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Currently 1.9c. Dp. -3.4c. Sun slowly starting to make an appearance. However still small flakes of snow in the air ....nice to see.Bitterly cold out there though .
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All this chat about March snow has had me looking at old pictures. March 11th/12th 2006.
The start of the snow at 11.25pm on the 11th:
12.17am:
I lay on the couch watching the snow fall for hours before falling asleep and waking up to this at about 7am:
Random photo at the end of the post to show that it snowed and settled as late as the 9th of April that year. I don't remember it lasting long once the shower passed though:
Ahhhhhh,I remember this night so,so well.Had been out for the night with friends but needed to be back just after 12 to let my late daughters carer go.Well,Saturday nights being Saturday nights I arrived home slightly the worse for wear.Ran up the stairs to see how my daughter was and Unfortuneately missed the top stair and went head first into the bathroom door,took a rather large chunk out my forehead and ended with blood pouring down my face!!
Anyhoos,the snow had just started on the way ack from the pub.....I could have done with going to the hospital. Yet none of us were fit for driving and the weather was getting worse.So we all spent the next few hours playing poker,me dodging the slowly congealing drops of blood...my mates desperately concealing there tears of laughter at my misfortune.
By 3 am. The snow was thick on the ground..we were all out on the street having a mass snowball fight and building a huge snowman( a group of late 30 year olds ,the biggest kids around)and the snow fell for many more hours...there must have been nigh on a foot of snow by the time it stopped.the next day the local farmer had to use his digger to clear the car park!,
I would definitely say its the heaviest fall of snow I've seen for many years....boy it was great.
Anyone else got weather related injuries to regale?
Incidentally Catch.,I remember the 9 th snowfall too as its my birthday......had a few white ones...and also some roasting ones too.Apparently the year I was born '69. There was a heatwave in April and it snowed in May, so plenty of time yet for more winter weather.
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Well,after a very frosty night it's been a beautiful winters day here today.The fog lifted around 10 ish and there's not been a cloud in the sky.Temperature peaked at 6.1c around 3 pm and is now sitting at 4.1c. Dp -0.3c.....looks like another frosty night ahead.
The next week or so looks as though we could be chasing the sun as there will certainly be a fair bit of cloud about but there is scope for clear skies too,western areas look to fair quite well.Certainly looks like we could see a frost every night And I think today could have been the warmest for the next week.Daytime temps probably not getting to today's values til next mon/ tues.
The 2m min temp charts indicate that it may be wise to keep the de-icer at hand!
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If you're thinking of dropping into the MT for a clue on the latest updates........erm...... I would leave it for a while!
Wait...don't tell me...there's a bit of this,eh?
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Considering a week or so ago there were "winters over" claims....I would take solace that there is very little in the models this morning to back that claim.Indeed plenty late winter weather to enjoy.
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I think this may some up the MT most days....
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Ahhhh,winter heaven!!
Who would have thunk it?
Best served chilled,I guess?
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Wow,it's soooooo quiet in here ....
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Don't think we will get much from this front 2morrow, for me it really has been a very disappointing winter
think I will need to move somewhere higher!Agreed entirely,it does look as though it could be very wet tomorrow though!
If this is right then flooding a real possibility tomorrow.
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aye but aren't the seasons as fickle as the weather. I remember summer happening more in spring than during last summer
Kind a shocking model flip overnight, not helped by two upstream lows phasing with each other instead of one going south and digging into the Azores high giving us retrogression.
And similarly winter weather can easily still happen in spring.
Indeed in my neck of the woods the heaviest snowfall in the last 10 years actually happened in March 2006, when we had an overnight snowfall that measured almost 12 inches!!
Admittedly it's harder for significant lasting snowfall as the days lengthen but still a good snowfall can be as likely as early warm weather.
Personally I'd be happy to see either.
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Rain now turning to steady sleet.....temp 1.7c. Dp 1.4 c. Both slowly falling.....thoroughly miserable morning so far with brisk winds from ENE.
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Okay.been over on the MT and.....
The latest topic seems to be......
Ryan Dutch Weathermans Bad english !!
And the lack of "Day after Tomorrow type weather in the next week..
Absolutely telephone boxin crazy......for a MODEL THREAD,eh??
Thank god for the relative sanity of the Scottish Thread
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Sorry about that, maybe if you'd hand drawn the map I would've remembered
Love reading this thread!
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Yes! Just looked oot the windae and its snowing!,....and it's lying.....can now go to bed Happy
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Had to laugh this morning.
The words atrocious, bizzards, 100mph winds were used this morning but don't worry the met office have issued a yellow warning.
Maybe if they included the words freezing, hell and over they might have upped it to amber.
Lovely breezy day here this morning, odd heavy rain/sleet shower
To true,but it wasn't a warning for down south,was it??
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Why is everyone moaning in the MT? Didn't think the models looked that bad?
Is it not a requirement when entering???
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Well I'm all for snow and severe cold ...but I'm wondering if RJS post over on the MT is just a tad OTT.
Unless I'm misreading the charts, I think the following quote may be slightly Express-esque!!! And doubtless may appear in a front page headline this weekend.
"The dive bombing low on Tuesday will turn into a wintry hurricane for northern regions of the UK,and in itself is a major severe weather event". Really??
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Appreciate it's still a few days away,but looking as though quite a few of us could see some snow in the early hours of next Tuesday .If I say a wee prayer,perhaps my wee one might see some snow when he goes to nursery Tuesday morning.
The 12z today looks to have brought the snow potential forward by around 12 hours next mon into tues......certainly many places are looking very likely to see some accumulations...building up from around lunchtime on monday
The 528 dam line is firmly down across the country by midnight.
Looks like the snow will be brought in by a good period of stiff westerly winds... XC has winds gusting over 50 mph throughout the day on Monday....could easily be quite nasty travel conditions...worth taking note of
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Appreciate it's still a few days away,but looking as though quite a few of us could see some snow in the early hours of next Tuesday .If I say a wee prayer,perhaps my wee one might see some snow when he goes to nursery Tuesday morning.
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Pretty damn windy out there at the moment...and some stormy weather to come as we move through the evening.As AWT sails above ,some quite dramatic looking skies this afternoon.
Here's a couple of pics I took half an hour ago.
Apologies if they are wrong way round!
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3.8c please
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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.
Nothing changes there then.....lets pretend it won't happen...then mibees..just mibees.....
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I find it amazing how the heavy and persistent precipitation can stretch all the way to Argyll or Galloway - crossing the mountains such as Ben Lomond and Beinn Ime, yet there is always a bloomin clear patch that covers Inverclde, Renfrewshire, Glasgow, Dunbartonshire, Lanarkshire and Falkirk. This cold spell will be remembered for:
- the snowmageddon at fort SS and Catch my DRIFT's new house
- The infamous poor show from the models and spectacular underwhelming snow events, including losing an epic blizzard
- And how frustration has reached record breaking levels for the great citizens of the central belt and also to include the city of Aberdeen and even the Black Isle.
I've given up on snow here but good luck to those who are in warning areas, and hopefully the situation will improve in the hardest hit areas. As conditions become a bit more settled, there is the potential for some very low temperatures - especially over the snow fields. GFS 18z shows that temperatures could drop to -13 to -15C on Wednesday night in the Cairngorms National Park.
A spell of snow during the breakdown
Turning milder during the weekend and especially into next week but at this range this could all change. Hopefully, we won't see a something like the mild spells that followed the cold spells of February of both 2009 and 2012.
Yep AWT,chuffed that so many on this thread have experienced lots of snow these past few days!But for me this cold spell is summed up by the feeling I had last Thursday......having gone to bed with a forecast 6 inches of snow for this area only to discover my dreams dashed as not even a flake reached my area on Friday.....how I wished I hadn't prematurely declared a snow day for the kids!!
Was dreaming of this
But found out the reality was this!!
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The NW local snow forecast for my area has 80%-100% chance of snow from 6 am on Friday through to noon on Saturday .That could be one heck of a fall of snow!
I'm feeling so confident I've declared a Snow Day for the kids----
think I will need to move somewhere higher!
March 2013 CET (2012/13 CET Competition)
in Spring Weather Discussion
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Can I go for 6.0c please