North West Cold Spell Discussion

[Cecil Hogmanay Melchett]

Think the possible streamer might pass to the north of preston unless im reading it wrong. It looks like stuff is starting to shift northwards.

yep thats what imn thinking.

HAd pretty much nothing since around 1.20pm and i cant see a great deal heading this way now.

[Solar Cycles]

A day that started so promising ends in disappointment, sure we have 3cm of lying snow, but we had one heavy shower that lasted 40 mins. Also how the hell has Skipton managed to have another 5cm, this on a NW wind. Oh well, I suppose I should be grateful that there are no mild sectors waiting in the wings! :winky:

[Snowmad79]

Theres 2 streamers one is flirting north way past rochdale into leeds and the other is too south for oldham.

[Cecil Hogmanay Melchett]

Theres 2 streamers one is flirting north way past rochdale into leeds and the other is too south for oldham.

:winky: things seem to have gone downhill this afternoon.

Showers dying down and missing us when they do come.

not expecting much if anything else to be honest

[Solar Cycles]

A day that started so promising ends in disappointment, sure we have 3cm of lying snow, but we had one heavy shower that lasted 40 mins. Also how the hell has Skipton managed to have another 5cm, this on a NW wind. Oh well, I suppose I should be grateful that there are no mild sectors waiting in the wings! :unsure:

Oh no it's worse than what I thought, Skipton got 5", not cms!!!

[GreyCrag]

The 24hr Precip totals on the NW RADAR are quite intresting, showing the entire area of Manchester being covered by high Snowfall totals, with the Foothills of the Pennines seeing the worst of the Snowfall (rain-shadow type of setup going on over a 24h period.)

Its one image to save for the books.

[Dingwantssnow]

I suppose we might be lucky and the center of the low as it pushes down towards northern irelandthat big fat bank of cloud will be pushed further south and we might end up under it but wether its snow or rain?

[Liam J]

met office now added new flash warning for cumbria only to go into monday valid from 18.00 sunday to 06.00 monday

[Cecil Hogmanay Melchett]

showers look to be dying out now over the irish sea.

oh well,im happy with 9cm guess i was getting greedy

[SP1986]

A boring day weatherwise, there's just something about cold rain, sleet and hail that makes for a bad atmosphere. In my own opinion (and of course people in the east of the region will really disagree with me here), but the 'cold' spell has overstayed it's welcome, and is becoming a nuisance more than anything around these parts.

Bring back Atlantic storms with some more comfortable mild air.

[Liam J]

met office now added new flash warning for cumbria only to go into monday valid from 18.00 sunday to 06.00 monday

temp fallen from 2.4c an hour ago to 1.5c now even with the wind off the sea!! now wheres those showers, taking a more easterly direction now rather than the SE direction streamer from the north channel

[dodge]

A boring day weatherwise, there's just something about cold rain, sleet and hail that makes for a bad atmosphere. In my own opinion (and of course people in the east of the region will really disagree with me here), but the 'cold' spell has overstayed it's welcome, and is becoming a nuisance more than anything around these parts.

Bring back Atlantic storms with some more comfortable mild air.

I'll probably feel that way, when I'm stuck in traffic trying to get to work tomorrow, but at the moment, with everywhere white, and Christmas light's/decorations glowing from people's windows, it all looks very festive and leave's you under no doubt about the time of year we are in. Can't remember scene's like this a week before Christmas. Normally any snow we get, starts from the New Year.

However I can imagine just getting sleety/cold rain can put you in a totally different frame of mind

[Snowmad79]

Rochdale dissapearing out of view ,, the showers are coming south !

snowing heavily here now lol but graupel in size atm

[Weather-history]

Could be an icy rush hour tomorrow

[dodge]

Yep, got it here again now. I'll be paying close attention to the band of showers just merging together in North West Scotland, because if they maintain their strength and carry on their current trajectory, well.... let's just say the decision to on wether to try and get to work tomorrow could be an easy one to make come Monday morning.

[Snow free zone]

Well if that's the best way we can get snow then i might as well give up. We have not even got a covering here, its been rain showers since 2.30ish. I know other people have snow but we have always had snow from this set up before, why not this time.

[SP1986]

Cant imagine milder Atlantic air having a windchill of -5C whilst rain that may be about +1C is hitting you..

Still I'm pleased that many members managed to see a good fall, I just wish the combination of cold wind and precipitation wasn't so severe.

Still tonight I imagine it'll freeze over again!

[Backtrack]

Seriously, this weather is taking the pee AGAIN. Went out at 2.30pm to an inch of snow. Went to yorkshire to 6 inches of snow and heavy snow falling, came back, it had rained, slush on the ground!

ARE FURTHER SNOW SHOWERS THIS EVENING LIKELY TO GIVE AN ACCUMULATION HERE BY MORNING?

Has anyone else near me been dissapointed with todays pathetic heavy grauple showers with sun in between melting what stuck?

[La Bise]

Superb dump of snow up the Dark Peak, it's a proper winter wonderland. Traffic conditions on the A628 earlier were awful and the best idea we had was to come down from the Snake Pass summit as soon as we got there (with great difficulty), just before the 2h of near continuous snow early afternoon...shut now.

It's great what you can see when you go that little bit extra...

[AderynCoch]

Well if that's the best way we can get snow then i might as well give up. We have not even got a covering here, its been rain showers since 2.30ish. I know other people have snow but we have always had snow from this set up before, why not this time.

Same here mate, same here. 5pm with darkness fallen and it's coming down as RAIN. Even around midday we were getting snow showers despite the fact that the morning's cover was thawing.

It's like some sort of inexplicable Sod's Law which exists solely to starve us of snow. Christmas Eve could give us a battleground event yet I don't even feel optimistic, because I've become so disillusioned. I guess the fact that it's the Christmas run-in makes it particularly hard to take.

[disco-barry]

hahahahaha backtrack, yorrrrrrkshire yorrrrrrrkshire!

[Cecil Hogmanay Melchett]

pfff this is now graupal/hail. wtf didnt see that coming thought it would be snow all the way.

must be very marginal again which means the irish sea is modifying things A LOT

[Troubleatmill]

Seriously, this weather is taking the pee AGAIN. Went out at 2.30pm to an inch of snow. Went to yorkshire to 6 inches of snow and heavy snow falling, came back, it had rained, slush on the ground!

ARE FURTHER SNOW SHOWERS THIS EVENING LIKELY TO GIVE AN ACCUMULATION HERE BY MORNING?

Has anyone else near me been dissapointed with todays pathetic heavy grauple showers with sun in between melting what stuck?

yep!! makes you wonder why anyone would ever want to settle in this grim corner of the earth! i'm a patriotic lancashire man but ive got to say there can be no other place on earth that has weather so grim cold wet and generaly useless as we have round here

[snowingtequila]

it is interesting how varied the weather has been across the northwest, we always lump a very mixed area together but the differences are massive.

[Troubleatmill]

hahahahaha backtrack, yorrrrrrkshire yorrrrrrrkshire!

But i suppose when the snow has melted i will be glad ...because i'm still not from yorkshire!