North West England Cold Spell Discussion

[weatherobsuk]

GFS not giving much in the way of Wintry Precip making its way across the Pennines from the Trough. with +9h to go before its first impacts will be felt on the East Coast, it seems the only places in the NW likely to see anything from it will be Eastern facing slopes in the Northern half of the Pennines.

[Chrissy]

Heavy Snow showers here all morning, very heavy snow here at the moment.

Yippeee.

[karyo]

A beautiful band of snow showers now to my east! The hills are disappearing fast!

It should lose much of its intensity as it reaches Manchester but this is the beginning of an area of showers affecting Yorkshire!

Karyo

Edited December 17, 2009 by karyo

[alr1970]

Heavy snow shower in Trafford Park right now, settling nicely on all surfaces.

Andrew

[karyo]

Everything is white in Manchester after a 10min heavy snow shower. The sky now has cleared but more on the way according to the radar.

Karyo

[k19]

Heavy snow even in preston, settled on some surfaces, been out though, and it feels as though the damp has frozen over.

[Troubleatmill]

Really suprissed to see snow this afternoon everything is white over!! and now its going dark it should stick around.

Maybe more to come shortly too looking at the radar (everything crossed) :lol:

http://www.raintoday.co.uk/

[Dingwantssnow]

Snow showers in Dukinfield, hyde and stockport. Settling too. If this keeps up with the showers then by morning we could be in for a supprise.

[shadowfax]

Snowing hard in Bacup, settling well. The gritters are out in force, they are obviously expecting more to fall. The radar looks good, the showers seem to be having no problem jumping from the east side to the pennines to the west side.

Shadowfax

[Chris D]

We had a snow flurry about 30 mins ago which lasted about 5 mins, but baring in mind my location is on the west coast (in Southport) it ain't bad!

Edited December 17, 2009 by chris93

[John_T]

Nice bit of snow to start off the cold spell.

[cheshire snow]

Bloody hell its snowing in Northwich

C.S

[Solar Cycles]

A dusting here, nothing special, but tbh far more than I thought we would get!

[k19]

Thing is these showers are lasting 5 minutes, where people get 2cm from im not sure

[stoke weather watch]

We had some in Macclesfield this afternoon but was only a 20 Min thing.

[Dingwantssnow]

Looking at this http://www.raintoday.co.uk/ the showers seem to be dying out as the reach the east coast then as they start to rise up over the penines the prep up abit.

[John_T]

-0.7c here.

[karyo]

Hardly any of the snow that fell earlier has melted which is very good!

All eyes now to the northeast of us.Already the snow streamer is affecting eastern Yorkshire!

Exprect more to come!

Karyo

By the way, can you all put your location in your avatar so that we know where it's snowing - there's no much use saying it's snowing here if we don't know where you are!

[Snow free zone]

Has snowed in Preston this afternoon missed it as am still at work

Still looks good for the weekend, and it has got a heck of a lot colder since this morning !

[dodge]

Snow settled on the side roads here and very icy conditions to drive in, once you veer off the main roads. Just got back in from visit to mother, and a few cars were skidding here and there. Watching cars trying too negotiate steep icy inclines in this weather is like watching swans on a frozen lake.

More snowfall than I expected at this early stage. Showers are penetrating far inland.

[Cric_lancster]

The seemingly omnipresent dusting has hit here too...

Encouraging UKMO to maintain the cold late weekend/Next week

[Snowmad79]

I said yesterday the showers would push west, judgin by the posts in here it looks about right .

Anyway still snowing here in oldham dying down now and then but blizzard like most of the time so theres a good inch here atleast and thats not icluding the drifts that are starting to mound. The gritting of roads is looking pretty useless too, any meltage is freezing under the snow lol.

By the way that wind doesnt half sting your ears !.

[V for Very Cold]

First noticeable snow shower as around 4pm - enough to cover the pavements, cars and roads away from main routes. Surprisingly, the snow has settled and is still here now . We've had a few more quick blasts over the last hour, but nothing appreciable. Have to nip over the pennines later, so will post conditions up on the tops. Did notice that snow was already settling up there at 3pm, whlist it was clear down here

Here's to plenty more

Edited December 17, 2009 by V for Very Cold

[k19]

Has snowed in Preston this afternoon missed it as am still at work

Still looks good for the weekend, and it has got a heck of a lot colder since this morning !

Its snowing again now, and its just topping up the dusting, still , the ground isnt quite frozen yet

[Spurry]

What a suprise ...NOTHING here just clear and cold