North West England Regional Discussion 14/01/13, 12z Onwards

[frankie01]

very marginal,expect rain anything else a bonus.alkl models giving nw areas temps that are 3 to 4 degrees below what we are getting.i expect nothing from this,again

[Spurry]

Dropped to -3.6c here last night... just looked at both the ECM and GFS00z runs, both looking good but if that GFS was to come off then we would certainly have the biggest snow event here in a long long time...so YES it will probably rain

Edited January 15, 2013 by Spurry

[Jan]

According to beeb forecast we are dry and cold for next few days, temps dropping to -5 in the towns lower in rural areas of a night? They must be looking at different charts?

[itsnowjoke]

Very frosty morning temp -2c.

And had a odd snow shower lastnight.

[Joe Bloggs]

Snow shower now in south Manchester

[Stratocumulus perlucidus]

Snowing here very fone but snow all the same

[shadowfax]

We are frozen in Bacup, sheet ice everywhere and very slippery. What is happening with this band coming in from the east, looks much more substantial than last night, will it make it across the pennines?

[Cecil Hogmanay Melchett]

snow flurries bitterly cold.weekend looks very interesting!

[Backtrack]

Just had a light snow flurry here. Surprised that made it over the Pennines on such a slack flow? -0.2C.

[Weather-history]

A few flakes of snow falling.

[Cecil Hogmanay Melchett]

A few flakes of snow falling.

nice kevin,ithink we may see some snow at the end of the week,most compelling and fascinating synoptics for quite a while.

[carl1980]

Very light snow at work in kirby atm

[pip22]

according to the radar some ppn are devoloping across the south of the region expect some light dusting in places. high humidity whats probably caused it.

Edited January 15, 2013 by Fresh_Prince_Of_Leyland

[Backtrack]

Yeah slight dusting here in Widnes.

There's energy sat out west off the coast of Wales, wonder if this is helping to reenergise the showers as they're heading west over the Pennines? It's rare to see a snow shower from the east on a slack flow here.

[Weather-history]

It's a strange precipitation, snow, it can fall from thin clouds, I have seen snow falling from blue skies.

[Stratocumulus perlucidus]

It true that weather history u wouldnt expect snow to fall from these clouds.

@bt it not coming from the east it coming from north weat

[Julian]

-1.1 here.

Radar is showing a bit of snow around, nothing here yet though.

Is it too early to start a little ramping for Friday?

[pip22]

snowing here too

[Backtrack]

It true that weather history u wouldnt expect snow to fall from these clouds.

@bt it not coming from the east it coming from north weat

Looks like it's coming from the NNE to me, but on closer inspection of the radar it would seem that these showers have formed over land out of completely nothing. Could be some further showers throughout the day, although unlikely. A nice surprise to see snow falling once again though, and long may it continue.

We may get buried on Friday, but then again we may get flooded on Friday.

Edited January 15, 2013 by Backtrack

[Cecil Hogmanay Melchett]

nice band moving SE off the east coast,i would imagine the pennines will kill them though as the flow is very slack,we'll see.

[Jan]

I have a bit of graupel that must have fallen recently, it wasn't there before. A lot of argie bargie in the mod thread, I'm not even going to bother reading it. Don't ramp about Friday Julian you will put the mockers on it!

[pip22]

snowing here but it doesnt show it on a radar though. It is too light to appear on radar.

[UV-RAY]

Bits of graupel here temp 0.2c, feeling much more positive today after yesterday's slight disappointment. This weekend looks like a chart from 78/79, I think we'll miss the snow but those from another snow starved region the SW and S Wales could hit the jackpot.

[pip22]

clouds here are breaking up now especially towards the north west of me. Stopped snowing here. I dont think the frost will completely melt or it will melt partially because of the cloud.

I would call the clouds Stratocumulus

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

Edited January 15, 2013 by Fresh_Prince_Of_Leyland

[Snow free zone]

Bits of graupel here temp 0.2c, feeling much more positive today after yesterday's slight disappointment. This weekend looks like a chart from 78/79, I think we'll miss the snow but those from another snow starved region the SW and S Wales could hit the jackpot.

Was going to say that the longer I look at the charts the more it seems we are goling to miss out on any frontal snow over the weekend. The atlantic attack over the weekend is being pushed further and further south looking like the SW and Wales will get buried at the moment.