Cold Spell General Discussion

[reef]

Do you think the met are been a bit rash saying 5cm+, even ilkley (north leeds 30m} is forecast some heavy snow.

Its depends on the intensity of the precipitation band when it hits the pennines. If it remains heavy the freezing level could fall and lower levels might get something. 5cm is very optimistic away from the highest ground though. Temperatures are generally too high already for accumulations though forecasting snowfall is notoriously difficult even when just a couple of hours out!

[Snowstorm1]

Temp on one site is 4C and on another 5C and on one site dew point is -1.8C and other site -0.6C :winky:

[cheshire snow]

C.G

Just started here and guess what.............To my great surprise its RAINING

C.S

[Backtrack]

Raining here now... Can verify that when I reported snow it was indeed sleet.

[Alex95]

Raining here now... Can verify that when I reported snow it was indeed sleet.

Now THAT is a Backtrack! :winky:

[Winter Warmer]

any one now if and when the rain will hit doncaster?

[James M]

Doubt we'll get any snow here, temp up to 3.5°C.

[Cheshire Gap]

C.S

Just had a look now...booo! though the temp has dropped alittle...may turn alittle wintry if the ppn gets heavier...

but i'm no expert!

Ta for the nudge

C.G

[Snowyowl9]

Today has been much colder than expected just 2.5c and just come back to see hail/sleet and

even wet snow falling currently unexpected and windy from the S/SE. :winky:

[cheshire snow]

C.S

Just had a look now...booo! though the temp has dropped alittle...may turn alittle wintry if the ppn gets heavier...

but i'm no expert!

Ta for the nudge

C.G

Not tonight mate my Temp just shot upto 5c

C.S

[Snowstorm1]

My temperature is rising but dew point keeps falling whats going on

[weatherobsuk]

NW Radar showing Sleet here, however looking out the window theres not even any drizzle outside. If anything does start to turn wintry in the next few hours though I'll keep you all posted. Heaviest of the PPN looks to be to the North and South of here anyway, the "Shield" must have been activated tonight unusually.

[Cheshire Gap]

Well it's been good anticipating it CS...but looking on the bright side..its only the first day of what may well be a very eventful winter...esp looking at the comments made on the model output threads!

C.G

[multi cellular thunderstorm]

Just found a weather station about 15 miles SW of here at almost the same altitude as me.

http://saysarts.co.uk/wearweather/AWS/mainframe.htm

Temp is 2C and dewpoint -1.4C. A long as things don't change too dramatically surely i'll have a bit snow to look forward to later

Not looking good for low areas near the coast though, temp at South Shields is 4.9C and dewpoint 1C.

Also a quick question, a while back someone posted a link to a site with loads of roadside weather observations all over England with temps, dewpoints, current weather etc. Does anyone have that site handy?

[Ross B]

It snowed pretty much all of the way from Livingston until the edge of Glasgow on my commute home, further west and it is just sleet over the hills here. What did fall didn't settle or cause any probblems really, just a lot of very wet snow flakes coming down! Nice to see my first low level (ish) snow of the winter though

[cheshire snow]

Well it's been good anticipating it CS...but looking on the bright side..its only the first day of what may well be a very eventful winter...esp looking at the comments made on the model output threads!

C.G

Exactly LOL

May be the winter that finally delivers

C.S

[Snowmad79]

3.6 c and has just started snowing very lightly here in oldham east.

[snow_mad_09]

I'm about 110 metres asl and temp is currently 3.2c with dew point bang on 0c . From the met office radar the ppn doesn't look to far off. Preparing myself to be disappointed.

[James M]

Sleeting here, visible wet flakes at least. temp up to 3.7°C

[Wilxy]

Your all lucky up north its raining here and temps are slowly rising and is currently 6.4°C with a dew p of 5°C looks as if the cold snap is ending but it was v cold last night with a hard frost this morning.

[Backtrack]

Sleeting here, visible wet flakes at least. temp up to 3.7°C

Strange.. I'm colder than you at 3.6c and the precip is heavy, yet nothing but rain!

[Cheese Rice]

Intresting forecast by look north, weather man said snow level around 400-500 feet, and he never mentioned it turning back to rain. Btw 400 feet is 120m.

[Snowstorm1]

Intresting forecast by look north, weather man said snow level around 400-500 feet, and he never mentioned it turning back to rain. Btw 400 feet is 120m.

98m short by the looks of it temp no starting to level off but dew still dropping

[multi cellular thunderstorm]

My temperature is rising but dew point keeps falling whats going on

Looks like the opposite here, in the last hour temp has gone from 2.0C to 1.6C and dewpoint from -1.4C to -0.6C

I'm keeping an eye on the heavier PPN just NW of Manchester, this is heading NE so that could be the bit that crosses NE England, if the Pennines don't do too much damage.

[James M]

Strange.. I'm colder than you at 3.6c and the precip is heavy, yet nothing but rain!

Dew point is probably lower.