North West Regional Discussion March 2022 onwards

[Dan B]

Warmer but blowing a hoolie today

 

14ºC and going a bit darker; more rain looming I think!

[itsnowjoke]

Yet another shower

[iand61]

21 minutes ago, itsnowjoke said:

Yet another shower

Aye a true westerly feed and East Lancs is usually in the firing line and so far today has been a good example.

 

[itsnowjoke]

Well dry for now but going a bit dark so I’m glad I didn’t put my washing out

[A Face like Thunder]

Dry and bright here today but clouding over now and wouldn't be surprised if we saw a shower before nightfall.

[Scuba steve]

a dry blustery day spent sometime readying garden for winter ,wife asked me to trim her bush which was a perfect chance to use my new stihl  hedge cutter also put garden furniture away ,lol

[damianslaw]

Still enough warmth in the early Oct sun outside of the wind to make it feel pleasant. It has the same strength as early March. In about 3 weeks time, around 20th, that warmth reduces markedly and days thereafter generally no matter what the temp says become too uncomfortable to sit out in unless wrapped up.

[WillinGlossop]

Couple of showers in Mossley at lunchtime… back home sunnier and 17c… chilly when sun went in… 

jerk chicken in the oven and smelling totally tropical  

[The Northern Ramper]

Incoming 🌧

[dodge]

Aye a little posse of showers just had an energy boost off the Irish Sea - rain here now.  Met office scrambling to update their app from mostly dry to now heavy showers for an hour.  Good real time update there, but not much use if you were planning ahead a few hours ago.

[Maz]

4 hours ago, iand61 said:

Aye a true westerly feed and East Lancs is usually in the firing line and so far today has been a good example.

 

Yep, Showery airstream with a due W, or WNW steering flow normally means a never ending stream of showers to SE Lancs/ N Mncr.  And so it proved in Rammy today.  
 

As with the Disturbance from the NNE on Thursday, this is another synoptic that can give our best snowfalls here. Will always be very marginal, more often than not cold rain/ sleet/ graupel, but every so often (cold surface air in place and a light upper wind is normally best), it’s a snowmaker.  The only synoptic where this area can be the “sweet spot”.  9 times out of 10 just a drenching like today though!

Edited October 1, 2022 by Maz

[Weather-history]

A torrential shower just passed through. Really flared up on the radar just before it hit

[severe snowstorm]

It has stayed dry here all day, clouded in for a few hours from late morning but broken cloud now with some sunny periods to end the afternoon. I can see the shower train to my North right now. I think we'll just about avoid these by a whisker.

[I remember Atlantic 252]

18 minutes ago, Maz said:

Yep, Showery airstream with a due W, or WNW steering flow normally means a never ending stream of showers to SE Lancs/ N Mncr.  And so it proved in Rammy today.  
 

As with the Disturbance from the NNE on Thursday, this is another synoptic that can give our best snowfalls here. Will always be very marginal, more often than not cold rain/ sleet/ graupel, but every so often (cold surface air in place and a light upper wind is normally best), it’s a snowmaker.  The only synoptic where this area can be the “sweet spot”.  9 times out of 10 just a drenching like today though!

Like direct NW for here, can be wetter than a front

[Frost HoIIow]

Heavy shower here but I'm just a couple of miles to the north of the real torrential stuff it would seem looking at the radar. 

[weatherobsuk]

It was quite a pleasant day outside in this part of the NW before the showers arrived with max temps in the sunshine peaking at 16'c, there was just enough time to head down to Buxworth to have a quick look at the Steam Fair and a quick jog back home just as the rain began pouring down.

 

 

[Rush2019]

How Macc has missed all the showers that has skimmed by today I do not know, but it looks like it's luck is about to run out, wet mess just out west of town.  Max today 17.5°  Airport reached 18°. 

[Scuba steve]

Fairly settled evening winds  dropped ,missed the showers today 

[Had Worse]

Done the parent visits and got on M60 / M67 coming back. Hit the deluge full on and ended up driving around 30 mph.

Its been a while since I've encountered rain that heavy.  Torrents of water going down Mottram Moor.

[WillinGlossop]

28 minutes ago, Had Worse said:

Done the parent visits and got on M60 / M67 coming back. Hit the deluge full on and ended up driving around 30 mph.

Its been a while since I've encountered rain that heavy.  Torrents of water going down Mottram Moor.

Oh jeez… It was pretty torrential… hammered it down for 10 minutes… 

[A Face like Thunder]

A heavy shower at 5.30pm but otherwise dry here in S Cheshire.

A report of flooding and sheep drowning yesterday in Borrowdale in the Lake District. Must have been bad.

 

[damianslaw]

Not a bad day overall. A few fleeting showers early on, and blustery, but predominantly dry with some sunny breaks. Tomorrow set to be quite decent as well. A useable weekend. 

[Scuba steve]

25 minutes ago, damianslaw said:

Not a bad day overall. A few fleeting showers early on, and blustery, but predominantly dry with some sunny breaks. Tomorrow set to be quite decent as well. A useable weekend. 

Not to bad here blustery  but ok 

[iand61]

Agreed with the above apart from an absolute deluge around 6pm, roads were like rivers here but once it cleared through not a bad evening.

[I remember Atlantic 252]

7 hours ago, damianslaw said:

Not a bad day overall. A few fleeting showers early on, and blustery, but predominantly dry with some sunny breaks. Tomorrow set to be quite decent as well. A useable weekend. 

GFS was giving horror day for S of region, moved it south on Thursdays 06Z, now Wednesday, doubt that will miss