North West Cold Spell Discussion 4

[HotCuppa]

Lol yes its so severe we have barmy temps of 3.0C and a high dewpoint...and the risk of flooding. What is snow because I have seen perhaps 1mm at most..yay for beeb garbage spouting.

Perhaps they should have put a warning out for heavy rain and possible river flooding.

Edited December 20, 2009 by HotCuppa

[Osbourne One-Nil]

yay for beeb garbage spouting.

The forecasts I saw clearly said rain or sleet towards the coast.

[Darren Bown]

We've had about 3 inches fall in an hour or so, this is by far the worst snow I've seen since the 1990's. I'm slap bang under a line of snow that just continues out into the Irish Sea. To the north of me about 10 miles there is about 6 inches of snow, the main roads are covered, and my brother has told me the motorway M60 is pretty much caked in it.

[Backtrack]

Lol yes its so severe we have barmy temps of 3.0C and a high dewpoint...and the risk of flooding. What is snow because I have seen perhaps 1mm at most..yay for beeb garbage spouting.

Perhaps they should have put a warning out for heavy rain and possible river flooding.

Like Stephen said,

No warning was out for Merseyside. Ice may be a problem tonight as temps get down to -3c again. Snow here should freeze.

1.8c now though. Snow should hopefully pep up again soon... if not, the thaw begins.

[Spurry]

Currently in the middle of 2 lines of showers running NW/SE we've had no snow within the last hr, radar looks as if we might get a shower in about 10-20 minutes, will be interesting to see if it falls as snow as the temp has risen to 2.2c

[SP1986]

lol its raining here

[k19]

just got extremely dark here, but what will fall? will it be graupel again?

as i typed this its graupel again.

[Snow free zone]

Hail shower here atm. Temp has dropped as the wind picks up. No snow yet though.

Hail/grapuel has eased off and its now snowing - at last :blink:

Edited December 20, 2009 by Snow free zone

[John_T]

Backtrack, no snow melt in Manchester. 2-3 inches, the temperature is -0.4c and light snow.

Edited December 20, 2009 by John_T

[Interitus]

Probably not, I can't see much influence from the sea getting far inland unless the showers give up.

Actually temps are still creeping up inland. Only a couple cm cover here south of Warrington and thawing about same rate as falling.

[Chrissy]

Over 3 hours of heavy snow here in ingleton on the edge of the yorkshire dales,no way will i be going home tonight.A good 3 to 4 inches has fallen. :blink:

What a joke weather lady just said dry and sunny this afternoon.

Edited December 20, 2009 by Chrissy

[Interitus]

The big snowflakes are only sticking to the snow that hasnt melted. Snow has partially melted from the sun before. It's mostly gone from cars and roofs, everywhere else remains in tact.

Here south of Warrington it's full cover on roofs and cars but is trying to melt as quick as being topped up.

[snowdrifter]

Had graupel/sleet/rain & occasional wet snow, the result of which is bits of unmelted graupel here & there, but nothing to ge excited about. Need a polar low or something here. I think I'll take a trip inland. Anyone know if the M6, M65 or M60 are too risky for travelling? More heavy graupel just started...

[cheshire snow]

Whiteout again at Manchester Airport and Airport still clossed

C.S

[mcfcben]

snowing here again

and no thaw as of yet which is good news as we inch towards the colder part of the day

the best is yet to come, right? bbc predict heavy snow from 3pm onwards

[Interitus]

From the traffic cams it doesn't look that bad near the airport, graupel does accumulate and resist thawing more readily than snow so maybe they're having difficulty keeping the runway clear.

Up towards the Oldham and Rochdale it looks the real deal, as you'd expect.

[les1234]

just started to snow again and its very dark .

[Liam J]

showers cleared here now, now a break with clear skies before any more possibly move down, doing well here wind off the sea and the temp fluctuating between 0 and +1 other coastal areas south of cumbria showing + 3 or + 4 hence rain there

[Never snows where i live]

All i'm getting is hail or rain.

[SP1986]

North Wirral is getting pasted right now looking at the webcams, that should be here any second.

[Snowmad79]

Not stopped here once since it started although it does change from heavy big flakes to graupel and back again. Temp still steady at -0.5c. Theres aleast 4 inches lying, its up to the level of my front door (not drift!) and 6" and above on the grass etc but the wind has eased off.

Cruising up in temp now -0.2c

[les1234]

Heavy snow and wind its a near white out now.It will be a interesting drive to Liverpool for work tonight.

[HotCuppa]

The forecasts I saw clearly said rain or sleet towards the coast.

Firstly I am not near the coast, we don't get coastal weather, unless a nice big juicey warm sector moves in and swings winds towards us from the Irish Sea in which case everyone upto around preston is affected by it.

The beeb clearly stated coastal regions in all of it's warnings for snow for the last several days, but being the amateurs they are..along with the meto decided to include everyone just to be safe. What the Meto have done is criminal..there never was any threat for Merseyside or Halton,and issuing warnings when there is no threat ( and never was) to life or limb is contemptable.

Edited December 20, 2009 by HotCuppa

[Spurry]

Sky gone black , had some lt graupela minute ago but i was expecting more .

[Bartlett Low]

Had an hour break from the snow but now started again - 2 or 3 inchs lying in South Manchester