North West England Regional Discussion 09/02/13 20z ------>

[MrSunshine]

As long as it not raining men

Dew points are rising ever so slowly, game well and truly over.

[itsnowjoke]

Turned to sleet now

I thought this event were meant to kick off later/evening ??

[Darren Bown]

At the Lowry now and was 4c when I got out of the car and rain. Wonder what it's doing back at home?

[itsnowjoke]

Stopped now

[MrSunshine]

At the Lowry now and was 4c when I got out of the car and rain. Wonder what it's doing back at home?

Be rain mate, temps & Dew points are creeping up. I'm normally the eternal optimist but its game over & when I say that I'm 100% correct every time.

[weatherobsuk]

Snow ploughs are working today. Road is clear 15 mins ago

5 miles down the goyt its nothing but light rain, just goes to show how marginal (so far) conditions are. Another 3 hours with nocturnal temps starting to kick in i'd expect a gradual transition to sleet and snow as the front stalls and begins to drag the lower uppers down from the East.

[dodge]

The radar just looks like a typical drizzlefest day setting up stall. Unless something kicks into life later on, there isn't going to be much in the way of wintry stuff. Time to do better things with my sunday afternoon, I'll probably check in later to see if there's been an upturn.

Grrrrr at Boston and their 3ft! lol

Edited February 10, 2013 by dodgeredee

[itsnowjoke]

Raining

[iand61]

Still got falling, sorry horizontal snow here at the moment but, like others have already said it's not looking good for later unless the precipitation does a serious amount of pepping up.

[MrSunshine]

Raining

Rising Dew points...

[damianslaw]

Just very light patch rain here so far, dewpoints are still too high for snow below say 350m. We really need some heavy precipitation to aid evaporative cooling which would send temperatures at the surface layer to much conducive levels for low level snow. Alas looking at the radar and the predicted path of the front I just can't see anything other than a few moderate outbreaks as we move through the latter part of the afternoon.

It looks like a midlands and southern england event this evening and overnight but I'm not expecting great totals - perhaps a couple of inches in favoured spots with some height. Once again the BBC two/three days ago hedge their bets very early in the game and perhaps should have taken a precautionary approach - current set ups always come down to nowcasting.

It is turning into a thoroughly miserable weekend weatherwise - one when you long for spring, I'd rather see rain and temps in double figures than rain when it is 3-4 degrees...

[itsnowjoke]

Another let down for us a per

[Backtrack]

Jesus, this was never due to even begin to turn until the evening, stop moaning?

[jam2010]

My phone app even at this short range is going for heavy snow from 5 till 1 am at the moment and 90%. Something like this happened here a few weeks ago it rained all day then all of a sudden heavy snow, still staying positive for now but it doesn't look good.

My phone app even at this short range is going for heavy snow from 5 till 1 am at the moment and 90%. Something like this happened here a few weeks ago it rained all day then all of a sudden heavy snow, still staying positive for now but it doesn't look good.

[itsnowjoke]

Jesus, this was never due to even begin to turn until the evening, stop moaning?

thats for your area isnt it BT?

[MrSunshine]

thats for your area isnt it BT?

Cheshire has even less chance of snow than higher parts of Greater Manchester if you believe the UK Met Office.

[bridgechad]

no snow here according to met office. light rain for next few hours then dry.

netweather going for snow later tonight here. only 2 website forecasts that get even close to what actually will happen lol

[frankie01]

non event for most now,bbc down playing everything.

[Rossyvalley]

I wouldn't trust any forecast at the minute all seen to just guess when it comes to snow!!!

[itsnowjoke]

Met check they do make me chuckle..i am down for moderate snowfall right now

Phone app says snow but drizzle atm

[Mucka]

As expected and as with the rest of this dismal winter cold rain. Looking forward to the next forecast snow event falling as rain on Wednesday.

Bring on the Spring.

[iand61]

Still snowing up int hills

[Backtrack]

thats for your area isnt it BT?

All of NW England!

[itsnowjoke]

Still snowing up int hills

well jell

All of NW England!

we shall see

[MrSunshine]

Emma Jesson ramping the snow potential for tonight 2-5cm at lower levels up until midnight!

http://www.itv.com/news/granada/update/2013-02-10/sunday-afternoon-weather/