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Yep pretty decent weather for two days at least, not bad considering how showery it's been in the previous few days. Chilly start but the sun is gaining strength all the time. Green shoots sprouting forth on the garden hedges and hawthorns about to announce their arrival. Cherry blossoms already in on the act. Although spring could still be on hold for most of next week, it will god willing eventually explode into life, in hopefully my favourite of all months.... May!

Appears it was a genuine accident with the cargo ship suffering a power-cut prior to the impact. Don't know much about ships but it could have affected its steering perhaps? Mayday call was made which thankfully stopped more traffic passing over the bridge. Thoughts go out to the bridge workers caught up in it. Weather wise a good day after yesterday's drab affair. I would like more of these slow southerly lows that take an interminable age to reach our parts. We usually get away with the best of the days weather before it eventually crawls north. Trade-off in the summer if it's a thundery low...but as for now the south can keep the rain.

Decent start to the day here for a change... the wind has calmed down a bit and the sun showing its face more. First use of the bicycle for a short excursion to take advantage of the springlike conditions. Sadly the latest forecast is for tomorrows rain in the west to make more progress and sit over us according to the met....only yesterday the BBC were suggesting it would stay well out to the west. Easter looking dodgy... no surprise for being in March. Next year it will be almost a month later. Why does the date of Easter move around? - BBC Bitesize WWW.BBC.CO.UK In 2024, Easter is on Sunday 31 March. But in 2025, it will be on Sunday 20 April. Why is that?

Grey leaden skies for the foreseeable it appears to be looking at the forecast. Not raining here at the moment but it won't be long before it sets in again. The 'at least it will be mild' brigade looking strong today but at least it saves on the energy bills. Anything remotely cold and snowy looks to be at the bottom of the wishing-well at the moment. Roll on Spring...dreaming of a warm, sunny low 20's in mid May....nature springing into life.

Bit naff today, a non-event here, bits and pieces of sleet/wet snow but nothing to cause too much disruption to traffic - probably for the best in some ways. This was the best I could do on my deliveries.... up near Strinesdale/Moorside - even at 300m+ above sea level it was still a slushy looking scene. Anything below this was just going through an instant dying metamorphosis from solid to liquid on impact. Home now and easterly winds feel quite raw, lots of cold rain teasing us from the south.

Just pure cold wet rain here, not even sleet. Just heading out to work (driving job) so in some ways quite relieved due to our nations complete inability to get the network moving in anything near a cm in depth. GM Shield doesn't look to be working now it's pure rain.

I expect the GM Snow shield will put paid to anything seriously wintry in my area, which is a shame because I think everything will be conducive for quite a decent spell of snow but alas my part of Oldham is more towards Failsworth which shares the M postcode rather than 'Black Chew Head' (542 m) which will probably get buried...both areas share the OL postcode but may as well be in different countries never mind counties! Still not to far to travel to see a bit of wintry wonderland.

Another one in the 'winds feel stronger' than Storm Isha camp...the trees in the back certainly dancing & swaying to a faster tempo. Looking at Wind Map - Britain WWW.XCWEATHER.CO.UK Mobile Current Wind / Weather observations and forecast. Providing near real time weather maps of wind strength and direction across the UK the winds have a more westerly bearing than the south westerly of Storm Isha so for my parts a lot less sheltered.

A mini squall has just passed through giving the strongest gust of winds so far but nothing too extreme...a raging south westerly will always affect west facing coastal areas more than those sheltered inland. Looks particularly dicey for the red warning in North Scotland

Yep could be quite 'wild' later afternoon and overnight. Put some spare flagstones on top of bins because they are the only items that really go walkabout from a windy westerly. The back garden is quite sheltered...a 20mph breeze from the east and it's a different story...all hell breaks loose.

A sprinkling of the fairy dust here in early hours...just turned the ground white nothing substantial. Still sub zero, but the last vestiges of this cold spell playing out now.

BBC weather app says -3 by 5pm but then only a fall of 2° to -5 under clear skies by 7am tomorrow? They could be right but I'm expecting a lower minima than that. Definitely the coldest night of this week long artic blast to come. Not expecting much wintry precip to fall now before the Atlantic westerlies invade at the weekend

Yes a few flakes dancing in the air...a little bit of wintry precipitation spawning south of the main band to the north. The sweet spot at the moment appears to be Red Rose county - Lancaster.

Have a cm or so of lying snow here, but most of the precipitation appears to be to the north...good news for Lancashire and Pennine way villages. Happy with what we've received here at relatively low level...might scrape a few last wintry dregs overnight as the band pushes through to the south....then the big freeze part 2.

Light snow falling has left a white covering everywhere here. Radar looks interesting out west, still -2.