West Midlands Regional Discussion - 17th January 2013, 12z onwards

[Coast]

Here we go, a brand new one for you all to discuss the lovely snow!!

[Arctic Hare]

Repeating the post I made just as the last thread was locked... snowing here in Bewdley, but really lightly. You can see individual flakes on top of wheelie bins, but it's nowhere near settling on roads etc. Temp 1.3 °C and falling gently.

[Chess01]

Love it its dry snow and its only being snowing about 5 minutes and the roads are getting covered. This is just a starter for me as im of to lapland on sunday thats is the airports are open

[Ian Ballinger]

Stopped now in telford, seems to gain intensity as it passes us on the radar. Typical really ha ha

[nats]

I'm actually quite shocked at how quiet it is on the site, considering we have snow falling currently, along with a real chance of quite significant snowfall tomorrow, what's up with everyone?

[richbiss]

raintoday having a bit of a turn lol, looks like we are gonna have a nice base layer overnight for the big fall tomorrow!

[Serendipity]

They're all too shocked its actually snowing I reckon after all the doom and gloom!

[Ian Ballinger]

If it sticks rich, melting as it hit the ground here

[richbiss]

looks like two bands converging right over here!

Should stick soon Ian as temps drop sharply!

[conor123]

Shock horror, flurries in Telford and explodes as it heads east :lol:

If tommorows snow ends up barely reaching here im done with this winter.

[Potent Gust]

I am in between the bands as we speak LOL

Should be with me anytime now LOL

[Ian Ballinger]

Even the main band on the radar has a split in it with Telfords name on it......hahaha if I were a betting man

[syed2878]

afternoon midlanders. We have snow here but its not setteling yet.

[Scoutsy]

Yes it's very quiet on here. Still light snow here, but it's picked up a bit over the last 10mins or so. Just looking at the radar and can see two bands - one that's been pushing west and another pushing east. The colder one from the east is going to win out by the looks of it as they converge, but should give us a few hours of light snow here. It's not really sticking though yet, there just isn't quite enough of it.

[Ian Ballinger]

Shock horror, flurries in Telford and explodes as it heads east :lol:

If tommorows snow ends up barely reaching here im done with this winter.

It always happens Conor

[camperstron]

Sticking nicely in brum

[Arctic Hare]

Now stopped completely in Bewdley, so even Telford is doing better!

[cyclonic happiness]

Wow! where has all that snow on the radar exploded from?!!!!!!

Just goes to show how it can catch us unawares, this wasn't forecast in any way

[Potent Gust]

Just started to snow

In all my years in Tamworth the best snowfall has always been unexpected! Its going to be a fun weekend

[Shane Wheeldon]

Even the main band on the radar has a split in it with Telfords name on it......hahaha if I were a betting man

I just seen it on the rain today radar that split does have Shropshires name all over it lol!

Shock horror, flurries in Telford and explodes as it heads east :lol:

If tommorows snow ends up barely reaching here im done with this winter.

Yeah roll on summer and 9 hours of grey muck that don't shift till 30mins before sunset lol!!

[stripe]

still very very light here, predict by nine oclock may have enough for a snow fetus

[PolarWarsaw]

Odd flakes here.

[Serendipity]

Sticking here too but stopped again.

[Summer of 95]

Its snowing again, and just in the last 15 minutes its beginning to dust the paths, cars, roofs again.

[SalopWatcher]

Shrewsbury has been under a heavier patch of precip on the Netweather Radar (still has it as sleet though)... should last a little bit before back to the light stuff again.