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2 hours ago, Mr Frost said:
3. Later you stay up/earlier wake up - more chance you have of seeing falling/lying snowfall (before it turns to sleet/rain) - higher ground favoured of course as per current Met Office warnings.
Hmm.....pondering whether to stay up for a headtorch walk or risk getting up super early to do the same. Might have to do the former, as walking through sopping wet snow as it turns to rain is the absolute pits!
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2cm here.....and still no air frost this season. Headed straight out the door before even having breakfast though
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2 minutes ago, mistyqueen said:
Morning all! Do I detect excitement mounting? Are we all getting a wee bit wound up at the thought of some white stuff falling from the sky? Yesterday's max temp here was 13c, lowest overnight was 2.3c. Now it's 5.2c and has just started raining. I doubt very much that it'll turn to anything white as I'm too near the sea and only about 50 metres ASL. Ach well, c'est la vie! Hope you guys all get a nice white covering tomorrow and the chance to make some snowmen!
I'm envious of the stunning scenes you'll have if & when the cloud lifts. Beautiful part of the world
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1 minute ago, Polar Side said:
Hi folks, hopefully this winter can be more like winter compared to the last couple.
Great pics above Ben
Here is a couple of mine from 2010.
Aww, the fact that they're printed photos gives them an extra 'this is how it used to be, folks' quality
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1 hour ago, mardatha said:It's hard to believe that was 10 years ago, but great to have lived through it, that was a real winter!
<sighs>
Oh any chance to reminisce! Dec 2010 feels like a dream in comparison to most recent winters. I still can't really believe it happened - we had snow on the ground here for 48 consecutive days! 1st December looked something like this....
...which was lovely for me but my landlord wasn't so happy. His barn collapsed under the weight, as did many other barns in Fife that month:
I was incredibly fortunate to have started working from home a few months earlier so didn't need to commute, which is just as well because we couldn't get off the hill for two weeks. I remember chatting to the postman a few days before the snow was forecast to arrive, and us asking what happens if we can't get mail (i.e. do we need to head down to the depot) and he said 'ach don't worry, the snow only ever keeps us off deliveries for a day or two.'. Ha! Didn't see him for three weeks!!! When he finally returned, before we could even say hello he just shouted "yeah I know, me and my big mouth!!"
And happily, working from home (with a very understanding boss) meant I could be out pretty much every morning, snowshoeing from the door! With all the heather and crags on East Lomond, even after heavy falls there's always SOMETHING poking through, but I've never seen it looking like it did, not before or since:
When we've had those big easterly falls in 2013 and 2018, it always comes on a strong wind so you don't get uniform cover on the hills. This was so different. And it was SUNNY too! The Lomond Hills...and Fife more widely.....generally looked awesome
...with plenty of snowshoe excursions into the evenings too, with a headtorch making all that hoar frost sparkle.
The feral farm cat, who NEVER came near us before Dec 2010, appeared at the door during the height of the freeze and effectively moved in for six months
And then, when we FINALLY got off the hill on 21st December and nipped into Perth to stock up, we were gobsmacked when we saw the Tay. Unbelievable.
Gawd it was an amazing month. Will we ever see the like again in these parts?
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50 minutes ago, Quinach said:
Bright day after another frosty night, max of 5.3c with light winds. Glittering with frost outside just now (currently -1.1c) but looks like a thaw incoming from the west.
It's a real mix. Hovering at over 7C here and still no air frost this season
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13.4C here earlier this evening, which makes it the mildest November day since I started recording data in 2010
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7 hours ago, Kirkcaldy Weather said:
I took a few pics early in the evening
No doubt another night of it tonight!? I can understand its required for safety measures etc but it's the frequency and intensity of it that's iffy for me, including whatever is being pumped into the atmosphere of course
The glow it casts is bonkers, especially when there's low cloud. We're ten miles away here but on the worst days, even here, it sounds like there's an idling tractor behind the house. Must be an endless nightmare for folk in Cowdenbeath, Crossgates and Lochgelly etc.
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25 minutes ago, Hawesy said:
Morning all,
Dull and grey, still drizzling, 12c.
63mm rainfall recorded at Leuchars, October average 77mm.
I've always taken my rain gauge readings with a pinch of salt but that's actually reassuring. I've recorded 60mm here since yesterday morning.
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2 hours ago, Mr Frost said:
Seasonal/Autumnal sums up the charts above!
Closer look at the ECM 120 charts...
That would be quite something - hard to believe for early October and will probably have vanished on the next run!
Ooo it'd be nice! It brings to mind two decent walks in snow during early falls but there were quite some time ago now. Second week in October back in 2011 and having a lovely blizzard below Stob Binnein:
And then even better....in 2007 I think.....two inches of snow on Conival and Ben More Assynt towards the end of September:
Didn't last long though, that September one. It had all melted by lunch time. Made it memorable though
My memories of the first few years in Fife from 2010 onwards are that the Cairngorms got their first decent lying snow in October every year, but in recent years it's seemed harder to come by? Might just be my rubbish old brain failing me though!
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1 hour ago, edo said:
it can't be worse than last year...
Oh lord, I remember saying that at the start of last winter
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2 hours ago, Mr Frost said:
turning colder from the northwest later in the week with showers increasingly falling as snow across the Munros,
Super! Just in time for my days off
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Rancid. Rancid rancid rancid rancid rancid rancid rancid rancid rancid rancid rancid rancid!!!!!!! The most rancid day in a veeeeery long time.
30mm on the rain gauge here so far. I feel for all you westies having to put up with this kind of thing for the 90% of the year when the lows spin everything in YOUR direction
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6 minutes ago, Kirkcaldy Weather said:
A bit hard to judge with the scale but that looks like some areas of 60+ mm over the next 36hours and add some more on for +72 hours
Ugh, my roof leak still hasn’t been properly sorted since the August storm. Really not looking forward to this
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2 hours ago, Norrance said:
Pretty much the same temperature today as in the last couple of days. However is mostly cloudy and that NNE wind has a real edge to it now. 11C.
Peaked at 12C here, and coupled with the lengthening shadows it does make it feel more seasonal. It was about time we got some single digit nights up here as the persistence of mild nights was pushing the month to be the mildest of the ten Septembers I've had here in the Lomonds. But thankfully the run of cooler days is bringing it back down to something closer to average. Same happened last month with August. It was set to be the mildest I'd recorded but then the final week brought it down a tad.
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On 22/09/2020 at 17:57, Hawesy said:Evening all,
Cloudy and breezy here now but enjoyed a great weekend. Saturday I was at @Benvironment neck of the woods enjoying a loop around the Lomonds. Sunday it was Ben Vorlich and Stuc a’ Chroin. Sun shone both days!
You can do a lot worse! I like your weekend routine of smaller hills one day and bigger hills on the next, a great way to spend the weekend when the weather is favourable. I wasn't out & about on the Saturday but Sunday morning headed up Ben Vrackie from Killiecrankie. Gawd it was glorious!
4C at the start so lovely and fresh and cold, with no midges, no ticks.....and only one ked! The same sadly couldn't be said for the previous Friday on Fraochaidh when I was picking keds out my hair at the rate of one a minute for 9hrs. Horrid! Couldn't detract from an otherwise fine walk though:
That feels like an age ago now, though, given how cold it's gone by comparison. I went up Sron Garbh from Kinlochleven yesterday and it was a pretty cold all day, especially on the tops in the morning. So nice to see frost on the ground during the drive north, with much of the stretch between Lix Toll and Rannoch tinged with white And I do get a geeky kick out of seeing the frost warning light come on
Enjoying the gradual browning of the landscape, but a nice white dusting would be just the ticket right about now! But regardless, September is a glorious month for hillwalking in Scotland. Lots of stags roaring yesterday too!
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20 minutes ago, Norrance said:
Brilliant. I believe the area with the highest number of strikes in Scotland that night was around Scotlandwell so pretty close to you.
Ah that’s interesting. We only had a handful where the bang came within a second or two but there plenty of flashes originating from somewhere off to the right (west).
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Cobbled together some footage from Tuesday night. We're fortunate I think, being up so high, that we got to see pretty much every flash going!
Like a true pro.....I didn't have a fully charged battery So had to break off a few times to charge it for 10 mins or so but otherwise it's all in real time. I'll never forget it!
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3 hours ago, snowidea said:
Friends neighbours house was hit in Reddingmuirhead, family all got out OK.
Jeez!!
I'd only say what everyone else has been saying. Never experienced anything like that in my life. Don't know what was happening on the side of the house but one of the ceiling air vents in the bathroom deposited loads of water on the floor. And the top floor flat I rent out in Edinburgh sprung several leaks too. Power must have gone off and on a dozen times before staying off for about three hours this morning. Walking outside just now, you can't believe any of it happened!
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Make that three power cuts....
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Couple of brief power cuts here but we're hanging on. Been standing at the door for nearly four hours!!!
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THIS IS INSAAAAAAAAANE!!!!!!
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1 hour ago, Quinach said:
Surprised to see my breath outside just now, even with a outside temperature of 11c.
Oh glad to hear someone else experienced that. I pointed it out to colleague this afternoon in West Lothian as we were stood outside talking.
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1 hour ago, Benvironment said:
Yeah it was weird, can't say I've ever experienced that. There was cloud below us and above us, with that eerie yellow light, and then pinkish haar came rolling up the hill accompanied by rain, lightning and thunder. Really odd. Couldn't take my eyes off it!
The storm was off to the west over Kinross, but it certainly looked the part from here
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Scotland/Alba weather discussion - Autumn 2020 onwards
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Nipped into Kinross this afternoon / evening and could be forgiven for thinking I'd climbed a hill in Norway!