Absolutely chucking it down with snow here now, settling on most surfaces.

Sky looks really dark to the west.

Andy - we are in a place called Scapegoat Hill, just West of Huddersfield.

A jolly pleasant drive into work this morning!

The only fly in the ointment is sh*t drivers sh*tting themselves and doing 20mph because there's 1cm of slushy snow on the road

Set off in a heavy graupel shower, which had begun to leave a covering, and this soon turned to snow (that hard, ice-crystal type stuff), before becoming proper snow, big flakes and falling heavily. All the way on the M62 was heavy snow, which continued right into Manchester city centre.

It died out as I got to the office, then started moderately-heavy again, but is now fizzling out once more. Raintoday radar suggests there could be a constant stream of PPN through this morning - the question is whether it will remain cold enough, and I'm not sure it will.

Quite a lot of snow here this morning, the camera below is junction 23 of the M60 near to here. But not as bad as what we had in January 2013 or even March 2013. Non the less a decent snow event and we was just enough south to get into the streamer!

Still coming down thick and fast here with a really decent covering. (4 miles south of city centre).

Absolutely fantastic. You sound surprisingly pessimistic Saint, this is a really decent event :-)

Radar looks great - a classic Manchester streamer.

The flow is more W'ly than NW'ly (in fact, the flow of PPN seems to be between W'ly and WNW'ly. As such, it's penetrating more eastwards into W and S Yorks, rather than the Midlands.

The shower band does, however, seem to be gradually sinking southwards

Nothing of note this morning, but about an inch of lying snow... 15 mins away on higher ground it's a different story. I will be heading here as soon as I get the chance!

Interesting! A colleague on our team (a right miserable twunt with a huge sense of self-importance) who lives in Accrington called in this morning to say he couldn't get into work cos of the weather...

Snow has eased now, but that was a pretty impressive fall of heavy snow.  Got about 2 to 3cm of snow lying now on many surfaces, mostly just from 9am to 10am, as there was hardly anything lying at 9am.    

On top of the thundersnow event of yesterday evening, a surprisingly good spell so far here!

Earlier on...

Incredible conditions here!!!!

South Manchester is absolutely copping it.

sheffield too. There's that spooky, eerie silence that you get with heavy snow. The city is completely quiet as the blizzard continues. No cars.  No pedestrians.   Just white ... silence ... With the odd rumble of the snow sliding off roofs with a crash ...

The band of PPN is sadly sinking southwards, and only the northern fringe is skirting Manchester city centre; it's snowing, but only lightly. You're currently right in the firing line. So is my home. I've been looking at the traffic cams on the M62 and M6, and it's funny to see all the west-facing cams with their lenses covered in snow.

Maybe this is a Stockport event rather than a Manchester one then?

Now the heaviest it has been so far..