Snow on the way? April 5th onwards cold snap

[pacman]

Nothing remarkable or largely of note about this setup...its common at this time of the year for more amplified setups combined with cooling seas and less subpolar energy coinciding with trough displacement from the arctic. Solar radiation and cold uppers = April showers. These often consist of snow, sleet, hail and rain all in the space of one day and will be the case for most areas barring high ground above 700 feet. This setup may well bring a spell of snow for a time though as occasional colder isotherms are drawn in on the periphery of the shortwave.

Sensible post, PP.

[SMU]

Warmer-lower level air possibly enhancing a band of more organised showery activity. Its just typical these days though that the midlands and south get these marginal events at lower level; whilst us in the north and east just miss out....even as the band forms in Scotland, dissipates over us and then redevelops again as it meets more instability on the western side.

PP-

You are the UK's answer to Joe Ba*tardi !!!

S

[toonarmy32]

well the snow is supposed to be by me between 18.00 and 21.00 pm so i will let you all know what happens sooooooooo excieted now

[Tucco]

Snow from the feature moving South, covering down to 350/400m.

Mark

Teesdale,Co Durham

[Cloud 10]

A covering of snow here also,but very slushy.

Wasn't expecting anything until later on this afternoon,so a nice suprise to wake up to.

I would bet OON has a fair covering.

[snowmackem]

Where has everybody been the last couple of days. We're on the brink of winters' last stand (winter?) with potentially some exciting weather to come (maybe more snow in some areas than they've had all winter) and everyones vanished. Have all the coldies gone into Summerbernation ??!! ( just made it up )

Edited April 5, 2008 by snowmackem

[ck24]

morning all

wel its belting it down here with pretty good sized flakes,

north leeds roundhay

[I remember Atlantic 252]

no snow tonight bbc have it going way west of me, just southern and western areas

metcheck say on their home page -10oC possible, they are getting confused with the upper air temps LOL

Edited April 5, 2008 by mark forster 630

[Guest Shetland Coastie]

Much colder this morning and windy although sunny at the moment. Temp 2.4C, windchill -2C, dewpoint -0.3C. Wind N @ 30mph gusting 40mph

[waddleisgod]

well it's been snowing very heavy with huge flakes here in Bradford for over 30 mins now and we have an very good covering already

[SnowStorm(Jamie)]

Looks like there will be nothing much around Wales either apart from a few snow showers here and there. Giving drizzle for my area

Oh well

Jamie

[Geordiesnow]

Bit dissapointed with the beeb graphics, i expected more PPN on there charts for Saturday night into Sunday.

Just light showers here, looks a bit sleety.

[snowmackem]

Bit dissapointed with the beeb graphics, i expected more PPN on there charts for Saturday night into Sunday.

Just light showers here, looks a bit sleety.

I wouldnt worry too much about those graphics GS, they are very general. Each "snowflake" covers about 30 miles !

MO still say snow just about anywhere over the next 48 hrs or so. Just keep fingers crossed like me, we haven't had much here in Tyne and Wear this winter have we ?

[Zerouali lives]

Heavy RAIN showers now becoming more frequent here in Aberdeen now. Expect these to turn increasingly to snow as the Arctic air begins to dig in.

[winterof79]

Good morning.A band of hevy snow moving through at moment in kirkburton,nr huddersfield.

[Cloud 10]

Good morning.A band of hevy snow moving through at moment in kirkburton,nr huddersfield.

congratulations for the snow,and welcome to the forum

[PB22]

Good morning.A band of hevy snow moving through at moment in kirkburton,nr huddersfield.

Welcome to the site!

My brother just text me to gleefully gloat that its snowing in Huddersfield!

[shadowfax]

Snowing here now in Bacup, not settling

Shadowfax

[Geordiesnow]

Its odd that heavy rain showers are being recorded in Aberdeen whilst parts of Yorkshire are having snow, i assume because Yorkshire is higher up than Aberdeen.

SM - nope we havant sadly but we did had a persistant snow event albeit not much settled.

Edited April 5, 2008 by Geordiesnow

[Delta76]

Moderate rain just moving through here after a brightish start, temp 3.3°c

...... update , a bit of sleet mixed in with it now .

Edited April 5, 2008 by Delta76

[snowmackem]

Its odd that heavy rain showers are being recorded in Aberdeen whilst parts of Yorkshire are having snow, i assume because Yorkshire is higher up than Aberdeen.

SM - nope we havant sadly but we did had a persistant snow event albeit not much settled.

lol, just enough to make a quick snowball and one afternoon sledging here in Ryton back in early Feb !

[Guest Shetland Coastie]

Blustery snow shower here at the mo!

[snowking]

Looking at both temperatures and dew points, along with the fact that the flakes are large i would have thought the snow currently across the north was rather more sleety but still very god signs to see unexpected snowfall in daylight hours, allbeit still rather early

Id have thought as the sun gets to work it wil start to fall as rain again the further south it heads, with the exception of the lincs wolds, and perhaps a few favoured spots such as the downs, the chilterns etc

Kris

[winterof79]

congratulations for the snow,and welcome to the forum

Thank you Paul I cannot recall a surprise snowfall for some time.I expected something but not saturday am.I dont know whos more exited me or the kids

jason.

[Pennine Ten Foot Drifts]

Just had a heavy prolonged snow shower, which has left a visible covering on all grass, hedges and roofs - it's white outside !!! Quite a drop in temperature too as the shower went through, 4.2c before and 2.1c now, although did dip to 1.9c as the shower ended. Very nice start to proceedings

Edit: just had a look at the MetO radar and you can see the large area of precipitation moving south which just passed over here, I wonder if it'll stay as snow as it moves south ? The only downside is that that appears to be it for quite a while

Edited April 5, 2008 by Pennine Ten Foot Drifts