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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

Looking at the timing, I can’t see snow being a problem going to work in the morning but it could be an interesting drive home again later. I’m just outside the amber area here but it’s looking more and more like altitude will play a big part so I can see all of the Rossendale area, even the valley bottom getting a covering which will play havoc with the already crappy and full Victorian road system. Roads over the tops still look to be in for a pasting though so just glad home is the highest I have to drive.

Weather-history yeah the signs are there for one of the heaviest falls of widespread snow for several years and ironically it could come in one of least snowy winters. Maybe something along the lines of January 2013 is coming where a heavy fall across the region was gone within a couple of days and given it coincided with me being in London for the weekend; the only snow I saw was on the Saturday morning news. But apart from the late March BFTE blizzard, it was largely snow free even up here.

Iceaxecrampon aye the bad old days when you had to work hard to get your weather fix how did we manage

Had Worse the old fashioned sodium lamps where the snowy sky had an orange colour about it. now it’s all white LED stuff although the first light flakes are easier to spot.

Chris.R I think it all depends on how far north the system gets as the track seems to keep it a bit further south now than it was earlier. We’re certainly in the sweet spot as far as Lancashire, and particularly East Lancashire goes if the heavier stuff reaches here and should be far enough north to be clear of the Manchester rain shadow but we’ll see.

tvh3382 dry, lengthy sunny spells and temperatures into the low 20’s here in Rossendale then maybe warming up a bit over the weekend

Day 10 strange how I couldn’t see charts like this in the Mad thread. plenty showing everything across the Midlands and CSE but none showing snow across the north. do they know something we don’t.

Day 10 even our region is going to struggle to get a let down looking at those pictures seriously though, if the depths shown even come close to being accurate then crossing the South Pennines and Peaks is going to be impossible on Thursday and probably into the weekend. Even the falls in the classic past winters were not usually measured in depths between one and two feet and a heavy fall these days is a few cm’s, not approaching 50.

The Northern Ramper easterlies are usually pretty good for here and straight westerly’s also deliver providing the air source is cold enough but for different reasons, both are rare.

As already said, a wet day coming up before a dry day tomorrow and then a wet day again on Thursday. Whether Thursday is wet or white remains to be seen although hopefully all those who want snow will see a bit of it at some stage during the day. good to see the Mad thread back to what it’s intended for at the moment, talking about what is on the horizon rather than being turned into an extended southern regional thread although that probably reflects the expected location of Thursdays snow rather than the usual suspects realising that it isn’t the place to throw toys from prams. nothing more sure than they will be back in the future though and we’ll have to trawl though pages of nonsense to find an expert post of what is actually going on.

Chris.R go in and post the snow amounts for Chester and Wigan. then run like hell

The Northern Ramper no it looks like Wigans taking it all

Jackski4 probably the age and knowledge of a lot of the posters.

Just had a quick look in the Mad thread but gave up after a couple of pages of the usual suspects down south seeing something completely different in the charts that us up north.

Spah1 I hope the charts are right and not the NW 7 day forecast for my postcode which is showing a couple of hours sleet around Thursday lunchtime and bone dry apart from that. on the other hand, the Met app is showing heavy snow throughout Thursday and into Friday morning.