Koyli19

hello turna well i'm not in barton either (infact i am working from home today) <_< we can only hope that the snow falls heavily enough later on for it to start laying.

awwwww, thank you for doing that snow still falling here but so far not too heavy. temp here 2.0c

getting its act together here now too, although still on the light side.

sounds good any idea of temperatures where you are at the moment? hello beverley lass. is it settling where you are, and do you have any idea of current temperatures? hope you are enjoying out little taste of winter

its snowing <_< but its very light and very fine hello flagpole is it heavy and settling? yeah, okay, thanks for that. just put my temperature sensor outside, and it is reading 2.1c at the moment.

i am watching the radar on that link you posted and it looks like as the precipiation hits our area it diminishes as it heads further south - almost like it hits a boundary line. (hope that makes sense) edit: still no sign of any kind of precipitation here

and here in the cold, grey gloom - nothing ! not even one flake

great link tomb raider legend - thanks the only other thing that comes to my mind with this situation is the influence of the ridge of high pressure, but i have a feeling that the words "clutching" and "straws" may have relevance.

meto rainfall radar image for 1130 indicates that the precipitation is dying as it closes in on the humber area

well the obvious conclusion is the radar phenomenon known as "anaprop", but that alone doesn't really answer anything. you are very right about sleet and snow falling at temperatures well above freezing, sometimes even as high as 8c - april showers for example - but then the temperature plummets when the precipitation falls, and anything that settles quickly melts again in the sun!

oops ah well, it had to happen i suppose, but theres still a chance for you tomb raider legend.

that looks like its from that narrow band of precipitation showing on the radar from west of the humber down towards birmingham. if my memory is correct swinton is near mexborough and at a fair height above sea level too.

dry at the moment but becoming increasingly overcast from the north as altostratus cloud thickens and lowers. colder this morning than yesterday but with light winds at the mopment.

thanks very much for posting those, and, providing we lose the on-shore wind and therefore the effects caused by SST's etc, then we have a very good chance. snowball fight anyone?

yep, looks good to me, but what about temps at the 500hpa and 850hpa levels? is the -5c isotherm over or near us?

okay i will note those times and await the dumping

yeah, i will do later, but, unless things change as the band moves south then that radar image you posted clearly shows light to moderate snowfall. time will tell of course.

okay, i stand corrected, but then again i don't yet have netweathers radar facilities.

its becoming increasingly overcast here now - clouds are looking ever more threatening. the leading edge of the front lloks more like rain or sleet to me on the radar, but the greens and yellows are probably the snow. yep, thats what we want - what we really, really want

theres a specified place in everyones home for a good dumping 3 coverings in 7 days, eh? thats alot of snowballs

well i think it about our turn now - what say you?

hello tomb raider legend and cal2 yes there is a very good chance of snow in our area today as a band of precipitation heads southwards. forecast is for a covering by nightfall almost anywhere - even the coast has a chance being inland and at a higher elevation you should fare well from this situation

snowing here too matt, mixed with some kind of hail-like graupel its also much windier and has got alot colder in the past hour or so. amount very small though.

cold here? well yes, but not as deeply cold as other areas inland. snowy here? there has been some but very short-lived, and therefore does not compare to areas hardest hit. it has certainly been more winter-like though, and whilst there has been snowfall of short duration in recent years there has been nothing to really compare to what happened in December 1981 and January 1982 when this area was in almost total white-out, and for once the usual protection offered by SST's etc, failed. as for the rest of february, well i prefer to see what happens :lol:

showery rain has cleared now, and the sun is shining somewhat fitfully between areas of altocumulus cloud. just had a look at meto rainfall radar, and that same band of showery precipitation seems to have intensified in the past hour or so.