North West Cold Spell Discussion:

[Weather-history]

Showers have made it across the Pennines, a few flakes of snow from a shower that just passed to the north

Edited February 10, 2010 by Mr_Data

[mcfcben]

Light snow getting heavier now in Wythenshawe

[James M]

Just had a quite a heavy snow shower that lasted about 15 mins, a nice covering now

[ItIsGee]

Said snow is now in Didsbury

[mcfcben]

heavy snow here now!

a covering is appearing and its only been going for 3/4 minutes

[annamb]

Trying to decipher from the model output discussion thread what might be happening in terms of snow potential next week for our region. The north and west has been mentioned as a good area for snow, but not sure if they are referring to the UK or England. Half term next week so would be great to see some lying snow again and dust off the sledge.

[mcfcben]

well this is a surprise

still very heavy snow in Wythenshawe and has been for 15 mins now

any more due to arrive today?

[NW_Blackburn]

Just had a brief moderate to heavy snow shower. Now clear sky's with the sun beaming down. Seemed to pass through rather quickly.

[Cheshire Freeze]

Just checked the traffic cams; snowing 12 miles up the motorway at junction 18 of the M6 but zilch here

[NW_Blackburn]

Very snow shower just begun. Winds very strong so all the little flakes just being blown around but starting to settle just about. Bit wild out there!

Edited February 10, 2010 by NW_Blackburn

[mcfcben]

Very snow shower just begun. Winds very strong so all the little flakes just being blown around but starting to settle just about. Bit wild out there!

looks like a snow shower could be heading to south manchester way soon

still got lying snow from the heavy snow we had an hour ago

[NW_Blackburn]

Just stopped here so had a particularly heavy snow shower which lasted about 10mins. Left no covering though cause it was starting to settle but its all gone now so temps must be too high but I have got a bit which has settled on top of the garden table at least! These showers seem to making there way across the Pennines which is promising but bad thing is they aren't very organised and are isolated and seem to be moving through very quickly. Sky looks very clear now to my NE.

[Snow free zone]

Brief but moderate snow shower in Preston. Sunny here near Lancaster, but there are some dark clouds looming to the East, it looks like we may get a shower here shortly.

[les1234]

Had heavy snow here too,lasted about 15 mins and put a slight covering down.Just looked at the rain today radar and it looks like there is quite a few showers to the east making there way over the pennines .

[LiverBird]

Had heavy snow here too,lasted about 15 mins and put a slight covering down.Just looked at the rain today radar and it looks like there is quite a few showers to the east making there way over the pennines .

Just had about 23 flakes in the back garden but that's about it!!!

Would be a nice surprise to get some snow as not expecting it today in south Liverpool.

[SP1986]

Thats 23 more than here. Lots of sunshine today!

[LiverBird]

Thats 23 more than here. Lots of sunshine today!

LOL! I might have exaggerated a little! The sun is shining here too!

[snowdrifter]

Looking at the GFS 12z and reading between the lines in the MOD thread, it looks like the nw MIGHT be in the firing line for some decent snow next week (Weds?). Anyone else reckon so?

[snowingtequila]

caught the edge of a heavy snow shower this afternoon which gave a slight covering. Nice to see, also nice to see how the tenperature fell back to 1C when the snow started.

[NW_Blackburn]

Can see a quite beefy looking shower coming my way outside and on the raintoday radar. I wish these showers would organise themselves and stop being so isolated because they are making their way over the Pennines quite regularly!

Edit: Few flakes blowing about in a stiff breeze at the moment!

Light snow started falling and being blown round. Some massive flakes mixed in.

Edited February 10, 2010 by NW_Blackburn

[damianslaw]

Once again the south of the region is doing very well in terms of seeing snowfall, whereas up here in Cumbria we have seen not one snowflake. The wind was stronger today which has helped those showers to penetrate into southern parts, the fact that the Pennines are less of a barrier in the south than up here has also helped.

It looks like we are about to a see bone dry week - a very dry first half to February indeed. My attention is firmly on early next week when we will have some weather to talk about... looks like a cold night tonight mins of -4 degrees easily.

[cheshire snow]

Once again the south of the region is doing very well in terms of seeing snowfall, whereas up here in Cumbria we have seen not one snowflake. The wind was stronger today which has helped those showers to penetrate into southern parts, the fact that the Pennines are less of a barrier in the south than up here has also helped.

It looks like we are about to a see bone dry week - a very dry first half to February indeed. My attention is firmly on early next week when we will have some weather to talk about... looks like a cold night tonight mins of -4 degrees easily.

Indeed

this will have to go down as the best winter for 10 years for me(IMBY)LOL

loads of potential for next week could be quite a bit of snow around Mon-Wed for our region

will be a nice way to say goodbye to possibly the last significant snowfall of this winter

C.S

[fluffytrollop]

aye up, I was in wythenshawe earlier with my eldest, when the heavens flew open and out poured a blizzard. Hurrah, just as the bus arrived. There's still a weeny bit left in my garden now, up here in M21, and it's pretty cold so here's hoping for next week...

um, one other thing - are we to expect owt from over the pond? their storms seem to bring something our way - does anyone else have any thoughts on this?

[I remember Atlantic 252]

aye up, I was in wythenshawe earlier with my eldest, when the heavens flew open and out poured a blizzard. Hurrah, just as the bus arrived. There's still a weeny bit left in my garden now, up here in M21, and it's pretty cold so here's hoping for next week...

um, one other thing - are we to expect owt from over the pond? their storms seem to bring something our way - does anyone else have any thoughts on this?

no sadly dosent work like that, if they were coming here it would mean usually tropical maritime air and rain as the system moves towards the UK, the saying we get Americas snow is false

[cheshire snow]

aye up, I was in wythenshawe earlier with my eldest, when the heavens flew open and out poured a blizzard. Hurrah, just as the bus arrived. There's still a weeny bit left in my garden now, up here in M21, and it's pretty cold so here's hoping for next week...

um, one other thing - are we to expect owt from over the pond? their storms seem to bring something our way - does anyone else have any thoughts on this?

No the storms in the USA will not effect us

a very good post by damianslaw in the MOD thread earlier though

it looks good atm for next week,with a number of low pressure systems coming down

the first system will probaly be rain,but quickly turning to snow as the cold air cuts in from

the north,then further LP systems spreading from the north,all to paly for and hopefully this cold

spell will go out on a bang especially for our region LOL

C.S