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Radar shows the rain and drizzle have died out but it’s still raining up here. oh how much do I love living on an exposed SE facing hillside in conditions like this

No surprise that the stuff falling from the skies today is happy to focus directly across our region. steady drizzle and a technically mild 9c, the worst thing possible but if it had been snow i would have bet my last fiver that it would have somehow managed to avoid this side of the Pennines before pepping up again over on the Yorkshire side.

Non of the brightness here to make the very mild temperatures on paper feel very mild in the flesh. We were cloaked in dampness pretty much through with some steadier rain this afternoon and although it reached 14c, it was still a jacket day outside at work although to stop a wet shirt rather than needing to wrap up from the cold.

Could hear the rain on the roof as the band of rain/showers crossed earlier but hopefully it’s cleared through now and we might just scrape a reasonable day. as already, said, it’s been wet for what seems an eternity and whether the actual figures show anything approaching record breaking or not, it’s well up there in the depressing charts. hopefully lighter evenings will coincide with an improvement and at the moment I’ll take either cold or mild providing it’s dry. just need a break from the rain

Scuba steve might be altitude sickness living that high up asl seriously though, hope your on the mend again soon

cheshire snow strange looking chart that, maybe one of the newspaper headline makers 400 mile mega snowblizzardweathertropdeathbomb that usually ends up with a millimetre of slush that’s gone in 10 minutes.

Heard the rain when I went to bed last night but it didn’t keep me away so it was either not that heavy here or I was tired, probably a bit of both as I after a couple of later nights, I usually start the working week more tired than I end it. Not the best of forecasts today with rain setting in to give an increasingly wet afternoon and evening and not much better tomorrow. No surprise at all that when the outlook is anything but cold and seasonal, the cloud and rain will do it’s best to take away any benefit available from the very mild conditions on offer. dreary at best

Forecast is for showers moving in after dark and maybe, just maybe wintry over high ground. not expecting to be high enough here but we’ll see, it’s certainly felt cold enough today, even with a bit of sunshine about.

Dry morning but increasingly damp as the afternoon went on. not heavy, that fine rain Peter Kay said soaks you through and it cleared off just in time for dusk. it always amazes me how often a poor day suddenly bucks up just as it starts to go dark or in the summer, around 6 o’clock. as already said, some drifts still left behind the walls and quite a bit along the sides of the higher parts of the road over to Burnley.

Looks like it’s a low level fog sort of morning. certainly not bright and sunny up here but no mist or fog either.

Rush2019 great to see you are feeling up to getting out again and that the treatment is imminent. Hope everything goes ok.

As already said, it’s nice to have a dry and hopefully sunny day coincide with the weekend and perfect timing for our pre planned look down into Manchester for a meal and a few drinks. whatever you are up to, enjoy

Rush2019 had to push the last of mine down the drive so I could get the cars on but it was a minute of a job as 90% of what came down yesterday had already melted before I came home from work. even the tops are looking green again now apart from the odd white streak along the back of the walls. there used to be a saying around these parts that if the snow lays against the walls then more is on the way but I don’t think that any of this lot will be here long enough to make that claim.

severe snowstorm My missus wasn’t happy with my wet two inches either but she didn’t say whether it was to much or not enough for her Seriously though, I get where you are coming from but if that’s the best that a mid winter storm with embedded cold sourced air can deliver at 1000ft asl in northern England then we don’t have a lot to get excited about moving forwards. It’s a shame but whilst our “cold” is still readily available, it’s becoming less and less the type that brings snow and more the technically mild but still raw feeling crap that gets right into your bones as was the case up here yesterday and is still a problem today.

Now that the last chances of snow are being replaced by rain, was there anyone in the region who actually ended up with more than they were forecast or expected. Up here, even taking the usual last minute downgrades into consideration, the couple of inches of wet snow I ended up with was poor compared to what I was expecting. yes the yellow warning was probably warranted but only down to the condition of the roads and the number of local accidents and closures and certainly not because of the amount of snow which ended up falling. The local roads that cross the higher tops were pretty bad with snow blowing off the fields with some decent photos on the local FB page but to put it into context, it’s the third covering of snow we have had this winter and although it had the least depth and is the one likely to vanish the quickest, was the only one to be given a weather warning. oh and I was only a couple of miles outside of the amber warning. not particularly bothered as I am fast heading into spring mode and just want the icy slushy mess to disappear but given what we were looking at just 48 hours ago, it was a disappointing let down.

I thought I heard rain overnight but little has melted since I got home and closed the curtains yesterday. just hope that what’s left is slush rather than ice or it’ll be lethal on the roads up here this morning.

Heavy snow is giving another covering where I cleared it earlier but it looks like it won’t be long before the back edge arrives. It’s certainly vile outside at the moment.

Just above the snow line here and so far we’ve ended up with a couple of inches cover whereas further down the valley it’s barely stuck even though it’s fallen constantly since it came light. somethings still falling or rather blowing horizontally on a bitter east wind but I’m not sure what and it’s certainly not in large flake form. all in all a disappointing day, even up here with the double whammy of marginal temperatures and lighter than expected precipitation although maybe our loss has been someone else’s gain.

Should we be worried that it’s currently making no progress north beyond Manchester. not sure whether it’s stopping or just dying but hopefully the heavier stuff which is catching up will give the first bit the kick up the backside it needs. either that or it’s the usual Manchester shield setting up.

Day 10 hope everyone’s sees snow although I’m sure there’s some out there who would prefer drizzle.

Looking at the radar, the first of whatever is falling will reach here in about an hour which matches the MET app for OL13. after that it’s showing snow symbols throughout until the evening before things turn a bit more sleety afterwards. in the meantime though, the winds is already getting noisy around the side of house so an interesting day coming up and anyone on high ground is going to get hammered. work is a fair bit lower than home although still above 600ft but sure I’ll be looking at the door camera and checking on the speed of traffic going up the hill to the county boundary at the summit.

rob_b not a chance, it’s probably shut already on the chance that we’ll get a flake or two. if it’s not closed by snow it’s closed by accidents

Scuba steve think we’d better cancel the outside caterers and put the emergency chairs back in the shed again

algernon remember a good few years ago digging the car out to take daughter to her weekend job in Bury. the roads up here were atrocious but I managed to get behind the snow plough down to Rawtenstall. we got there in the end but not a flake of snow in Bury and daughter got a roasting for being late in.

algernon aye, Haslingden Road closed tonight for yet another burst water main. only the fourth time in a year so a 4 mile detour coming home and probably the same again in the morning. M66 and and the A56 bypasses are decent but the main roads up the valleys are diabolical and mainly used as training grounds for utility digging and temporary light setup. never mind at least the snow will fill the potholes in