Every bit as bad as I feared. A grand total of 5cm lying this morning 

Can't believe there is a warning out for this rubbish. The showers are so lame and infrequent that it's hard to imagine the depth reaching the sort of levels that were being forecast.

The wait for a depth greater than 6cm will soon be entering it's sixth year 

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Buried alive (!) this morning here at Folkestone.  I've experienced more notable frosts than this.

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Yes it’s a sad fact, many areas that have traditionally been ok with an easterly have missed out this time round. Such events are usually epic around my area yet sadly it’s just never got going. With the warmer North Sea temps and very low 850’s I was hoping for some real action but looks like a bust.

Torment...
I'm looking out of my lounge window at heavy snow showers moving east west about a mile from me and it has been that way since midnight....
I would walk or drive to it but I've got work in the other direction... 🙄

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Got some snow overnight in edinburgh, but have currently spent an hour and half looking out the window at mostly blue skies when the met office forecast (when the web site works) is insistent it is "now: heavy snow"

I've asked before, but what is the met office cut off for "heavy" - rain or snow? It seems to be anything beyond drizzle.

hmmmm

Still, got two more days of "heavy snow" to come, still got some tickets in the lottery

 

So would i, but my feet would get wet...i am looking across to the Isle of Wight and can see the SNOW showers cutting right through the Island, with snow falling 3 miles away -but on the beaches this side, its a beautiful spring day and hard to beieve that it MAY actually snow tomorrow on this side of the Solent, although i still have my doubts that with changes aloft that it will be too warm for snow...the cold has now peaked! 

Couldn't help but notice this tweet...

Holme Moss Road is closed ☃️☃️ plan your journey time and drive to the conditions❄️❄️ and #arrivealive take care out there 👮‍♂️👮‍♂️🚓🚓 pic.twitter.com/nnQ8hLmi33

— Kirklees Rural (@WYP_KirkRural) February 28, 2018

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Now that 1978/9 scene is what I want to see over the entire UK. It'd be absolute and beautiful chaos (I'd just want enough notice to be able to source a couple of generators. And fuel. I'd like to have to live off the food in my house for a few weeks - that's when I'd be able to turn round to Mrs S and say, "See, I told you hoarding food would pay off one day!")

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Nonsense Amber Warning thus far for Edinburgh & The Lothian's......

No serious snow in and around Edinburgh Airport/West Lothian this morning and yet it is Edinburgh, the Lothian's and the Borders which are forecast to get the most snow.... Meanwhile Glasgow airport is shut?

Clear blue skies... yipeeee.

You're in the  10 - 15cm warning Richard!? So don't moan ha!

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Was really hoping for a proper snow event this week but I'm not holding out much hope any more. We got about 1-2cm yesterday and today we get the odd flurry but then the sun comes out. I hate radar watching as any decent looking snow showers just completely break up before they get here. There's one on the radar now where the amber warning is in place and I've been watching it for the past hour and the bulk of it isn't getting any closer! Sometimes the odd bit breaks off and give us moderate snowfall for 2 minutes and then the sun comes back out and that's as good as it gets. Even a couple of inches on the ground would make me happy

 

You're spot on.

What makes it worse is seeing places from Yorkshire to Northumberland to Cumbria to Norfolk to Kent to Essex getting 10/15/20cm+

We've just had another of those brief showers here in Manchester city centre and it might as well not bother. Useless.

We even look like having had the Friday/Saturday snow even pinched from us

 

 

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Quite a few people remarked that it had been many years since the last properly easterly. I hope it's many years before the next one.

 

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In comparison to what's happened in places like Northumberland, Norfolk, Kent etc, it's been very underwhelming here too. I'm just afraid of the sun coming out and melting our snow cover - it isn't that deep and probably wouldn't last!

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I've had numerous reports from around Leeds of 10-15cm

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I don't think we have that much here - maybe in the higher parts of the city where yesterday's snow was mostly intact (whereas here it entirely melted). Such is the perils of living in a city that ranges from 20m asl to 200m asl. 

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saint it’s been a massive bust around my area- maximum snow depth of 2cm and a complete waste of time. We normally do really well out of such events- I can remember snow drifts of 20 feet against the woods and hedgerows from when I was a kid. It’s snowed all morning- so lightly that it’s added nothing to the depth of snow and now the suns out- it’s melting and it looks like I’m even going to be robbed of an ice day. I smelt a rat on Sunday when we were removed from the amber warning area into the yellow zone of hopelessness and nothing, the gnashing of teeth from local children is palpable- not even enough snow to sledge on. 

Now it looks like the weekend could be a bust for my area too, what a waste of almost once in a generation Synoptics and SSW.  Gutted 

I'm just fed up of being disappointed. The 2cm we reached yesterday is probably the most we have had for 2 years and that says everything. The snow on the radar has almost fizzled out to nothing. To be honest, I'd rather it just stay sunny or snow properly. This pathetic dust just makes me angry at each snow flake for being so small when the same clouds have just given blizzards miles away an hour ago.

If we miss out on the snow event on Friday/Saturday which looks very likely then I give up and I'm ready for spring.

I do have a journey to and from Scarborough on Saturday actually so I'm not sure how that will go or how I want it to go.

And to add insult to injury, we’ve just been moved to an amber warning..,,, yet there’s nothing on the radar at all and our 2cm is melting rapidly in the sunshine.

Looking like thats it for snow IMBY now, a blob missed here by some 10 miles which brought some disruptive snow there. Looking at the radar it looks likely to remain dry now with tomorrow bringing zilch and the snow on Friday missing here as well.

All in all a disappointing cold snap IMBY despite the 5cm snow we had yesterday, which is disappearing faster than you can say Jack Flash. Marks out of ten for winter on the whole 4/10

I thought you were near Melton Mowbray? Loads of showers on the radar in that area. You must be the unluckiest person on TWO to avoid any snow from that lot.

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Davis VP2 says it's -3.5C. Despite that the rate of thaw when the sun comes out beggars belief. Even when it clouds over the thaw continues on concrete / stone surfaces. It's extraordinary. Never seen anything like it (I mean the combination of thaw and air temperatures well below 0C).

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Looks like plenty of showers making it as far west as you. One heavy one passed just to the north over Clitheroe recently. More (not quite as heavy) crossing Huddersfield and Ripponden right now and might hit Blackburn.

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Is it actually melting to liquid or just disappearing? If the latter then surely it is just sublimating away due to the very low dewpoints, which are widely below -10C today. Here in London the only places that seem to be damp are salted roads and pavements, and badly insulated roofs. The rest of the snow isn't melting, just sublimating.

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Whereas in reality the amount which has actually fallen is closer to 10-15mm.

Pretty much no further accumulation since morning with nothing other than feeble showers which last no time at all and add nothing. Even the heavier ones leave nothing. Radar suggests that the afternoon will see even less with all the heavy clusters of showers avoiding this dire weather vacuum like the plague. Almost the whole of the North Sea from Dundee to Aberdeen is dry

Three words sum up this week here: Rancid Easterly Crud 

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