Given the outlook for the next 12 hours I am surprised no one has resurrected this thread but I guess we are all punch drunk!

Anyway, some very real prospects of lying snow from North Wales northwards tonight and tomorrow morning under a unstable north westerly flow, heavy wintry showers could give a covering almost anywhere but it's a band of sleet/snow associated with a small feature running SE that holds most potential.

This seems likely to cross Northern Ireland then North West England later tonight with the areas most at risk being south Lancashire and Greater Manchester, higher parts to the east of Manchester like Oldham and Glossop could see 10cms plus with travel disruption across the Pennines.

Thundersnow is also a real possibility so an interesting night and morning ahead.

Here the temperature is dropping like a stone down from 6c at 7pm to 3c now and showers have sleet and snow already.

Andy

Great potential for some very interesting weather on the way.

Think I might be up all night.

If I lived in the NW of England I would be getting a little excited about the potential. To be honest I'm holding out for some observable sleet in the next 3 or 4 days. Good times ! 

Yes the snow potential is fairly obvious and has a Northern Ireland January 1984 feel about it this evening.  Could be good for The Lakes and Mancs too.

It's milder than I expected it to be here this morning.

currently +4C/+1C.

I expect nothing other than rain sadly. 

a little bit of wet sleety stuff but nothing more than that....

Edit - now snowing

Unless the preciptation area consolidates could end up missing the bulk of the preciptation anyway. Looks like this has gone pear-shaped.

I'm just outside Leeds and we've had heavy snow now for the last 20 minutes and it's settling...

Huge flakes here now and around 3-4cm of lying snow, only in Blighty could you get your heaviest snowfall in years during spring.😜

Morning all, temperature flying all over the place this morning in North Bristol, with torrential rain, then hail and some sleet mixed in. Currently 4oC and sleeting 

Temp just dropped to 3, now snowing heavily, but no chance of it settling

Snowing here now - pretty, but too little too late for my liking!

Looking at the radar, it seems the PPN swirl moved ESE'wards, then pretty much stopped over NW England and pivoted. The rough result is that the heaviest PPN in the region is from a band oriented W-E, which has stayed over Lancashire/Northern Gtr Manchester and into West Yorks (but generally north of the M62). There's falling/settling snow near Preston (often a snow-desert), but nothing settling near to Rochdale, for instance.

There's a band oriented more NE-SW now moving eastwards, which is currently over West Lancs. Hopefully that will bring some snow/graupel into Manchester (and Merseyside!)