The Midlands Regional Discussion Thread

[Arctic Hare]

Just had a sleet shower! Okay, not exactly thrilling news, but still the first wintry precipitation (not counting hail) I've seen since January. Only stayed as sleet for about 20 seconds before becoming lighter and turning to rain. Mind you, the whole shower only took around 1 minute...

[A.J]

Just had one of those really weird snow flurries when there is no cloud about :wacko:

[i love snow]

I also had one of those snow flurries with no cloud :-s

[Serendipity]

raining here again!

[Adzyy]

Well, still yet to see a snowflake...

[Severe Siberian icy blast]

HEAVY SNOW very heavy in the cotwolds as i type.

[smethwickgg102]

Could be interesting for us, as we are due to drive down to Minehead on Friday morning.

[conor123]

Yet again the trend of mostly clear night with no frost continued last night with a low of 2c, had a few light showers this morning but all of rain again as they were very light.

[Cheshire Freeze]

Snow waring gone out for the Midlands for Friday now. Accumulations to 10cm on higher ground

[syed2878]

Had alook at the met 5day forecast for brum and they forecasting lite snow for friday.

[kold weather]

Yep here is the warning:

Outbreaks of heavy rain will turn readily to snow during the early hours of Friday.

The snow is likely to accumulate over time with a risk of up to 10 cm over higher ground.

At low levels sleet is more likely but even here some lying snow cannot be ruled out.

Seems reasonable to me, suspect most places WILL get snow of some sort but whether or not it settles or lasts for long is another matter. I'm willing to bet some decent accumulations above 150M.

[MKN]

Outbreaks of heavy rain will turn readily to snow during the early hours of Friday. The snow is likely to accumulate over time with a risk of up to 10 cm over higher ground. At low levels sleet is more likely but even here some lying snow cannot be ruled out.

The public should be aware that this could lead to travel disruption on Friday morning.

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Doesnt look overly exciting as not many of us live on a hill, however fairly typical wording from the metoffice at this stage. If come tomorrow night the area to be effected is certain and the conditions definately right for snow then i imagine that would change although they may just leave at that until or if flash warnings are required

[Serendipity]

yes, sounds a fair and accurate warning at present, I don't anticipate snow here, just sleet.

off topic - anyone else having problems with raintoday? Won't load for me...

[Fozfoster]

yes, sounds a fair and accurate warning at present, I don't anticipate snow here, just sleet.

off topic - anyone else having problems with raintoday? Won't load for me...

Running fine for me

http://www.raintoday.co.uk/

Try this link

[Serendipity]

yeah as soon as I posted it worked for me again

[Zakos]

Trust me, if the met office were confident that snow will not fall to levels, they would say so.

They have said this to cover themselves, If its mostly sleet, or if there is heavy snow to even levels; there right either way.

Its clearly very marginal, but i think its possible snow could accumulate at lower levels, especially during heavy bursts.

It could go either way, but anywhere within the warning area could see significant accumulations of snow IMO. Im not even going to hazard a guess as to what the probability is, because even the BBC are very uncertain in their forecast today, so its clearly a very chaotic pattern atm.

[ISAAC]

going to be a very interesting evening of model watching, rarely do we this amount uncertinaty at such a close timeframe, even at T+36 we have no real indication of how this will pin down.

this will probably be one of those localised events where one folk will get a dumping of 4 inches, and the other 20 miles down the road will have a slushy mix.

Apart from last 2 winters, almost 9/10 had our best snowfalls have come from marginal events as such.

december 1996, feb 2002 and more recently feb 2007 are my top 3, rain all day turning to heavy snow, wet out conditions turning into white out conditions.... unbeatablle

can we have a repeat? hmmmmmm

[PolarWarsaw]

I just wish i lived 100m' higher. My snow 'feelings' would be so much more optismitic.

[Polar Low]

1.30 BBC forecast looked very tasty.

[Costa Del Fal]

Just had a light snow shower 20 minutes ago to whet the appetite for Friday hopefully. Were about 130M ASL here so that should be decent enough I think.

[Brum Watcher]

13.30 Beeb forecast, slap, bang and wallop for the midlands, a dartboarder for the Midlands....considering how poor the models haves been this is the best possible scenario for the Mids so far. ( fingers crossed )

[Costa Del Fal]

Great to see the ECM has shifted in line with GFS and UKMO/NAE as last night it had all the precip in France! Could still happen but some decent agreement coming through now. Friday morning rush hour could be very tricky. Some very heavy snow possible especially if the NAE comes off.

[MKN]

sounds like the beeb are ramping it up now east mids today mentioning snowfall and driving snow on friday Didnt go into any detail though will have to wait for that till later or tomorrow

[stewfox]

Doesnt look overly exciting as not many of us live on a hill, however fairly typical wording from the metoffice at this stage. If come tomorrow night the area to be effected is certain and the conditions definately right for snow then i imagine that would change although they may just leave at that until or if flash warnings are required

I can't wait just moved in.

[MKN]

I can't wait just moved in.

Lol