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I'd agree with by-tor. I've lived in Edinburgh since 1998 and never seen anything like it - so that's eleven years. I think because the central belt city centres have copped it, it's fair comment to say a decade or more. Saw them this morning when passing on the train clearing the snow - the machines looked like combine harvesters making their way through icing on a Christmas cake. Lovely

Ahh the 'tenament vortex effect" (TVE). A fine subject for a PhD I would suggest. And yes it is definitely netweather mesoscale model (NMM) 1 - 0 Met Office.

Well I don't know where to start really. If I could see the radar at midnight meant we would be hit by snow, and the models were predicting it, why were the Meto and BBC in denial - even on the 00h27 News 24 weather there was only talk of showers for 'Aberdeenshire'? Then this morning - 12 to 15cms in the centre of Edinburgh and the 07h55 BBC Breakfast Scottish forecast - sunshine for Edinburgh! And then it snows again for an hour an hour later. Questions need to be asked. Do they not have access to the radar - I might sent them the link to join netweather extra...

Are you sure Sawel? That advance area of ppn has developed ahead of the main band as it heads south and east in the last hour

I agree LS. It was the same overnight last night, with -4ºC 850s widespread - but only snow falling

Quite an interesting sight today with snow having settled and stuck to both the Forth Bridge (think big red columns of iron plastered in white) and the sea wall in Dundee/Broughty Ferry. The decks of both the Tay and Forth bridges were also covered in white. Those type of surfaces rarely get cold enough for snow to settle, being so close to (or should I say actually in) the sea, so my point is it really has been that cold for that long that it's a very positive feedback indeed Jackone!

Thought it worth a look at the netweather mesoscale model (NMM) for 6am in the morning. It suggests an interesting dawn for the central belt but those 850s are rising...

It had dropped to -15ºC by 3pm SAG!

Snizzle here with the odd spot of heavier flurries. Everything's white again mind - and our street has the most snow it's had since I moved here eight years ago... A whopping 2cms :D (But apparently "it always snows in Scotland..." :winky:)

Well here are the charts from Extra - with 850s added. Basically, anything could happen: 12Z 18Z

Had a lovely day out (despite it being work!) and about on the train in central Scotland. Heavy snow observed in Polmont, Linlithgow and Falkirk and a surprise heavy shower or two in Stirling. The Inverness-Coatbridge container train stood in Stirling station this afternoon was festooned with icicles and snow across every part of every wagon - quite intense. Back in Edinburgh this evening and nothing more than odd flurries on and off.

It could still go pear-shaped! I'm down Leith Walk for my tea at a pal's - so will see anything falling from the sky from a Leither's perspective

Fear not bt - there's an organised band moving southeast that'll be with us by 4.30/5pm I reckon. Doesn't show any sign of fizzling out and it's in northern Perthshire now.

Not to mention it's the middle of the afternoon and therefore the warmest part of the day! Temps should stop dropping again universally come 3pm

I suspect you're in the centre of the low pressure by now jailender

Yep - I'm hoping it will wait until after dark because temps are above freezing now for the next few hours. Much more snow about over a wider area than even the current now-casts on the BBC.

I'm feeling generous this morning :blink:

Showers appear to be penetrating further south and east now over and through the Great Glen - not by much but it's a start :winky:

By Monday night all that cloud west of Norway will be bang on top of us

Remember guys as the front passed south over Edinburgh/Glasgow it started as rain - then it suddenly changed to very heavy snow for 40mins or so.

Who can say?! it's just going to keep getting colder for a wee while yet... The low dew points are outstanding too currently 0º/-5ºC here

Tomorrow is going to be very interesting. Western areas finally progged to see frequent snow showers - but the interest for us in the east is exactly how well these get blown inland. I can think of many instances recently with rain showers forecast only for the west widely spreading across the central belt. A morning of radar watching...

Picture postcasrd white here now - 30 mins of heavy snow and it's just the lightest snizzle now. Very rapid movement south.

I can see them winterman they are under your name on the left

And instantly white-over with the ground being so frozen