Snow Watch: North West England

[dodge]

Persistant light snow here.Still to wet on the ground though for it to settle.

Seems an extra 200 ft could have made the difference tonight i think snowmad79 will be seeing seetleing snow now

Well it's not made the couple of miles journey up Ashton/Oldham Road, because there's not so much as a smidgeon of sleet that's fallen here lol

Edit: How interesting this would have been had the low been just 30/40 miles further north.

Edited February 9, 2009 by dodgeredee

[snowdrifter]

Anyone want to stick their necks out regarding tomorrow:

TUESDAY:

A north/north-westerly regime will take hold of the region on Tuesday bringing cloud, with perhaps some periods of sunshine. Perhaps some rogue sleet/snow showers will affect parts of the region however they will not cause any disruption. Conditions will continue into the evening and night, bringing perhaps a frost in some areas particuarly over high ground.

Hot*Snow

What you said H*S, with more chance of this for Blackpool than the possible 'event' on the meto's advisory.

[James M]

Well it's not made the couple of miles journey up Ashton/Oldham Road, because there's not so much as a smidgeon of sleet that's fallen here lol

Edit: How interesting this would have been had the low been just 30/40 miles further north.

That's interesting, I noticed there seemed to be a persistant hole in the precip.

[swainclubber]

That's interesting, I noticed there seemed to be a persistant hole in the precip.

haha lol, now thats unlucky

[whitewitch]

Can confirm it is snowing here at the top of the hill in Uppermill. The road has disappeared again and we have at least 1cm. Building up fast and has covered up the patches in the slight thaw we had.

[NorthWest_Snow]

Can confirm it is snowing here at the top of the hill in Uppermill. The road has disappeared again and we have at least 1cm. Building up fast and has covered up the patches in the slight thaw we had.

give it some time to cooldown. midlands have been given blizzard warning, but not until the wee hours like 2/4 am ish..so id have to say give it till that time here..as for the nw lp was watching it from lunchtime..its not really tomorrow that i am interested in, its wednesday's forecast of snow in the north over the entire region incl nw even on low ground. unless the beeb have got caught with their pants down once again.

mind you

the dp needs to drop but i imagine that will happen pretty soonish..and as the low moves away, you never know, cheshire e and manchester on the tail end of this system as moves out

dew point now is 1.1C too borderline.

temp ok at 1.3

Edited February 9, 2009 by NorthWest_Snow

[Bartlett Low]

I think a 'hole' round this way was forecast - it looked that way on the BBC graphics earlier.

No precipitation at all here. Some light rain this afternoon, a little windy this evening 2c with some more light rain/sleet earlier on, normal winters evening so far...

[Liam J]

can anyone explain the bright white cloud off the nw coast of scotland? watch the development in last 3-4 hours bright white cloud with an eye in the centre!! polar low???

http://www.sat24.com/

Edited February 9, 2009 by james12

[swainclubber]

give it some time to cooldown. midlands have been given blizzard warning, but not until the wee hours like 2/4 am ish..so id have to say give it till that time here..as for the nw lp was watching it from lunchtime..its not really tomorrow that i am interested in, its wednesday's forecast of snow in the north over the entire region incl nw even on low ground. unless the beeb have got caught with their pants down once again.

what does the 18z say?not had chance to look

Edited February 9, 2009 by swainclubber

[Bartlett Low]

18z says the heaviest ppn keeping clear of the North West as predicted

[NorthWest_Snow]

what does the 18z say?not had chance to look

you got me lol..need to look, bit difficult at the moment to do anything.

[snowdrifter]

can anyone explain the bright white cloud off the nw coast of scotland? watch the development in last 3-4 hours bright white cloud with an eye in the centre!! polar low???

http://www.sat24.com/

Does look interesting James - and it grows v quick too. Anything with an 'eye' in that region this time of year is worth watching, and PLs are supposed to be v diff to forecast - just the conditions favourable. Would need someone more knowledgable than me to comment with any confidence though.

[NorthWest_Snow]

18z says the heaviest ppn keeping clear of the North West as predicted

mind you saying that, the gfs as happily in the past got things wrong for my area..there was no snow, while it was snowing.its happened a number of times. i do think it struggles with the areas like merseyside and cheshire quite badly actually.

[swainclubber]

Does look interesting James - and it grows v quick too. Anything with an 'eye' in that region this time of year is worth watching, and PLs are supposed to be v diff to forecast - just the conditions favourable. Would need someone more knowledgable than me to comment with any confidence though.

lol yeah that is one funky cloud haha

[NorthWest_Snow]

lol yeah that is one funky cloud haha

you mean this?

Edited February 9, 2009 by NorthWest_Snow

[James M]

can anyone explain the bright white cloud off the nw coast of scotland? watch the development in last 3-4 hours bright white cloud with an eye in the centre!! polar low???

http://www.sat24.com/

It looks like one, would be good if it headed this way but it doesn't seem to be moving to fast atm.

[dodge]

That's interesting, I noticed there seemed to be a persistant hole in the precip.

lol - trust me to be in the middle of the hole of 'nothingness' lol

P.S. There was talk about x3 Polar Lows forming a few days ago, but nothing materialised, or if it did, it only flirted with parts of Scotland.

[swainclubber]

you mean this?

yeah that second one..never seen something like that before!

[NorthWest_Snow]

It looks like one, would be good if it headed this way but it doesn't seem to be moving to fast atm.

to be fair james its only just developed an eye watching the sat..id say certainly keep an eye on it..but it may be pushed out of the way by the lp heading for nw uk it may drag it down towards us if it can maintain itself long enough, its certainly building up though pretty fast once that eye as appeared

Edited February 9, 2009 by NorthWest_Snow

[Interitus]

Don't know about 2 in the morning, the snow has well and truly set in across much of the midlands, covering the motorways around Birmingham and Coventry.

As for us, forget it, the precipitation is moving away now.

Yes, it does look like a polar low, the Met have a warning for it to hit western Scotland tomorrow.

[NorthWest_Snow]

Don't know about 2 in the morning, the snow has well and truly set in across much of the midlands, covering the motorways around Birmingham and Coventry.

As for us, forget it, the precipitation is moving away now.

Yes, it does look like a polar low, the Met have a warning for it to hit western Scotland tomorrow.

good bc if that sucker hits good days just checked the met where is the warning for this polar low?

Edited February 9, 2009 by NorthWest_Snow

[snowdrifter]

to be fair james its only just developed an eye watching the sat..id say certainly keep an eye on it..but it may be pushed out of the way by the lp heading for nw uk it may drag it down towards us if it can maintain itself long enough, its certainly building up though pretty fast once that eye as appeared

Found this - good explanation of a PL and a picture of a fully developed one.

http://schools-wikipedia.org/2006/wp/c/Cyclone.htm

[damianslaw]

Southern most parts of the region look best placed (once again) for any snowfall from the 'winter storm'. More so higher ground, very much will depend on the intensity, but it does look a rather short-lived affair.

Further prospects- tomorrow very isolate snow shower possible but not expecting too much, however later on tomorrow and more so Wednesday I think eastern and northern parts could catch a few hefty showers from the NE wind.

[Bartlett Low]

Don't know about 2 in the morning, the snow has well and truly set in across much of the midlands, covering the motorways around Birmingham and Coventry.

As for us, forget it, the precipitation is moving away now.

Yes, it does look like a polar low, the Met have a warning for it to hit western Scotland tomorrow.

I think its all heading back South East so won't reach here anyway.

Does look like a polar low North West of Scotland, though. Although again I'm not someone who knows anything about them really!

[NorthWest_Snow]

I think its all heading back South East so won't reach here anyway.

Does look like a polar low North West of Scotland, though. Although again I'm not someone who knows anything about them really!

it is a polar low, but looking at it, its still forming, what we want is for that low pressure system to the nw of the uk to feed it, and drag it down to us pronto..they simply dont last long, but they can produce quite a lot of snow.

expect this to grow very quickly good thing is the lp to nw is very close by to it, and to the uk

it has grown again the eye is now more distinctive than last photo

Edited February 9, 2009 by NorthWest_Snow