Northwest Weather Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards

[I remember Atlantic 252]

14 minutes ago, damianslaw said:

Jan 2021 was decent early in the month a cold frosty spell with light snow..Indeed we had a number of snow days that month. Jan 2013 was the last time we had a lengthy persistant cold spell of roughly 2 weeks. 

24th was ace here, coronavirus lockdown, great snowy walk

[Dark Horse]

16 minutes ago, damianslaw said:

Jan 2021 was decent early in the month a cold frosty spell with light snow..Indeed we had a number of snow days that month. Jan 2013 was the last time we had a lengthy persistant cold spell of roughly 2 weeks. 

Yeah Jan 2021 was "ok" but not really a month that I would put up there with the likes of Jan 2013, 2010, 87, 78, 79 etc. A chilly month but not a classic on the snow front, not enough to get the snow shovel out. Have to go back to January 2013 for a significant fall in that month and back then I did need that shovel. January's have been pretty poor since then in that regard. Hopefully this one will buck the trend.

[itsnowjoke]

5 minutes ago, Winter Hill said:

Heavy persistent rain for weeks. Storm force winds and now the region is getting an Earthquake !!! 
 

only thing missing now are Blizzards

Earthquake??

[Winter Hill]

Just now, itsnowjoke said:

Earthquake??

Buxton 

[itsnowjoke]

Just now, Winter Hill said:

Buxton 

Why what’s happening 

[Winter Hill]

3 hours ago, toggerob said:

Flood Alert now in-place for lower-lying areas in Whaley Bridge along the River Goyt with localised floods being reported in/around the High Peak from Bakewell to the A54. There was also a Earthquake recorded in Buxton at 17:30 measuring 2.5 at a 3km depth, although it wouldn't have been strong enough to have felt it here further north.

@itsnowjoke

[itsnowjoke]

Just now, Winter Hill said:

@itsnowjoke

Ok thanks not been on today much hope everyone is safe 

[Scuba steve]

3 minutes ago, itsnowjoke said:

Ok thanks not been on today much hope everyone is safe 

They are think it was a 2.4 only just noticeable ,lol

[weatherobsuk]

Just now, Scuba steve said:

They are think it was a 2.4 only just noticeable ,lol

Around a 2.5 magnitude at 3km depth just east of the White Hall Center north of Buxton on the A5004, linked to the Goyt Valley Anticline-fold where the local layered rocks (Gritstone, Sandstone, some Shale & Coal) were forced down in the glaciation periods. The likely trigger of this event (and typically for most of the UK quakes) is post-glacial rebound, ground water intrusion, or a mixture of both.

[Rush2019]

47 minutes ago, damianslaw said:

Jan 2021 was decent early in the month a cold frosty spell with light snow..Indeed we had a number of snow days that month. Jan 2013 was the last time we had a lengthy persistant cold spell of roughly 2 weeks. 

Yes, January 2021 had a few snow events here.  Picture from 23 Jan 2021, taken on a Saturday morning.

[PennineMark]

1 hour ago, Scuba steve said:

Can’t imagine piling and rebar work being much fun in a hole at this time of year with this rain 

Since July it's been pretty horrendous for much of the time. The last 6 weeks or so has been as bad as anything in the last 10 years. Everywhere is saturated. Every excavation fills with water. Swamps and concrete are not a good mix.

[damianslaw]

1 hour ago, Rush2019 said:

Yes, January 2021 had a few snow events here.  Picture from 23 Jan 2021, taken on a Saturday morning.

We had a few dustings through the month, an inch or two at best. High ground retained snow throughout most of the month.

The last heavy Jan snowfall here was way back 26 Jan 2013, 8 inches.

 

[Joe Snow]

Jan 2021 was a chilly at times snowy month locally, several wet snow events just on the right side of marginal with 7- 8cm of wet snow 20th/21st Jan post Storm Christoph with the most dramatic rain-heavy snow transition I've ever seen locally.

Looks like we here in the NW aren't the only ones braced for a change in the weather this weekend - an East Coast Winter storm hitting the US Mid Atlantic and NE - areas such as NYC, upstate NY, Pennsylvania & the New England states seeing heavy snowfall. Safe to say their local weather forecasting is in a different league excluding the likes of Ian F down in the West Country and Paul Hudson over the Pennines in Yorkshire of course. 

 

Edited January 3 by Joe Snow

[Rush2019]

Out and about early this am, going to Wythenshawe.  Lots of surface standing water right across some roads.  I see  A555 airport is closed both ways due to flooding, between Styal Rd and Poynton.  7°C when left Macc and drizzly.  

[Iceaxecrampon]

Going to be well on the quiet side in here if the 00z is anything to go by. 

Winter drought right through to the end of the run and temp drops not too harsh. Frosts nothing spectacular. 

Incursion from the W from Ireland well late in FI but that’s FI 

34 years since the legendary Burns Day storm any memories? 

Burns' Day Storm - Wikipedia

EN.M.WIKIPEDIA.ORG

25-1-1990 an awful lot of flood water gone under the bridge since then. 

 

 

 

[severe snowstorm]

We ended up with around an inch of rain yesterday in the end. It's raining again this morning as well. The start of 2024 is certainly continuing the wet theme from the back end of 2023, but at least some colder, more settled conditions are on the horizon.

[A Face like Thunder]

Yuck, still raining here too but eased off since yesterday. Flooded garden and local roads, so hoping we don't get the forecast beefy showers later.

Manchester 21.4mm of rain, Liverpool 21.0mm (Times)

 

Edited January 3 by A Face like Thunder

[Weather-history]

ECM Manchester 2m temps are chilly 

 

[Joe Snow]

41 minutes ago, A Face like Thunder said:

Yuck, still raining here too but eased off since yesterday. Flooded garden and local roads, so hoping we don't get the forecast beefy showers later.

Manchester 21.4mm of rain, Liverpool 21.0mm (Times)

 

Watch the shower streamers dry up over the NW as the colder weather with wintry potential arrives over the next few weeks!  

Really yucky day again, everywhere sodden & swampy  ️ Looking forward to a change from this weekend. 

[I remember Atlantic 252]

11 hours ago, Rush2019 said:

Yes, January 2021 had a few snow events here.  Picture from 23 Jan 2021, taken on a Saturday morning.

Aye, cheshire gap feed, not a lot here on 23rd, but next day from the slider was very good

[Rain Lady]

Grim wet dark day yesterday.  24.6 mm picked up this morning for last 24 hrs -- that's 48.5 mm already this month.

Land horribly sodden.  But the snowdrops in drier places are showing white buds. 

 

 

[itsnowjoke]

Drizzly morning 

[Dan B]

6ºC and dry so far; very grey/overcast but least it's not lashing it down!

[Scuba steve]

Brighter here as others have said ground is absolutely saturated with springs bubbling up All over the place 

[Chris.R]

11 hours ago, damianslaw said:

We had a few dustings through the month, an inch or two at best. High ground retained snow throughout most of the month.

The last heavy Jan snowfall here was way back 26 Jan 2013, 8 inches.

 

I like how a dusting is an inch or two for you