Ravelin
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Was at the Queen Maragaret Hospital, Dunfermline, earlier and there's a couple of inches lying up there and light snow was falling the entire time i was there.
I used to live in one of the houses up behind the hospital and that hill was often quite good for catching the snow. Had some large drifts up there one year too.
PS: Ravelin, I'm sure you know already but Schools here have closed for the day - 2.00pm
twas fair dinging it doon for a couple hours, but stopped since jnr got home .. typical..
I knew as soon as they closed the schools the snow would stop! Luckily since the wife was there already I'd no need to rush off to pick up youngest (or to try to get one of the older two to get him). They didn't give much notice though, announcing at around 1:30pm they were closing at 2pm .
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Snow really coming down in Dyce now, last fling before it dissipates?
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Well Snooz has beat me to the Kemnay weather report but I can confirm a decent overnight fall. Total chaos in our house this morning watching school closure updates (our village ones open but lots elsewhere closed), and deciding whether the wife should attempt her cross-country journey to work (no, she's a teacher so is going to help out in one of the local schools for the day). Didn't have time to measure the snow depth so I'll go with Snooz's assessment, but certainly a good few shovel-fulls when clearing the drive.
Roads to Dyce not too bad, especially once I got onto the A96 at Kintore. Dyce doesn't have the same snow depth but definitely some accumulation since yesterday and it's still snowing on and off.
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Having looked at the garden when I let the dog out I came to a realisation. I'm gauging the snowfall against Nov 2010, when we'd to dig the cars out ever morning for over a week, we had snow avalanching off the roofs in amounts substantial enough to shake the house, bring the gutters down and knock panels off the fence. Now that was exceptional and I shouldn't really be expecting the same. Prior to the last 2 or 3 winters, with the exception of last year of course, what I have lying tonight would probably have constituted an exciting fall of snow.
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Have some faith Aberdonians, for one the gaps on the radar to the south are finally closing up, and secondly I'll be leaving work soon so that is bound to coincide with some heavy snow so that Dyce grinds to a halt.
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Hang on I'm about to take a sledgehammer to it. Watch our fortunes turn...
...maybe
Hey, why didn't you do that eariler? I's started snowing in Dyce now.......and stopping again probably......oh well.
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GFS delivers another spectacular Atlantic Dartboard Low.. 917mb !!!!!!
Mind bending model output..
That's just an attempt by the GFS to take what lying snow we have, scour it from the surface, and dump it all in the North Sea! It would give us a "memorable event" though.
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Clearing with blue skies in Aberdeen - honestly!
I see it too, but then again for the first time today we've had a shower in Dyce heavy enough to leave a dusting on the cars. Still a very short shower though!
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Right, come on, own up, who's built a precipitation barrier on the East coast around Forfar & Arbroath? That band of precipitation just doesn't want to move North of there, been stuck for at least 2hrs now! We've got an Amber warning for areas West of Aberdeen that I'm sure just about covers my house, yet so far what has probably fallen wouldn't make a single snowball.
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Well here at least the temp is going in the right direction, from a high of 2.5/-2.3°C at 07:00 down to 1.5/-2.7°C at 12:00 (Dyce Intl Airport readings).
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Wierd thing with the updated Met Office warnings is that on Tue the Amber area isn't completely surrounded by a Yellow. Maybe the Yellow hasn't been updated yet.
Anyone else having trouble with the Traffic Scotland website this morning, seems very slow to me?
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Well we've been getting some light snow in Dyce for the last 10-15mins, which as I type has appeared to stop. I assume it's coming from the bands of showers coming from the NE rather than anything coming from the main system to our S.
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I think if this keeps up, or fails to get going more like, then they'll be more toys flying about than snow.
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A wee bit of snow overnight in Kemnay but nowhere near the deep drifts I was hoping for to keep me off work (never a realistic prospect). So far, as others have said Aberdeen/Dyce is sat at around 2degC, brisk wind, but no precipitation.
All I want this winter is a proper blizzard, with good drifts and a day off work. After that it can do what it likes!
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Well I got out for my play in the snow, with the pretence of walking the dog, took a trip up Mither Tap on Bennachie (not right to the top as the last bit is awkward enough for the dog when there's no snow). Amazing what a difference there is in the snow there, even at car park level. It's only a couple of miles further west and 100m higher but the snow is lovely squeaky stuff that makes perfect snowballs, compared to the wet claggy stuff in the village. Not as much snow up higer as there was at the start of Dec though, but it's almost powdery and much easier to walk in than the heavy deep stuff last time.
Need a bit of a freeze now to preserve the snow we have, in preparation for Monday.
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Now had snow of varying qualities falling for around 1.5hrs, longszt yet. Temp still a little too warm though so what is lying is soft and moist. Time to take dog for a walk as youngest not wanting to go out to play in it.
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Well for those in Aberdeen, there is snow inland. Here in Kemnay we've not got as much depth as I'd have hoped for as I think most of it fell as that graupel stuff rather than nice fluffy dry stuff. In fact I think temps are marginal here too as when I let the dog out earlier the snow in the garden looked a bit on the wet side and the snow falling at the time was bordering on sleety. Certainly enough for the kids to have some fun but any rise in temperature and I think it could easily thaw.
From what I saw of the radar I expect areas further south would be better as the showers seemed to be heavier and more frequent there.
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Aberdeen has a crazy snow shield in place. If you would all like to revert to meteoradar and zoom in on Aberdeen and just watch the precip bounce off the "force field"....rediculous!
That snowshield seems to extend over Kemnay at the moment too. I'd suggest Alford, not too far away, is getting plastered though. Surely those lines of showers are bound to shift at some point and Aberdeen will be under them for a bit.
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Sorry it's not great in Aberdeen but inland a bit its a little better. We've just had a shower that's lasted longer than most at around 30mins. Everything that wasn't white beforehand is now, but I'd still not say there's any real depth to it.
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Just had some Thundersnow!
Confirmed!
Can't ever remember that happening before.
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...and I can see blue sky again so that was just about the predicted 5 mins. Impressive when it's on though, if it could only last it'd accumulate quite fast I'd say.
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I think we might be about to get a few beefy showers. It's gone very dark to the south east.
You were right, just gone extremely dark in Dyce and started snowing again. Lets see if it is a 5 minute wonder again or not.
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As others have already posted there was a second heavy shower in Aberdeen/Dyce area earlier. Wind gets up quite a bit during the showers too. Can't see us accumulating much though as they are quite short-lived events and there's little sign so far of the number of showers in the North Sea increasing. The Amber warning seems to be a reaction to the area that has been getting the most showers so far.
Looks like Glenshee Ski area may get a decent amount of much needed snow and the webcam shows some hardy souls out making the most of it (http://m.webcam-hd.com/ski-scotland/glenshee)
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The problem with snow showers off the North Sea is they can be rather hit or miss. So far in Dyce this morning we've had one glancing blow. Heavy whilst it lasted but very short lived. I'm hoping they pack in a bit closer together this afternoon.
We not sent anyone down to report from the far SW as it looks like Stranraer and the surrounding area might be getting snow now?
Scotland Regional Discussion 21st January 2103, 12z onwards
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Well after clearing the driveway and paths again earlier this evening I finally got around to sticking a tape measure into the snow in the back garden. Undrifted depths of 6-7 inches (15-18cm), most of which was probably in last 24hrs. I suppose I therefore have no reason to complain