Midlands Cold Spell Discussion

[Costa Del Fal]

Road nearly completely covered here now. Much more snow to come i think!

Heavy snow continues!

Edited January 5, 2010 by Blizzards

[Snowyowl9]

Snow has arrived here now last half hour,after mostly snow grains which gave another dusting before that.

Snow is drifting higher up,expect it to be strong overnight drifting in Wales. as winds get strong.

-1.7c.

Edited January 5, 2010 by Snowyowl9

[cyclonic happiness]

almost stopped here for the mean time.

[Macey]

Hello Macey - Nice to see someone from Harpole, can get you to rescue mother-in-law if required

Haha. I add £2 onto my fare after 12 though

[Costa Del Fal]

Absoloute Mayhem here. Road covered and very heavy snow. A car nearly just crashed as it slid along the road. This is serious now.

[swilliam]

The heavy stuff has our name right on it here in Northampton if it keeps going in the same direction

[frozencamel]

Anyway, judging by Radar, the south east Midlands looks like it's going to see some severe snowfall over the next few hours!

Winter is truly here now!

Hi weather09

Do you think the falls over London at the mo would wrap around the low and head up to East mids?

Nottingham may be a little to much north

[lesta_snow]

Anyone think that snow will make it to the eastmidlands and i mean snow as in the really heavy stuff which looks like its on its way?! about 7cm here! YAAY.

[SteveElbows]

Well the occasional hour of moderately heavy snow and many hours of lighter stuff has made me very happy in Nuneaton.

And this is the sort of radar watching/anticipation that I like, because I already have enough snow to make me happy, but a load more later would be a glorious bonus.

I had a dream about snow in late November, only bit I remember is commenting to someone that 'if its snowed this much in November, think what the rest of winter will be like'. Obviously November didnt feature snow and December was a bit of a letdown for Nuneaton, today has more than made up for it, and has brought back happy childhood memories. As Ive said before I didnt appreciate how lucky I was in the late 70's and various parts of the 80's and 1990 in terms of quantity of snow, and Ive missed it ever since, finally I get an event and a nationally cold winter to rekindle the lost past.

Walked to work via the canal today, it had frozen over in many places with snow covering the ice, felt a bit sorry for the 47 ducks that were sheltering under a bridge (yes I counted them).

[we_want_snow]

Snowing, light/moderate, very small flakes, a nice covering. I want bigger flakes

[snowmadchrisuk]

Anyone think that snow will make it to the eastmidlands and i mean snow as in the really heavy stuff which looks like its on its way?! about 7cm here! YAAY.

it's looking like its gonna have a dam good try.

[Gord]

STILL heavy snow here...wow.

However, i don't think that very heavy lot over the south will get here, the low will move before it does....but lets be honest...does it really need to get here after today?

[A.J]

Tell you what, its worth having a look at the bigger picture....Some incredible radar returns stretching from the IOW to the Chilterns...a seriously intense streamer, and I would expect as per published warnings, some serious accumulations!!....for those in the south midlands, this is all coming your way!

[cyclonic happiness]

Anyone think that snow will make it to the eastmidlands and i mean snow as in the really heavy stuff which looks like its on its way?! about 7cm here! YAAY.

what you have to do, is look for the centre of the circulation and then follow the precipitation back, it rotates like water down a plug hole, i'm watching that precip' too, I'll let you know next radar update.

the low does seem to have stalled for the timebeing though.

[MKN]

745 to 750 didnt look right on the radar???

[beccaboo]

Whooooohoooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We have snow in NG10!!!!!

It has been snowing since about 4.30pm and has quite nicely covered the ground and the cars!! (it also covered the cat, but she's safe indoors now!!!)

It keeps going to really small flakes (hardly seen even via the lampost) But I am hoping that it wont give up!!!!

Definatley not driving to work tomorrow, if I go in at all, my bus takes a very windy(windey?!!) route and I think it would probably take about 2-3hrs to get there!!lol!!! So a snowy walk with the dog on the fields first thing tomorrow (pooh bear, you ARE going for a walk!!!!!!) - yippeeeeeeee!!!!!

[smethwickgg102]

Newbie question time again :lol:

Having just looked at the NW radar is the snow travelling northwards over Oxford likely to circulate NW towards Brum?

May seem like a daft question but I am still trying to get my head around all of this weather mullarkey (it is fun though)

[Summer of 95]

Well it's trying- the snizzle has turned to lightish snow. 0.5cm covering again; please please can we have like 5cm or so tonight????

[SalopWatcher]

Crikey after a LONG wait its almost fully snowing.... everything white again so out dusting is back... now lets hope it kicks on and at least gives us 1cm... that would a dream after this cold spell so far...

[we_want_snow]

http://www.raintoday.co.uk/

Sorry you other 2 from Shrewsbury, but it has literally vanished, and almost stopped

[cyclonic happiness]

latest radar shows the centre has moved back a little towards gloucester, we may be very lucky but i think that the main area of precip' will scrape the south of Brum beforerotating back southwestwards around the low.

[Costa Del Fal]

I cant believe this. Still very heavy snow. Road really is getting difficult. Anyone with bad tires has no hope here.

[snowmadchrisuk]

745 to 750 didnt look right on the radar???

Well the netweather radar shows nothing at over my postcode , and it shows nothing coming unless the south stuff gets here... Only trouble is just looked out the window and it is still bucketing it down with snow !!! the sky also looks full of it.

[Nick L]

Well the netweather radar shows nothing at over my postcode , and it shows nothing coming unless the south stuff gets here... Only trouble is just looked out the window and it is still bucketing it down with snow !!! the sky also looks full of it.

I think the radar is a bit kaput tonight! Gave up on it hours ago. Still snowing fairly nicely here.

[MKN]

Well the netweather radar shows nothing at over my postcode , and it shows nothing coming unless the south stuff gets here... Only trouble is just looked out the window and it is still bucketing it down with snow !!! the sky also looks full of it.

what the f**ks going on then lol?