He lives at the bottom of a hill, and in snow can't get up it (side road, no gritting)

I don't believe him, mind.

Snowing heavily here with big flakes, about an inch deep now.  

You know, reading these reports makes me feel like I'm living in a totally different country! Still not a single snowflake this (or last) winter 

Indeed.

This really is quite an impressive event.

Oh look! It's the headline story on BBC UK news! I bet if it was happening in the South east, it wouldn't be the main headline...the Beeb is so Manchestercentric! 

A spots of rain during the last hour now bits of blue sky showing its hand, oh and the familiar sound of drip drip, drip.

Finally some heavier snow but the ground is too wet for sticking. Great to see NW England doing well after so many poor years.

There must be colder air hanging around the Manchester area. The snow has pretty much all melted here. Certainly very weird - usually it's the opposite. 

My temp has gone the other way, it got up to 4C this mid morning before the PPN arrived. Now the heaviest snow so far at 1.8C.

Still snowing quite heavily, just been down the garden to measure the depth, a level 2 inches.

The temperature is slowly rising though, now up to 1.1C

All the spring growth is buried under snow, you couldn`t make it up could you? 

Crazy weather!

As it's only just been on the right side of marginal, snow depths are disappointing. In the city centre itself, only very favoured surfaces have any sort of cover (quieter parts of pavements have a thin, slushy cover, roads nothing), and looking at traffic webcams outside the M60, there isn't that much even on grass.

Like I said earlier, if it would have been falling onto frozen ground, I reckon we'd have had 15cm+ by now. Instead, it's hard not to think of it as a frustrating waste of a snowfall.

PS - in response to Ian 'Shropshire' Brown, I'm not sure where you get that NW England has had 'so many poor years' in terms of snow. The period from 2009 has been one of the snowiest in all of my 44 years (at least in my neck of the woods) with at least 5/6 snowfalls of >10cm, and another [at least] 6 with a covering of at least 2cm.

It's hardly Cairngorm stuff but, historically, it's a snowy period - and certainly more snowy than most other parts of lowland England.

Fair enough Saint I'm just going by the general moaning done by NWerners both on here and the other side ! 

Must be it's still 0c in Manchester: http://www.accuweather.com/en/gb/manchester/m15-6/weather-forecast/329260

Meanwhile, here in the SW Exeter it's 9c and many other parts of the south are basking in some spring sunshine at 10c.

There is a definate snow line in Stoke. I live just under 200m and we had snow all night but not settling as 1c. Just up the road it is settling at 200m with about 1cm or so. Get into Brown Edge and above 300m and it is 5cm or so. Add some more then for the Peaks. Well forecasted for this area. Temps of -1c on higher ground.

Meanwhile at work in Brum its 5c.

Mrs S reporting that the heavier snow stopped in 'Tellins some time ago, and it's been a mix of light snow, sleet & some drizzle at times. No lying snow left.

I think what's helped Manchester is the intensity of the PPN.

Where? Your location is conspicuous by its absence 

I assume it's Narnia? 

Here we have wet snow which isn't settling at all  We're the wrong side of marginal here for settling snow, but higher parts of Sheffield have done ok out of this 

The higher ground near here has done well out of this marginal situation but all we have here is a slight covering on the grass after hours of snowfall Now the dreaded cold rain is falling 

Still snowing, 6cm now, temperature 1.5C

It was snowing when I first looked out the window at 7am this morning, so we`ve had around 8 hours of continuous snow.