North West Of England Regional Discussion Thread - Part 4

[Backtrack]

thats BETTER mate now lets hope the snow kicks in!!

Going to have to be very heavy to keep the freezing rain away.

At least this is keeping the temperature pegged back for later, but it's just plain freezing rain now, half hearted freezing rain at that, it's struggling to freeze even on cars.

[loubie_4]

Rain here, odd bits of hail. Temp risen to -0.7 Any chance this could turn to snow as the main band hits?

[Snow free zone]

Still light snow blowing around here. Interesting CM is getting snow.

[HotCuppa]

Freezing rain now mixed with hail & snow.

Temperature falling.

lol for me the snow as stopped and now back to zero precip again, as long as the freezing rain / rain stays away long enough for the main event should be okay

[Stratocumulus perlucidus]

Hail here

[Cecil Hogmanay Melchett]

Not a jot here but being 40 miles away from the coast thats no suprise i guess.

[Stratocumulus perlucidus]

Now raining

This is it now innit

[ianshortall]

Very light rain here on the coast in New Brighton.

[snowdrifter]

Still light snow blowing around here. Interesting CM is getting snow.

Hi SFZ, just about to drive to Kirkham stn to get train to Manchester. Nice to see you're getting some of the white stuff. Been raining here (no surprise tho)

[Backtrack]

Evaporative cooling coming into play right now.

Radar reflects very very very heavy echoes, yet the precipitation is only moderate.

[damianslaw]

Moderate snow now!!! grass starting to turn white

Pleased to see the west of the county is seeing snow - bodes very well for us further east in the county. Off to do a local walk in half an hour between Staveley and Windermere over the local hills - suspect flakes will be arriving by 11.30am, and hoping it eclipses my winter wonderland walk along hadrians wall on the 16th December.

The air is exceptionally dry at the moment - hardly any frost to be seen despite temps belo 0 degrees- it is very deceptive.

[HotCuppa]

just as i said it was doing nothing, we now have grauple and mixed dry snow flakes, nothing to write home about really..its hardly doing anything at all

[Backtrack]

just as i said it was doing nothing, we now have grauple and mixed dry snow flakes, nothing to write home about really..its hardly doing anything at all

Dewpoint is rising at about +3C an hour. -3.9C now.

[SNOW-HEATWAVE-YES]

Temp +0.5c and no precip. Salford Quays.

[Backtrack]

-1.5C with rain continuing to fall. This is pathetic. If we get freezing rain all the way through, then the rest of the country can have freezing rain all the way through. We wait all this time for a snow event and it falls as rain.

[Liam J]

Still light rain falling here. This is what I predicted yesterday although I would have liked being proved wrong on this occasion.

Very light rain even though the radars say it should be quite heavy ppn falling.

Edited February 4, 2012 by Liam J

[Snow free zone]

Hi SFZ, just about to drive to Kirkham stn to get train to Manchester. Nice to see you're getting some of the white stuff. Been raining here (no surprise tho)

Morning SD. Yes only light but it has been snowing. Seems the showers if the radar is to be believed aren't quite getting here they seem to be losing some of their oomph further West.

[Cheshire Gap]

Just out of interest, where/when is the front due to occlude with the cold front. I ask this because of the speed of the warm front compared to the cold front!

Cheers

CG

[fluffytrollop]

I head off on the bus to Manchester in about an hour to get pics of lovely snow.

hope something's arrived by then (im south manc)...nowt at the mo, not even frost...new weather station packed up so can't even offer anything by way of useful data.

[Weather-Voyager]

rain starting to fall as freezing rain now and a little hail falling too. temps variable between -0.7 and -0.4 ... now getting a bit of sleet too.

[Weather-history]

-1.5C with rain continuing to fall. This is pathetic. If we get freezing rain all the way through, then the rest of the country can have freezing rain all the way through. We wait all this time for a snow event and it falls as rain.

Backtrack

I'm finding your posts confusing, you say it is -1.5C there, that sounds low to me also you say one minute your temperature is falling then your dewpoint is rising then its this then its that.

Is your weather station faulty?

Edited February 4, 2012 by Mr_Data

[SNOW-HEATWAVE-YES]

Backtrack, you need to move. Runcorn is always going to be crap for snow. I drove over the woodhead pass last night and there's tons of snow. It's only an hour away from Runcorn.

Edited February 4, 2012 by SNOW-HEATWAVE-YES

[steve@aintree]

Freezing rain here in Aintree. Just taken the dog out and its very slippy. Admit it guys, its Game over for Liverpool

[Backtrack]

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I'm finding your posts confusing, you say it is -1.5C there, that sounds low to me also you say one minute your temperature is falling then your dewpoint is rising then its this then its that.

Is your weather station faulty?

Both of my weather stations are reading -1.5C, HotCuppa (5 miles from me) is even lower, Liverpool airport is at -1C.

It's raining, so evaporative cooling is lowering the temperature.

Humidity is rising so the dewpoint is rising.

[Liam J]

Regardless of surface conditions, if warm air mixes in aloft then rain can be expected. Freezing rain if you are at or below 0c as the ground will still be frozen solid.

Edited February 4, 2012 by Liam J