Snow & Cold Spell General Chat Part XI

[rdt123]

WOOHOO! the blizzard has started! Finally some snow to west yorkshire!

Snowing moderatly now, lovely white flakes... temperature slowly dropping with bags of precipitation to the south. tonight shud be fun!

Hay mate, i'm between barnsley and wakefield. May be we'll get something after all?

[tinybill]

Been snowing heavily for the past 3 hours and looks like theres more to come

it said on skyweather the midlands can expect 15 t0 20 cm of snow

[lincolnsnow07]

Here too. Starting to worry a little bit about those N Sea SSTs again. Shouldn't be a factor here though the Easterly breeze might be moderating air temps - currently 3.7c - 4.2c along the Lincs Coast with 11-16kt easterly winds. Timing could be in our favour - the sun going down will no doubt help.

I was just thinking the heavier stuff may get here when it's just getting dark. Temp now 2.4c in waddo.

PS where can you check dew points?

Edited February 9, 2007 by lincolnsnow07

[Mark Bayley]

The snow is still coming lightly and it small flakes. I live near sheffield so is there any chance that i could see heavy snow with BIG flakes?

[Gracie]

Ok, got the factory shut down hours early, but there are now 6 of us stuck on site. We've dug the cars out, but the traffic is gridlocked from the end of the road.

I'm putting the hot drinks machine onto free service, and we'll have to raid the development kitchen for tea supplies soon.

[snowhope]

back to sleet again in worcestershire 75asl.

not sure whats going to happen for the rest of the evening. Settled from 14:30 onwards on roads and paths.

about another inch.

Off to see what the experts make of the 12z

[MKN]

If this area of precip over the midlands now i wouldnt be suprised huge totals as its coming down at such a rate and settling nicely everywhere

[phil nw.]

whats your guess on how long this will last, precip hasnt been in a rush since it started? at the same time if its due to turn to sleet id rather it dissapeared as it quickly gets rid of snow on the ground

A bit hard to judge ST.,but looking at radar there is a Southern edge to it in a line across Severn Estury and Eastwards but its moving slowly.

http://www.meteox.com/h.aspx?r=holiday&amp...9&bliksem=0

Should get 2 or 3 hrs yet i guess.

Edited February 9, 2007 by phil n.warks.

[karyo]

Hi, just wondering if anyone knows what the temperature in stoke-on-trent is plz? It's been snowing for hours now, but nothing settling still as the ground is soaked

Where about are you? Snow is covering everything in Fenpark which is a bit higher than Hanley. Huge flakes as well. Not sure what the temperature is but it must be falling.

Karyo

Edited February 9, 2007 by karyo

[Thundersquall]

What's the betting that Sunday's low pressure takes a more-southerly track?

That blocking is still evident to the north and it's not going to take much

to bring that Low Pressure a good few hundred miles further south.

[allenar]

Well rotherham still has nothing but sleety rain, looking at the radar it seems as though that band of percipitation has shrunk somewhat?

Andy

[derby4life]

5 inches and counting .....proper big flakes

[Harsh Climate]

Hay mate, i'm between barnsley and wakefield. May be we'll get something after all?

Hi, I think youl get a few centimetres.

Up here though I reckon there could be a good few inch before the nights up!

[fazza farrand]

WOOHOO! the blizzard has started! Finally some snow to west yorkshire!

Snowing moderatly now, lovely white flakes... temperature slowly dropping with bags of precipitation to the south. tonight shud be fun!

ls11 still raining

Dont know what the height is though

definetly makes a major difference

[Michael Winston]

Precip appears to have stalled over the West Mids.

Regards,

Mike.

[Harsh Climate]

If this area of precip over the midlands now i wouldnt be suprised huge totals as its coming down at such a rate and settling nicely everywhere

he he! All that precipitations comeing my way...

It can wait another hour though... Just so the temp will have dropped a few points of a degree before it arrives, that way not a flake wud be wasted..

[Thundersquall]

Next system hot on the heels, approaching South West England. Some of this precip is fairly heavy.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/radar/index.html

[fender]

steady snow still here

Edited February 9, 2007 by fender

[Harsh Climate]

ls11 still raining

Dont know what the height is though

definetly makes a major difference

It was rainy/sleety/haily snow at around 3pm (wateva you wana call it), but now we have moderate snow falling and settling on sertain surfaces.. getting slowly colder though...

You shud get a covering atleast..

[Pennine Ten Foot Drifts]

Managed to get home OK (just !) - it's amazing what a difference elevation makes - raining in east Leeds, turned to snow around J27 of M62, quite heavy by the time I got up to J24, and up here already about 3-4 cms (it seems to stick straight away up here) which made the last two miles up the hill and through village quite 'exciting'

[Just Before Dawn]

I was just thinking the heavier stuff may get here when it's just getting dark. Temp now 2.4c in waddo.

PS where can you check dew points?

Try here

http://www.fifeweather.co.uk/metars/index.php?icao=EGXW

dew point for Waddo at 15:50 was 1c. -1c at Coningsby same time.

[Mr Xclusive]

Yeah when is it going to stop in the midlands?

[Matty J]

Latest radar is showing a band of Heavy looking precip approaching the uk from the SW.

Whats the story with that band, is it ikely to be of snow anywhere or has the current band already introduced the milder air

If the next lot carrys on moving N/E from the SW then it will arrive in the hours of darkness so atleast the temps would have dropped of a few degress.

Regards.

[Craig in Leeds]

he he! All that precipitations comeing my way...

It can wait another hour though... Just so the temp will have dropped a few points of a degree before it arrives, that way not a flake wud be wasted..

Hi Jed,

I think elevation is playing a huge part at the moment as here in wortley (approx 2 miles from the city centre) it is still raining with just a hint of sleetyness in the heavier bursts.

[Polar Low]

Karen.. is it now falling as snow where you are?