Very dry air in the blue area; as the showers push into this zone during the evening I think its highly likely they will turn to snow.

Even on the south coast it is chilly. Driving home after the football in Southampton and there was quite a lot of sleet mixed in with the rain in the heavier showery bursts.

Got to say that Euro has handled the trough better than WRF. WRF NMM has the trough too far south and west than it currently is.

We have wet snow falling here on Saddleworth at 200m. I can see it turning white above about 300-350metres! Definitely glad I moved to the hills. 

Hills above 350m turning white. Snow looking to be falling lower than this around the bottom of the Snake.

Sky is turning more and more to a snowy colour.

Snow line is dropping more and more. As I look up you can see all the snow flakes high up in the sky. No wind at all now. 

This is just over 350 m in Saddleworth.

Snow this evening/ overnight falling over the Pennines in early April.. Over an area with an officially recognised subarctic climate. 😏 Not at all surprising or unusual I would have thought quantum.

I didn't say it was all that unusual; I make these kind of threads during the winter months too.

Some quite rapid conversion of rain to snow atm in the NW and over Ireland generally. 

its not a dig at the thread quant.. Chill 😋 I was just commenting on the post with the blue circle around the Pennines 😊 

I'm not always convinced by Q's overenthusiasm but it's been a pretty good call today. Seen many posts on my FB page from people seeing the white stuff

Hopefully I'm getting better at this; I think its about experience! 

With the sun gone down, and the boundary layer cooled I have two additional official snow reports to add. Given all the unofficial reports of snow in the NW I'm suprised I had to wait this long.

official snow reports in:

Sennybridge (Wales), 307m

Spadedam (NW england), 285m

Tulloch Bridge (W Scotland), 237m 

Warcop (NW England), 227m

Aberporth (Wales), 133m

Gurteen (Ireland), 75m

Kerry airport (Ireland), 34m

Shannon Airport (Ireland), 6m

They are somewhat less impressive being both above 200m though. 

Anyway I think this is going to be the most we are going to get. 8 official metoffice sites recorded snow today, 4 of them were below 200m. Shannon at essentially sea level is the most impressive; but like the other Ireland reports all happened before sunrise.

I'm currently in Falmouth, Cornwall & at 11:50 yesterday we had rain that turned to sleet then snow for about 2 mins back to rain then followed by hail then to blue skies with sun for the rest of the day. Pretty special weather for down here.

4 official snow reports so far today:

Spadedam (NW england), 285m

Warcop (NW England), 227m

Eskdalemuir (NW England), 200m

Kerry airport (Ireland), 34m

Not as impressive as the 8 official reports yesterday but still noteworthy.

The winner in all of this is southern Ireland; Kerry had snow on both days. While snow is not generally unusual in April I suspect it is for a part of the isles that finds snow hard to come by even in midwinter.

Quite a few instances of snow reported from around Ireland.
A friend of mine even reported sea level snow at Bray on the East coast.
No joy for me though in Dublin and no major events.
I think you made the right call for some snowfall all the same, Q.
Well done.

Something interesting is stiring for Friday. This is the ARPEGE:

Plunge of deep cold air; note the 500mb temperatures. So Friday is likely to be another day of heavy showers and convection with hail and thunder.

It is far more marginal than the event on Saturday though, I suspect northern scotland may see the showers turn wintry; but we will have to watch this space to see if it will be cold enough for snow further south. It will be a case of getting the alignment exactly right.