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  1. Amazing day here! Just an hour after Carol's prediction of light rain showers, snow began to fall. It was fairly heavy in Cupar, lying easily on wet ground, but with a better base of black ice here we managed 7 cms of snow!! Brilliant, and the met still refuses to acknowledge this. Yet again, when a snow event affects the southeast, everywhere else is ignored, until during or after snow has fallen. Many people around here were taken back, though my snow rampings meant my family were less surprised it came off than me! Still falling moderately now, and the met office icons show snow all through the night here (though I'm highly sceptical of their forecasts here!). Well done to all those who got snow and I'll post my pictures later on.

    Keep on lamping, the snowfall has only just begun!!

    LS

    Have you really got 7cm of snow in Freuchie????

  2. Snow and snow pellets on and off since before 0800h; just occasional light snow flurries now. Heaviest snow with big flakes was at 1015hr.

    The snowline is around 80m asl locally. Above this level the snow depth increases rapidly; it is 3'' deep at 200m, 1km north of here.

    Meanwhile, there is nno snow lying less than 2 miles away in places like Leven, Methil and Buckhaven.

    At my station at 1500hr, 100% cover, 4cm deep on snowboard, which is placed on grass close to my rain gauge.

  3. I got the following quote from the Meteogroup UK website.

    http://www.meteogroup.co.uk/uk/home/weather/weather_news/news/archive/2009/december/ch/9b05bd6779/article/sledging_your_bets.html

    ''Another potentially significant area of snow may well affect Scotland during Saturday and this could well push southwards across much of the UK during Saturday night, perhaps even including the quite unusual occurrence of thunder and lightning during the heaviest of the snowfall.''

  4. Just seen Heather on the beeb there. Bit of a curious forecast. Despite the easterly of the next 24-36 hours, most of the "wintry showers" (yes we're back to that...) are forecast for NE Scotland. Despite the synoptics pointing to the kind of conditions that usually sees them hitting SE/central Scotland and through the central belt corridor.

    Then the weekend forecast saying snow moving south and "weakening" and mostly on high ground.

    Could all be wrong of course but seemed like a rather watered down (although possibly more realistic !) view of whats going to happen up here in the next few days.

    There is one, maybe two troughs meant to push SW in the next 24 hours. I think one should pass through Fife before dawn. I expect a mixture of sleet, small hail, snow pellets, snow and large hail.

    There could be snow flurries Thurs night into Friday. There ought to be at least a 1-2cm covering by Friday morning?

  5. Thats ridiculus. Once a northerly wind sets in parts of scotland will allways get most of the snow. Obviously the highlands and the west or east depending on it being NW/NE. Probably not much snow for southern scotland though.

    I agree with that. I hope the low moves south and develops a cyclonic easterly by Mon/Tue (GFS 18z yesterday showed some great charts) and that will bring heavy snow showers to the east of Scotland.

  6. Well, I've been a member on 'theweatheroutlook' for about a year. Looking foward to THursday/Friday, probably my best chance of a covering of snow (being well inland and quite high up). I just wish the wind direction was more easterly and stronger too....eastern England will get the worst again. Once the wind veers to the north/north-west at the weekend, I don't expect much snow. I hope the cold can hand on for the foreseeble future and make winter 09-10 a modern classic.

    Jan 1984 is my favourite so far. I was only 9, but the snow must have been about 45cms deep on Sunday morning (date?).

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