Midlands Cold Spell Discussion

[Supercell]

Heavier ppn, but only managing to produce sleety periods. More than I expected. Just a shame what little snow cover I had is melting fast.

[Costa Del Fal]

Heavy snow now. :winky:

[Nick L]

And does anybody else find it terrible that the Met Office gave us warnings for that complete non-event for Saturday, yet have given us NOTHING for tonight, which could give a decent covering for many areas!

[Polar Low]

Sleet just started to fall here, expecting several centimetres from this! :winky:

[Nabraxas]

Think I must have gone through a gap in the pptn as it's now stopped raining.

[cyclonic happiness]

And does anybody else find it terrible that the Met Office gave us warnings for that complete non-event for Saturday, yet have given us NOTHING for tonight, which could give a decent covering for many areas!

Give it an hour an shefali will be predicting rain and temperatures of 6'c :winky:

[high ground birmingham]

Very large flakes here now in West Birmingham. Settled everywhere along with adding to the existing 2cm cover left by Saturday night's snow.

[camperstron]

Big flakes in South Brum - and it's settling nicely. What a wonderful xmas surprise!!!

[nats]

Heavy snow now.

me too, how long do you imagine it will snow for?

[Luke3000]

Very heavy snow here in Halesowen

[drgl]

Ho heavy in Telford?, do you have a covering yet?

Path is now white but it was frozen solid, still coming down.

[Costa Del Fal]

me too, how long do you imagine it will snow for?

A good hour or so yet i think.

[andy_leics22]

Aint nuttin but a rain fest here.

Seen Matt Elliot in town earlier though with his son, Leicester legend right there, beast of a centre back.

[ISAAC]

Sleet just started to fall here, expecting several centimetres from this!

Light Snow falling in stoke now....

[camperstron]

And does anybody else find it terrible that the Met Office gave us warnings for that complete non-event for Saturday, yet have given us NOTHING for tonight, which could give a decent covering for many areas!

Just goes to show though that when it comes to snow, nowcasting is often the name of the game!

[nats]

A good hour or so yet i think.

good stuff, clinging on to the hope there will be lying snow on the big day :-)

[Nick L]

Give it an hour an shefali will be predicting rain and temperatures of 6'c

Sod Shefali, as long as she is doing the Midlands Today forecasts I will not watch them!

Bottom line is that the BBC and Met Office have called it wrong...again.

[Crimson_Sprite]

just started peeing it down with rain in Nottingham- TYPICAL!

[TEITS]

And does anybody else find it terrible that the Met Office gave us warnings for that complete non-event for Saturday, yet have given us NOTHING for tonight, which could give a decent covering for many areas!

No because when the situation is marginal its the intensity of the precip that makes the diffference between rain/snow. So to be fair to the Met O its impossible to tell who will get snow or rain.

[we_want_snow]

Snow here, very light but it's sticking, not quite a full covering yet

[tom_f123]

Snowing moderately here now, small flakes atm though.

[MidlandsSean]

Light snow but huge flakes!

Rather surprised actually, however not expecting a covering, isn't settling yet and I dont think it will .

[Costa Del Fal]

Everywhere going very white now again!

[Summer of 95]

It's trying bravely here (NE edge of Shrewsbury); it has dusted the path and the wheelie bin- but will needed to either stay around for hours or get heavier if it's to give a decent amount.

[Supercell]

It's trying to snow and failing. With the end of the PPN fast approaching it's not going to happen. Those to the north and east of me prepare yourself for a period of sleet, but nothing more.