Triffic 

"Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Buxton anymore"

Im hopefully heading into wales and walking Moel Fammau later, thats been high enough for constant snow since Saturday night, being topped up by todays snow too...  Will be interesting to see what totals they have.

Not here it hasn't been.

This has been a complete non-event here in terms of any snowfall thanks to the influence of the North Sea and the temperatures have never been more than around a couple of degrees below freezing here at any time which for a cold spell in the heart of winter is very poor indeed.😡

I think it's been pretty localised, with substantial variations even around this region. You've been in a prime location, especially the last 24 hours - and I'm genuinely happy for you, as you've missed out a number of times.

We've done OK but, to illustrate how locally sporadic the snow has been, I travel just literally a couple of miles SW of my house and the snow is markedly deeper (2-3 inches as opposed to around 2cm here, now), and that runs all the way to Widnes. 

For MBY, it falls a long way behind 09/10/13. But it's the best/snowiest spell since 2013.

PS - I'd love a report back from Moel Famau  😉

Currently at 20cm level snow, with another 7 cm added today, temps have not been too low, averaging -5C , but Thursday /Friday might set some new records in some areas . It becomes a little troublesome at -15 and below.

Most snow we have had here for the last 6 years since I moved here.

Hasn't been remakable here either.

We had three very good days from Thursday to Saturday but since Sunday it has been dire. Almost no sunshine, temperature barely below freezing and a vile mix off the North Sea yesterday which turned the snow to an ugly, sludgy mess.

Today there looked to be a mass of snow working down from the North but it inexplicably fizzled out into almost nothing. The same lack of rationale was apparant when the sky cleared during the afternoon everywhere expect where the sun was situated which remained stuck under a persistent lump of grey muck.

There was also a horrible wind today which, as well as being thoroughly unpleasant, is preventing the temperature falling. So tedious. Last January's cold spell was much better and if there isn't going to be any more proper snow or decent cold then I'd rather see the back of it.

https://x.com/ABZ_Airport/status/1876637394608296280 

Looking at the cold spell, the deepest longest lasting snow has been in the northern half of Scotland, higher parts of Wales, The Lakes, The Borders, Cumbria, Northumberland, Yorkshire, Lancashire

Memorable in these areas but a damp squib in others 🙄

Here in NW Edinburgh, we actually have a better chance of getting a covering of snow with a cold zonality setup than we do with this current pattern and that is even with the actual wind direction coming from the normally mild SW due to the source of such an air mass being over Greenland.

The coverings of snow which we get with that are always very brief as are the cold snaps themselves, but at least we actually get those coverings of snow at those times and that has not even been the case under this current pattern which the North Sea influence has completely ruined for us yet again.😡

There are quite a few wintry showers around and a strong cold wind currently, and while many of the showers are missing here they are still significantly impacting areas in Aberdeenshire and beyond.

After we then got on the A66 through the Lakes, that was very picturesque. My missus took a few good photos of the fells coverned with snow. The snow then more or less vanished around Bassenthwaite and then returned after Cockermouth, which was surprising. Quite a bit of coastal Cumbria has seen snow as well.

It's quite interesting how it can vary so much over small distances...

Based on the forecast we will have continuous snow cover for a week (from Sunday last week to Saturday this week), with temperatures possibly falling to -9C on Thursday morning (as per the BBC).

It's really good.

I was initially annoyed that the snow turned to rain on Sunday , but then to get such a top up Sunday night, and surprise snow yesterday, and with deep snow frozen solid it is turning into a really memorable spell. 

Children's school is opening late again today as yesterday was chaos and Monday it was closed.   Certainly quite a lot of disruption. 

The walk up Moel Fammau was fab.   Arriving into Mold we had a sudden heavy shower, which made me concerned we wouldnt even get there, its quite easy to get stranded around Moel Fammau.  The roads were quickly turning white.  But by the time we were in loggerheads it was clear and main roads well treated.  The road up to the lower carpark interestingly was wet, with seemingly alot of thaw coming off the fields, despite being 0*c.  No sign of a freeze.

The lower car park had approx 15cm of snow lying,  The peak had erratically say 30/40cm  But the drifts were 1-1.5m .  

If the weather holds, i might try Horseshoe pass for sledging on Saturday as it was excellent condition and accessible.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/Nr76H58DLr5RyDMA7 

It certainly delivered a decent amount even relatively low down. I reckon 8 or 9cm, which isn't to be sniffed at compared to recent years. The forecast thaw on Sunday took some of the shine off it, but then it became cold again very quickly, and our estate is treacherous. We haven't left the house since Saturday, and although that snow shower that Tim A mentioned above put a sheen on the roads I;m going to have to go out in the car because we're running short of things we didn't expect to be worrying about bearing in mind it was all supposed to melt away and certainly nothing exceptional forecast in terms of temperatures.

I do wish it would go away now though. It's neither deep enough to be picturesque, but it is icy enough to make estate roads very dangerous. However it just looks like we've a relatively exceptional period of night time cold to come until the weekend.

Sounds great. I love Loggerheads - we go for a big walk there from time to time (down by the river, there's masses and masses of wild garlic in spring. I picked a bagful last year and made some delicious recipes.

Have fun with the Horseshoe if you get there! Wonder if the ridiculously incongruous 'Ponderosa' would be open???

Still between 14-18cm lying snow, the temp dropped to -3.0c mid morning, and is still -1c.  

Amazing what that altitude difference has done on this occasion. 

In 2010 we shared in the heavy snow and temperatures. Clearly you've received much more than us, though the temperature probably isn't much different. Wish it would thaw a bit to be honest. It's like lockdown here and yet you can see green on some grass surfaces. Just rock hard compacted ice on the estate essentially trapping us.