Codge to thread...

Hopefully. I know the Boxing Day event which actually feels small in comparision now to this, there was around 10cm+ over the tops, so I imagine with 10-15cm around the higher parts of Stoke, there could be 20cm+ between Leek and Buxton...

 Warning out for Tuesday. Fingers crossed.

The arctic airmass, by this time already firmly established across the UK, will continue to bring frequent and heavy snow showers 
to eastern parts of the UK. During Tuesday, a subtle change in wind direction will allow showers 
to spread further inland, with snow showers possibly falling quite widely across northern England (east of the Pennines), 
along with the Midlands and parts of southeast England. The airmass is sufficiently cold for snow showers to accumulate at low-levels 
and some locally heavy falls are possible.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/warnings/#?tab=map&map=Warnings&zoom=5&lon=-3.50&lat=55.50&fcTime=1422576000

you can see the snow footprint using the satellite

http://sat24.com/en/gb

Coastal areas havent dont well at all out of this spell.

The arctic airmass, by this time already firmly established across the UK, will continue to bring frequent and heavy snow showers 
to eastern parts of the UK. During Tuesday, a subtle change in wind direction will allow showers 
to spread further inland, with snow showers possibly falling quite widely across northern England (east of the Pennines), 
along with the Midlands and parts of southeast England. The airmass is sufficiently cold for snow showers to accumulate at low-levels 
and some locally heavy falls are possible.

So in a W'ly and a NW'ly, the snow has no trouble getting over the Pennines into W & S Yorkshire.

Yet when the wind swings to east of N'ly, suddenly the snow isn't able to get across the Pennines?

Big upgrade to warnings for Saturday just out.  Looking very promising...

Following a temporary less cold period on Friday and into Saturday morning, a very cold airmass will 
spread southwards across Scotland and Northern Ireland accompanied by strong winds, spreading southwards 
into northern England and north Wales later in the day. Frequent showers are 
likely to form in this airmass, and with the cold air snow is likely to accumulate, even to low levels in places. 
Periods of enhanced snowfall are possible within this general flow, perhaps more especially across the high ground 
of Scotland and northeast England, but these details are more uncertain.

There is the potential for disruption throughout this period due to the accumulating snow and ice but also with temporary 
blizzard conditions leading to very difficult driving conditions.

Big upgrade to warnings for Saturday just out.  Looking very promising...

Following a temporary less cold period on Friday and into Saturday morning, a very cold airmass will 
spread southwards across Scotland and Northern Ireland accompanied by strong winds, spreading southwards 
into northern England and north Wales later in the day. Frequent showers are 
likely to form in this airmass, and with the cold air snow is likely to accumulate, even to low levels in places. 
Periods of enhanced snowfall are possible within this general flow, perhaps more especially across the high ground 
of Scotland and northeast England, but these details are more uncertain.

There is the potential for disruption throughout this period due to the accumulating snow and ice but also with temporary 
blizzard conditions leading to very difficult driving conditions.

Sounds superb for the Durham Pennines.. I was planning to take the family there on Sunday... might need to think about whether I can justify potentially stranding us...

Tuesday sounds good for here too (finally!!)... but I'll believe it when I see it - loads can change in 5 days, especially when the heavy snow depends on the exact positioning of the flow.

Good evening London and the north, here are the results of the NE Kent jury .

First off, we give Ashford nil pwuns, nada here.

For the small hillocks between Ashford and Canterbury (those that are visible from the train anyway), we give 3 points (snow line appears to be from about 2 feet above field level)

For south east Thanet, we give nuffin mate

And for north east Thanet (Broadstairs/Margate), we give....10 points!

I woke up at around 5:30 to a complete covering, trees, grass, pavements, roads, uncle Tom Cobbly (he wasn't best pleased, but that's what you get for sleeping outside in a cardboard box I guess). I reckon we had between one and two inches.

Left Ramsgate on the train, and suddenly no sign of snow anywhere! Very very localised fall.

Still haven't seen a single snowflake fall though (it had stopped by the time I went out)

For the record, I'm only giving 10 points because compared to last year and this year to date, it feels like a 10....it's actually more like 3

I've decided there is a 'law', whereby the favoured location for snow shown on model output 2/3/4 days out will not be the location that gets the snow when the time comes. This law is especially true when your own location is being shown as that favoured location 2/3/4 days out.

You jammy devil - I'm in st. nicks and nothing!!!!!!!

Have watched this forum for a few years (winter time only as i am a snow freak) - but havent had laying snow for 2 years now - am somewhat snow starved!!!!   

Cloud rolls over and we get a heavy hail shower in Dudley. Pea sized hail, white over for a time.

Temp - 4c

DP - 3c

Mate, I've reached exactly that conclusion.. to the extent that I am pleased when we're not in the firing line 4 days out!

Bit of a streamer setting up, although the M62 cams near Warrington aren't showing any snow (still some showed as lying on the embankments)

Does look like that...we shall see.

DP's took a drop over the past hour. Down to 1c from 3c

Temps at 3c from 5c

We had a heavy hail shower a little while ago here in the city centre, but with a temp of 3.1 and a DP of 2.2 I'd be surprised if there was any snow about.

Plenty of snow still lying here. Temp is 4c though. Hoping for a rapid drop this evening.

Welcome to the forum proper Mrs P

We're used to having our own micro-climate on the planet, but I've never seen a snow even that localised! We left Ramsgate in the snow (not quite so much there), I looked down to my phone, sent a text, looked up and thought I'd fallen asleep! We were between Ramsgate and Minster, there was not a trace of snow! It's not as if I live at altitude either - St Peters is only about 40m asl.

This afternoon, there's been the odd visitor mention it's started snowing again here in Ashford, but everytime I check outside, it's more just very cold slight rain.

and there was I thinking it was wrong to mention a lady's age  - just a 70's child -- best snow memories are mid 80's, and 97 - been pants here for quite a while. 

Certain parts of the NW have done very well actually :-) 

Edit - sounds smug, don't intend it to :p

I'm just really chuffed we did well for once. We've missed out a lot recently, especially winter 2013/14 when Lancs and Merseyside got buried.