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Ha ha !! Yep, I remember when we lived near Peterborough, the schools ended up being closed in advance for two whole, bright sunny days following a weather warning for snow that never arrived. I can't remember the last time we had a school closure here in Moffat, March 2006 I think and that was after 12-18 inches level snow in town and drifting on the rural roads. I bumbled across this curious news item last week, not far from you I think ? http://www.hertfordshiremercury.co.uk/Buntingford-and-Royston/Buntingford-UKs-snowiest-location-in-2012-04012013.htm Snow has pepped up again now though so might get to see a bit of 'disruption' on the way to the Co-op in a minute.

Not much more than an inch or two in Moffat either and the snow has stopped now.

Moderate/heavy, steady snow here. Not a hint of moisture in it & everywhere is perfect whiteness.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/dg/moffat_forecast_weather.html ^ Not often I see a day of heavy snow progged for Moffat at such short range by the Met Office. Much preferring the NAE/MO interpretation to the GFS.

Surprised to report that there's one or two cm of gorgeous, powdery, fresh white goodness here this morning brought in by the usual low cloud base dreichness that hangs about over Moffat dumping the drizzle that never makes the radar returns whilst other parts of Britain can be bathing in sunshine. When it's snow though, I'm not complaining.

There was top to bottom skiing today on Meall a Bhuiridh's snow, that for skiers, was copious, but grabby, uneven and unconsolidated. It was also very, very slabby too and you wouldn't want to ski any steep NE'ly aspect because of the very real risk of avalanche burial. Unfortunately (well, sort of), the mountain ski lifts closed around 1 PM due to high winds when we then found that the easiest snow of the 1/2 day to ski was the classic Glencoe combat skiing on the way back down to the car park. It's not often you can say that at Glencoe, but the slush, heather and rock was easier to manage than that on the higher mountain. Report and pix on winterhighland ... http://www.winterhig...dex.php?50,3111 Took this picture as we arrived. Is the Buachaille the most photographed mountain in Scotland ? Edit ... and the Moffat Hills looked very pretty on the way home for sure. Weekend ski touring opportunities for me.

Rain now. Amazing really. It's below zero (just), the mile highs are several degrees below and the 600 metre temperatures according to NAE should still be about -2. Oh well, at least I can get some work done .

Yours is on its way and I'm sure you'll do better than most too. Snow is really pepping up now, dry and fluffy stuff, outside temperature is -2C.

Thanks djmaxliving ... I feel like I'm talking to myself most of the time on this forum. Whenever it's a blue skies day in winter time, you can usually find a good image on that web site showing the snow cover over Scotland but it just depends where the satellite at the instant that it makes the picture, whether the angle is all wrong or not as they orbit at over 700 km ASL. I cropped that one down to show the incoming cloud and the snow cover. Currently snowing in Moffat.

It's Moffat's 6th day of lying snow but I was quite surprised how little was lying north and west of here en route to Glasgow. At 11.55 today, this image from NASA's modis orbiter ... http://lance-modis.eosdis.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/imagery/realtime.cgi ... showed there's still quite a lot of Scotland still need painting white ...

Yep, I'm going out for a run now ... in the snow.

I've never seen that webcam before so thanks for bringing it to my attention. Had a great skiing day tour up there back in Dec 2010 and look forward to repeating it. Edit ... Frigid & crunchy in Moffat this morning with near 100 % snow cover remaining.

New snow lying on old snow in Moffat this morning.

Steady moderate snow in Moffat, topping up the stuff still lying from Friday night/Saturday morning. Uppers look precarious by the wee small hours though so I'd be very surprised if there's any net gain in the morning.

Thanks. I had my first day of the season at Glenshee on 3'rd November but that was chocolate, not chairlift powered. I'm heading up tomorrow though. Oddly enough, the reason why I was over in the Borders today was to pick up even more skis.

Snow on top of snow eh ? I had to go over to Jedburgh this morning and oddly enough, the Moffat Hills looked like they caught a lot more snow last night than further east in the Borders. There's still a 100% snow cover outside but a wee top-up on Sunday night wouldn't go amiss ... From the car, white Coomb in Dumfriesshire seen from the Craik Forest road in the Borders ... Photostop number 1, entering Dumfriesshire on the way home to Moffat Photostop number 2, the mountain plateau at the head of Carrifran glen is the oddly named 'Rotten Bottom' Photo stop number 3, and in Black Hope glen, looking towards Hart Fell And of course, it wouldn't be Moffat without a sheep

Maybe you're thinking of the Central Belt. The Borders glens get extremely low winter temperatures.

It's still snowing in Moffat ...

Ha ha, yeah. The NAE charts are showing more & more precip in our neck of the woods but at the same time, flipping marginal it is too, for cold rain, sleet or snow. I need to drive to Jedburgh in the morning so I'm sure I'll encounter some white material en route. Happily, the winter tyres went back on the Skoda yesterday.

I think the radar may be showing a fair deal of anoprop. Looking at Meall a Bhuiridh's webcams (which should be right in it just now), there's nothing obvious but thick, high cloud ... http://www.winterhighland.info/cams/glencoe/

I like the ECM's cold, WNW'lies and that the GFS rolling out now is progging the same ... Shed loads of snow to come for the mountains.

In 2012 of course, the output from events happening all across Skyrim in Tamriel have replaced dodecahedral tea leaf weather prediction in the Forgotten Realms and the Wilderlands and the forecasters in Exeter now make use of their supercomputers to run enormous simulations based upon the residue left in the bottoms of bowls of charred Skeever tail and Mudcrab chitin mulligatwny soup.

An anticyclonic spell with middling 850's and a few opportunities for fresh snow on the tops would be great for the Western ski centres. Glencoe has got lots of snow up there just now & me and my youngest lad had a great time. Really good to see lots of other customers enjoying it in some decent weather today too and with all their lifts running & so much space to ski, there was very little queueing. Smiles all around. Photos in winterhighland public reports ... http://www.winterhighland.info/publicreports/index.php?50,2888

Just driven up from London via A1 & A66. A little light snow 2 hours ago at Scotch Corner, raining over the Pennines, pouring in Carlisle, sleeting at Lockerbie and very surprised as I approached Moffat to see this ...

That's the funniest analogy I've read on a weather discussion forum for a long time.