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Temp dropped from 3.1C to 1.2C in the last 20 minutes and light, now moderate snow is falling. Radar showing stuff perking to the west of the central belt and incoming. Ooooo.

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A slushy, patchy nothingness here. Nearby, away from the trees is a slushy more uniform white covering and at 300m it's pretty decent.

That curl-around will head east later this morning....

 

[Storm Eunice - 18th February]

5 minutes ago, Nick L said:

I don't understand why the media and TV forecasts are entirely focussed on Dudley? It's a bog standard winter storm and Eunice is going to be orders of magnitude more dangerous. 

Chris Fawkes at 1.30pm on BBC1 did a good job there Nick - Eunice "strongest storm for many decades" twice....

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Wind just kicked off here in the last 10 minutes.

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17 minutes ago, Hairy Celt said:

Can anyone explain how we had snow only a short distance from the firth this morning with 850 temp at around -4C? I'm flummoxed.

 

@CatchMyDrift does a very good lesson in reading the 925hpa (or 950) charts and the relationship to air pressure (low pressure today) and bringing down the 850hpa level so that the usual temp you would expect to see converted at surface is less than usual e.g. higher pressure at 850s of -5C = surface at say 3C, but lower pressure and 850s of -5C = surface at 0 or 1C. This is because at higher pressure the 850 level is, say, 1.5km in the sky and at lower pressure it's lower down nearer surface.

You see - I'm not very good at explaining it, but that's something like the correct answer! (I hope!)

[Storm Eunice - 18th February]

10 minutes ago, Marcus_surfer said:

I'm travelling by train Friday at 9am to London from Swansea....its not looking good and I'm very concerned about traveling and the disruption

No you're not!

ScotRail closes at 4pm today for Dudley.... So I would imagine Network Rail and English/Welsh operators will be closing down too for Eunice?

[Storm Eunice - 18th February]

I'm surprised the snow risk hasn't gone amber yet for southern Scotland/far north of England. 20+ cm of snow is going to be disruptive and it's even to low levels.... 

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9 hours ago, CatchMyDrift said:

This is a good looking FAX chart for Friday:

Although it's only good looking if you are far enough north for the cold air but also far enough south for the heavy precipitation when that low zips east over Scotland on Friday. Wherever is in the sweetspot will get a huge dump.

 

We shall see!

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We had F-15s high up in pairs over Tweeddale last week. Two sets painting stripes in the sky (must've been sunny!).

On a work call earlier and my Kirkcaldy colleague said Dudley and Eunice sound like characters in a Victoria Wood sketch.  Made me smile.

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Air frost No.24 at -4.3C. Proper welded-on ice on the car - at 300m above Skirling earlier the car said -7C.

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Urgh. Wet wet wet snow. There's a joke in there somewhere.

Woke up to a wet dusting. Not counting a snow day though - too patchy. At 300m it's a winter wonderland with frosted pine trees. Got down to 0.6C back up to 1.6C now - so not the wintryest spell of the season as billed... Pffft.

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Doesn't surprise me @101_North. 17 of this year's 23 air frosts have been in the range of -0.1 to -1.9C which is hardly bone chilling...

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1 hour ago, Hairy Celt said:

No, I remember last winter you were racking up the number of frosts like some Norwegian ski centre!

You're right HC! What a frosty year 20/21. Monday just gone was our 23rd air frost, whilst last year we were at 38 by today.

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Showers of wet snow here now - 1.6C and the snowline is around 300m. Could be the most wintry morning of the season here tomorrow - defined by temp and depth/severity of snow. But that's not saying much this year!

 

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Great shots @Halfamilefromnowhere

Snow line at 250m here. This afternoon's walk illustrates it nicely:

 

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Same here guys. Nothing an hour ago. Now white over and pelting down at 0.5C. Marv. 

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Snow shower incoming from the west.

 

Snow shower exiting to the east.

Saturday is rinse and Sunday is repeat?

 

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Heavy wet snow at 0.6C. It's 9am so it's a surprise snow day!

 

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49 minutes ago, Jo Farrow said:

Named Storm Malik by Danish Met.   

It's almost like as soon as another Met Org names a storm, our Meto then upgrade to amber. They seem so adverse to using the system...

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Like Gordon Brown's occasional emergence from his crypt, I looked at the models today and I'm wide awake. Go look. Whilst it's probably more of a meh than a miracle, at least there's something potentially interesting on the horizon.... Ski centre delivery Sunday? Widespread white hills Friday? 

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Nope. Nothing much happening.

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Snap @Sceptical

 

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45 minutes ago, Kayemill said:

Anybody else see what I see in this meto warning?

Surely someone’s having a laugh  Can’t be that localised  

An Eevee? 

I'll get my coat. 

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Does weather exist anymore? Might as well be in a chilly leisure centre hall where the lights get turned off at 4.15pm.

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Fantastic day yesterday - favourite shot: