GrangemouthBairn

Thanks for that Ian. Looks like we will have to make the most of what we get over the next 10 days. For me, that will be cold, dry, frosty and foggy weather which isn't bad.

Heavy rain for the last hour and a half. Only the roofs and grass still have snow on them. Overall its been decent for grangemouth

Think it is turning more sleety here. The paths are now slushy rather than white.

Still snowing but the paths are starting to melt.

Been decent this morning here. A cm on the ground but nothing lying on the road. Still snowing for now but for how much longer?

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Light rain. Frustrating because the clouds look thick, white and filled with snow rather than grey for rain. But going from the BBC forecasts not really surprising that we have had light rain/sleet son far and not really convinced we are going to see any snow later either. I wish I was more than 3 metres above sea level.

Light sleet since I got up at half 10.

My eyes must be decieving me. It looks like we have sleet outside at the moment. Wasn't expecting anything remotely wintry until tomorrow afternoon when even then it looks dry for here. This after a cold, cloudy, misty, drizzly day.

Light rain for the last hour here.

Yeah, constant showers throughout yesterday and overnight which turned to snow when it got dark last night.

Ben Rich on BBC weather saying 10 to 15 cm for central lowlands tomorrow

Started as snow this morning and had quite an impressive covering before it turned to sleet which was to be expected. But I was playing football after school and was surprised that it had turned back to snow when I had finished. Early afternoon all of the snow we had from early this morning had disappeared apart from some on the grass. Most surfaces had turned completely wet but now they are starting to develop a layer of slush again. What is causing this? is it heavier ppn or are the temperatures lowering because I suspect the uppers are getting worse by the hour.

Been heavy snow since I got up at half 7. Was struggling to lie on the road at first but now everything is white.

Had very light snow on and off since about 9pm.

Nobody ever promised HLB for this time a few weeks ago. All they said was that HLB was more likely. I don't think there us much doubt that a SSW does make HLB more likely but that doesn't mean that it always happens. The question is whether the SSW did play a part in the current cold spell. I personally think that it did because before the SSW, there was no sign of any high pressure to our north at all since mid December. Then all of a sudden six days after the SSW an area of high pressure drifted north from the south and stayed to our north for about 2 weeks. I know it wasn't a strong area of high pressure but it was still strong enough to keep the Atlantic at bay for about 2 weeks. But who knows what the lag time is? I don't think anybody really does. And although I have said I think the SSW did play a part in this cold spell, that could be wrong. Maybe the real effect if the SSW won't be felt until February. Or maybe come the end of this winter we will look back and people will think that there has been no effect. We won't know until we look back on the winter as a whole to see if it has had an effect.

Anybody noticed how on the latest BBC graphics for Friday it has almost the whole of Scotland and eastern England covered in white except a blue stripe across the central belt.

Feels colder here today and that is with less wind. So surely with much less wind, the marginality has been taken away and the ppn that is falling out the sky right now is snow... No, light rain.

Cloudy and dry but looks cold outside. Road is icy.

Light rain this morning then light rain on and off this evening but dry cloudy and cold most of the day. The only snow that we've had on the ground is possibly 1cm on Friday night and then just enough to make the ground white on Saturday night. Was hoping for a bit better over the last 2days although I was wary that it could be sleet. I suppose I've done a little better than some in the west so can't complain too much.

Much the same as yesterday here. On and off rain and sleet.

No snow here yet my football training has been cancelled because of snow in stirling. Day gets worse

Incredible scenes on the County Durham BBC news report right now. If only

Rain and sleet all day so far. Exactly what the met office symbols were so can't be too disappointed. Was still hoping for better though.

My concerns yesterday about grangemouth look to have been proven correct. Been a mixture of light rain and sleet all morning.