Far North of England Regional Discussion

[Summer Sun]

Very cold with thick freezing fog

-1.0°C with a dew point of -3.5°C

[damianslaw]

Very different day to yesterday - a sheet of high level cloud has shrouded us all day thanks to absolutely not a breath of wind to shift or disperse it, it dawned very dark and misty and cold but with little frost. A preety miserable december day. Hoping tomorrow brings some decent sunshine. Its been a relatively dry first half to December, but the prospect of further heavy rain on Friday and for the foreseeable future thereafter is not good news, flooding is inevitable.. its a grim outlook in this respect.

[Liam J]

Feeling bitter in the SE'ly wind with snow flurries, temp 0.8c

[Thunder Snow]

a few light snow flurries. and i bitter wind

[peterf]

temp moved from -4c to -1.4c within 3 hrs here.must get the dog poo off the lawn before the rain comes.

[Mountain Snow]

Well it looks as if this sheet of high level cloud has hung around all night preventing the temperature from dropping lower than freezing. I was hoping for one last sunny, frosty day before the dreaded atlantic rolls back in tomorrow. Hopefully it'll just be a brief visit and doesn't do too much damage to the snow cover on the Lakeland Fells.

[Summer Sun]

A bitter day here freezing fog all morning everywhere is Lilly white still

Currently -2.1°C with a dew point of -4.0°C

[Liam J]

Hard to believe it'll be pouring with rain tomorrow, it's currently -1.7c after a high of 1.2c this afternoon. Possible freezing rain event? Becoming very windy as well near the coasts with SE'ly gales.

Edited December 13, 2012 by Liam J

[seabreeze86]

A high of -1.7 today very cold for on the coast. Very thick freezing fog, temp -3.7

[Liam J]

Dropping like a stone! -2.4c and that breeze feels

[Cloud 10]

Dropping like a stone! -2.4c and that breeze feels

Very similar temps. here but that breeze is cutting.

The ground is frozen solid,so if the heavy rain verifies tomorrow then some minor flooding

could occur as well as the ice risk.

[chrismac60]

Where I live in Middlesbrough it looks like ice crystals just floating in the air and the light is shimmering of it all the ground and cars etc look like they have been coated in icing sugar I've not seen this before. Any1 else have this?

[smogonthetyne]

Similar scenes here in Nunthorpe funnily enough. Cars that are parked and facing N E have a thick coating

[smogonthetyne]

My weather knowledge is very slim but looking at current temps and the precipitation tomorrow afternoon, is there no chance it will fall as snow?

-5 at times travelling through N Yorks

Edited December 13, 2012 by smogonthetyne

[seabreeze86]

Where I live in Middlesbrough it looks like ice crystals just floating in the air and the light is shimmering of it all the ground and cars etc look like they have been coated in icing sugar I've not seen this before. Any1 else have this?

Yes had the same thing in Redcar, I am not sure what causes it but it almost seemed like very fine snow at one point.

[chrismac60]

Similar scenes here in Nunthorpe funnily enough. Cars that are parked and facing N E have a thick coating

I've just drove from pallister park up to Nunthorpe its similar just much more extreme down there. everything is fully white

[JP1972]

-2c here in Newcastle, which is ironic considering it's the coldest it's been here and the breakdown is imminent!

[damianslaw]

Another cold day, however, like yesterday low cloud overnight prevented an air frost even though temps have hovered just above the freezing mark for much of the day.

Tomorrow will be very different and probably feel colder even though temps will get up to 5 or 6 degrees under driving rain and strong SE winds, a poor winter's day - the other side of December.

A half decent weekend ahead, but not the blue skies and hard frosts of recent days, a pity because a good snow/ice base has built up over the fells in recent days and the milder uppers will put pay to the good winter conditions.

[Liam J]

-3.5c here now can't believe theres wind and rain coming!

[Summer Sun]

A thick blanket of freezing fog here in Darlington currently -2.5°C with the dew point at -4.2c

[Cloud 10]

-3.5c here now can't believe theres wind and rain coming!

Latest satellite looks quite impressive,lots of weather around tomorrow for sure!

[P-M]

And what a surprise - just went to the door and we have snow - nice dusting everywhere and still falling as snow :-))

[Alex95]

Wow, did a double take when I opened the curtains!

[NL]

I'm not surprised we'd get some sort of wintry precip considering the temperature was below freezing but what has surprised me was this small band ahead of the main bulk which has given us a dusting, shame its all going to be washed away later in the day.

[Summer Sun]

Covering of snow overnight in Darlington not at all surprised with the temperatures so low overnight

Up to 1.7°C now