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SP1986 Accomplished

SP1986

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  • Location: Heswall, Wirral
  • Weather Preferences: Summer: warm, humid, thundery. Winter: mild, stormy, some snow.
  • Location: Heswall, Wirral
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its approx. about 2-3C.. didn't you get that snow shower just then? The temperature should make things less marginal later yep

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Snowmad79

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  • Location: Sholver - Oldham East - 250m / 820ft ASL
  • Weather Preferences: Snowageddon and a new ice age. Then a summer long bbq heatwave!
  • Location: Sholver - Oldham East - 250m / 820ft ASL
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Snow has stopped for the moment and its 0.4c.

uhmm the wind driection has changed from westerly to a more north westerly direction. When this happend thats when the temps started to rise now at 0.2c and the snow is now fizzling down.

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Darren Bown Community Regular

Darren Bown

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  • Location: Newton-le-Willows, Warrington, Merseyside
  • Location: Newton-le-Willows, Warrington, Merseyside
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PPTN on coast has exploded as it moves inland, heading this way. Here's a pic from about an hour ago.

This is the main road from the centre of Manchester to Bury, usually very busy, but completely covered in snow!

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Thundery wintry showers Accomplished

Thundery wintry showers

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  • Location: Lincoln, Lincolnshire
  • Weather Preferences: Sunshine, convective precipitation, snow, thunderstorms, "episodic" months.
  • Location: Lincoln, Lincolnshire
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In Lancaster, have had nothing really for the past three hours, all the precip is Skirting to the North, A thaw has set in here as well, Paths and cars beginning to reappear. Looking out over the radar to see if the current precip to the North and East of The Isle of Man can make it here. Temperature now 2.3C, needs to get down! A really biting wind however.

What do we think about the temperatures/Dew points? Will they fall generally as the day wears on and the sun goes down? Or is it purely down to local variations and distance from the coast? Thanks

CL

It looks like it will be very marginal indeed around Lancaster. This afternoon showers will be a wintry mix because of the wind picking up off Morecambe Bay. Over the next three days winds will be much lighter, so there will be less of a warming effect near the coast, but the airmass will be less cold. Probably a fair amount of wet snow that struggles to settle at Lancaster is the most likely assessment, with rain/sleet further out towards the coast, and a sizeable snow cover over the hills just to the east of Lancaster.

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Spurry

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  • Location: Wigan 259 ft ASL where it always rains
  • Weather Preferences: Hot Sun ,Snow and Cold
  • Location: Wigan 259 ft ASL where it always rains
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Sky gone black , had some lt graupela minute ago but i was expecting more . :)

Yes it's snowing now and quite heavy tpp , temp dropped back to 1.7c...looks like after this has passed through there is a window of clearer weather until the next band hits in about 1hr or so

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SP1986 Accomplished

SP1986

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  • Location: Heswall, Wirral
  • Weather Preferences: Summer: warm, humid, thundery. Winter: mild, stormy, some snow.
  • Location: Heswall, Wirral
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It missed me the shower, Leasowe went a little white on the cam and visibility was 0 at one point.

I imagine later on though the showers will tend to move their influence north so we may not have as much joy

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V for Very Cold

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  • Location: Elstow, Bedford
  • Weather Preferences: Deep cold
  • Location: Elstow, Bedford
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well this is a belter biggrin.gif - visibility down to <50m, constant medium to heavy snow falls - it's not only accumulating on pavements and side roads, but on the main roads as they do not appear to have gritted them . Driving is becoming tricky ifyou have 2WD and just got back into hear the local forecaster offering a warning of continued heavy snow up til 10pm

Christmas is early this year lol

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Spurry

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  • Location: Wigan 259 ft ASL where it always rains
  • Weather Preferences: Hot Sun ,Snow and Cold
  • Location: Wigan 259 ft ASL where it always rains
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Hi , The freezing level is lower and the convective cells that produce the snow showers produce a downdraft of cold air. Although the temperature atlowest layers may have been warmed by the sun it will not stop the snow from melting. Yesterday evening had a layer of warmer air embedded in the flow that produced the rain and sleet. Today you are in the unstable cold sector.Hope this helps a little.

C

Your hypothesis was correct , we've had a really heavy snow shower here and the temp went from 2.6c to 1.3c in a matter of minutes...

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Maz Rising Star

Maz

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  • Location: Summerseat, SE Lancashire (145m ASL)
  • Location: Summerseat, SE Lancashire (145m ASL)
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Thundersnow been reported from a friend in Tottington!

Thundersnow in Summerseat. Three cracks of thunder, eirie flashes of lighning above the snow. This shower really means business!!

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SP1986

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  • Location: Heswall, Wirral
  • Weather Preferences: Summer: warm, humid, thundery. Winter: mild, stormy, some snow.
  • Location: Heswall, Wirral
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Driving sleet now, lovely!

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Cric_lancster

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  • Location: Darlington
  • Weather Preferences: Dry summers, chilly winters
  • Location: Darlington
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Thundery wintry showers user_popup.pngPosted 5 minutes ago

snapback.pngCric_lancster, on 20 December 2009 - 11:46 , said:

In Lancaster, have had nothing really for the past three hours, all the precip is Skirting to the North, A thaw has set in here as well, Paths and cars beginning to reappear. Looking out over the radar to see if the current precip to the North and East of The Isle of Man can make it here. Temperature now 2.3C, needs to get down! A really biting wind however.

What do we think about the temperatures/Dew points? Will they fall generally as the day wears on and the sun goes down? Or is it purely down to local variations and distance from the coast? Thanks

CL

It looks like it will be very marginal indeed around Lancaster. This afternoon showers will be a wintry mix because of the wind picking up off Morecambe Bay. Over the next three days winds will be much lighter, so there will be less of a warming effect near the coast, but the airmass will be less cold. Probably a fair amount of wet snow that struggles to settle at Lancaster is the most likely assessment, with rain/sleet further out towards the coast, and a sizeable snow cover over the hills just to the east of Lancaster.

Cheers TWS much appreciated. I've heard Scotforth over the M6 is getting quite a bit, so this figures.

Anything we get here I see as a bonus usually - My hopes lie with the temperatures falling later on and picking up on some precipitation post 6pm, The met office seem to go with this IMBY. http://www.metoffice...st_weather.html

This may be 'out of date' by now though...

Currently Light Rain, 2.0C.

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Darren Bown Community Regular

Darren Bown

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  • Location: Newton-le-Willows, Warrington, Merseyside
  • Location: Newton-le-Willows, Warrington, Merseyside
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starting to snow again

hope we get what bury is getting

accordinbg to Netw radar, it's heavier south of bury, so might be worse!

Got very heavy graupel snow here!

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mcfcben

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  • Location: Wythenshawe, Manchester
  • Location: Wythenshawe, Manchester
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accordinbg to Netw radar, it's heavier south of bury, so might be worse!

Got very heavy graupel snow here!

its just got really dark outside, had to put the light on

but its holding off for the minute, no snow... but if it does hit, then its gonna absolutely hammer us lol

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