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LiverBird Newbie

LiverBird

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  • Location: South Liverpool
  • Location: South Liverpool
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well after the thaw came the...............SNOW again!! pic taken 3 mins ago!!

Lovely photo! Sounds like we've all had similar weather today - a slight thaw with a long, light snow fall. It is still snowing here which must be at least 12 hours now but it is hardly making an impression.

Although it's on our pavements and paths here, the snow on the grass is struggling to stay put. 2.5 miles up the road however in Woolton woods we've just had a glorious walk in an inch or so of fresh snow! From the top of the hill we couldn't see the river, never mind the Welsh mountains, in the white out!

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Liam J Experienced

Liam J

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  • Location: Carlisle, Cumbria
  • Weather Preferences: Atlantic storms, severe gales, blowing snow and frost :)
  • Location: Carlisle, Cumbria
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and still the snow is falling lol at met office forcasting rain/sleet 70m asl and getting on for over an inch now!!! love it the best snow is the unexpected falls :unsure:

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cheshire snow Veteran

cheshire snow

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  • Location: Northwich south cheshire 35m or 114ft above sea le
  • Weather Preferences: snowy winters,warm summers and Storms
  • Location: Northwich south cheshire 35m or 114ft above sea le
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Light snow here again and sticking to everything roads and paths covered had more snow cover in 30mins than all day considering it been

snowing for nearly 10hrs

C.S

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Slowpoke Apprentice

Slowpoke

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  • Location: Blackpool, Lancashire
  • Location: Blackpool, Lancashire
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Stopped now, could be a while before we get more!

Started again lol, got about 1 inch now

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davehsug

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  • Location: Hanley, Stoke-on-trent
  • Location: Hanley, Stoke-on-trent
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It stopped here too for a couple of hours but has started again. Temperature must have dropped too as it's now settling in areas where it had thawed away & it's certainly not heavy enough to have done that without freezing temps.

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disco-barry Apprentice

disco-barry

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  • Location: Hubberton up in the Pennines, 260m
  • Location: Hubberton up in the Pennines, 260m
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Still snowing and with 3-4cm of fresh snow. This should definitely last until the weekend. :p

It won't sorry.

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cheshire snow

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  • Location: Northwich south cheshire 35m or 114ft above sea le
  • Weather Preferences: snowy winters,warm summers and Storms
  • Location: Northwich south cheshire 35m or 114ft above sea le
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Still light snow here pathetic to look at but giving a half decent covering

C.S

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snowingtequila Apprentice

snowingtequila

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  • Location: Macclesfield
  • Location: Macclesfield
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It won't sorry.

it will if the weekend starts friday, unfortunately for most it starts Saturday by which time the higher temps in friday afternoon followed by the rain will leave very little unless the models change dramatically in the next 12 hrs

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damianslaw Maestro

damianslaw

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  • Location: Windermere 120m asl
  • Location: Windermere 120m asl
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Currently very light snow is still falling, its been off and on all day, generally more persistant in the past couple of hours, still it is only really sticking to cold surfaces, there is a cover of about 1cm, we may catch a bit more over the next few hours, so an inch is achieveable but doubt anything more.

As I expected, today has felt thoroughly raw with temps struggling to get to 1 degree, tonight is looking very icy indeed and tomorrow is looking a very raw dank cold gloomy sort of a day.

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I Cumbria Marra I Seasoned

I Cumbria Marra I

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  • Location: West Cumbria, Egremont 58m (190.3ft) ASL
  • Weather Preferences: Cold/snow winter, Warm/hot summer, Thunderstorms, Severe Gales
  • Location: West Cumbria, Egremont 58m (190.3ft) ASL
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all i have had is 1cm but its been snowing all day but mostly light. james12 were do you live and how many miles is it away from egremontcc_confused.gif

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Interitus Accomplished

Interitus

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Posted (edited)

Despite snowing from at least 6am, only about a cm or so in south Warrington, settled all over to start with but then largely limited to settling on old snow and ice during the middle of the day before covering all surfaces after dark with a fine dusting. Has been mostly light, and fine but no hint of sleetiness.

I take snow depth reports with a large pinch of salt as very often the claims obviously don't match the evidence, but today it seems we have done quite poorly compared to other regions.

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iand61 Maestro

iand61

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  • Location: Bacup Lancashire, 1000ft up in the South Pennines
  • Weather Preferences: Summer heat and winter cold, and a bit of snow when on offer
  • Location: Bacup Lancashire, 1000ft up in the South Pennines
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but for a spell of freezing rain this morning which covered the cars in solid ice, today would have been one of the more easily forgot days of this cold spell.

our temperature has hardly moved all day from -1.5c at 6am to -1.1c max in the early afternoon to - 1.5c now.

seems like the uppers have fallen slightly during the day as the rain turned to sleet, then snow and from about 3pm onwards it has stuck to the ground.

depth wise, seems about on a par with everywhere else, certainly from Manchester northwards - a covering and little more.

the journey home from work tonight was the worst of the period due to the icy state of even the main roads.

did see a couple of gritters about but were flashing orange lights and not much else.

obviously saving what grit is available for when the roads are safer. LOL!

all attention now; certainly short term is on the potential for heavy rain over the weekend and the quantity of melt water trapped in the vast amounts of snow currently sat on The Pennines and other high ground.

i can see a rapid thaw of this snow and the inability of frozen ground to soak this up causing problems in low lying areas early next week.

beyond that, possibly the next round of winter 2009/10

Ian

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LiverBird Newbie

LiverBird

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  • Location: South Liverpool
  • Location: South Liverpool
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the journey home from work tonight was the worst of the period due to the icy state of even the main roads.

did see a couple of gritters about but were flashing orange lights and not much else.

obviously saving what grit is available for when the roads are safer. LOL!

Ian

We thought we saw a gritter this morning out of the office window..... but it was a bin lorry - almost as rare but not quite!

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Liam J Experienced

Liam J

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  • Location: Carlisle, Cumbria
  • Weather Preferences: Atlantic storms, severe gales, blowing snow and frost :)
  • Location: Carlisle, Cumbria
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all i have had is 1cm but its been snowing all day but mostly light. james12 were do you live and how many miles is it away from egremontcc_confused.gif

im about 12 miles away in high harrington, had about 1 inch of snow and thats the most since the cold spell began as i normally live under a snow dome and miss it all!!

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Snow free zone Aficionado

Snow free zone

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  • Location: Preston - Lancashire
  • Location: Preston - Lancashire
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Back to almost full snow cover again here. The roads are covered, pavements grass etc. Not that deep but the snow has settled readily since it started around 1pm. Still very light stuff falling now.

Whatever happens for the rest of the winter now, i think this cold period since around Dec 19th has seen the most days with falling and settled snow here for many,many years, the 7" of level snow we had before Christmas is the deepest snow i've seen here for over 25 years (if not in my lifetime).

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Slowpoke Apprentice

Slowpoke

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  • Location: Blackpool, Lancashire
  • Location: Blackpool, Lancashire
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Still coming down really fine here in Blackpool, only about 2 or 3cms put it's really nice to see it white again. Hope to wake up to an inch or two in the morning!

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Spurry

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  • Location: Wigan 259 ft ASL where it always rains
  • Weather Preferences: Hot Sun ,Snow and Cold
  • Location: Wigan 259 ft ASL where it always rains
Posted (edited)

Still coming down really fine here in Blackpool, only about 2 or 3cms put it's really nice to see it white again. Hope to wake up to an inch or two in the morning!

oooh errr missus :yahoo:: sorry couldn't resist (again)

anyway , it's been snowing here since 8.00 am this morning , it's not left a great amount but it's covered all the dirty ice/slush/snow, so everything looks lovely again ..temp currently -0.7c...looking forward to next tuesday onwards now

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