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  • Location: Teesside NOT Tees Valley
  • Location: Teesside NOT Tees Valley
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Right :) i've been on this forum for a while but only post during thundery and snowy weather. This weekend promises to be a good one, well looking at the outlook charts it does. A biting northerly or northeasterly wind hopefully bringing snow showers to the north and the east of the UK.

What are everyones thoughts on the amount of snow places might get? Obviously it will melt quickly once the sun gets on it as the sun is getting stronger all the time.

I didn't know where to properly discuss this as like I said i've not been on the forum for a whilte and it seems a little intimidating as the forums are busy but I dunno if this thread will be moved or deleted or merged with another one.

ps, sorry if its in the wrong place!!

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Posted
  • Location: Morecambe
  • Location: Morecambe
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I hope the mods leave this thread open although i feel its a bit early, i guess this thread can also be used for is it going to snow in such and such place.

I think there is a chance of some snow showers tonight in Eastern parts, depends on what direction they are going of corse but there appear to be loads just to the East of Scotland and some are quite heavy. I am not going to count me chickens though but we'll see. We have lost the stratuscumulus cloud here(At last) so hopefully it will be more shower clouds tonight.

Posted
  • Location: Teesside NOT Tees Valley
  • Location: Teesside NOT Tees Valley
Posted

You think we will get some snow tonight? Maybe higher ground but I doubt the lower ground.

Posted
  • Location: Clapham, Wandsworth, South West London
  • Location: Clapham, Wandsworth, South West London
Posted

I'll start...

I'm usually in West Yorks this weekend but i'm in Camberley, Surrey instead!!!

What's my chances?

Posted
  • Location: 4 miles north of Durham City
  • Location: 4 miles north of Durham City
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I'll start...

I'm usually in West Yorks this weekend but i'm in Camberley, Surrey instead!!!

What's my chances?

It will snow at some point.

:)

Posted
  • Location: Hayward’s Heath - home, Brighton
  • Weather Preferences: Snow and storms
  • Location: Hayward’s Heath - home, Brighton
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The precipitation charts change every run in events like this that it is just not worth anticipating where snow is going to fall for Friday onwards. It is fun imagining how much snow one could possibly get when looking at each run but it is not worth getting too excited until we are at T=0Z. Look at Easter Sunday 12z:

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Lets see how it changes run by run!

I remember a possible snow event forecast for the end of Feb this year that the GFS consistently showed for Eastern England until 12 hours before the event. Warnings were put out but at the last minute the snow veered out into the North Sea. If I remember rightly TEITS( please correct me if I am wrong) was quite put out as this band just missed Peterborough! Heres hoping no one misses out this time!

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Posted
  • Location: Lincoln, Lincolnshire
  • Weather Preferences: Sunshine, convective precipitation, snow, thunderstorms, "episodic" months.
  • Location: Lincoln, Lincolnshire
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I think most of Britain will have wintry showers on Friday, with heavy snow showers in the northeast late in the day, providing accumulations in places (this means E Scotland and NE England). For Saturday the main chance transfers to East Anglia and the southeast.

For Sunday onwards it's really too early to speculate because it all depends on whether or not everything gets shunted further east nearer the time.

Posted
  • Location: Corstorphine Hill, Edinburgh - 253ft ASL
  • Location: Corstorphine Hill, Edinburgh - 253ft ASL
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Funny how this winter has been so different for the various regions. Its been one of the coldest for a while here in Edinburgh but yet elsewhere its been very mild :) Average for me as far as snowfall is concerned but more frosty mornings than I have had in many years. Easily 40+ ish....

Anyway I am hoping to improve on this winter's tally with the approaching long weekend :)

V V V V V V V V V V (Arrows pointing to my signature :) )

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Posted
  • Location: South Woodham Ferrers, Essex
  • Weather Preferences: Seasonal
  • Location: South Woodham Ferrers, Essex
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I am wishing so hard this comes off for Essex. Every snow event this winter has come so very close, teasing me with the white stuff just miles down the road and not giving me any.

I am moving in a couple of weeks and where I live now is great for snow, plenty of sledging places so one final snowfall to bid me goodbye would be perfect.

Posted
  • Location: Lake District at the foot of Blencathra 610 ft asl
  • Weather Preferences: Snow & Ice
  • Location: Lake District at the foot of Blencathra 610 ft asl
Posted

I will be driving over Shap Fell Good Friday morning so rather hoping any serious snow holds off until I get up to the northern lakes

Posted
  • Location: Lake District at the foot of Blencathra 610 ft asl
  • Weather Preferences: Snow & Ice
  • Location: Lake District at the foot of Blencathra 610 ft asl
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Anyone know what those showers hitting the north-east coast are falling as?

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

Net weather radar is showing them as snow

Posted
  • Location: Lincoln, Lincolnshire
  • Weather Preferences: Sunshine, convective precipitation, snow, thunderstorms, "episodic" months.
  • Location: Lincoln, Lincolnshire
Posted

Given that South Shields is at 4C and Norwich is at 3C, my guess is rain, perhaps hail/graupel mixed in. It's a bit warmer than it was this time last night.

Posted
  • Location: Aberdeen, Scotland
  • Location: Aberdeen, Scotland
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It's rain - correction sleet - here in Aberdeen (and inland looking at the traffic cams). DP is at 1 here, temp 2.5.

Sorry, just realised you nean NE England....

Posted
  • Location: Catchgate, Durham,705ft asl
  • Location: Catchgate, Durham,705ft asl
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It's rain - correction sleet - here in Aberdeen (and inland looking at the traffic cams). DP is at 1 here, temp 2.5.

Sorry, just realised you nean NE England....

Thanks for that,maybe a better chance for us down here as dewpoints are a bit lower.Some elevation will help as well. :)

Posted
  • Location: Aberdeen, Scotland
  • Location: Aberdeen, Scotland
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Ah, but the DP here was lower earlier.... all through the day it has risen with every shower going over and then dropped again.

Posted
  • Location: Abbeymead, Gloucester
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, hot sunny weather
  • Location: Abbeymead, Gloucester
Posted

For once I am hoping it doesn't snow on Saturday, my son is getting married!!

Posted
  • Location: Home near Sellindge, 80m/250feet, 5miles from Coast
  • Weather Preferences: Severe Storms and Snow
  • Location: Home near Sellindge, 80m/250feet, 5miles from Coast
Posted

South East

Outlook for Thursday to Saturday:

Becoming wet and windy on Thursday. Cold and windy with wintry showers on Friday and Saturday perhaps giving a brief covering of snow in places

Posted
  • Location: Rushden, East Northamptonshire
  • Location: Rushden, East Northamptonshire
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Anyone know what those showers hitting the north-east coast are falling as?

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

Earlier on Loftus was reporting a heavy rain shower at 1C. I suspect just to the south inland and higher up on the A174 moors road and around Goathland, Egton Moor, Fylingdales Moor etc the showers must have been falling as snow, given that Loftus is about 400ft and only 3 miles inland.

Posted
  • Location: Irlam
  • Location: Irlam
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Well here's the latest forecast by the Met Office for Easter

Outlook for Friday to Sunday:

Generally brighter but cold and very windy with blustery and increasingly wintry showers, especially in the east. More cloudy but less windy on Sunday with widespread rain, sleet and snow.

Updated: 0823 on Wed 19 Mar 2008

Posted
  • Location: Eastbourne, East Sussex (work in Mid Sussex)
  • Location: Eastbourne, East Sussex (work in Mid Sussex)
Posted

The BBC seem to be talking a lot about 'wintry showers', is this because they are not certain of the type of precipitation yet or that it will be graupel / hail rather than snow?

Posted
  • Location: Morecambe
  • Location: Morecambe
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The BBC seem to be talking a lot about 'wintry showers', is this because they are not certain of the type of precipitation yet or that it will be graupel / hail rather than snow?

I think they are playing it safe at the moment so i guess saying wintry showers will be the correct term at this stage.

They could be right though and the showers could be wintry, we shall soon find out.

Posted
  • Location: Coventry,Warwickshire
  • Location: Coventry,Warwickshire
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These are my current thoughts although I must stress that events are very difficult to pin point at this moment and are quite likely subject to change. Troughs by nature can only really be forecast little more than 12 hours in advance.

<b>Friday</b>

There are some slight disagreements from the forecast models about timing and intensity of a trough moving south across the UK. The latest suggestions are that during the early hours of Friday the trough will swing across the north east of England reaching Northern Ireland and the north west midlands where it will slowly move south during the early hours giving a light deposit of snow. Areas likely to be affected at the moment look like being Wales, Northern Ireland and perhaps western parts of the Midlands. Behind the trough skies should clear before another weak weather front reaches eastern areas. The winds will abate a little and will turn from a north westerly direction during the day to come from the north so snow showers from the weak weather front over the North Sea will be blown in across northern eastern parts and particularly affecting north east Scotland. The weather front will pick up across East Anglia and the south east during the late afternoon, but due to the timing should give some rain rather than snow. Where skies clear there is a good chance of a frost overnight.

Mid level trough

Precipitation

Precipitation Type

Rain

<b>Saturday </b>

Overnight more snow showers drift in from the north East. Again there is some uncertainty about another trough moving in from the east. Models suggest at the moment that this will swing in across East Anglia, and the south east during the early hours of Saturday bringing a light smattering of snow for those areas. During the day it will become increasingly cloudy over Scotland with another weak weather front expected to move south slowly reaching England late in the day. This is expected to give another light smattering of snow for some areas as it moves south. Winds will be light from the north and temperatures will struggle to rise much above freezing with some widespread frost overnight.

The trough

Smattering of snow maybe.

Late Saturday into Sunday

Posted
  • Location: Halesowen, West Midlands
  • Location: Halesowen, West Midlands
Posted

Theres an advisroy out for heavy snow for West Midlands

Do they know something we don't?

Posted
  • Location: Swansea (Abertawe) , South Wales, 420ft ASL
  • Weather Preferences: Storms & Snow.
  • Location: Swansea (Abertawe) , South Wales, 420ft ASL
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Im not expecting anything out of this cold snap. No snow here this winter.

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