snow1975

Snow starting to settle on grass, soil, cars and greenhouse roof...concrete far too wet. Seems to be convective with snow on and off, quite heavy at times and accompanied by snow pellets. The wet-bulb is sitting at 0.0C already. 0.4/0.0/-1C

Turned to snow here this morning but not settling on the ground, not even the grass at this stage because its not heavy or persistent enough.

More snow/snowpellets

Another squally hail shower

3cm of snow at 09hr. Still covered but pavements/roads now bare. Min air temp -1.2C. Heavy Large hail now (8mm size)! What a noise that made. Went to Kirkcaldy after 9am. A good inch lying on the outskirts. I think the showers have been heaviest near the Forth this morning.

Light snow flurries this afternoon. Looks like heavier showers on the Lothian side of the Forth, and heading west to Edinburgh. 1.3C/-4C

I didn't see one gritter/snowplough today. It's always easy in hindsight. Going back to yesterday, the air was really quite cold and dry. The dewpoint T was -5C, rh 60% and a SE wind at 09hr/12th. With the SE wind backing S to SSW ahead of the approaching Atlantic front, further cold and dry air would mix with the precip.

Snow started here at 0630h when I left for work. Continuous snow until 1415hr. Proper dry snow fell this morning with temp below zero. Min -1.0c. Got home from work around 2pm. Total depth at 14hr, 6.5cm. Snow then turned to transparent ice pellets until 1530hr. Temp 0.5C, wet 0.0C so warm layer aloft. Ice pellets turned to rain around 4pm. Temp rising to 1.5c. I think a woman has been killed in a road accident up the Cupar road, A916 near Ceres/Craigrothie. It doesn't help when the Met Office forecast was so poor, not even a yellow warning in Fife. In hindsight, ought to have been a yellow, maybe amber warning because most of the snow fell with temps below zero. I should add 1-2inch of snow fell in the at sea-level in the coastal towns of Leven and Buckhaven.

Yes, I think you are right, sub -12C. These are rare beasts!

its raining here. Bring back the Canadian westerly.

The snow showers have cleared again. A shower around 1530hr gave blizzard-like conditions and it left a thin covering, 0.5cm deep. Min air temp 0.3C. The high ground all across NE Fife is covered.

A prolonged, heavy snow shower and starting to settle on grass.

Glad the snow is back. We had a heavy snow shower just before 09hr which left a very thin cover on the ground-now melted.

Here's a few pics from the last week.

I wis trying to load photos as well. cheers

Fog then snow eased at 6pm now light sleet. 8cm of fresh snow today.

Not sure...could be down to southerly wind. EMbra is sheltered from the south....a lack of precip due south allowed the air to heat up more.....psuedo fohn effect?

Back in after a walk up into my local hills...a good 10 inches up there. Moderate snow with fog....visibility 250m. Now 6cm of fresh snow on top of 10cm old snow. Max 0.9C. Current temp 0.1C/wet 0.0c/dewT-0C

It's starting to get quite heavy here with big fluffy flakes. Not lying on wet concrete yet!

The concrete is wet because the snow is falling with air temperatures above zero. For comparison, on the 10th March 2006, remember the snowy breakdown from the west. It was snowing at -2C on that day. Glasgow clubbers got stranded and had to stay the night in the nightclub.

I noticed that as well. I can't understand these amber warnings from the Met. Surely NE Fife deserves an amber warning with so much snow already on the ground and its snowing today. I've got 10cm at 130m. Just 1km north of here, there's 19cm level snow at 180masl with drifts in excess of 2 feet. 1km south of here and its bare green/brown at 30masl.

Surprised to see the snow so early this morning. It was settling on all surfaces, not even a cm at 09hr. Total depth at 09hr, 10cm. Moderate snow until 10hr, then slight snow with snow pellets, moderate again. The snow is melting on landing now.

The southerly winds ought to bring some of the lower (subzero) dewpoints up fae England ahead of the precip. Plus, the landscape is blootered in snaw to the south of us which will help keep surface air near zero. My concern will be does the precipitation band break up to the north of high ground and float over the top of us?

Total snow depth at 09hr, 9.5cm. Min temp -0.4C.

Heavy snow shower here.....heaviest of the week....all bare ground really white now.