Midlands Cold Spell Discussion

[cyclonic happiness]

really heavy snow here, we have just over a cm now and it's falling fast!!!

the road was clear half an hour ago!!

[ISAAC]

really heavy snow here, we have just over a cm now and it's falling fast!!!

the road was clear half an hour ago!!

i think we live on the same street.... . looks almost identical

[conor123]

Snowing coming down fairly heavy in Telford now

[Snowmoon]

Very heavy snow here at the moment which is adding to the large amount of snow still remaining from Tuesday. Ironically, the Met Office has no warning out whatsoever for Worcestershire!

[davehsug]

Heaviest snow of the day now here in Stoke. It's not settling though even on cars & the slow thaw continues.

[andy_leics22]

This will actually turn out to be a good event for the West Midlands IMO. We are just getting the last bit of the band now in Leicester ans it is snowing in big flakes and settling but the band pepped up loads to the West of us as it passed us so you guys should see a few cm's from this.

[GreatBarr]

Heavy snow now, its produced a good few cms now!! Shame its over within the next half hour I'd say!

[ISAAC]

This will actually turn out to be a good event for the West Midlands IMO. We are just getting the last bit of the band now in Leicester ans it is snowing in big flakes and settling but the band pepped up loads to the West of us as it passed us so you guys should see a few cm's from this.

it has pepped up quite abit hasn't it... just as anticipated but won't be enough for anything notable.

[Rommy]

cnt believe this roads coverd 2cm outside and its still snowing heavy wtf? wer did that come from?

[Hailsowen]

Turned quite heavier now. I'd say it has collected at least 3cms now.

[conor123]

Usual case of being stuck with a few flakes in the wind now whilst the greens yellows and oranges are in all other directions..

[Hailsowen]

Just thought I'd make a quick report: Very heavy snow for the last 30-45min, everywhere is covered! Absolute sheet of white out there!

Edit: Truly incredible snowfall here, the intensity just increases by the minute!

Hmm... looking at what it says you have on the radar, I should be seeing something like it soon!

But it's at the end and after that it'll be all over.

Edited January 11, 2010 by Hailsowen

[GreatBarr]

Beeches Road in Birmingham, huge road, VERY busy during the mornings in the working week has not been gritted and is covered in snow, a good 2cm or more on there as I had a look. How longs this going on for? Gobsmacked at the snow and failure to grit this road. Havock tomorrow morning. Caution to all drivers tomorrow, due to the 25% less grit useage alot of main roads will be icey and snowy.

[ISAAC]

Just thought I'd make a quick report: Very heavy snow for the last 30-45min, everywhere is covered! Absolute sheet of white out there!

Edit: Truly incredible snowfall here, the intensity just increases by the minute!

yep... all the heavy stuff is passing north of us towards your area although cant complain with the moderate stuff here.... still cool!

Edited January 11, 2010 by ISAAC

[Matty M]

Its amazing the difficulty in forecasting this spell.

I think the snow is just having the laugh!

[Hailsowen]

I know, it's fantastic when things like this happen.

It's getting heavier here now... can I almost see a blizzard? It's certainly tring to drift at the least. The front of some cars have a lot more snow on the side facing the falls!

[andy_leics22]

cnt believe this roads coverd 2cm outside and its still snowing heavy wtf? wer did that come from?

The sky?

[conor123]

What did Telford do to deserve this, it alternates between being plain annoying and that much of a joke thats its laughable.

As you can see a stream of heavy stuff merely miles north and south of here.

Nothing more than the odd flake atm...

Edited January 11, 2010 by conor123

[GreatBarr]

Getting even heavier now, wow, just wow! Better than last weeks snowfall for sure, even though it wont amount to as much, is this ppn just going to go west? Id like it to hang around abit longer or come back this way but thats just greedy!

[ISAAC]

things looking really great outside only shame is the temperatures are hovering around 0.5c... if this was tuesday we would have had a few inches by now considering the intensity, also not to mention the thaw from before.

[Hailsowen]

It's going west and slightly north.

To give a good idea of how long it'll stay, Halesowen has at most another hour of it.

[GreatBarr]

Aw its slowing down quite abit now, I fear thats it unless it magically swings more north and I could get the rest of that to the south haha

Glad someone else from this area is reporting it aswell. About 20-25min ago, regardless of what the Radar was showing, the snow came down very heavily. Just a quick observation outside the front of the house and I would say 1-2cm of fresh snow has fallen with tree branches wrapped in white, making it look picturesque. Has almost stopped falling now. Wow, that's the second time I've been lucky this last week for snowfall! :)

Yeah we had some really heavy snowfall at one point for a good while!! The roads are all covered, infact, everythings covered again!

Edited January 11, 2010 by GreatBarr

[andy_leics22]

What did Telford do to deserve this, it alternates between being plain annoying and that much of a joke thats its laughable.

As you can see a stream of heavy stuff merely miles north and south of here.

Nothing more than the odd flake atm...

You think you are unlucky? Type in LE3 into the postcode zoom sunshine and see what unlucky is

[Hailsowen]

Glad someone else from this area is reporting it aswell. About 20-25min ago, regardless of what the Radar was showing, the snow came down very heavily. Just a quick observation outside the front of the house and I would say 1-2cm of fresh snow has fallen with tree branches wrapped in white, making it look picturesque. Has almost stopped falling now. Wow, that's the second time I've been lucky this last week for snowfall! :)

Just wondering, may it have been this?

[high ground birmingham]

Glad someone else from this area is reporting it aswell. About 20-25min ago, regardless of what the Radar was showing, the snow came down very heavily. Just a quick observation outside the front of the house and I would say 1-2cm of fresh snow has fallen with tree branches wrapped in white, making it look picturesque. Has almost stopped falling now. Wow, that's the second time I've been lucky this last week for snowfall! :)

Hi weather09, was just reading your diary highlights at the bottom of your posts. For the snow ones are you missing the following:

Dec 19th night: Moderate snow from the north giving about 1cm of snow

Dec 29th evening: Heavy wet snow from the SW giving 1-2cm

New Years day: Snow shower in the evening giving a dusting

Was just a thought lol.

Regards, hgb