Harrogate Stray at midday today. I have just measured it at our house (at the top of Otley Road where the World’s circuit went up several times in 2019) and it’s 7.5 inches and still snowing.
Perfect topup last night for us- ground must be seriously cold, we got maybe 5cm tops where I am but it all just lay perfectly, there’s mad ice snakes all over the road from last night’s tyre treads… And up in the hills all the death-ice is grippy again. Glorious stuff, never usually works out like that- usually you get right into the manky horrible part of the thaw before it tries to snow again and it’s all just really sad and anticlimatic.
End of day report – still snowing (lightly) but just measured it at 9 inches! Built a snowman and then a sledging ramp on the street outside our house (we might need to put up warning lights for that one) LOL!
Had about four inches overnight, and then it’s been snowing all day here at Scapegoat Hill. Dog and I ventured up to the top of the moor this afternoon, and were passed by a couple of guys on bikes up by Rocking Stone Quarry, one with a Vitus and a magnificent beard…. anyone on here?
I was up at the Cas car park earlier. One side of the ski road has been ploughed and gritted. The other side is now basically a ski run for all the tourers/boarders.
Fab pics Swavis – I was looking through my binoculars to see if I could spot anyone skiing – 3 pairs of skiers plus a dog skinning up from this side. My dogs a bit poorly so wasn’t up for wading through thigh-deep powder
Had a bit of snow overnight and sub zero temps all day.
Gathered up the bairns and went for a slide on the powder covered sheet of ice just behind the Pyramids at J4A on the M8. Insta link below https://www.instagram.com/p/CJypbUhB6JZ/?hl=en
Fab pics Swavis – I was looking through my binoculars to see if I could spot anyone skiing – 3 pairs of skiers plus a dog skinning up from this side.
Cheers. Aye there was plenty of ski tourers on the hill today. Unfortunately there seemed to be an organised group of about 7 of them, 1 guiding and 6 guests, no distancing at all. No idea how they get away with it and will keep us locked down forever 😕
@scaredypants Read there was snow up your neck of the woods* yesterday around Stock’s Lane. Did it stick? Any sign of an ice rink up on the Old Winchester / Butser Hill plateau like Xmas 2017?
* Thought you lived near Hants/ West Sussex border for some reason.
Well I’m always jealous of these pics – we had about ten flakes in Cardiff. However, I do like a bit of weather watching. There has been (or is underway) a Sudden Stratospheric Warming event which can lead to a very cold snap, including a Beast from the East pattern, although not always. The following graph is the GEFS ensemble plot for Cardiff. The numbers are the temperature at an altitude where the pressure is 850mbar which would be about 1500m of altitude ish, that’s where the temps are not affected by day or night. When the graph goes below -10, it means it’s a decent cold snap (by UK standards). The lines are individual forecast runs, and where they are close together there is a lot of agreement and hence high confidence. The numbers at the bottom are the numbers of runs that forecast snow (any snow at all) on that day.
I’ve been watching it, and since the SSW the trend has been for the temps to drop towards the end of Jan, and there are more and more runs dipping into the proper cold part of the graph, and the number of runs that forecast snow has been climbing.
We had 6c and rain most of yesterday afternoon/evening which all but cleared the snow on the roads and pavements but its been snowing heavily again for tè past few hours so we’re back to it being white everywhere. There must be an amazing amount on the mountains now.
@elshalimo
That top pic was about where you passed me (if that was you!)
The bottom pic, is that from the bottom of the golf course looking up towards Round Ings?
Twice in one lifetime here in Knaresborough. Going for a walk to watch people on non-essential journeys crashing their cars slowly and expensively on the A59.
Seems to be a thing that when it snows in the UK half the population develops an uncontrollable urge to get in their cars and drive somewhere.