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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.

Had Worse well looking at the third goal, Liverpools keeper couldn’t stop a pig in a ginnel bet he’s not tested as much next weekend though when they play us

Had Worse give it time, it’s coming.

WillinGlossop the usual suspects in the Mad thread are already doing snow dances to drag it all south and given past experience, I think they’ll end up with it.

WillinGlossop sweet spot right over my head and less than 5 days out out. what could possibly go wrong

Day 10 Met probably put it up for the northwest by mistake. should have been the southeast forecast instead

from the latest Met update Outlook for Tuesday to Thursday: Cloudy and windy on Tuesday with heavy rain arriving later. Colder and brighter on Wednesday, then rain and snow on Thursday, possibly heavy and disruptive in places. Windy at times. Not sure whether it’s possibly disruptive as either snow or rain but I’ll take the possibility better get the potential snow shovel out just in case

Iceaxecrampon Scuba Steve should be ok up in Arnside at 9000m but maybe just a wet mix for the rest of us

Spah1 and here’s me wishing I lived at the seaside. anyway I’ll let you know what it’s like although I’m expecting the the south to end up with it all, either that or it pretty much stops north of the border.

Definitely a south is best type of day. drizzle here since mid morning and although the radar showed it clearing away from this immediate area for a while, it certainly carried on. maybe it doesn’t take into account low clouds and altitude but let’s see if the next dry slot ends up being dry.

I was hoping that it would leave it until later but the drizzle has arrived.