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just arrived back from spending New Year with friends in Haydock.
only rain yesterday and not a sign of snow until we got on the M66 south of Bury.
arrived home in Bacup to find 8 inches of snow on the drive which needed clearing just to get the car on.
almost every side road here is impossible to drive on with the main roads completely double parked.
temperature on my weather station is currently showing -7.2c.
haven't seen a forecast - is there more snow on its way?
Ian
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Its been snowing here all night, but there is not alot to show for it, but now it seems to have changed, big flakes which seems to cover if they get the chance to hit anything, but its the wind it is howling and the snow is horizontal, not a day to be going outside. The ground temp on the weather station up in Weir is now -1.8 which is much lower than it was last night
Shadowfax
fully agree with that Shadowfax.
hardly covered the car at 7.30 but now seems to be wanting to stick more.
my temperature reading is slowly falling and currently stands at 0.5'c from 0.9'c at 7am
as you said not a day for going out but may venture later and take a few pictures.
after all, even up here snow is never guaranteed
Ian
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Now snowing quite hard in Bacup but still not wanting to stick, other than to the cars.
That said though i wouldn't be surprised if 200ft higher up the hill, the road is covered by now.
Temperature is falling again and is currently 0.7'c.
Still feel that any more than a dusting will be a surprise but given the severe weather warnings currently in place, it may turn out that MetO are not just covering their backs here.
Ian
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still coming down quite hard in Bacup but it's sleet or wet snow at best
sticking to the car roofs but little else
temperature has actually gone up slightly in the last hour or so and is currently 1'c.
still can't see the snow getting bad enough to warrant a severe weather warning but after what was expected earlier today, it could turn out to be the upgrade of the decade.
Ian
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currently 1.5'c here with a cold damp feeling wind.
had the snow equivalent of a 5 minute severe drizzle shower a couple of hours earlier but nothing since.
still think we will get something more substantial later in the day or overnight but a little concered about the temperatures.
drove back from the south coast yesterday and never saw any lying snow until we reached the M62 and M60.
still quite a bit remaining on the ground here in Bacup although even this has turned to more like ice.
Ian
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If the definition of sleet was one rain droplet in every 100 on your windscreen containing a tiny piece of 90% melted ice then i can catagorically state that.
It was definately sleeting 1300ft up on the Lancs Yorks border at 8pm.
Although if only one flake on the London weather centre can make a white Christmas then what i drove through was close to a full blown whiteout.
Current temperature is 2'c so maybe something approaching winter weather is just around the corner.
Ian
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I think that the Eastern parts of both Manchester and Lancashire and Pennine areas in general stand a good chance of some snow during the coming days. Showers blown in on an Easterly often penetrate as far as my part of the world and obviously the altitude helps to keep it as snow.
Some of the best snow falls in this area have come from the East.
We never do as well from a straight Northerly with areas towards the M6 and the coast more in the firing line.
That said though everything is very much up for grabs at present and i feel that many in the snow starved NW could be in for a long awaited Christmas present during the coming days.
Anything is better than the Icy drizzle we have had in Rossendale for most of the day.
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snowing quite hard here and has been for the last hour or so.
starting to stick, but very wet and can imagine it turning back to rain before long
that said though the temperature has actually dropped from 3'c at 7pm to 1'c now.
still, its the first of what hopefully will be many snowy episodes during the next few months.
Ian
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in this part of the region,the biggest difference with the current winter compared to most of the last 20 or so has been the number of days with lying snow.
it's never been overly deep but has stuck around fo many days.
we still have snow in the garden from last weeks fall and that was topped up from the previous week.
the remnants from the falls of early December lasted until the week before Christmas.
the only reasonably mild spells have been the few days leading up to Christmas - thankfully so when we had no gas and a couple of periods during January.
so whatever the final inquest on this winter; one thing is for sure - it's been a cold one and it's not over yet.
maybe still a final throw or two of the dice for us.
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hopefully this picture allows us to see the UK without standing on our head
thanks for the link though, not often we see the UK white like that
looking at that picture it's amazing how little of continental Europe has snow.
looks like we've been rather greedy this year.
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Sorry guys but no amount of wishing and hopecasting will change what will happen.
We may get serious amounts of snow, we may get nowt.
We may even sit here with our sweet nothings while BBC News 24 tells us gloatingly that the South is once again buried under 2 feet of snow.
What happens is out of our hands but within the next 48 hours we will know whether it was our turn or not.
Ian
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I'm gobsmacked to be honest ...
Here in Northamptonshire we always miss the worse of the weather, but this week, god knows why we are the worse hit. 16inches !!!!!!!!!!!! for god sake.
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Megson...OUT!!!!!
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I'll start by asking again - our chances for tomorrow's storm - anyone?From a model point of view i would say that we stand a fair (nothing more than that) chance of seeing something from it.
Certainly the more southern parts of the region could get something out of this event.
if i was to pinpoint an area where snow may become a serious problem it would have to be the Peak District.
A more southerly location and altitude should give it advantage over the rest of us.
I would, purely from a selfish point of view, hope that the South Pennines got a complete pasting but the more sensible side of me thinks that it will not happen.
On the whole i feel that the North West is once again going to miss out on anything major.
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Well, I can only recommend to you chaps to leave the pc alone for a a few hours and go out in the Peak District, loads of snow there and today it started snowing mid-afternoon and by 6pm, it was a winter wonderland. Roads were pretty bad mind you, even main axis like the Macc-Buxton A road was hair-rising at times.
Is that the Cat & Fiddle road?
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Should not laugh but
I dunno why the North West is missing so much of this ...
I'm 41 now, and can still remember when the North West got bucket loads.
Same here.
Even living in the highest town asl. in Lancashire doesn't guarantee snow anymore
Something has changed. The position of the region hasn't but even in the middle of what may turn out to be the worst winter for a generation, we can't seem to get the right set up for a decent slice of the cake.
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Something like this?
Brilliant Snowdrifter
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Stopped snowing here leaving a grand total of 4cm.
Hardly the stuff that memorable winters are made of but more than i saw all last winter and sufficient to top up what is still on the ground.
It will be interesting to see what happens if it freezes as regards school closures in the morning.
My daughter's school has now been closed on three occasions this winter......2 days in early December and once at the end of January.
That is more days lost to the weather than in my whole school career.
My how times have changed!
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Still snowing here in Bacup although not quite as heavy as it was earlier.
That said though, it hasn't been much of an event.
About 3 centimetres at the most has fallen which considering it started at 3pm is rather poor.
Temperature is just at freezing point but isn't forecast to go as low as on the previous couple of nights.
Still got some drifts in lanes and against walls from the Monday snowfall.
Took a few pictures which i will try and post.
I can't see us getting anything from Monday's and Tuesday's storm.
Models are pushing it further north than was previously the case but i think the best we can hope for are some light flurries.
Maybe more for South Manchester, Cheshire areas although the way that the systems of the last few days have behaved, anything from blinding snow to driving rain can't be ruled out and no areas including our own can be considered to have no chance.
Hopefully the fact that UKMO have a weather warning for us is based on hard facts rather than covering all options.
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i know it's easy to sulk at our own situation but i think there is much to be said for just how uninteresting the weather is in NW England.
don't get me wrong i for one have the utmost sympathy for anyone who gets flooded out and came very close to injury at work during a severe gale in January 2007.
i have also spent many occasions digging my car out of snow drifts and had to leave it for the night on a few.
however on the whole our region does not experience severe weather events.
we are occasionally, as with the January 2007 gales part of the action but seldom the place which makes the headlines.
would be interesting to see what information Mr. Data has on North West based severe weather events over the years.
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Yes we do , and really drives me mad , i do like it up these parts but the weather really frustrates me..my Dad still lives in Birmingham and you guarantee that in the summer it's sunnier and hotter down there and in the winter it's colder and snowier...i think the only thing we beat them with is RAIN!!!
even the type of rain that makes the news misses the North West
we usually end up with torrential drizzle or as Peter Kay says that fine rain that soaks you through.
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I think it is probably even worse in St Helens (if that is possible), as they are nearer to the sea/Mersey and at quite a low level..i used to work in St Helens and on the very odd occasion it snowed in Wigan you could bet your life on it that it would be raining there
must admit we've had several overnight and weekend stays there during the last 10 or so winters and can never remember seing any snow on the ground.
they spent a New Year period with us about 4 years back and followed the midnight celebrations and plenty of alcohol by having snow ball fights and pushing stranded cars on the road outside our house.
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Do you think we might get something this afternoon from those showers coming down from the north, the cloud in Bacup keeps coming and going, but no real thaw in evidence, its still thick on the ground.
Shadowfax
be very surprised if we got anthing for than a few flurrys today, the wind direction is from the north which means that the Cumbrian mountains get in our way much the same as the Pennines are such a pain for easterly snow across western Lancashire & Cheshire.
it is looking quite positive for tomorrow and at least we currently have snow about although not as much as earlier in the week.
10cm would equate to more than the total snowfall we have had in the last 20 years,i moved here in 1989 from Snowy Brumyes Wigan isn't exacly the snow caital of the UK is it.
we have friends who live in St. Helens who can't believe the amount of snow we get here.
if we had known them 20 years earlier though, they wouldn't believe how little we now got compared to then
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Met Office advisory has just been updated and now includes more of the uk with the northern extent running into southern Scotland and the southern edge now covering most of the Midlands .
The amount of snow forecast has also been increased slightly although i must add, 10cm is hardly "The Day After Tomorrow" stuff.Geographically speaking our region is, for once bang centre of the action rather than on the edge, or as been the case lately, just beyond the edge.
It will be interesting to see what we can achieve from this set up.
Please, please no downgrades.
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Couldnt tell you what the exact temp here is because my station does not go below 0c for some odd reason lol, but heres how it looks this morning....
RE: Sundays event. Without getting everybodies hopes up.. Tomorrows event still looking ok, and as far as the region as a whole is concerned its looking better for all compaired to mondays snow event especially those in the north of the region around the cumbria area which could see a pasting. The bulk of the intense ppn seems to want to head SE through wales. That said its possible for most of the NW to see accumilations of sorts.
The above is subject to changes between now and tommorrow.
Temperature here got down to -6.8c but seemed to fluctuate during the night.
It has risen quite sharply since daylight and now stands at -0.8c.
During the last hour or so patchy cloud has moved in which has probably helped the rise.
Can't see us getting anything much in the way of snow from the cloud as we seem to usually miss showers from a Northerly but i live in hope!
Still a few inches of snow on the grass if it wishes to add to it.
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The slight differences in temperatures will be caused by intermitent cloud cover causing fluctuations, app minus 2 deg.C here.
There will be an overnight frost - which helps when any rainbands come in over the next few days.
Follwing a brief analysis tonight my confidence of a 'major snow event' for the north-west has decreased slightly. The potential has laways been there but I have a bad feeling we are going to get let down again.
Agree H*S
Saw the news 24 weather earlier and it showed much potential for a decent fall of snow tomorrow afternoon/evening.
However we have been here before and i still feel that we miss out on the action again.
Can't see snow not falling with forecast temperatures being sufficiently low but i think the amount will be minimal to say the least.
Possibly more in our part of the region with altitude enhancing the precipitaion but even here nothing to cause many problems.
I could be wrong however and we may wake up to a fall great enough to remember in years to come.
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temperature now at -8.1c and with plenty of snow cover and clear skies can see it dropping below -10c
last winter i think the lowest i recorded was -9c.
please don't take this as gloating but; as i posted earlier, it amazes me how much snow we currently have here compared to other parts of the North West.
i suppose its compensation for enduring crap weather in the summer.
after all a heatwave up here in the Pennines is when you can take your jumper off.
Ian