Have had about an hour of moderate, occasionally heavy snow in West Northants. 1-2cm on the ground - The first proper covering here since March 2013.

The next tranche of PPN band is hitting the NW now. Just had about 10-15 mins of moderate graupel in Manchester city centre (between sunshine spells).

Looks like the PPN flow is aligned more on a WNW trajectory, so that means it has to pass a little more land before reaching Manchester (or St Helens for that matter) which may help it fall as snow.

The PPN band is, at present, a little more fragmented than the streamer this morning that lasted from approx. 8am to 11am. But then, the PPN may pep up as it moves in off the Irish Sea.

One fly in the ointment further west is that Liverpool Airport is showing 4c air temp & 2c DP. Russ & Patrick on the Wirral both saying they've recently had snow, so that's encouraging (evap cooling hopefully coming into play). Less worry in Manchester at the moment, as the temps are 1c/0c respectively. Worth noting also that there's no sign of air temps inching up from the N/NW.

Just spotted this webcam on the M1 near Leeds, looks quite snowy at the moment!

http://www.trafficengland.com/trafficcamera.aspx?cameraUri=http://public.hanet.org.uk/cctvpublicaccess/html/23011.html

Heavy snow in dudley. Stuck for a while now melting again in between showers.

Definate rotation. It's something that has been forcast but how far east it gets is another matter. Most likely to track down the west coast of wales but then again who knows...

Yep..thats tonights potential winding itself up.

Sun has come out now after a very snowy morning.  Much slippage off roofs.  You can see the next bank of showers to the north just about to hit us now...

*IF* the PPN band currently the North Channel/Irish Sea and moving ESE'wards/SE'wards continues its path, then I'd expect quite a bit of penetration into the Midlands later this afternoon/evening.

30 minute shower of snow here in Northants.  Very pretty but didnt settle on anything bar cars. Class of 10 years olds that I was working with were soooo excited especially one lad (from Africa) who had never seen snow before!!