The Midlands Regional Discussion - Snow

[Higher Ground]

Snowing hard here on the top of the Lickeys, half cm on roof tiles, probably 1cm on grass. See attached message (i now have a cold finger from tracing that on the roof!)

Night all.

[A.J]

ah thats top secret im a stourbridge lad but penkridge isnt all that far from newport in shrops, where i am atm. very little to report here.

lol.....my eyes are on all that lovely ppn building in north & west Wales & that stuff off the Welsh coast...I'm tempting fate, but I think that's got our name written on it later on

[beccaboo]

Still nothing here, nada, not a drop, no snow, no sleet, no rain, no nothing!!!!

[FreezeManiac]

Snowing hard here on the top of the Lickeys, half cm on roof tiles, probably 1cm on grass. See attached message (i now have a cold finger from tracing that on the roof!)

Night all.

Good stuff

[cold stoke]

same here

[Cheshire Freeze]

Snowing hard here on the top of the Lickeys, half cm on roof tiles, probably 1cm on grass. See attached message (i now have a cold finger from tracing that on the roof!)

Night all.

Jealous!

[weirpig]

light sleet here now

[conor123]

No shock theres nothing falling out the sky here even with the radar having moderate precipitation over us.

[kmanmx]

Picked up a tiny bit, still very light. It could snow like this all night and you wouldn't be able to tell in the morning. 1mm size flakes. I say snow, it's probably a mix of rain/sleet/snow. It's definitely blowing around a little like snow tends to do, wheras rain just falls straight.

[PolarWarsaw]

Nothing falling out of the sky at the moment. Calm. Feels too warm to snow atm anyway. Reckon we'l get something AJ?

[conor123]

No shock theres nothing falling out the sky here even with the radar having moderate precipitation over us.

[Cheshire Freeze]

No shock theres nothing falling out the sky here even with the radar having moderate precipitation over us.

Not good news for here, looks like I'm to give up on this one

[MKN]

[azores92]

conor i think i may see what you have to contend with round these parts! as i said im in newport up the road atm, and only a little light rain to report.

[mackerel sky]

I live in the SE midlands, but im not holding my breath

Haha. First time i've ever heard someone from Bedford say they live in the SE Midlands, even if geographically it is probably more appropriate. I work in Bedford, even lived there, and i've never heard that one. Most think they are an extension of north London, or some very inland part of East Anglia near Cambridge. Technically, Bedford is by region in the East of England, but then we have the "south Midlands" that somehow can often refer to Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Oxfordshire. Wiltshire? wtf!

The boundaries are governed by the European consituencies for both the West and East Midlands, north Bucks and north Oxfordshire I'd class as central England but they aren't technically in the Midlands. Obviously weather conditions don't stop at tight boundaries, which I note the Met Office warnings are now much improved, as they don't stop suddenly at a boundary.

Just drizzle here at the minute.

[kold weather]

Northward movement has significantly decreased in the last hour, quite typically around 15 miles south of myself.

Yeah northward motion should be about over with now. This set-up sorta reminds me of Feb 07, but with slightly more marginal air to begin with which is delaying the snowfall.

Anyway snow level should drop down inn the next hour or so, especially over SW Midlands.

[Arctic Hare]

Down to 1.9 °C here, but still just rain.

[FreezeManiac]

Wow suddenly stopped raining/sleeting here - what the hell? I must just be in a tiny gap of nothingness

[Severe Siberian icy blast]

I can report wet snow now in the cotswolds i knew it wouldnt be long if the lickies have it , long night i feel as i have work in the morn! A ll nighter anyone !!!

[kmanmx]

Just me or have to models way over estimated precipitation amounts ? a lot of people are reporting nothing but very light rain and sleet. Even 1mm accumalated would be impossible at this rate.

Edited December 15, 2011 by kmanmx

[beccaboo]

Still nothing

[andy_leics22]

Oh for goodness sake!! Temp risen to 3.4c and dew from 0.6c to 1.3c, going to wake up to wet surfaces in the morning then.

[FreezeManiac]

Where can you get the dewpoint for your location?

[stewfox]

Haha. First time i've ever heard someone from Bedford say they live in the SE Midlands, even if geographically it is probably more appropriate. I work in Bedford, even lived there, and i've never heard that one. Most think they are an extension of north London, or some very inland part of East Anglia near Cambridge. Technically, Bedford is by region in the East of England, but then we have the "south Midlands" that somehow can often refer to Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Oxfordshire. Wiltshire? wtf!

The boundaries are governed by the European consituencies for both the West and East Midlands, north Bucks and north Oxfordshire I'd class as central England but they aren't technically in the Midlands. Obviously weather conditions don't stop at tight boundaries, which I note the Met Office warnings are now much improved, as they don't stop suddenly at a boundary.

Just drizzle here at the minute.

Actually there are no legal defintions for midlands south east etc

see here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Midlands

I'm south midlands if its snowing in midlands and South East if its snowing there, 20 miles from warkshire , 120 miles from Southampton go figure.

[Fozfoster]

Rain and 2.1c still not sure it will snow here tonight, very wet out there