North West England Regional Discussion - January 19th 2013>

[karyo]

It's amazing how the precipitation has exploded over north wales and the irish sea!

We could have done with this hallening in Lincolnshire and head towards us but it is bone dry there.

[Snowmad79]

Definitely has been a mix of sleet and snow.. some of the 'flakes' look like half melted ice pellets, so it really is marginal

All I can think of is, atm a large part of the this region (including myself) are not under 0c isotherms so the freezing level is above 0 and up to 100m + for most, with warmish surface temps and low rate of ppn it's melting on its way down ?

Everything else looks fine for snow. 850 Uppers and what not widely -6c -7c. The warmest uppers are confined to the SE atm.

[Oakwell]

No real thaw here seen the odd bit of snow dust

[karyo]

A friend of mine from Belgium just posted pics on facebook - loads of snow there!

[Stratocumulus perlucidus]

Hc am i seeing things or is that green blob south of us coming to us

[maykram]

Hc am i seeing things or is that green blob south of us coming to us

The Hulk?

[Stratocumulus perlucidus]

Lol yeah

[Stratocumulus perlucidus]

Heavy snow

[MrSunshine]

We are going to get something later on this afternoon without doubt, how much and how much sticks is still in question but the precipitation won't miss us that's for sure.

[martinj2]

Heavy snow

Is it sticking tho?

Desperate for a 1-1.5c drop in temps

[julie253]

None in Wallasey

[karyo]

2.7c!

[Stratocumulus perlucidus]

Nope not sticking

[SP1986]

heavy snow may cause faster melt, unless its really heavy!

[martinj2]

What happened to evaporative cooling?

[The Yellow Snowman]

How do you rate our chances Dave here?

[SP1986]

Martin you're right, every time the snow/sleet gets heavier, it seems to warm up, not cool down...

[martinj2]

Martin you're right, every time the snow/sleet gets heavier, it seems to warm up, not cool down...

yeah the whole thing bizzarre

[The Northern Ramper]

http://ow.ly/i/1oDt7

[MrSunshine]

How do you rate our chances Dave here?

From the way things are looking we will at some stage later on this afternoon and this evening see a period of moderate snow. Grounds temps are still very low because even though over the last two days we've lost some snow cover the vast majority is still on the ground. I think we'll perhaps get at least another 2-3 cm during the evening in to the late evening in my opinion.

[snowjoking]

Had 3 days of consecutive snow cover here but it doesn't look like it is going into a 4th. It's slowly thawing away.

We are on day 7 of consecutive snow cover here , not bad really as we only had around 5cm from last monday.

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[Munchermark]

http://ow.ly/i/1oDt7

Cant work out if im in the dark or light bit...

[I Cumbria Marra I]

http://ow.ly/i/1oDt7

so i miss out again then, i wonder when were going to see some lying snow.

1000th post!

Edited January 20, 2013 by I Cumbria Marra I

[Snowmad79]

http://ow.ly/i/1oDt7

If only that 25cm wedge was futher west! It's going to be VERY close whether we get 2cm or more like 20cm......

[summer fun]

Looks like that green blob will move out to the irish sea just before liverpool.