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Was pleasantly surprised to find a fresh covering this morning - only 2cm. or so but didn't expect anything from the north and things look crisper and fresher again.
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Had a wee wander along the Double Craigs above Fintry today. Just enough snow to make it feel wintry without having to plough through knee or thigh-deep drifts - not that I'd have complained if there had been deep snow, mind you.
On the plateau above, there was some moderate drifting but poor visibility as cloud closed in, unfortunately. I was slightly surprised on the way back to find quite a bit of melting on this south-facing slope.
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Interesting post from Ian Fergusson on the model thread about snow potential on Tuesday. Mind you, the devil is in the detail as he says. As we all know, the snow could possibly end up in an entirely different part of the British Isles!
Yes. Greatest risk (of disruptive snow) NI and Scotland in MOGREPS too. That aside, UKMO lean towards broader snow risk essentially mid-Wales northwards. Some accumulations also likely S and E of here between Tues-Thurs. Anyway, all in line with previous assessment over past day or two, but devil still in detail. Confidence high now to mid-Tues but not thereafter.
Great to see this. I had my doubts when I learned a ski tow was being installed at Lowther! I know how quickly the snow can disappear there.
Fun on the snow with the Lowther Hills Ski Club at Leadhills golf course today.
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Met Office forecasts for west central Scotland seem to have upgraded to heavy snow this evening - could be fun!
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Still coming thick and fast here. Traffic jamming up as everyone decides to leave early!
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Very heavy snow in East Kilbride at the moment. Heaviest I've seen for since 2010..
Yes, accumulating quickly - looking much whiter than 10 minutes ago.
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EK taking a direct hit from a heavy shower at the moment.
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Why the alert for the whole of England?
Am I going bonkers or is it not cold up here or in Ireland or in Wales ( or are we supposedly used to it?)
It's a devolution thing. This particular regime of cold weather warnings only applies to England (I think).
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Another snow shower in EK too, adding to the wee covering from earlier.
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Just lost the satellite dish
I was always curious that there is an area of hillside on the west side of West Lomond named on the 1:25000 map as 'Wind and Weather' - now I know why!
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A bit of a sleet/wet snow blizzard in EK at the moment, at just over 150m asl.
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An impressive photo (nicked from the WInterHighland forum) of 40-odd centimetes of snow in Aviemore this morning.
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Still decent snow cover in this part of EK. This morning's band definitely added a bit to the (shallow, but still rather nice) cover in the Motherwell/Hamilton area this morning.
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Just the odd shower of rain in Irvine. You gotta laugh snowing to the north south east n even west over ulster...a miracle is needed to snaw ere
I often feel like that in North Lanarkshire in winter, but places on the coast need an even bigger miracle!
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Snow quite heavy again here too.
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Has just about stopped here but a decent wee covering - hopefully the base for a bit more through the night! Snowing in Glasgow city centre and all the way out the motorway - not really lying in Glasgow and the lowest bits of the motorway though.
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The heavy ppn shown on the radar looks as though its beginning to move round to the north of Glasgow, dammit!
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I think that's true, certainly the M 8 fiasco a few years back (which didn't look any more severe the night before than this one even though it looked like delivering more than the warning at the time suggested) has maybe made them err on the side of caution, but 5-8cm for much of the region covered is entirely plausible. My main issue with it is that this was the same level of warning that the Western Isles had out on Thursday night when they had hurricane force winds. Now I understand that this undoubtedly impacts more people but it is one of the irritating things about the warning system that a very severe event in a less populated area gets the same warning out as a far less severe event in a densely populated area when they are of course very different things.
The MetO's matrix for warnings is based on both severity of the weather and the impact (which is deemed to be greater in heavily populated areas,etc). but I do feel that they need to make some adjustments to the weighting of these factors as the current warnings system isn't getting it quite right, particularly for rural and highland areas.
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I'm sorry to sound like a party pooper, and I'm the first one to wish everyone within the amber warning at least 20cm of snow, but that weather warning stinks to high heaven to me. I hope I'm wrong, but it's a stinker. Lorenzo highlighted the text which makes the warning stink. It's overwarn to the highest level
That's my gut feeling too, but we'll see soon enough, I suppose.
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Full Ramp tonight why not!
My excuse for not ramping is "Snowfall amounts will probably vary substantially across the amber area, and there is the likelihood that some places will see very little settling snow."
Seriously though, am trying to decide whether to drive into Glasgow after work as planned, about 5.30-6pm, or just go home in case there's a repeat of anything approaching the December 2010 incident.
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Slight snow cover in East Kilbride, but have more or less given up on anything decent in Motherwell - largely graupel and sleet/wet snow there.
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Hailstones and a biting wind here too.
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Just saw the forecast on BBC news and it showed some semi-organised precipitation (shown as snow on their graphics) over the central belt tonight for a few hours around 11pm onwards. and then showers tomorrow with more organised precipitation again over the central belt for tomorrow evening for a time. It then briefly showed some transient snow on wednesday which turns to rain however as the low exits, their graphic showed a 'scorpion tail' shaped area of snow feeding over the central belt again from the west, north west. I know it won't work out like that down to a tee however it does suggest that there may well be one or two surprises over the next few days.
The pessimist in me reckons the main event on Tuesday evening will miss to the north of Lanarkshire as per the charts on Lomond's post above, but we'll just have to wait and see, I guess!
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It's the wind warnings that I was interested in (and don't want to see) and would much rather the train of gales steered clear of Scotland for a while
.I see there was some ski-ing at Leadhills yesterday, but I imagine most skiers would be looking for a bit of respite from the gales for a while.
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Almost makes me wish I'd headed down the M74 and gone out on the hills today, although I dare say skis are better than boots for getting through the current level of snow cover.
There's pretty good cover in most of north Lanarkshire - had a wander through some moors and woods: