North East England Cold Spell Discussion

[grab my graupel]

Happy New Year everyone

Just a quick mention to those who are seeing snow at present:

Please don't forget to post your Snow reports into the thread below

Thanks

Brian

[paul tall]

11cm! i have a sugar dusting not fair

Everybody is laughing at Stockton today. Even I have 4cm and I count that as a fail.

[mcyates]

no doubt it will fizzle out before it gets to us.

Everybody is laughing at Stockton today. Even I have 4cm and I count that as a fail.

I'd be over the moon with that

[Snowstorm1]

no doubt it will fizzle out before it gets to us.

I'd be over the moon with that

Hopefully it will be intact and i would be happy with 4cm not over the moon but much happier than i am now

[paul tall]

Oops- the ruler was snapped at one end (just checked) so although the "17" was level with the surface of the snow, it was overstating the depth. The actual depth using the non-snapped end is actually 12cm. Still pretty impressive though!

Haha!

Next admission...

"Oops, I just discovered that I measured above a 6cm hole that the dog dug the other day, so its only 6cm deep actually, well 5cm because I accidentally stuck the ruler in diagonally."

Edited January 1, 2010 by paul tall

[mcyates]

Hopefully it will be intact and i would be happy with 4cm not over the moon but much happier than i am now

Mate, i'd be ecstatic with 4 cm

[peterf]

Mate, i'd be ecstatic with 4 cm

this 4" will do me lol.

[recklessabandon]

this 4" will do me lol.

Just the workout we need shovelling all this snow after new years :-)

[Alex95]

this 4" will do me lol.

Same here Maybe we should share a bit now though

Edited January 1, 2010 by alza

[peterf]

Same here Maybe we should share a bit now though

nah lets be greedy and wait for some more lol.

[Alex95]

nah lets be greedy and wait for some more lol.

Fine with me

[Snowstorm1]

This band of showers may make it to teeside comeon!!!!

[mcyates]

Just to the north of me I can see clouds forming as the air is rising, usually happens during thunderstorms!!!

[snow_mad_09]

Just measured and we have 12 cm of snow outside If i was in any fit shape (hangover) i would be sledging on cow hill within 5 minutes.

[Alex95]

Just measured and we have 12 cm of snow outside If i was in any fit shape (hangover) i would be sledging on cow hill within 5 minutes.

The strange thing is some people from nearby are reporting around 6cm, whilst others are reporting 12cm. I've got 11cm so people definitely aren't just exaggerating. Maybe there are large local variations.

[mcyates]

This band of showers may make it to teeside comeon!!!!

Its looking promising, but it will be wet snow, current temp is 1*c, and its starting to thaw. Was colder last time it snowed really heavy a few weeks back, why don't we have sub-zero temps?

Looking good for 20-30 min of snow.

[Alex95]

-0.2ºC here btw.

[Cloud 10]

Just been out playing with the snow shovel and there is a good 4 inches of fresh snow.

[snow_mad_09]

The strange thing is some people from nearby are reporting around 6cm, whilst others are reporting 12cm. I've got 11cm so people definitely aren't just exaggerating. Maybe there are large local variations.

I live at the top of a hill on my road which might be the reason?

Plus we still had some snow left which probably would have aided it.

[topsweep1506]

Snow shower passing through Cramlington at the moment just a moderate 1

Temp +0.5c dew -1.1c

[Alex95]

I live at the top of a hill on my road which might be the reason?

Plus we still had some snow left which probably would have aided it.

I'm on a bit of a hill, but I'm only about 80m asl.

[topsweep1506]

Which site can i find out how high i am here

[Freezing-Point]

Snowing here again. The wind has picked up and pushed the temp up to 0.5c.

Edited January 1, 2010 by Freezing-Point

[snow_mad_09]

Just a few:

Edited January 1, 2010 by snow_mad_09

[multi cellular thunderstorm]

Which site can i find out how high i am here

earthtools.org

Don't know if everyone has seen this from the Met Office...

Sleet and snow showers through Friday afternoon and evening, should ease for a time overnight, but will become widespread again later on Saturday morning and into the afternoon. Further fresh falls of 2 to 5 cm are expected, with locally up to 10cm. The wintry showers are also expected to fall on frozen roads and paths during Friday evening and overnight causing widespread ice in places.

The public are advised to take extra care and refer to the Highways Agency for further advice on traffic disruption on motorways and trunk roads.

Issued at: 1022 Fri 1 Jan

Thought it was going to be dry until evening tomorrow so that's a bonus.

Imagine another 10cm on top of what we've got, amazing, plus we have next weeks potential.