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Oh by the way, I don't know anything about the SEPA issue - but they sent me a Flood Alert text at 9am. So perhaps their systems are now available again?

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90 - 100% snow chances showing up on the GEFS for me now.

These were much lower during the last Snow "event".

And of course you can see why when you look at the T850.

As for here - right now.

Rain. I don't think it's stopped for 2 weeks at this point (it feels like years).

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3 minutes ago, Hairy Celt said:

Email is probably best. Why?

It wouldn't be "saying" them to your mother, it would be typing/writing them, which is different.....

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4.3C

Air Pressure: Boring

But then, there is no Met Warning for me, until Saturday.

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42 minutes ago, Puffy MacCloud said:

So I'm guessing that BFTE stands for dog biscuits From The Express?

(pretty sure the netweather rude word replacing algorithm is going to make a nonsense of this)

Was it a female dog or mens dangly bits? 

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38 minutes ago, shuggee said:

Has the Daily Express headlined the BFTE - actually getting it right for the first time amongst three years of garbage? I bet @Jo Farrowhas been keeping score?

I fully expect them to start saying stuff like Arctic temperatures and Snow set to last until Easter, around about this point?

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Whilst the temperature is apparently dropping in other parts of Scotland....

The Borders continues to climb. 4C now....

Will be able to wear shorts before long (if you don't mind your legs being soaking wet)

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17 minutes ago, Sceptical said:

Sean Batty was banging on about Beast from the East. Royal Deeside seeing the heaviest falls,  2 meter drifts on the higher routes. Sounded pretty apocalyptic

I would say Imagine the Daily Express headlines! But then I thought - oh wait, they don't need actual facts to backup the (weather) headlines they write.....

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1 minute ago, Mr Frost said:

Hopefully we are back to normality for Winter 2021/22

And then, it will be 12C and dry....

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1 minute ago, Puffy MacCloud said:

The BBC app is showing temps at 4 to 6deg.C over the same timeframe, which is patent nonsense.

Over the last 7 days, the BBC forecasts have taught some of us.... not to pay any attention to them. Especially the video forecasts - according to the video forecasts, the Borders should have had lots of heavy snow - pretty much everyday.

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3C

Apart from some still frozen ground in the garden, all the snow has gone.

I'm not going to get excited about the warnings for my area until we get closer, because I won't be terribly surprised if I wake up to torrential rain and 16C temperatures tomorrow the way things are going....

Anyway here is yesterdays timelapse.....

 

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There are cms of slush on all the pavements. Not white, pavement coloured. it's horrible stuff to walk through and it's very very slippy.

I'm actually quite annoyed that it's basically been snowing for like 3 days here, and hen those other days when it was snowing too. If they had all actually been snow, rather than this stuff - we would have multiple feet of snow by now.

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As I suspected would happen -

by telling you guys that it was snowing and settling.....

Temperature 0.6C

Snow on the ground rapidly vanishing, and nothing falling out of the sky.

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It's been snowing all day here, but while heavy - it was far too wet and didn't do much.

Then the temperature dropped in the last hour or so

 

and snow started to settle in various places (but not the roads yet)

Temperature is fluctuating between 0.1 and 0.2C at the moment.

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4.3C (already been up at 4.9C). Yuck.

Definitely no snow!

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Damp, cool and fog.

No sign of snow here.

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2 minutes ago, 101_North said:

I'll have this one please 

It'll be rain, by the time it arrives.... 

Me pessimistic? How dare... yeah OK then, maybe a bit.

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45 minutes ago, 101_North said:

Down to 0.9c here now. Looking ahead I see GFS is off on one for Monday, Tuesday and even into Wednesday  

Edit: Edinburgh Airport showing 3c! Maybe my garden sensor is borked?

I'm hovering between 1.3 and 1.4, so I suspect your sensor is correct. Perhaps the Airport sensor is being affected by concrete/tarmac?

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7 minutes ago, edo said:

Been v busy last 24 hrs just clicked Mt and 30 pages in 24 hrs... Must be some teasing charts that work for the SE

 

On the dog walk in shorts... Bit of a mistake no idea of temp but feels v chilly and despite thin layer of cloud the remaining snow crispy again. 

Shorts? In Scotland? Has there been some point between 24th December and now where the temperature has been warm enough for shorts, that I have perhaps slept through? ❄❄

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1 minute ago, MAXcrazystorm said:

but will quickly turn to

Oh no! I don't think screen wash copes terribly well with solids. People better be careful on the roads! (Also I would advise against people standing with their mouth open and tongue out.....)

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1 minute ago, 101_North said:

1.3c here. Not sure why I think that makes a difference though as it lashed with rain the other day at 0.9c

Yeah... we've had rain at 0 before, and snow at 2.5C. I'm just being hopeful (I know it's a fool's errand, but I can't help it)

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Well, having risen to 2.4C for no obvious reason, we've now dropped back down to 1.4C, so we will see.... 

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2 minutes ago, 101_North said:

Still dropping slowly. 1.9c now. 

Up to 2.4C now. This is probably why the warning area stops before me.

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9 minutes ago, JamesM said:

I am sure it will rain but the warning area seems to have a sticky out bit to specifically cover my house! 
 

XC Weather bullish as ever

Today has been grey with a bit of drizzle. Felt mild.

 

Whereas the warning area specifically avoids me, AGAIN.

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46 minutes ago, 101_North said:

OK so the GFS 12z have the temp a little higher at 2c by midnight - garden says 2.1c now so still dropping. Sadly accompanied by some awful drizzly pish! 

Ours was dropping, but has gone up again by nearly a degree in the last hour.