North West Regional Discussion 23/03/13 08z ------>

[I Cumbria Marra I]

Anyways weve had more snow today than the southern cumbria snow storm on Friday, jesus christ what a painfull day that was.

[Cheshire Freeze]

I suspect that just like last night, some areas have the possibility of a covering of snow tonight.

[karyo]

The NAE model did very well with Friday's rain shadow over the Manchester area.

It is predicting snowfall quite extensively over the next 24 hours but only light.

Karyo

[pip22]

Clear skies here now and the temperatures are dropping like a stone. 0C right now.

Winds just died down and I expect widespread frost tonight. Any bits of last friday's snow will become hard and crusty tonight. The bit of snow that were in the shade hadn't melted one bit at all here.

The showers here are petering out because there is no source of energy (the sun) to continue. So the snow showers will be confined to east of the pennines, if not the eastern coast of England.

Edited March 26, 2013 by pip22

[Backtrack]

The NAE model did very well with Friday's rain shadow over the Manchester area.

It is predicting snowfall quite extensively over the next 24 hours but only light.

Karyo

When the totals over a 24hr period are 0mm, it's not even worth a mention really, it'll most likely be intermittent light flurries throughout the evening tonight with much of the energy being sucked away by the Pennines now that the flow has slackened.

[itsnowjoke]

Cold and dry for a good while yet

[Weather-history]

Crikey according to ECM 12Z it may actually get to 6C, a week on Wednesday. Let joy be unconfined!

http://www.yr.no/place/United_Kingdom/England/Manchester/long.html

[itsnowjoke]

-1c here

[gareth73]

Just about 0c here

[Stratocumulus perlucidus]

We maybe in for a looooong winter. This was just posted by matt hugo on twitter

http://m.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/mar/25/frozen-spring-arctic-sea-ice-loss

[itsnowjoke]

Boring yawnfest....

We maybe in for a looooong winter. This was just posted by matt hugo on twitter

http://m.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/mar/25/frozen-spring-arctic-sea-ice-loss

just putting my factor 15 away

How can i do my hanging baskets and window boxes in this weather lol

[Cheshire Freeze]

Few flakes of snow falling here now

[pip22]

I also saw some few flakes too.

[Cheshire Freeze]

I also saw some few flakes too.

The flakes aren't melting on contact so anything we see tonight will lay readily

Edited March 26, 2013 by CreweCold

[SparkleS]

Its just jumped from 0 degrees nere to 1.1 no longer clear skies.

[pip22]

judging by the radar there is quite alot of ppn at the east of the Pennines. http://www.raintoday.co.uk/

[SparkleS]

There certainly is!

[MrSunshine]

Dying out though as it crosses over, if the winds were stronger maybe some would get over.

[Mucka]

Dying out though as it crosses over, if the winds were stronger maybe some would get over.

Certainly pepping up and I have seen surprise snowfalls for parts of Manchester from these type of set ups - the Pennines should cut off the showers but sometimes they seem to penetrate west as if they weren't there in a Northeasterly flow.

[jam2010]

Light snow but pretty big flakes here

[Mucka]

Got the finest flakes imaginable here.

[The Yellow Snowman]

Seems to have got over the Pennines ok in the last hour or so. Large-ish flakes with no real intensity have just started falling here.

[MrSunshine]

Can't amount to much surely? Impressed though, nice flakes, a bit more intensity would give a dusting.

[Cheshire Freeze]

Can't amount to much surely? Impressed though, nice flakes, a bit more intensity would give a dusting.

Dusting looks likely as it's looking like a constant stream from the east for a few hours.

[MrSunshine]

Dusting looks likely as it's looking like a constant stream from the east for a few hours.

There is no intensity though, just well spread out flakes. The radar I'm using however now does look an unbroken spell of snow for the rest of the night, shame it couldn't be a tad heavier.

Edited March 27, 2013 by DaveMac82