North West England Regional Discussion - January 19th 2013>

[jam2010]

It looks on rain today that they have grouped together and intensified a bit as there was barley nothing when they came off the sea.

[chris78]

You're right that the radar is showing a fair clump of showers heading towards the NW but the Pennines are eating them alive.

Some will make it through and we are having light snow here at the moment but to me the flow simply isn't strong enough to enable them to make inroads.

Possibly could be a day for us in the east of the region to play catch up.

Well you wont have far to catch up with this part of west of the region. 5mm and that's probably exaggerating

Edited January 19, 2013 by chris78

[chris78]

.....if anything gets into the region from the east it will be very very weak......Don't waste your day watching it.....go find some snow.

[pip22]

snow falling light here.

[jam2010]

.....if anything gets into the region from the east it will be very very weak......Don't waste your day watching it.....go find some snow.

That's what I want to do, shame it's my Saturday in work booo :-)

[Snowmad79]

.....if anything gets into the region from the east it will be very very weak......Don't waste your day watching it.....go find some snow.

Yeah I mean further West from the Pennines you are the less likely to catch something. That said, in the past people like Backtrack caught the end of streamer heading over the area. Even they got an inch or two.

PS snowing here now too.

Edited January 19, 2013 by Snowmad79

[iand61]

Thanks. Just arrived todmorden. Roads clear all the way. Have u had a thaw here? Was expecting loads more going off yesterday's radar. Meanwhile it's bleaching down back home. Typical.

Doubt we've had a thaw, it's just that we were right on the northern edge of the snow band and got bugger all from it..

That said though I'm higher ASL than Todmorden so actually have a fair covering now, if you can call a couple in inches a fair covering.

[pip22]

Tomasz Schafernaker returned national weather forecast. hes back!

Edited January 19, 2013 by Fresh_Prince_Of_Leyland

[Snowmad79]

[chris78]

Doubt we've had a thaw, it's just that we were right on the northern edge of the snow band and got bugger all from it..

That said though I'm higher ASL than Todmorden so actually have a fair covering now, if you can call a couple in inches a fair covering.

I know you must be used to more.....but yes you can call a couple of inches a covering that would honestly be a once in twenty year event here...personally more

[davyf]

Doubt we've had a thaw, it's just that we were right on the northern edge of the snow band and got bugger all from it..

That said though I'm higher ASL than Todmorden so actually have a fair covering now, if you can call a couple in inches a fair covering.

Wife's just rang from home to say it's really heavy and taxis have been taken off the roads. Gutted haha.

[Never snows where i live]

Light snowing here for some reason

[NickyB]

My five year old just screamed "it's snowing again"! He's right :-) very light but it is snowing :-) Temp has risen here to - 0.9

Pretty much stopped five minutes later but my weather app radar suggests some more this morning making its way over here from the east :-)

Edited January 19, 2013 by Chill Pill

[chris78]

.....if anything gets into the region from the east it will be very very weak......Don't waste your day watching it.....go find some snow.

I take it back looking at the last radar if I lived in Manchester I would be a bit interested

[Weather-history]

Tiny ice pellets falling.

[iand61]

Wife's just rang from home to say it's really heavy and taxis have been taken off the roads. Gutted haha.

Can't see that being a problem down here today but we are having light snow in Bacup so I imagine it is snowing in Todmorden.

[SummerNSnow]

i dont really give a damn.i had a boss night that turned from local into town,,,and plled a spanish chick.snow snow snow

*piled a spanish chick*? Is this the right site for that info..

[cfallon]

*piled a spanish chick*? Is this the right site for that info..

Thought this site was for snow lovers -)

[swainclubber]

light snow here now. better than the diamond dust of yesterday.

[cfallon]

light snow here now. better than the diamond dust of yesterday.

Same here would love to see some of the heavy stuff make it across!

[Brass_Monkeys]

Snizzle here

[annamb]

We have icing sugar falling here. Never seen such light snow!!

[swainclubber]

Same here would love to see some of the heavy stuff make it across!

time will tell. Quite possible mate

[iand61]

I know you must be used to more.....but yes you can call a couple of inches a covering that would honestly be a once in twenty year event here...personally more

Sorry Chris, wasn't trying to be (if this doesn't say cockroft when referring to a bbc forecaster, I have maturity issues) Cocky with my last reply but since Thursday tea time we have had we have had well over 24 hours of snow falling so it is a criticism of the intensity in somewhere which normally gets more than it's fair share of wet.

To put it into perspective, we had over 1900mm of rain in 2012.....the wettest year on record and on June 22nd alone 89mm fell.

So far this year we are at less than 20mm.

The Synoptics are perfect but as is often the case, it coincides with a dry period.

[Weather-history]

We were never going to. People were looking at the model ppn charts and seeing ppn over us. Which was really just very light. It's all going up the east coast so sadly we will miss out on the good stuff again. Those who stated the band would move SE to NW were largely mistaken

People were also looking at the BBC graphics yesterday and we know for those in the SW, how wrong were they in terms of timing etc.