Snow Watch: North West England

[karyo]

Alot of talk about polar lows Kayro, what are your views?

For me they are too difficult to forecast right now, but the potential is certainly there.

Hot*Snow

To be honest, polar lows are not my speciality. As Stephen says they are probably troughs in the making. Let's hope that one of those will head for our region in the next couple of days. We just need a slight shift to the wind.

Karyo

[davehsug]

Persistent light snow in Stoke again

[cheshire cat]

Looks like theband is moving NE but is quite slow moving so I would expect it to land S Manchester around 6ish?

Any thoughts?

[karyo]

Persistent light snow in Stoke again

hi Dave,

yes, my partner works in Biddulph and it is snowing lightly there after the snow they've had there last night/this morning. Still dry in Manchester.

Karyo

Edited February 5, 2009 by karyo

[Roady]

heavier snow in south liverpool now.not sticking though,ground too wet now! ah well! shame this couldnt have come this evening when it would have stuck!

[cheshire snow]

Good evening All

At work at the moment and no access to the Radar

Is then anymore snow showing or forecast for Tonight

Or Friday

Thanks

[karyo]

Good evening All

At work at the moment and no access to the Radar

Is then anymore snow showing or forecast for Tonight

Or Friday

Thanks

Light snow is falling in areas west of Manchester but nothing significant. It seems to be dying out in general.

The GFS doesn't show any potential for a streamer unfortunately so all eyes on Sunday when a weather front is expected to move from the Irish sea. This looked like sweeping effortlessly west to east in yesterday's charts but newest data suggests it may struggle as it hit the cold air that will be sitting over us all those days hence the interest for snowfall.

Too early to tell with certainty, so it's a case of keeping an eye on the models.

Karyo

[cheshire snow]

Normal service resumes here its Raining LoL :o

[swainclubber]

Normal service resumes here its Raining LoL :o

haha unlucky mate

[V for Very Cold]

rather a strange day - and I think it underlines the importance of timing where snow events are concerned. The Monday snow fall was over by midnight - gave the gritters more than enough time to clear the roads. Today saw a long spell of light, mainly granular snow from 8am til 1pm - enough to accumulate, but on busy roads, never settled. Elsewhere has seen similar falls, but it's the key 12-6am time that determines the chaos

[NorthWest_Snow]

Normal service resumes here its Raining LoL :o

lol, just looking at the radar, it says its snowing, but the precip must be extremely light in nature because I am seeing nothing at all, expect where it is wet from all the rain and sleet earlier today. Woke up this morning with a good inch or so of snow, but by 11 it was completely gone and all surfaces wet from the sleety rain mix.

Hopeful for a spot of snow tonight if that radar is right, its sitting right on our region. some nice dark echoes on the mid wales coast..on reflection it seems to just be sitting there stalled from what i can tell of the 2 hour radar lapse..hard to tell, but wow thats a lot of snow there

Temp is 0C exactly, dew point is 0C and windchill -3..unsure what what the current wet bulb temps are.

Edited February 5, 2009 by NorthWest_Snow

[cheshire snow]

lol, just looking at the radar, it says its snowing, but the precip must be extremely light in nature because I am seeing nothing at all, expect where it is wet from all the rain and sleet earlier today. Woke up this morning with a good inch or so of snow, but by 11 it was completely gone and all surfaces wet from the sleety rain mix.

Hopeful for a spot of snow tonight if that radar is right, its sitting right on our region. some nice dark echoes on the north wales coast i think heading ne

Temp is 0C exactly, dew point is 0C and windchill -3..unsure what what the current wet bulb temps are.

LoL, Very fine Snow Now very marginal though Temp 1c DP 0c

[Hot*Snow]

Interesting regarding Sunday's event, though still borderlie for me. IRight now I think lower level temps will be just too high and prevent the ppn falling as snow, falling mainly as sleet or rain. Higher levels as usual I think will benefit from this system.

However, it is early days and I am open to the idea that things will change, will be a case of seeing how things pan out on the day. We will be relying on things being very cold though.

[swainclubber]

its snowin here now but the radar shows it clearly fizzling out, just our luck eh

[cheshire snow]

Just heard from one of the reliable members in the Midlands that there

Is quite a large disturbance in the irish sea Can anyone confirm

At work and no access to Radar.

[swainclubber]

Just heard from one of the reliable members in the Midlands that there

Is quite a large disturbance in the irish sea Can anyone confirm

At work and no access to Radar.

just a bit of light stuff, going nowhere inparticular!!not exciting me anyways lol

edit, i think it is the front that was over scotland earlier

Edited February 5, 2009 by swainclubber

[cheshire snow]

just a bit of light stuff, going nowhere inparticular!!not exciting me anyways lol

edit, i think it is the front that was over scotland earlier

Thanks LoL

[Cecil Hogmanay Melchett]

just a bit of light stuff, going nowhere inparticular!!not exciting me anyways lol

edit, i think it is the front that was over scotland earlier

Yep-skies clearing here i think we are in for a harsh frost tonight.

For those further NW who missed out today hopefully your turn will come sometime over the next 5 or 6 days UKMO is pretty awesome and pretty darn cold.

[cheshire snow]

Anyone noticed the White Blobs over the NW At Midnight

On The BBC Website probably nothing to get to excited about

But may give a Dusting In Places.

[sarah lou]

Yep-skies clearing here i think we are in for a harsh frost tonight.

For those further NW who missed out today hopefully your turn will come sometime over the next 5 or 6 days UKMO is pretty awesome and pretty darn cold.

hope we do get a little bit sometime soon. my kids are desperate to build a snowman in our garden. seems like everywhere has had snow apart from our area.

[swainclubber]

still light snow, nowt on the radar anywhere near here lol!!

[snowingtequila]

Been snowing all day. However, could only be called moderate to heavy between 8 and 9.30 and again at 5.30. About 2 inches I guess has fallen today difficult to tell as it has fallen on top of the remaining snowcover from Monday of course. I would imagine there is more in the hills towards Buxton and maybe very little down the hill towards Alderley Edge/ Wilmslow

[shadowfax]

I keep looking at the meto radar and that precipitation is creeping towards us, does anyone think it will make it? I know its supposed to go south, but everything seems to be going north still.

Shadowfax

[swainclubber]

I keep looking at the meto radar and that precipitation is creeping towards us, does anyone think it will make it? I know its supposed to go south, but everything seems to be going north still.

Shadowfax

im not too confident, it likes to fizzle out as it comes up!

[dodge]

So I guess that's pretty much it at the moment for the North West area - until Sunday possibly?? Look out for the headline news tomorrow if London get's it again lol