing because it would certainly give us something from the large area currently North of the region; but i still feel it is being held back towards the west and until something (hopefully snow) falls I will not be convinced.

Can't see it verifying. If it does then i'd suspect they'll be some happy folk on here and plenty of red faces at the MetO and on the BBC as they try and explain why they missed it.

Unfortunately from an IMBY point of view i have to agree with those who say that west is best with the extent of pecipitation from this front. I think that the common boundary for North West weather patterns, the M6 will again play its part and i can't see much if anything falling to the east of that line. Even the large area showing on the radar to the noth of our region is backing towards the SW and out to sea again. As i said earlier, the blocking to the east is just to strong but if that helps me hold onto the snow we've already got i'm not really that bothered.

Yes it seems to start sliding south as soon as it reaches the north west coast. It apears that the blocking to the east is having an effect so it's looking like game over for now although TBH looking at the forecasts it was never really game on for our part of the region. Anyway i'd sooner have a dry day than one where promised snow actually falls as rain and washes our cover away.

Yes just looked out and it does seem a bit drizzly, certainly a poor day compared to yesterday. Worryingly the temperature has just climbed above freezing on my side of the valley at least so as you said; with frozen ground it will become even more icy underfoot. The radar is starting to show showers at least threatening to reach our area so we stand a chance of something, but whether that something is wet or white is anyones guess.

What a beautiful winters morning, clear blue skies with only partial cloud, currenly -2.8c and a covering of crunchy snow underfoot. Other than watching a blizzard rage and snow pile up from the comfort of your home it doesn't get much better than this. Hopefully off out now to try and get some miles underfoot and a few pictures. As for Sunday, BBC are showing the possibility that the frontal snow "may" reach the North West but personally i wouldn't put my last tenner on it and TBH, if that means the associated milder air also getting here i'd be happy if it stopped offshore to give the cold a chance to set in before the beasterly arrives.

If you'd managed to escape to Todmorden i can't imagine why you'd want to try and get back to Bacup.

BBC are certainly ramping up the chances of frontal snow for the NW on Sunday although with reservations of how far across the country it would get. Could be some interesting times ahead especially if that massive cold pool from Eastern Europe decides to come over here looking for work.

We had a heavy sleet to snow to sleet type of shower about 6pm which covered the ground and cars and although it is now fine, has not melted other than immediately outside the house. Looking at the satelite, it appears that the current shower area has now passed over the Pennines although there seems to be another cluster just leaving NI so possibly a wake to to white could be on the cards for parts of the North tomorrow.

Not sure if i'm on the right one here but if my memory serves me right the snow on the forecast by John Kettley resulted in it taking me 4 hours to travel the 6 miles from work to home, a journey which normally i can do in 20 minutes. In over 1 hour of that time i travelled 20 feet and only then after about a dozen of us had pushed a bus far enough to free it from completely blocking the road.

It's certainly been another wild day in these parts with high winds and rain since lunchtime. The additional rain falling on saturated ground is having an effect as the normally babling brook just beyong the bottom of our garden, a tributory of the Irwell is now back to this mornings high levels. I can immagine flooding being a problem in many areas if the rain keeps up overnight as forecast.

Absolutely peeeeeeeeeeeeeeeing down and blowing a gale here and has been since lunchtime and looking at the radar i would suspect that it's far from over yet. It's been one of the wildest couple of days i've seen for a long time.

I'll take back what i said. It might only be sleet but everything is now white and the temperature is down to 2.7'c Amazing what a heavy shower can do to the temperature.

currently having a heavy hail/sleet shower along with some very gusty winds. temperaure is at 3.7'c so can't see anything other than sleet tonight.

Currently 5.8'c here so not much chance of anything wintry falling. It's certainly been a wild last 24 hours or so with the wind roaring throughout the night and has rained almost constantly since the early hours although it's fine at the moment. Hopefully a change in year will bring a change in weather patterns although there is little to suggest a major shift at present.