Yeah, it's pretty frustrating. We're about 12-15 miles inland and usually that's enough, but this time the snow is generally only falling further east (and I think altitude is helping a lot)

We struck lucky on Boxing Day with conditions aloft not that dissimilar.

EDIT: the 850's here are supposed to have been around -6c for most the day, so I'm not sure what the issue is. Anyone?

On the plus side, convection over the Irish Sea still looks active and, with temps falling, we may just get a snow shower or two before the night's out.

Although probably not

The coastal strip (weirdly) seems to do very well in a slider setup around here (and NE Wales gets absolutely snotted). It's pretty much the only pattern that has brought big falls locally in recent years. I know you've had a few streamers that have delivered over your way in the past but I really can't remember anything other than that icy/slushy covering from Irish Sea showers around here. I'd love to see a polar low make a visit one day but I'm starting to think they're just an urban legend!

Winds are definitely helping shift the showers down a bit further south now but they're still largely heading into the Lancs Plain and into GTM. 

I'm sure someone will correct me, but I'm sure there was speculation about the 29/12/00 snowfall arising from a polar low.

The lane is rather slushy here, if that snow freezes over it will be a hazard by morning

Another top up, big huge flakes too  could be one of the last of the night looking at the radar.

Well where I am it's good old fashioned rain.

EDIT: local temperature is 3 with a Dp of 3. So basically, it's crap all the way as this stuff comes through.

Snowing again in Glasgow (on the front heading south!) 

At last proper snow in north Cumbria courtesy of a narrow through moving south from Scotland.

with a temperature of -1.7c the snow is dry and pure, non of that sleeting stuff so everything has gone white.

More coming out of Scotland on the radar, not a blizzard but for once someone has taken the fuse out of the Penrith snow shield.

Andy

Bloody hell Doc and I thought I was having a poor winter.

Got a meeting in Inverness on Tuesday so looking forward to some good views as I travel north, I think I have to go through Aviemore but not sure, either way it's a 5am start!

I love my visits to Scotland the people are so friendly, I thinking coming from Cumbria they regard me as part Scottish anyway lol.

Andy

Hoping we can get some more snow from that band moving out of the far north of England that seems to be delivering the goods for Cumbria. Problem is that it may break up and if arrrives too near the middle of the day as patchy stuff it might be too warm. -3.0c currently. 

Light rain here despite it being 1.1'c

Even closer to freezing here, but everything is just wet, not icy. I guess that uppers, DPs and WBs are a lot higher than 2m temps!

Look like it's been drizzly here, but not much falling from the sky at the moment so cannot verify whether or not it had a wintry flavour.

(EDIT: It was frosty/icy earlier in the night)

no frost here last night woke up this morning  it was damp and quite mild, bit of drizzly rain over night

Yeah had a look at my weather app overnight - it showed the forecast was 1C and snow, but gave the actual temp as 4C and drizzle. Something went wrong somewhere!

Reality defeats theory once again!
Yes the moist plume aloft mixed to shallower levels and raised surface WB and dp above 0. Lighter ppn didn't bond and therefore readily melted on it's way into air which is above freezing and not able to support snow. There was a bit around early hours but I didn't see it.
For these very marginal set-ups you really need heavy ppn so that evaporative cooling can swing the pendulum. I've seen drizzle at 0C and heavy snow at 4C (to start) in the evap cooling set-ups.