North East England Cold Spell Dicussion

[Freezing-Point]

HEAVY SNOW NOW :lol:

[NL]

Oh it is that Ian, pure flakes too, no hail nor graupel... flakes are small and powdery in the 'lighter' parts and when the ppn increases the flakes become fairly large. Its difficult to see whether the trough is fizzling away but here on the coast i'd say definately not but coastal districts are in prime location for these scenarios, moving so slow,...... belting down again...

Edited January 7, 2010 by NL

[Freezing-Point]

This is the heaviest snow yet and its coming down vertical. No wind at all.

[peterf]

temp has risen here 1.2c in a very short space of time.so all still to play for.

[izi]

still light small flakes in south gosforth

This is the heaviest snow yet and its coming down vertical. No wind at all.

arnt you just up the road from gosforth? how am i missing it? :)lol

edit: wait i think it may be getting heavier

Edited January 7, 2010 by izi

[NL]

-3.6oC and the smallest ice/snow flakes ive ever seen

Thats what was here at the beginning then the larger flakes as the ppn increased.

Huge flakes here and still belting down

[Snowstorm1]

How long this snow going to last for its moderate but only small flakes ? and seem like were going to get more than what has been warned for

[Geordiesnow]

Still very small flakes aswell here, i hope it does not do what apparently happened in March 2001 according to TWS but it would be typical if it does.

[CraigUK]

Seems to have strengthened somewhat as its hit land so fingers crossed for Darlo (and of course Aycliffe )

[Cloud 10]

A few flakes falling here now.

[Typhoon John]

I can see the clouds glowing but still nothing yet, the anticipation is killing me! This needs to deliver now, fingers crossed!

[izi]

so pretty with light winds and heavy-ish ppn. like movie snow.

edit: same intensity but tiny flakesn again

Edited January 7, 2010 by izi

[Geordiesnow]

Snowflakes are getting slightly bigger now, nothing too large mind you but better than nothing.

[Freezing-Point]

Not letting up here, must be 1/4" so far..... Its -3.2c

[gazzac69]

getting canny heavy now in byker flakes getting bigger, no wind

[NL]

so pretty with light winds and heavy-ish ppn. like movie snow.

edit: same intensity but tiny flakesn again

Propa trance's you out...haha.. My daughters just said how dizzy she felt watching it, easing now but a couple of centimetres from that 30-40 min event...nice..!

Edited January 7, 2010 by NL

[Typhoon John]

It's just starting here. Very light and very tiny flakes.

[tynevalleywinter]

Very heavy here now with big flakes

[paul tall]

Had a brief light shower which deposited basically naff all but the main event is knocking on the door, lets see what happens.

[Geordiesnow]

Coming down heavier now and it has been for the last 5-10 mins or so, shame it will be stopping soon.

[izi]

stopping here now and can see clear skys

[Carl]

Only started here in the last 5-10 mins.. light but wonder if i'm getting whats slowly passed over you lot and if there's much left to come down!

[gazzac69]

bbc forecast just showed more snow on their graphics for tomorrow & sat with the persistant snow on sun just reaching us.

snowing quite heavily now in byker car totally covered again, one big downside of this is having to scrape the snow off the car in the mornings to gan to work

roll on tomorrow night lie in sat

cheers gazza

[snowmackem]

Steady here now, all sorts of flake sizes. All good stuff, helping to add to the 10" in the back garden. And tomorrow to look forward to, I know they are not accurate and only representative but the snow graphics on the 10 0'clock news (bbc) weather with Rob McKelwie gave the impression that it could snow across Tyne and Wear from 10-00am tomorrow til 02-00am Saturday ! Fantastic if it happens, I may get out of work early (South Shields). Then snowed in at the pub later lol

Karl

[izi]

temp got up to the dizzing heights of -3.5oC during that snow fall. Now falling back, -3.8oC