North West England Regional Discussion Thread

[Stratocumulus perlucidus]

There isnt just one thing there are many factOrs but if u use raintoday premium it has red for snow and blue for rain etc

[Liam J]

Im quite dissapointed today thought the wind would have been stronger its only gusting around 60mph on st bees head. booooooooo

I've recorded wind speeds of 78mph in the last hour, mean speeds around 50mph atm!! Tiles off the roof, trees getting damaged.

Anywhere below St Bees was not in the amber warning and if you look at the charts the really tight isobars stay over north Cumbria a very fine line any further north and it would have missed here all together, plue the observations are only taken hourly and i'm sure stronger gusts will have happened. The mean speed at St Bees is 48mph on the last report easily add another 20-30mph on for gusts.

My mums works Xmas party was cancelled for tonight.

[Backtrack]

Sorry to ask this which has been asked many times i bet but what do i need to look at on the charts to see if snow is due for my area.

Chris

Uppers below -5C

DAM below 528

Freezing level below about 500m

Dewpoint below 0C

Precipitation.

[Stratocumulus perlucidus]

But sometimes the blue for rain produces differently ie the other day it was blue for rain all day and we had hail

[SnowObsessor90]

Sorry to ask this which has been asked many times i bet but what do i need to look at on the charts to see if snow is due for my area.

Chris

This should help make things simpler for you : http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=snowforecast;page=3;type=winter;ct=22795~Pinxton;sess=#forecast

[chrisb1357]

HI,

I have the NetWeather Radar not rain today :-)

Uppers below -5C

DAM below 528

Freezing level below about 500m

Dewpoint below 0C

Precipitation.

[Stratocumulus perlucidus]

Uppers below -5C

DAM below 528

Freezing level below about 500m

Dewpoint below 0C

Precipitation.

Am i right in thinking that we have all them exept the ppn. If so i can go out on the wifes umbrella and throw a jug of water over your house.

[Backtrack]

Am i right in thinking that we have all them exept the ppn. If so i can go out on the wifes umbrella and throw a jug of water over your house.

Difference being we're right on the coast. It's different for us. We live in such a 'special' area.

Water over my house? Nah I don't want rain. If it's not gonna snow then let it be clear so I can have my FIRST air frost.

HI,

I have the NetWeather Radar not rain today :-)

So do I.

You need to look at the Net Weather charts.

Go to the top of the page, hover the mouse over 'weather', select datacentre, click GFS charts.

[Isolated Frost]

Am i right in thinking that we have all them exept the ppn. If so i can go out on the wifes umbrella and throw a jug of water over your house.

Well right now you have:

Uppers around -4c (uppers at -5c by tomorrow morning, -6c at times tomorrow)

Dam around 530 and falling (should be below 528 by midnight)

Freezing level around 800m

Dewpoint around 2-3c

Precipitation- it doesnt seem so

So right now it isn't conductive to snow in any way, we'd probably need -7c uppers for you to receive snow, and a freezing level of 300m, and a dam of 525/526 (although dam isn't as important)... dewpoints always have to be below 0c of course though.

[Stratocumulus perlucidus]

Difference being we're right on the coast. It's different for us. We live in such a 'special' area.

Water over my house? Nah I don't want rain. If it's not gonna snow then let it be clear so I can have my FIRST air frost.

"Special" hows that special? Special is the north east, lakes or scotland.

Although them welsh hills really are blocking you arent they. Them winds are the most severe i have ever seen. Even worse than last novembers storms.

[Backtrack]

"Special" hows that special? Special is the north east, lakes or scotland.

Although them welsh hills really are blocking you arent they. Them winds are the most severe i have ever seen. Even worse than last novembers storms.

I don't think you catch my drift mate.

[itsnowjoke]

not as windy as i thought it would be, its wild but not as bad as when we got the tail end of that hurricaine.

[Alex95]

I may have to venture across to Cumbria this weekend, I see the Met Office are now expecting 2-4cm above 200m, which is most of Cumbria to the east of the Lake District (Shap, parts of Penrith, Appleby etc). I wouldn't be surprised if places south or west of Preston get nothing more than sleety snow though as it looks very marginal for the south of your region.

[Stratocumulus perlucidus]

I don't think you catch my drift mate.

Enlighten me then

[itsnowjoke]

i thought it would be a bit more jammers on here tonight, not many people on here isnt a great sign.

[Backtrack]

Enlighten me then

I was implying we live in the most boring region for weather, scenery and everything else.

[cheshire snow]

A few showers around tomorrow and a bit nippy temps up to around 5c for my location

uppers at -5 and dew point of 2

so for my location damp rather than white

FWIW IMO we could be in this pattern for the next 7-10days as for a white christmas about a 20% chance ATM

However on the positive i do feel that this winter will be a conplete opposite to last year with feb been the month

for a prolonged cold and snowy spell

C.S

[Stratocumulus perlucidus]

Ahh you were being sarcastic.

[NW_Blackburn]

Evening all. Just wondering what my chances are for any snow tonight/tomorrow? Its wild out there to say the least!

[Stratocumulus perlucidus]

Another hail shower

[carl1980]

hail shower about 5mins ago,still gusty,5.9c

[cheshire snow]

Evening all. Just wondering what my chances are for any snow tonight/tomorrow? Its wild out there to say the least!

Not very high sorry about 15% chance IMO

C.S

[Liam J]

Still gusting in excess of 70mph here, really wild, 5.7c with a severe windchill!

Nasty

[Backtrack]

Well we're down to 4.9C now with wind gusting up to 30mph in my sheltered area.

No doubt in excess of 50 up the hills.

[NickyB]

Getting some very strong gusts here at the moments- would hazard a guess at 65mph