SteveElbows

Oh dear Ive just seen breaking news on BBC site that the deathtoll has reached 40.

Dont know, but on the site Im using the Gascogne buoy data lags behind other data in that area, creating a slightly misleading impression, as the low is actually now beyond that bouy. New data from that buoy that Ive just seen shows that pressure has shot up from 969.4 at 11GMT to 979.4 at 00GMT! A couple of sites on the French coast are reporting 971mb as of about 10 minutes ago.

Yeah its mostly rain here too with the present blob thats overhead, wasnt sure if you would fare better in that regard due to elevation but I guess not. Its making an interesting hissing noise anyway, bye bye snow.

Looks like Bedworth could fare significantly better than Nuneaton from the incoming heavy stuff, as usual.

Actually upon replaying the radar I didnt get hit with a green bit, but rather dark blue with green very close by, which in my book can amount to the same thing in reality. Im just killing time waiting for the next wave now. Yeah Id say the ones I saw were that sort of diameter, but they didnt splat quite so impressively when they landed so not as much volume as the flakes shown near the start of that video.

Am I more likely to see megaflakes in these scenarios because some of the variables are a bit marginal for snow, so the flakes are more likely to clump together on the way down? Well you may need to keep em peeled because I think here the really stupidly large flakes only lasted a few mins at most, I was lucky enough to illuminate some of them with the garden security light, radar helps me a lot and the bit that went over us wa more narrow at the time than it seems now its reached you.

Yes I had the joy of seeing those a few minutes ago. They were the biggest I have seen this year. Maybe the biggest Ive ever seen, not sure, as I havent paid as much attention to snow in the past. It made tonight a memorable event, can just imagine what a sustained period of flakes that size would do for depths. Also makes me think that a childhood memory of seeing a really huge flake stick to the classroom window has not been exagurated all that much in my mind after all. For the first time I can relate to a post in another regions thread the other day about flakes the size of 'small plates'. I saw some tonight that could be getting close to small saucer sized. I thank the stars that band wasnt rain, for it was one of the few times this winter that Nuneaton has been hit by a green blob according to the radar. Another heavy band looms and I wait with trepidation to see if its snow or not, and whether it will bring more monster flakes, if it even hits us and stays strong that is. I hope you get it in all its glory, it was special. I just said it was a few minutes ago, but it took me a while to post the message so it was a while ago longer than that for me now, already becoming a distant memory, lol, say hello to the megaflakes from me when you see them.

Well after my last post it changed again - we got a burst of large snow which gave more snow cover to grass & roofs in a 10-15 minute timeperiod than several hours of snow managed to give earlier today. But then it suddenly changed to sleet or even rain again.

My rain report was quite possibly wrong, based on radar showing quite heavy precip but me not seeing much via lamppost, so turned on security light and thought what I saw was rain. But a few mins later its certainly snow. Actually if I want conditions to change slightly then I usually find posting here gets a result - a number of times in recent days I have reported small flakes only to look up and see large flakes.

Seems like the snow has become mostly rain here now. Oops no I tell I lie, seems to be snow again now.

We've gone back to the large snow flakes here, still only very limited setting on grass though, not that I was expecting anything more than this today. Im not miserable, its exceeded my expectations.

Its gone much weaker and a bit sleety here now.

Dont get me wrong you arent missing out on much in regards settling - its only just settling on grass here, doubt we will get 100% cover before it dies out or turns to rain. Had some nice monster flakes at times though.

Snowing quite well here in Nuneaton, turned heavier about 10 mins ago. Has started to settle on grass.

For me I dont see the position on the radar as being further West than the models suggested. What it does seem to me is that it is anything up to a few hours ahead of its predicted position, but even this Im not too sure on, should be clearer in the next 2 hours.

Certainly some of the most impressive flake sizes Ive seen this winter. If it hadnt been moving so quickly I could have reached very interesting depths, as it is Im already back to having as much snow laying as there was after the many hours of snow on Thursday. I might get a little bit more heavy stuff from some stuff lurking behind the main band so Im off to stare out of the window. Groovy, at last an event that was worth staying up for.

Yay the fakes I just saw here are monsters too.

Still in the early dusting stages here, heavier stuff due to hit me soon, though it looks like I might not get the heaviest stuff that some others have gotten, time will tell.

Yeah Ive got no complaints. From my radar & forum watching this season I get the impression that Nuneaton has been a bit luckier than Leicester on a few occasions, we've shared some of the disappointing misses earlier in the season, and Leicester has been luckier than Nuneaton on a few occasions too. As I enjoy watching snow fall, no matter how lightly, and I dont get too sad when it doesnt settle, Im especially greatful for all the times Nuneaton just managed to scrape within range of a passing snow cloud and get a little something. Today I saw several grains of snow falling from the sky, radar made it look like I met have gotten slightly more than what I ended up seeing but it still counts for something in my book.

Well my sleep patterns are a bit messed up due to having a cold, so I shall likely be awake when the snow hopefully hits here around 4-6am. Looking at the radar Im not going to get my hopes up too much in case it turns out weak and patchy. This winter has been special and I am very happy with the snow we've got here - in terms of number of times we've got a dusting, number of opportunities to enjoy watching snow fall, length of cold spell & snow laying on ground, number of times that watching radar has been entertaining and nailbiting, number of times the models have delivered amazing scenarios, number of near misses. The only area it has failed to live up to plenty of previous winters in my lifetime (born 1975) has been depths and disruption. At least one of the Feb 09 snow events gave us better depths than we've had this winter, and nothing comparable to some of the snow of my childhood has occurred. Not that Im exactly wishing for the sorts of disruption to electricity that I recall from one particular event in the late 80's or 1990, and the depths I experienced a few times in the late 70s and 80s may be exagurated in my mind as I wasnt very tall at the time, but I am still looking for the icing on the cake in terms of a memorable quantity of snow to round off this winter nicely. I dont expect to get it so if something does come off in the next week I shall be pleasantly overjoyed. For which day?

Well the more intense stuff went to your north east, the radar made it look as if you had snow for half an hour but quite possible that only 10 mins of that was very noticable.

Yeah looking at the radar its hit you quite well in Wellingborough, Northampton not so lucky. We just had another brief burst of the small stuff in Nuneaton.

Id say you are in for a fairly good chance if it doesnt fizzle out, but you will be lucky to get anything impressive from it.

It started again in Nuneaton after my last post but still the small stuff, quite intense but not enough to make any difference.

Yeah you got lucky, here in Nuneaton we got it but only smaller flakes, and intensity only picked up at the last minute, now it has stopped, leaving pretty much no additional snow on the ground. I enjoyed it anyway.