Midlands Cold Spell Discussion

[Nick L]

Woke up to a nice dusting this morning. The temps dropped to -2C and its currently 0C.

Anyone seen the Met O warning for Peterborough on Tues!

They are predicting 20cm of snowfall. Considering we're only friday, to be warning about this amount of snow this early is incredible. Infact i've never seen this before!

They did it for the Tuesday night event 5 days out as well.

[TEITS]

They did it for the Tuesday night event 5 days out as well.

Thankfully there will be nothing marginal about Tues. The upper temps will be 8C colder!

[conor123]

They did it for the Tuesday night event 5 days out as well.

They did indeed, and look how that turned out....

[andy_leics22]

They did indeed, and look how that turned out....

Don't remind me

Anyone reckon those snow showers over the North East will make it down to the East Midlands this evening? Looks unlikely and it's a shame because they are some beasts up there.

[hammerb32]

They did indeed, and look how that turned out....

I', sure it was for 5-10 cm at lower ground level and 15 at higher ground, no mention of 20cm in any of MO's warnings for last Tuesday.....

[kar999]

Light snow flurries here. Heavy dark clouds over Shropshire and to my North West.

Cheshire gap effect I suspect.

[we_want_snow]

The main bulk of the shower before slipped between us and Telford. Bright and sunny, 1C

[NorthantsSnow]

Don't be silly mate , there is no way that under these conditions that tomorrow's trough will be rain. Remember this time it is coming from the North not the South.

I thought that. Then I saw the Accuweather forecast for tomorrow.

"Bit of rain, snow, 1C."

And then Saturday evening:

"A snow shower in the evening, -3C."

Could be worse, but looks like there's a chance those showers might not be wintry tomorrow, in the daytime at least.

[i love snow]

started to cloud over here in cannock... maybe the light snow from stoke?

[Nick L]

started to cloud over here in cannock... maybe the light snow from stoke?

Wouldn't be surprised if we had a few flakes from the remnants of the showers, I am just hoping the cloud cover will keep the temps below freezing to help record the first ice day of the winter here.

[i love snow]

Wouldn't be surprised if we had a few flakes from the remnants of the showers, I am just hoping the cloud cover will keep the temps below freezing to help record the first ice day of the winter here.

hope we do seeabit...looks fairly dark to the north! how we looking for next few days.... im hoping for some troughs developing a short notice!

[phil nw.]

Happy New Year all with the hope that we don`t have to wait too long for some Midlands snowcover.

Looking a the meteox radar just now it seems a few snow flurries are moving sw from the NSea.

They tracked across the peak district and into parts of Staffs,hence tthose recent reports from there and Buxton.

I can`t see anything coming from Cheshire gap with a North Easterly flow.

[Costa Del Fal]

Looks like there is the chance of very light snow tomorrow night. Wont amount to anything though.

[NorthantsSnow]

I'm addicted to these Scottish cams today. So jealous at the snowfest going on up there. Deep extensive snowcover to be found:

http://www.trafficscotland.org/lev/index.aspx

Slochd A9 South in particular is absolutely beautiful.

I can only hope the Midlands will look similar come this time next week!

[stripe]

just had a light shower here, just like the weather gods shaking a pepper pot, very localized , down the road nothing, but stuck to the road no problem even at 3 deg

[Shiny_Bottom_1]

Good to see the odd shower moving in from, well...somewhere's.

Has gradually clouded over here during the afternoon, with the odd flake floating around in the breeze. No showers, but always a greater chance of a passing shower with cloud cover than with clear skies

[I remember Atlantic 252]

had a few flakes earlier, but hardly noticeable, my ice day gone, 0.6C now, tomorrows trough showing as rain on bbc for me, going to be very marginal with temps around 3C given on 06Z, even though uppers are around -6C, bbc forecast me drizzle

[Nick L]

Missed an ice day here by a frustratingly small margin, max temp of 0.1c, typical.

[I remember Atlantic 252]

mines just dropped to below 0 again, if it stays clear will be my coldest day of winter 09/10 so far

[SteveElbows]

Happy New Year. Clouds have returned here and I observed 3 tiny flakes of snow when I stuck my head out of the window. Hopefully they will be joined by several billion further flakes in the weeks ahead.

[Potent Gust]

A couple of light snow flurries here.

[cyclonic happiness]

just having a light snow flurry here too now

[skyblusam]

A light snow flurry here now

[Nick L]

Max temperature was 0.3c in the end here, dipped below freezing again now, hoping for another harsh frost, let's get this CET down as far as possible!

[Bolton67]

Woke up to a nice dusting this morning. The temps dropped to -2C and its currently 0C.

Anyone seen the Met O warning for Peterborough on Tues!

They are predicting 20cm of snowfall. Considering we're only friday, to be warning about this amount of snow this early is incredible. Infact i've never seen this before!

Met O must have a love affair with Peterborough

I'm Hoping for a strong Easterly to come off and push the Met O warning 40 miles to the south west of you.