Usually, yes.

Fortunately or unfortunately, a couple of times in 2013 - specifically one of the March snowfalls - was from an easterly (IIRC it was more an ENE'ly) so it now gives me a sense of hope in what will 9 times out of 10 be a letdown.

I remember the fabled Jan 1987 well, too. Brass monkeys, but almost bone dry (a 10 min flurry was all we had to show for it)

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Spot on, both of you. Even here in the NE, an E'ly is usually rubbish. We need a higher block and a NE'ly element.

It makes it hard going reading through model analysis since it is almost always about a chase for synoptics which are only good for the SE.

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The cold air won't be around until mid to late afternoon. It was always supposed to get warmer through the morning as the milder uppers pass through.

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9 times out of 10 we get cloudy, damp crap with temperatures of about 4C from a winter easterly. Only on the odd occasion where the uppers are exceptional such as -12C or lower do we seem to get snow or even frost. Even in 2010 things became too mild for a time when the wind turned easterly.

A northerly or any wind north of NE though and you are talking for around here The beat snowfall I have seen (I am 21) was in March 2006 from a week long northerly which brought around 18 inches of level snow here 

They certainly are around here.  With daytime maxes of +1.5c and minima of +1.2c with a handful of tiny snowflakes once a day just to add the ignomy of having to declare it a snow day ..... 

I thought the UN had banned them?   Cruel and unusual punishment weather .....

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Problem is we have several things working against us:

- Sitting next to (in?) a giant warm ocean. Being an Island is bad enough, but being surrounded by lumps of water to the west and north does us no favours. Imagine if we had land mass to our north (or the polar ice caps extended far enough)!
- Our topography, there's a lot of snow shadow effects
- Relatively small land mass, hard to maintain our own cold pools.

If you want the sustained cold (or heat for that matter) then get far away from the above. It does seem a cruel irony that being an island nation that our cold synoptics end up being dry too... perhaps it's time to move to Iceland.

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Would there be any comeback on whoever advised the cancellation of hundreds of flights, if no snowfall occurs or accummulates on the ground?

Just got back from Exeter city - was raining when I left, but came back to spits of drizzle and the temperature had fallen to 2.5c. Shame the precipitation got lighter as the temperature got more favourable for sleet and snow.

I can never understand why the rain is turning to snow (readily) in the south and south east over lower levels - yet it's been milder there than in the SW!? yet the SW still struggles and get's plain old cold rain?!

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Today has almost been like a New Years Day Deja vu. Well, for the South West it's been like that anyway.

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What's really pee'd me off is that nobody's given me a smiley for my Jaywick joke in the Snow Reports thread.

Tough audience

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I'll have a butcher's now! ;)

 

Aside from that, as the first reports of heavy snow from the South start to come in, I have ordered a blanket ban on all TV and radio in the house. We are on media lockdown.

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(PS - it's not really that funny/good really)

 

Oh aye, you can betcha life it'll be headline news cos it's the South East. You could have the NE/NW/Yorks/Wales/Jockland under 20cm of snow and it'd be a brief footnote on the news after a report about a duck farmer falling in his pond in Aylesbury or something.

 

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Another complete pile of shite of a forecasts for here temps aren't even that cold at 3.7c. 😂😂😂

Yeh it's hilarious lol 😂😂😂

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After today's fiasco and now the non event no doubt for IMBY tonight, I think the idea of chasing snow for three months of the year is a wasted pastime so it's my now a case of roll on summer and Greenland highs. 😎

No snow here . Saw a bit in Halifax today and some hills around there are white .
But here too warm when the precipitation fell and now the winds are far too northerly.

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Too much rain here today and no snow seen by me! Very frustrating with temps hovering at 3c and odd hail and rain shower. Grrrr
Martin

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The wife says I'm well suited to a moaning thread, whatever does she mean.

No snow here. It's 1.8c and only light cloud with a veiled moon. Not really expecting any though. 

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4-8 degrees was forecast, so they were correct, as to whether this is deemed to be a cold spell, that another matter!  

Feck it. Feck it with knobs on.

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You know, it's totally out of character, but I've found myself smiling at the snow reports from darn sarf - and even being pleased for them. I think it's age; I'm getting old & senile.

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Who are you? And what have you done with Saint Snow?

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ha quite agree, you know this blocking and HP domination is gonna sod off come summertime. 

Today was a complete crapshoot, we briefly got down to 3C in the rain and it was thoroughly miserable. 

Northwest winds should be our best chance of wind direction. But unfortunatley yet again nothing. We did get 5 mins of graupal snow before. Under the floodlight. My brother getting his daughter our of bed only for tbe shower to end. And that... ladies and gents... is our snow for the winter 2016/17.

Spent a week building up to this... and nothing.

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