Midlands Cold Spell Discussion

[Fatbird]

It's really coming down but there seems to be a little sleetiness to it?? Oh and someone stole my snowman

Edited January 5, 2010 by Fatbird

[Costa Del Fal]

Omg if it was windy we would be having mega blizzards here! Really bad now.

[Strider]

Think radar is missing precip as it's literally starting out of nothing almost... must be snowing over a very large area. Really coming down heavy here now - and no wind. It's going nowhere fast!

Indeed, it's really surprising how much snow just randomly appeared in the last 90 mins...

[A.J]

Our road is now completely covered and traffic doing 10mph at best!

Isnt that Stourbridge everyday at 5:30pm??

[drgl]

http://www.sat24.com/Region.aspx?country=gb&sat=ir&type=loop

I've been watching that all day, seems to be stuck but more cloud coming up from the south and rotating in the low?

[jukebox]

Well I'm not too far from coleshill and its snowing unless they're all lighting the fires and running the Cannock hairdryer over there hah

The met office weather station is at Coleshill whats that reporting?????

[Costa Del Fal]

Isnt that Stourbridge everyday at 5:30pm??

No thats Stourbridge and Merry hill (or hell) Lol.

Gosh we are in for it big time i think as its going no where.

Traffic now at 5mph at best. Severe situation currently.

[snowmadchrisuk]

For goodness sake it didn't rotate the pic lol, here it is rotated...

Dam .. the car number plate is covered in Snow... I can't trace you and get that pint of beer you owe me.

[A.J]

No thats Stourbridge and Merry hill (or hell) Lol.

Gosh we are in for it big time i think as its going no where.

lol....Nice to see you getting a potential dumping of snow Luke!....I'm supposed to be working down in Kiddy tomorrow...guess I might have to pass on that one! (It'll cost me a fortune in income, but hey ho, I can stay at home and consume more wine & bicardi with the missus instead...its a hard life...lol)

[andy_leics22]

Dam .. the car number plate is covered in Snow... I can't trace you and get that pint of beer you owe me.

LMAO, I took that on kingsway just near the Civic Centre

[weather_it_will]

In my part of Banbury currently 2cm on the ground and light snow at present, but this could change any moment judging by the radar.

Was in Solihull today, and we had 2 inches this morning, and was starting to snow heavy again when I left this afternoon.

Banbury needs to have more snow to reach the 40cm that is forecast!

Oxfordshire, W.Berkshire, Hampshire Weather Warning from Metoffice

Very Heavy Snowfall 2000 Tue 5 1100 Wed 6

There is a high risk of an extreme weather event affecting parts of Southern England this evening and overnight. A period of exceptionally heavy snowfall is expected with accumulations of 15-30 cm and perhaps in excess of 40 cm. This is expected to cause widespread disruption to the transport network and could lead to problems with power supplies.

[Costa Del Fal]

Car stuck on our road now. Lorry just got up and almost failed. Severe!

[Nick L]

Pretty much stopped snowing completely now. This is unbelievably frustrating.

[PolarWarsaw]

Its almost raining now!

[Cornflake Girl]

Not much here

[Eugene]

Head to edge hill xanadu, well actually to think of it do not utter chaos up there

[Albion Snowman]

Heavy snow for the last 15 mins and moderate snow for 40 mins before then . Got about 2.5 inches on the grass. temp 0.2C. LOVELY!

[frozencanals]

still just a very very very light snizzle falling here to the north of Notts city centre..... at least it has stopped the thaw a bit

pavements now half covered in a fine dusting

hey ho

FC

[cold stoke]

Pretty much stopped snowing completely now. This is unbelievably frustrating.

still snowing in stoke alot of snow now get in

[nats]

When you say nr stourbridge whereabouts are you? I work in birmingham but live in wollescote nr lye

i'm near wollescote too, its belting down here!!

[Gord]

Theres been a couple of reports in the area of people saying its looking a little sleety or it looks like rain. I didn't think this was a marginal event here?

Anyway, snowing quiyte heavily now...though it has to be said, the main road through Wordsley is actually running better than normal for half past 5!

[Summer of 95]

The Northern side is weakening to nothing, and the second pulse coming up from the South won't reach Staffs or Shrops, I would think Northern limit a line from South Lincs to Ludlow.

Thanks for all the posts about the nature of the low Ian, very informative. Now do you know why the band coming from the north this morning broke up over Shropshire, then reformed in the Birmingham/Kidderminster/Dudley areas, as there's no high ground to the north between here and Manchester?

Shrewsbury STILL not snowing- had a few wet flakes about an hour ago but just misty and dank.....

[conor123]

Another hour has passed and still NOTHING in Telford.

[andy_leics22]

Van just tried getting up our road... UH UH no chance :unsure: Got half way and after about 5 minutes of wheel spinning just gave up and rolled back down to the bottom, lovely conditons out there if you aren't driving

[Costa Del Fal]

Finally had a gritter along here though need a snow plough tbh!!!

Plenty more to come too!