spindrift1980

Met. Office doesn't seem to think so.

Snow not really sticking below about 150m in North Lanarkshire, but there is a thin covering in East Kilbride. Seems a bit curious that it appears to be lying in some extreme south-western coastal parts like the Stranraer-Portpatrick road but not in low lying parts of the central belt - perhaps just down to greater intensity further south-west?

Looking good indeed for the south-west indeed, with the updated MWIS Southern Uplands forecast going for: 'snow falling most or all daylight near and west of the M74 and probably Cheviots. Northwards across Borders, the snow progressively lighter and morecross the region, considerable blowing of previously fallen snow.' There could well be ski-touring available in the Southern Uplands in late March and possibly over Easter - not bad going! I'm resigned to being stuck in a murky, raw and windy no-man's land here over the next couple of days between frontal activity in the west and showers to the east, with no more than a few snow flurries, but the thought of getting some snowy hillwalks in over Easter is more encouraging.

Looks a bit reminiscent of that frontal event back in February where the front was originally shown as reaching Scotland but eventually ended up dumping the heaviest snow over Wales and Gloucestershire.

That's a bit annoying, a few miles further east and a bit more elevation, then I'd have been in business. Oh well, there'll be plenty to enjoy on the hills for quite some time.

It isn't always, but this event really hasn't produced the goods further west. Disappointing as the forecasts looked good for Lanarkshire yesterday. Story of this winter!. Och well, at least some folk are getting a good pasting! Currently moderate snow falling but failing to lie in East Kilbride.

A bit heavier here now - starting to lie a bit. Hope it keeps up!

Reporting Scotland forecast didn't look too promising for snow in these parts. Only a few flakes drifting around lazily in the wind so far - losing optimism but hopefully the early hours will deliver at least some snow in the west.

Glasgow is still within the yellow warning area so you never know! Motherwell just creeps into the edge of the orange area. A few smallish flakes falling here in East Kilbride within the last half an hour or so.

Some photos from the Leadhills area yesterday. Didn't have the heart to tell the sheep there's more on the way!

Went for a walk in Leadhills today - 0C and snowing at 390m asl but latterly the new stuff falling was melting as it landed on cars etc. Some proper Christmas card-style scenes though! Probably 10cm. or so on the ground. Could be some very deep cover up there by Tuesday perhaps. Not a great day for photography with murky white skies and poor visibility but will post any decent pics later. In the morning, there was uniform snow cover south of Larkhall, but rain and sleet below about 250m had done some damage to low ground cover by this afternoon.

Well on the way to a decent covering on most surfaces here at only 60m asl - has been a surprise!

Starting to lie on the grass here now too - big flakes coming down at a fair rate for a good while now. Much more impressive down at Symington (near Lanark) though:

Pentlands webcam looking very nice. The only disappointment is that all this has come on a Monday and not a weekend - stuck indoors all day!

Definitely the best snow cover of the winter so far in these parts. A good few centimetres of dry, powdery snow.

I should say - those statistics come from the link below. At 10pm it was -11.5C. I appreciate that the very lowest temperatures will be in valleys during still conditions but often the daily low officially recorded by the Met Office for the UK will be higher than the figures recorded at Cairn Gorm or Aonach Mor. http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/weather/maps/city?3&TIME=std&LANG=en&WMO=03065&ART=temperatur&LEVEL=140

I've never really understood why the Met Office don't seem to count high altitude sites in temperature statistics/records. For instance, today on the summit of Cairn Gorm the following figures were recorded: 2013-03-10 18:00 -10.3 °C 2013-03-10 12:00 -8.5 °C 2013-03-10 06:00 -10.2 °C 2013-03-10 00:00 -8.5 °C

Big flakes back on again here. A real sunshine and showers set-up - has been fluctuating between sun and snow all day.

An interesting outlook on the MWIS forecasts this morning: "There has been a major change in the forecast over the last 24 hours, with all forecast models, very much more rapidly flooding cold air southwards again across the whole of the UK. Patchy rain, or on higher levels snow will spread north of Wednesday, turning to rain more or less up to highest summits everywhere on Thursday, but freezing levels will then drop quickly again, with intermittent snow falling on eastern mountains. The very cold conditions will last well into next week. Easterly winds will reach gale force on some upland areas, mainly Highland Scotland on Friday and Saturday."

Have been a few graupel and snizzle showers around this afternoon, which suprised me as the car thermometer was reading 3.5C.

Despite lack of significant snowfall IMBY, I think it's been a reasonable winter overall so far. I've been able to go hillwalking in proper snowy winter conditions most weeks which is more than can be said for Jan/Feb last year. It's a pity for the ski centres that there have been so many windy days though, although there has been a relative lack of the big westerly winter storms which often bring rain/sleet at low levels and copious snow at altitude. It certainly hasn't been constant mild south-westerlies, which is the minimum you can ask for. I notice there's no sign of the gorse flowering yet, whereas in mild winters (like last year) the flowers come out slightly in the winter before fully emerging in spring.

Snow prospects going down the pan for west central Scotland yet again then? (unless convective activity in the east is enough to send showers all the way through the central belt).

Steady snow in East Kilbride for more than an hour now, heavy at times. Not sure how much it is adding to the existing cover as it is pretty wet stuff, but the roads are covered again where they had been cleared. I imagine rain/sleet is washing away the cover back at home.

Heaviest it's been so far here tonight. Must be the shower activity that's just moved through Glasgow.

A covering here too now, at last. Not much, but it's a start!