Benvironment
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We had a meagre sprinkling here in the Lomonds this morning.....but most of it has now gone. Nice and cool though, at 0.4C.
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9 minutes ago, Snowlover2 said:
2nd time here too. I’m looking forward to the end of next week. Must remember to buy all the bread and milk
Weirdly, it's snowing quite heavily but I can see the moon up there too.
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It says a lot that this meagre offering has got me as excited as it has
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20 minutes ago, Snowlover2 said:
Light snow falling in Kelty. Covering grass and pavements etc but not the roads.
Yep here too.....for only the 2nd time this winter.
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19 minutes ago, Northern Strath said:
Have returned home to a small covering and -1c, further showers inbound this evening by the looks
Yes @Benvironment it’s been a very strange winter so far for nature, found a tick on the dog on Boxing Day (think the latest i’ve found one before is October) and the local Ant hills are far more active than they should be at this time of year
It's all a bit bonkers eh? Yeah a pal of mine had to remove a tick when he was in Northern Ireland over Christmas. I've done quite a few forest walks in Fife over the last month or so and I've been checking myself after every single one. Thankfully nothing but I really wouldn't be surprised to find one tbh.
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Winter in Fife
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10 minutes ago, Ravelin said:
Decent day here I suppose
Well said. Those five words, more than any other I've seen, sum up winter so far.
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But then.......on reflection there have been plenty of winters that offered lots of good snowy outings in Oct/Nov/Dec but then fizzled out into Jan and Feb. 2012 springs to mind when all the upland snow disappeared and come 1st March NONE of the ski centres were open. Then we got that weird record breaking heat in March, and just a week later almost 3ft of northerly snow fell on the Cairngorms. The crazy lottery that is our weather
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1 hour ago, Aleman said:
Note I did not say highlands were cold on Weatherbell or in my expectations, I was just not expecting them to show as warm, even if the southern half of Scotland was slightly. Thanks for the input, though. Temperatures on their own are a long way from the whole story so coal face reports are always of interest.
No worries, point taken Just getting frustrated with the winter as it's unfolded thus far The winter hillwalking / snowshoeing season is the absolute highlight of the year for me and in 15 years I can't remember a worse start up here.
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18 minutes ago, Aleman said:
That one seems to miss out the cold that west Texas and Scottish highlands had.
It's certainly been cold at times and there was a good snowy event mid month for much of upland Perthshire and southern highlands but compared to 'normal' Decembers (whatever those are these days) it's been noticeably milder than usual in the highlands I'd say. Fewer hard frosts. Thankfully there's not been any of those crazy 17C temps you get in some Decembers but even so, Moray and northwest highlands had night time temperatures in double figures between Christmas and New Year. I've certainly noticed it during my attempts to get snowy hillwalks this season, there's just been drizzle up north instead of snizzle, and on the few occasions I went up to Braemar in December it's been quite dispiriting to have it feeling more like October, with brown hills and swollen rivers
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9C and bright sunshine outside, with fresh green grass pushing through. If I didn't know better I'd say it was a lovely spring day in Fife
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2 hours ago, Hairy Celt said:
Forecast for >10C at some point in the next 24 hours!
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A fine end to the day up here. Currently 2.8C and oddly calm after yesterday's shenanigans.
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4 minutes ago, c00ps said:
It holds a special place for me too. My parents moved here in 2004. I drove up to see them Christmas Eve that year from London. It started snowing just as I was coming into town (whilst listening to ‘I’m driving home for christmas’) and the snow carried on into Christmas Day. A true white Christmas
Lovely place
Was that the year when it was very windy too? Or maybe that was the year before, I can't remember. But I do remember driving back to Edinburgh from Killearn (first visit in more than 20 years!) on Christmas Eve in one of those years and there being snow
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13 hours ago, c00ps said:
Snowing nicely in killearn (brothers house)
Aww, I spent the first four years of my life there. Lovely wee place
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I was gonna head up the hill first thing but it's 3C and the snow is therefore that horrid slippy stuff.....but with the added interest of a layer of ice beneath. Horrid to walk on so I'm content to gawp out the window. Car's still covered in glaze despite the thaw.
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It's been a peculiar and memorable day of weather
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Absolutely bucketing down with snow....on top of almost 1cm of ice.
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1 minute ago, MattTarrant said:
That's why people complaining about an amber warning will likely look silly...
Genuinely unsettling. I'm a little worried now tbh, if it accumulates to any thickness.
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There's a weird clicking noise outside as the rain hits. Doesn't sound like the usual hail or sleet.....and there is definitely ice on every surface. Alarming how quickly it has appeared. Folk will definitely get caught out in this.
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Ah. There is ice on everything outside!
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12 minutes ago, 101_North said:
Traditional wet rain starting here now too!
Likewise.
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18 minutes ago, Blitzen said:
Hmm.........At the moment I'm not so sure about this 'event'. Looking at the radar, the system doesn't appear to be making sufficient inroads to the eastern side of the country. I don't like the look of that typical north/south split to the west which is developing (as far as Fife is concerned) either.
Still, early days though.
Ha ha! Fife does seem to drive a wedge sometimes doesn't it?
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0.9C and a -6C windchill. Gawd it's cold outside!
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Scotland/Alba Weather Discussion 2019
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Down to -2.1C up here, which already makes it the coldest day of the winter so far for us.