North West Regional Discussion Feb 2021 onwards

[Iceaxecrampon]

....Or Glissading!

[damianslaw]

Just now, Iceaxecrampon said:

Yes Odd.

All those Pinks I'd thought you be sledging.

It's plain odd. Should have had an hour of precipitation by now.

[Backtrack]

It’s way colder than forecast but I can’t see any low level snow tonight unfortunately. 

[Chris.R]

Virga ongoing here. I think it’s quite common at the leading edge of warm fronts.

[damianslaw]

2 minutes ago, Chris.R said:

Virga ongoing here. I think it’s quite common at the leading edge of warm fronts.

Still nothing here, what is virga.. non-existent precipitation.. how can the radar be so misleading..

[damianslaw]

Ignore last comment, just looked outside, we have something white falling from the sky.. only light, but it is definately a wintry mix of something... let's see what happens.

[Had Worse]

Had to travel down to Derby via Buxton and Ashbourne.  The pavements had evidence of snow or graupel having fallen very recently. 

Nervously watching radar as I'm driving into whats coming and at altitude. 

[damianslaw]

Well it is snow. Already seen more snow since 28 Nov than during whole of winter 13-14. Not bad given its 2 December!

[Taylor31]

Sleeting now in mossley hill.just been out for a smoke .deffo sleet. 

[SP1986]

Raining here now in Wirral moderate in intensity, already wet ground

[Chris.R]

Light rain falling now, temperature been rising over last few hours. Currently 3.7°C dp 0.4°C. Wasn’t expecting anything else.

[Chris.R]

32 minutes ago, damianslaw said:

Still nothing here, what is virga.. non-existent precipitation.. how can the radar be so misleading..

Precipitation that evaporates before it reaches the ground; in this case because of relatively dry and cold air below.

[Chris.R]

It is a bit sleety actually. If it gets heavier it may turn although warm inversion aloft will quickly be coming in. Precip is ahead of schedule though so who knows.

[carl1980]

2.3°c rain

[WillinGlossop]

Just got home from a day trip to Birmingham… not been before… very cold morning with light dusting of snow at stations Mac and wolves… lovely Christmas markets not as big as Manchester… nice easy to navigate compact city centre… tapas for brunch and Vietnamese for tea… cold when got back into stockport… chilly out 1c no snow yet… 

[The Northern Ramper]

Light snow

[The Northern Ramper]

Just now, WillinGlossop said:

Just got home from a day trip to Birmingham… not been before… very cold morning with light dusting of snow at stations Mac and wolves… lovely Christmas markets not as big as Manchester… nice easy to navigate compact city centre… tapas for brunch and Vietnamese for tea… cold when got back into stockport… chilly out 1c no snow yet… 

Won’t be long it’s snowing here

[damianslaw]

Snow is very wet but has become more moderate and is beginning to settle on grassy surfaces and cold surfaces, feel a late walk is in order.. but not expecting it to last long, still its nice to see.

[WillinGlossop]

45 minutes ago, Had Worse said:

Had to travel down to Derby via Buxton and Ashbourne.  The pavements had evidence of snow or graupel having fallen very recently. 

Nervously watching radar as I'm driving into whats coming and at altitude. 

Hope you have good journey back… looks light whatever falls… we shall see… but will fall as rain through the night so wet morning anticipated rather than white

[Kasim Awan]

This weekend is interesting me. Not a particularly cold air mass but the parameters favours decent rates of evap cooling as does the setup favour pivotting. Need to watch the system on output, even for lower levels. Other than during this period there could be a few slow streamers from the Tan Hill down towards Buxton, so although uppers will be -4.5, there could be snow down to 250metres locally where the streamers stall. 

[Kasim Awan]

Fingers crossed this chilly start isn't leading us up the garden path this winter.

[Chris.R]

Heavy rain, 3.4°C. Going to be fun in land for awhile.

[severe snowstorm]

Front edge rain here, as expected.

[Had Worse]

16 minutes ago, WillinGlossop said:

Hope you have good journey back… looks light whatever falls… we shall see… but will fall as rain through the night so wet morning anticipated rather than white

Still in Derby. Stepson really unwell so bringing him back (with bucket)

Radar looks like .meeting me between Ashbourne and Buxton. Snow and pitch darkness what fun

[Chris harry]

Started to snow here in Ashton-under-Lyne