North West England Regional Discussion 17th March 2013>

[Cecil Hogmanay Melchett]

i honestly cannot belive what im seeing with this 'hole',its been present nearly the whole god damn night,i thought the models might have been OVERPLAYING it but in reality they were UNDERPLAYING it.

Thats my last post until next season,enoughs enough!

[kendo469]

Clear, wet pavements and roads here in Newton le Willows near Warrington. Light dusting on cars. What happened to the 5 / 10 cms.?

[Chris.R]

Chris you are in Crosby? How's it looking for the run into town this morning I've gotta get to work

Well, here it is accumulating all the time, I should imagine it will be a little bit deeper towards Liverpool way, by rush-hour it Will probably be worse. I've got to get to KGV College southport at 8 assuming it's open, so I'm hoping the Formby bypass will be alright.

[Bartlett Low]

Even the places that have had heavy snow all night dont seem to have much in the way of accumulation yet.

Any totals more than an inch or two?

Edited March 22, 2013 by Bartlett Low

[iand61]

Opened the curtains to moderate snow blowing horizontally across the roof tops.

Maybe an inch or two where it has settled but not much seems to be actually landing.

Temperatures aren't the issue as it's currently -0.5c but the wind is just to strong and not allowing most of it to land.

this mornings Met O. Forecast certainly hasn't diluted for the region and is one of the best I've ever seen but surprised that the amber area hasn't been extended to cover the higher parts where large totals are being talked about.

It will interesting to see the 6am BBC forecast.

Possibly an amazing but potentially difficult couple of days to come.

[snowdrifter]

Woke up several times in the night - sleet sleet sleet with white only car roofs and a bit slushy on the grass.

[Chris.R]

Give it a chance! There's still 36 hours left of this event for most of us.

[trickydicky]

Eased off a bit here and its a bit, well, damp. Not much on roads, maybe an inch on grass. Most impressive feature of the weather today is the strength of the wind, so far.

[Weather-history]

Not expecting much. Has been snowing and the wind has been howling at times but I can't see much or any lying from this around here. The temperatures need to drop further and probably the wind as well as well as continuous heavy precipitation. Western parts especially the Liverpool area look favourable at the moment.

Edited March 22, 2013 by Weather-history

[iand61]

39 on line at 6am - is that a record.

Must be something brewing.

[Chris.R]

Really heavy now and the wind has got up.

[Brass_Monkeys]

Not exactly a winter wonderland here this morning. Can't tell if we had a covering and then it's melted or more likely; the ppn has struggled to lay on wet surfaces. We have a covering on the grass, roads and pavements have a very thin cover in places but mostly slushy or wet.

The snow is rather light, smallish flakes.

Current temp 0.8C

dp -0.8C

[geri]

Really heavy now and the wind has got up.

[sal007]

Usual in Preston - Woke up to some settled snow on cars, rooftop and grass.. Roads are all slushy..

Edited March 22, 2013 by sal007

[Troubleatmill]

seems the same region over for the most part, snowing but not much laying

[gareth73]

1.9c here and a bit confused. Woke up expecting a covering and nothing at all in Manchester!! Has it stalled or has it missed Manchester? It is howling outside though

[Iceaxecrampon]

i know mucka same here,i fell pysically sick my friend.

The 0z NAE accumulation chart backs up our worst fears.

WE CANT EVEN HIT THE JACKPOT from this setup im close to calling a day to this 'hobby' now

.....so "unhappy" days then?

[MrSunshine]

2 inches of snow here and still falling, wide of my prediction though of about 4 inches by 7am. Had 3 hours sleep so precipitation must not have pepped up as much as I previously thought. Still the same though and snowing so I will take that still.

[R.P. McMurphy]

Nothing here. PE

[iand61]

Snow not heavy at the moment but I don't think I've ever seen it combined with such gusty winds IMBY.

Some of us are probably going to be disappointed with the final totals and i may well be one of them but this storm has a long way to run yet so a lot of us may wish they didn't get what was forecast.

Anyway my last post before I set of for work.

Early finish due to bad weather, doubt it but you never know.

[TomL]

Just wondering, I'm meant to be traveling up to the Lake Disrict today and looking at the forecasts last night I'd pretty much wrote it off, though I look out of my window this morning to a few flakes blowing around and nothing on the ground, so I'm thinking I might go, is this a good idea?

[MrSunshine]

Precipitation looking very juicy now from our west if it moves in.

[Ian Brown]

Heavy snow continues.

[jam2010]

Do you think any thing will hit Manchester despeate Evreything is dry

[Louise]

Not much here near Crewe, but daughters school is closed in Stoke on Trent.