Far North of England Regional Discussion

[NickR]

Interesting forecast from The weather channel for Darlington

http://www.weather.c...n UKXX0817:1:UK

Computer generated. Nothing you can't get from the models.

Only exciting if sleet showers rock your boat.

[Cloud 10]

Lets see what the first shower is made of!

[snow_mad_09]

Current shower has a little bit of sleet mixed in. Can't really tell until I look on my velux window and see some slightly formed drops. .

[Alex95]

Torrential sleety rain - imagine if we the easterly had delivered several days of intense snow showers like this one!

[Cloud 10]

Sleet shower here at the moment.

[NL]

Just like to add that sleet and hail showers have been falling here on the coast, pretty nasty out there in a penetrating NNWesterly.

[Isolated Frost]

Rain and sleet at 0.1c dew point so far this morning. Radar looking fruitful for those on high ground round here.

[Alex95]

Very heavy sleet and hail mix falling from those showers.

[Teesdale]

Light snow shrs here. Giving a dusting.

[P-M]

I have now well and truly learned my lesson not to get sucked in to the model outputs - I will only get excited when we have snow potential within 24-48hrs!

Heavy sleety showers this morning - feels perishing!

[Andy_]

Anyone notice this small low in the north sea on Thursday on the ECM?

Surely that could whip up a few decent showers?

[Andy_]

Very significant shower just came over, everythings went dark!! If only it was snow falling instead of torrential rain

[NL]

Very significant shower just came over, everythings went dark!! If only it was snow falling instead of torrential rain

Rain you say? Hefty hail shower here on the coast.! Melts within a minute or so though.

[Andy_]

Rain you say? Hefty hail shower here on the coast.! Melts within a minute or so though.

I'd say it was melted hail or sleet on further inspection haha, definitely a wintry flavour to it

[NL]

Heavy rain/sleet now in a brisk Nor'easterly, bloody awful , glad I'm indoors now but I had a pleasant walkabout in the sunshine and observed some 'grand' Cb's floating around.

[Geordiesnow]

I'd say it was melted hail or sleet on further inspection haha, definitely a wintry flavour to it

I'm only a mile away from you and it was deffo a heavy hail shower which has given a light hail covering on the surfaces! It was one of those showers that looked like missing you but then maybe upper winds have driven it towards your area quickly, either way, it was quite interesting to watch.

The rain did turn to sleety on the back edge but air temp/thicknesses is not really conclusive for snowfall unfortunately.

Edited December 10, 2012 by Geordiesnow

[Andy_]

Heavy rain/sleet now in a brisk Nor'easterly, bloody awful , glad I'm indoors now but I had a pleasant walkabout in the sunshine and observed some 'grand' Cb's floating around.

Was actually a brilliant view of an impending shower when I was on the metro to uni this morning, looking north(ish) from Gateshead from the track where you can see for miles, wish i'd took a photo but i'd have felt like an 'idiot' (or worse) if i was taking a photo from a crowded metro of people looking at me hahah.

I'm only a mile away from you and it was deffo a heavy hail shower which has given a light hail covering on the surfaces! It was one of those showers that looked like missing you but then maybe upper winds have driven it towards your area quickly, either way, it was quite interesting to watch.

The rain did turn to sleety on the back edge but air temp/thicknesses is not really conclusive for snowfall unfortunately.

Nah it definitely wasn't hail here it wasn't loud enough, and i checked the ground and there definitely wasn't any hail lying about here LOL very weird

Edit: Ok it's definitely hailing now!

Edited December 10, 2012 by Andy163

[Geordiesnow]

Wow really? Getting this shower Andy? Its hail again!

[NL]

Andy just grease ya hair up brush it to the side ,put a pair of sellotaped national health glasses on and a scruffy anorak then nobody would bat an eyelid at you taking photos..!! haha

[Andy_]

Andy just grease ya hair up brush it to the side ,put a pair of sellotaped national health glasses on and a scruffy anorak then nobody would bat an eyelid at you taking photos..!! haha

Lmfao. How do you know I don't already look like that ?

Wow really? Getting this shower Andy? Its hail again!

Yeah i've had my hail fix now hahaha

[NL]

Lmfao. How do you know I don't already look like that ?

Yeah i've had my hail fix now hahaha

I think we'd be looking at the photos from the metro if you did.!! haha

[Andy_]

I think we'd be looking at the photos from the metro if you did.!! haha

My disposable camera from Boots had ran out of film

[Rollo]

Its just strted to sleet here.

[misty3202]

Had a fantastic snow shower in Consett about 8.00 this morning, giving a very quick covering. Been a wintry mix of showers all day here.

[Isolated Frost]

Playing bloody football for the school in violent hail shrs mixed with heavy sleet.. ARGH!