North West England Weather Discussion 14/11/15 Onwards

[Miamay]

You are getting badly hit over in Northern Ireland. Have my family in Donegal warned as its supposed to be bad there.  We are getting gusty winds here and it is cold

[SparkleS]

Quite fierce winds here all night long, getting stronger as it goes on, theres also been some rain in the night but i dont know how much, the wind is more an issue here at the moment.

[James M]

Well so far the rain seems fragmented and light for this part of the region. Could the rain shadow help us get away with it? Still bad for Scotland, Wales and Cumbria though.

[Mokidugway]

Line echo went through here before ,torrential horizontal rain for ten minuites or so ..

[SparkleS]

The wind has been constant here since yesterday afternoon, getting stronger, theres been some rain in the night but now we have driving rain coming in on very strong winds.

 

and the neighbours porch roof boarding is swinging off and about to set off in the air!

[SparkleS]

Just as i posted that last update the wind has suddenly stopped and now its jaffa cakesing it down!

[Day 10]

Not been in hear in a while, but I just wanted to say anyone who is affected by the ridiculous flooding in parts of our region, that my heart goes out to you and your families and I hope that things improve very very soon.

[tinybill]

Interesting  squall    line  near  york  it could turn nasty

Edited December 30, 2015 by tinybill

[Badgers01]

Just approaching 2" of rain here in North Lakes lot of flooded fields etc but not the near biblical floods of early December !! So a wet windy day but nothing partic exceptional 

[James M]

All over for now, just a couple of hours of moderate rain, nothing too bad.

[Miamay]

Wasnt too bad here either. - it was raining but nit very windy

[Thunder Snow]

Just a normal winter storm to be honest 

[pip22]

Raining again here. Not as windy as before.

[Miamay]

Raining here too !! ☔️☔️

[SparkleS]

Peeing down again here

[Mokidugway]

Sunny here ,hic !!!!!

[iand61]

Dark and wet and less than 26 hours left before this diabolical year of weather is consigned to history.

Away at friends for the next couple of days and maybe not on here so have a good NYE and stay safe everyone.

[Daniel*]

You guys and girls have seen an awful lot of rain but it appears you may start the New Year with some snow; the uppers are not bad. The wind is coming off the Irish Sea, you will need to be inland to stand a chance very reasonable of that. Something to sink your teeth into. 

Edited December 30, 2015 by Daniel*

[weatherobsuk]

TAF: EGCC 301810Z 3018/3124 19012KT 9999 FEW012 SCT020 BECMG 3018/3021 VRB04KT TEMPO 3018/3108 6000 RA SHRA BKN012 BECMG 3103/3106 21012KT TEMPO 3112/3118 22018G28KT 7000 SHRA PROB30 TEMPO 3113/3117 4000 +SHRAGS BKN012

Manchester Airport going for snow, hail, into tomorrow.

[Daniel*]

1 hour ago, SNOW_JOKE said:

TAF: EGCC 301810Z 3018/3124 19012KT 9999 FEW012 SCT020 BECMG 3018/3021 VRB04KT TEMPO 3018/3108 6000 RA SHRA BKN012 BECMG 3103/3106 21012KT TEMPO 3112/3118 22018G28KT 7000 SHRA PROB30 TEMPO 3113/3117 4000 +SHRAGS BKN012

Manchester Airport going for snow, hail, into tomorrow.

Hi, how can you decipher that from the above? all I'm seeing is a mishmash of letters,numbers and so on.

[cheshire snow]

3 minutes ago, Daniel* said:

Hi, how can you decipher that from the above? all I'm seeing is a mishmash of letters,numbers and so on.

Most of that is Rain Daniel if you look at the last bit the 4000 is the cloud base the SHRAGS Bit stands for

Rain/hail/snow showers,there is a guide somewere will try and dig it out and post.

meantime quite ironic temperature contrasts in the last 24hrs,last night we had a low of 13c,tonight it is

currently 5c,no wonder i have a stinking cold.

C.S

 

[damianslaw]

Thankfully we were spared any significant rainfall as anticipated, indeed it was a rather standard dose of rain which never got especially heavy for any length of period and thus caused no further flooding around much of Cumbria - parts were affected namely the A592 near Lake Ullswater. Its the second time we have escaped in a week, today it was SW Scotland turn..

The immediate outlook though remaining very unsettled with further bouts of rain, should hopefully see precipitation moving through much faster than has been the case for the last couple of months, and with colder uppers, it shouldn't be quite so heavy I would think.

The fells should see some of the white stuff as well, at the moment there is no snow at all on any of them, not all that unusual for the time of year it has to be said.

 

[Frost HoIIow]

A little blob of snow over the Pennines later today if this turns out correct   It's a start at least, hopefully this will extend to lower levels soon 

Edited December 31, 2015 by Medlock Vale

[cheshire snow]

Ok here goes a rough guide to Aerodrome forecasts

KPIT is the ICAO Location Number

091730z Issuance time all times in UTC "Z" 2-DIGIT DATE,4 digit time

091818 Valid period 2 Digit date,2 digit beginning,2 digit end times

1500kt wind: 3 digit true-north direction nearest 10 degrees next next digits for speed and unit

FEW020 Cloud amount,height,and type:example scattered,broken,overcast

TEMPO Temporary changes expected for <1 hour and in total

PROBO40 0405 Probability and 3 digit percent (30 or 40) probable condition for during 2 digit hour beginning

                           and 2 digit hour ending

BECMG 1300 Becoming change expected during 2-digit hour beginning and 2 digit ending time period

WEATHER CODES DZ Drizzle///RA Rain///SN Snow///SG Snow Grains///GR Hail///PL Ice Pellets

Hope this helps only a very rough guide but hopefully you get the idea

 

C.S

 

[weatherobsuk]

Being somewhat of an armchair (occasional flying) student TAF and ICAO's come naturally to the eye, it takes a few weeks of learning what to look for but with a trained eye it becomes second-nature. Often more reliable than the MWIS forecasts i've found from experience.