Now drizzling

Staring snowing on and off from around 11:30am  with the odd heavier burst in-between  the light stuff, no further accumulations here but I expect higher ground around the region will be getting plastered.

A couple of light sleety rain showers here this morning. Otherwise dry, overcast and very dull

persistent sleet for a while now. Irony is, I've seen more sleet and snow from a southerly in the last 2 years than i have from the north or east! If the temp had been a degree lower we'd have had a fair covering.

Certainly no UHI effect at all today I don't think, we've had no proper snow accumulation in this semi rural part of Failsworth but Oldham town centre which is much more heavily built up than here and over 100m higher has been clobbered with heavy snow, a relatives child has been sent home from Oldham college as the snow is that bad. Elevation has made all the difference again.

Woke up this morning to a patchy thin cover of snow which has now all thawed.  Mainly drizzle at times today here, just a bit of sleet briefly earlier.   Disappointing event here to say the least!

Heaviest snow of the day now.

Everything looking a bit white now...

Just had a drive towards Oldham town centre and there is close to 10cm on the ground at around 200m asl, here lower down absolutely nothing at 93m, this time the proper thick snow line seems to be from 160m+, Saturday night it was around 130m+

That's why I'm not a fan of this cold zonality. It takes a proper cold zonal NW flow like Christmas day 2004 or December 2009 to give a decent lasting cover to places like here lower down in the town, but those set ups seem to be getting rarer. I hope we get an easterly at some point this Winter. That more often than not delivers for here. Overall the last few days have reminded me of the late 90's/00's when marginal events occurred in the Oldham area.

Estimate that we now have a level 14 inches.  Literally have to wade through the garden to get to the chicken coup. Snow went well over top of wifes wellies on the way to it...  Can only get within about a quarter of a mile from the house with the car that hasn't got snow tires on as back roads within our locality are impassable to normal traffic.  However our other car with snow tyres on  seems virtually unstoppable!

Interesting period of weather -  only a couple of inches fell last night but a further 6 inches fell through today, adding to the 6 inches already on the ground from the weekend snowfall. The precip just seems to constantly form to our south and constantly roll over us, a bit like a standing wave in a river.  Repeated moderate sometimes heavy bursts of snow all day with brief intervals of cessation - & its still snowing as I write. 

Good job its not windy or else I think that our house would be buried with snow drifting off the fields......

In the end, around 3 inches. A decent fall, though nothing to write home about.

Not much in the city centre though - UHI at play.

What sort of depths are there on the Peak District between Leek and Buxton? May take a ride up there in the next few days.