Alex95

Turned to rain here. Hopefully the next lot will be on Sunday!

Forgot to mention we have a very light sprinkling here from the overnight snow.

Poor GFS 00z again, with rain even on high ground on Monday. The ECM is still good, so it could be the GFS overdoing the shortwave to the NW of Scotland which prevents the easterly from really getting here. Yesterday's 0z was awful as well, and I had hoped it was a one off.

The 18z is more marginal, but full of potential for heavy snow at times. Monday is still 4 days away yet so we definitely need a few more runs. No sign of the heavy rain and significant warm sector shown on the 06z.

Big upgrades on the 12z GFS, -10 850s knocking on the door by Monday morning with plenty of snow from the North Sea as well. Sunday looks dry to me with the precipitations mainly staying out west, but tomorrow morning could surprise some if that weakening band of snow makes it far enough east.

The easterly on Sunday - Tuesday is firming up now, but rather than being a convective, showery easterly it looks like there'll be a low pressure centre in the North Sea, and a band of heavy snow straddling somewhere in the east. The current GFS gives the North East quite a bit of snow, without over analysing where it is showing the heaviest bursts as obviously its too far away for that. It looks remarkably similar to the blizzard which mainly affected higher ground a few weeks ago, but next week looks less marginal at the moment. There is a warm sector further south though, and I can guarantee this will be modelled to move up the east coast nearer the time, so we really need this to be downplayed as much as possible.

Not much snow this week, but it has certainly been colder than average, which I think is about 7 degrees at this time of year. This has certainly been a decent winter overall, roughly on par with 04/05 or 03/04 in terms of snow, but with less mild in between the cold spells.

Snowing in Newcastle.

Had heavy snow for half an hour at lunch time, but it has since been sunny lifting the temperature to +4C. I suspect tomorrow will be disappointing, really we need a cold frosty night before the snow showers arrive, but that isn't going to happen tonight. December 5th this year was good because the ground was sub zero so every flake stuck.

Just a slight dusting here.

Very little snow lying here now, melted as quickly as it came down! Looks good for some more showers soon though.

Gone a bit sleety here, we need some heavier showers again!

It is still quite wet here with thawing between the showers, but I think an inch or two is realistic by the morning if the temperature drops some more as there is plenty of precipitation about tonight.

Still really heavy here, the road is properly covered now.

Very heavy now with large flakes, and its starting to settle. Not bad for a westerly!

Heavy sleet, snow and grauple here. Its heavy enough to have left a slushy layer despite how wet it is.

Certainly looks like an interesting week, the type where snow events spring up at short notice.

What a cracking weekend in the Lakes, yesterday especially was very sunny and crisp. Tomorrow night could throw us a surprise - Western Scotland, Northern Ireland and Cumbria will bear the brunt of the cold westerly, but the winds will be gale force so some of those snow showers could make it over here. I still think the northerly midweek could deliver as well as it looks like being slightly east of due north.

Rain here in Newcastle.

Almost no snow left now, just a few patches on the grass and of course the piles of snow are still there. I must admit, this weather makes me wish Spring was around the corner!

Still about 80% cover here - that's a full two weeks! It still looks awfully icy out there in the footpaths where the ice hasn't melted yet.

Still 90% cover here on the grass, but obviously its getting thin now. Hopefully the ice will have completely melted from the pavements by tomorrow, today was a nightmare as the thaw is making it wet and even more slippy!

Still an inch or so lying on the grass, making this the 14th day of lying snow. (13th at 9am).

Quite a bit of snow left at Consett today but I wouldn't say there's much more than the major towns and cities got in 2010. It's starting to melt properly here with rain, and we've just had a pretty big avalanche from the roof.

December 4th 2008 springs to mind, had 2 inches or so here bringing the first significant snow since 2006!! Those years should remind us how spoiled we've been lately. Some people are complaining because the depths haven't exceeded about 6 inches at low levels generally, and there's been some thawing between snow events - I'd take that over 2007 any day!