A Winter's Tale

Cars are really struggling on the roads here - probably the most unexpected and disruptive snowfall since December 2010.

I've got a few videos but I'm struggling to upload so I'll try and get some pics. My sister is meant to travel from Edinburgh to Oslo tomorrow and will have to leave Glasgow early. The snow has stopped here and I've had no time to check the radar so is anymore snow in the way.

5cm - best snow event since February 2013.

Unbelievable snow event. Snowmageddon.

Very heavy snow with big fluffy flakes has left another covering on everything.

Snowing here with a nice dusting which is a but of a surprise WTF indeed!

A very good summary of the upcoming cold period LS. I didn't notice that occlusion on Saturday night and the fax chart looks interesting wrt the front next week. It just goes to show how many important details are at play in set us such as this. From what I've seen in the models today that front next week seemed to have tracked further south - which happened a lot in 2013 - with lighter precipitation struggling to get much beyond southern and western parts of the country. Hopefully as details firm up over the weekend the models could paint a pretty picture for much of Scotland. If we can get some decent and widespread snow cover then that should bode well for very low temperatures as well.

Well at least the next 7 days are looking cold with potentially some very cold temperatures on some days. In terms of longevity if the cold spell and snow prospects today had been somewhat of a downgrade. Some parts of the country should see snow showers in the next 72hrs - I'm not optimistic about anything mounting up to much here but there are opportunities for a few surprises in places this weekend. Sadly the frontal snow event for Tuesday looks set to miss most of Scotland as so often is the case in such scenarios the front sinks south from where it was projected to be. After that a largely dry, but very cold few days with some snow showers in eastern areas but most of the activity will be south of the border. However it is impossible to judge snow prospects in such scenarios beyond 48hrs so there's still plenty of interest next week but I've got a feeling that we may need another attempt at HLB to be more successful on the snow front.