North West Regional Discussion 30 December 2020 onwards

[iand61]

Just now, northwestsnow said:

Sorry spah I'm confused myself now, I might have been looking at wed!

Yeah still in there for Tuesday at the moment.

[iand61]

Pretty heavy snow here again at the moment but not sticking.

[PennineMark]

On a positive note it is once again snowing albeit lightly. We are roughly 60 days into winter and this must be the 20th day of snow falling in one way or another. If you'd have told me at the start of December that snow would fall 1 out of every 3 days by the end of January I'd have taken that. Hopefully February can keep it up ❄❄

[Chris.R]

WRF is now out to 6 am Tuesday and it’s very interesting.

for my location: 4 hours of heavy snow turning to heavy ice pellets.

for Crosby: 4 hours of heavy snow turning to heavy ice pellets then ice pellets/sleet mix.

for Glossop: 5 hours of heavy snow turning to heavy ice pellets then freezing rain and ice pellets mix.

for Bacup: heavy snow throughout.just a tiny nudge south of the sub 0  T850’s and it will be all snow throughout for most of the region.

 

 

 

[WillinGlossop]

Sideways squally snow... 

[cheshire snow]

1 minute ago, WillinGlossop said:

Sideways squally snow... 

Sideways squally rain

C.S

[The Northern Ramper]

Snow in the wind, bitter.

[iand61]

3 minutes ago, Chris.R said:

WRF is now out to 6 am Tuesday and it’s very interesting.

for my location: 4 hours of heavy snow turning to heavy ice pellets.

for Crosby: 4 hours of heavy snow turning to heavy ice pellets then ice pellets/sleet mix.

for Glossop: 5 hours of heavy snow turning to heavy ice pellets then freezing rain and ice pellets mix.

for Bacup: heavy snow throughout.just a tiny nudge south of the sub 0  T850’s and it will be all snow throughout for most of the region.

 

 

 

Thanks Chris I’ll have first refusal on your last sentence if that’s ok

I’m having a Flu vaccine on Tuesday although was expecting it to be cancelled due to me only just having Coronavirus but now it may be cancelled by snow as well.

[Spah1]

1 minute ago, iand61 said:

Thanks Chris I’ll have first refusal on your last sentence if that’s ok

I’m having a Flu vaccine on Tuesday although was expecting it to be cancelled due to me only just having Coronavirus but now it may be cancelled by snow as well.

Do you know when / where you caught it? 

[damianslaw]

Raw outside, the cold we've had so far this season has been accompanied by light winds and calm weather, so it hasnt felt particularly cold, whereas today has that freezing wind chill feel to it, thanks to the cold wind. Current temp 3.6 degrees.

[iand61]

Just now, Spah1 said:

Do you know when / where you caught it? 

No as both myself and wife tested positive but neither workplaces had anymore cases.

my best guess would be while out shopping a couple of weekends ago although we have both been pretty careful where we go and have limited any contact with others as much as possible.

thankfully we both had quite mild cases and I am allowed out again tomorrow with my wife confined to barracks for another day but the way I feel at the moment, any look outside will be for a bit of well isolated exercise and nothing else and I’m going to be working from home anyway next week.

[SnowWatcher2]

31 minutes ago, northwestsnow said:

We now well out of the warning zone.

 

I hope you can't see the future... as currently still in it. 

[northwestsnow]

1 minute ago, SnowWatcher2 said:

I hope you can't see the future... as currently still in it. 

I know ha !

Think it was wed was removed 

[severe snowstorm]

Tuesday looking good still, but not buying into it yet. If it's still showing the same or better tomorrow, I'll start to get more interested...

[northwestsnow]

Best of luck Ian hope you be ok ..

[Spah1]

1 minute ago, Dexter said:

Tuesday looking good still, but not buying into it yet. If it's still showing the same or better tomorrow, I'll start to get more interested...

Even if it does rain on Wednesday at least it bloody got here. 

[damianslaw]

Much happier with met office warning update, purely from a imby perspective. Slap bang in the middle if it so less chance margins will be altered closer to the time, I.e. shifts in boundary.

Encouraged somewhat with the wed warning area as well as it suggests the colder air to the north may well undercut and prevent a rapid thaw 

Ideal scenario would be for a full day of snow and no thaw or drip drip.. and for the cold to win out on Wednesday so we retain cover for some days thereafter, not much to ask, oh and 6 inches would do.. asking for alot aren't I!

Another 1cm cover gone the next day will not do it! Had about 5 separate occasions that's happened so far this season.

 

Edited January 30, 2021 by damianslaw

[iand61]

1 minute ago, northwestsnow said:

Best of luck Ian hope you be ok ..

Cheers mate, we seem to be getting over it and hopefully I’m not tempting fate by saying we dodged a bullet.

[WillinGlossop]

More constant moderate/heavy snow now in howling wind... more chance pulling hens teeth than having lying snow from this but nice to watch flakes... higher hills are white 

[Dan B]

2°C and cold here, bloody biting wind too.... 

[severe snowstorm]

24 minutes ago, iand61 said:

Cheers mate, we seem to be getting over it and hopefully I’m not tempting fate by saying we dodged a bullet.

Good to hear you are getting better. We've managed to avoid it so far, but it always feels like it is only a matter of time before we get it.  You can be really careful, but unless you never leave the house and have absolutely no contact with the outside world, which is impossible, there is always a risk it can find a way in, especially given how much more transmissible the new variants are.

Edited January 30, 2021 by Dexter

[severe snowstorm]

Rain looks like it may finally be turning to snow here. Now have sleet.

[iand61]

2 minutes ago, Dexter said:

Good to hear you are getting better. We've managed to avoid it so far, but it always feels like it is only a matter of time before we get it.  You can be really careful, but unless you never leave the house and have absolutely no contact with the outside world, which is impossible, there is always a risk it can find a way in, especially given how much more transmissible the new variants are.

Agreed.

we’ll probably never know whether we had the mark 1 version or one of the later ones but what I would say is don’t ever think oh it’s just a cold.

I only got tested after being told to do so by the doctor and my only identifiable symptom at the time was a weird taste and smell.

the other bits, headache, dodgy stomach, fatigue etc could be easily passed off as a cold and my wife hasn’t had the change of taste and smell part of it.

[Joe Snow]

11 minutes ago, Dexter said:

Rain looks like it may finally be turning to snow here. Now have sleet.

Bone dry here in Sandbach as it has been since around 9am! Think we are in that dry gap on the radar just above Stoke. Holding out for Tuesday but snow to rain events are always pretty disappointing. 

[griff74]

Bone dry here as well in Salford, but bugger me that wind is biting!