JamesM

Busy in here despite not being winter! Just in from work having missed all the fun at home. Pity it wasn't 3 hours later when I was at home. Quite a storm by all accounts, direct hit, severe thunder and lightning, and exceptionally heavy rain. Roads were a mess over the last few miles to the house with flooding, debris and parts where the water has ripped the surface up.

A touch of snow early doors but rain, rain and more rain since. Big puddle in the middle of the garden now.

Showers coming through are now solidly snow from start to finish. Just need something a little more prolonged and it should readily lie. Current lamppost shot.

Mix of rain, sleet and wet snow. Lay for a little while but now melted. Not expecting much from today.

Still and almost feeling warm in the hazy sunshine. It's February and I am outside in a T-shirt. The weather has malfunctioned!

Something quite sleety passed through overnight and then froze. Thick ice on everything this morning. Now sun, no wind and feels quite spring like.

Started as heavy snow and gave a very respectable fresh covering. Now turned to heavy rain.

Some great pics and nice to see some more substantial snow around the country than we had here. The snow from Tuesday and Wednesday is still hanging on despite the Cooncil's best efforts. That's twice in the last two years we've had a gritter up here!

Amazingly and unexpectedly, it's snowing.

Whilst only based on the car, locally it never went above freezing today. -3 now. Headed down to the coast this afternoon. Somewhat surprised to find snow on the ground in Kilmarnock and Irvine given they are two of the least snowiest places. Beaches at Prestwick and Troon were frozen. There was even ice on Troon beach. Something you don't see every day.

Day off today and a fantastic winters day. Cold, sunny, snow on the ground with no sign of a thaw despite the sun. Could see some tiny sparkly flakes in the sunshine which I assume is the moisture in the air freezing as, unlike @Huntforsnow there, is no fog here. Looking west, I can certainly see the big bank of fog that must be hanging over the Garnock Valley.

Car says -7. Yesterday's snow cover holding up well.

Car reading -4.5 already on way home. Temperature inversion in evidence over the snow with small pockets of mist and fog sitting in all the dips. Nice to have some proper winter weather finally. Hopefully see a bit more over the course of the next month or so.

Woke to an nice wee covering here!

Light to moderate snow here. Lying on all untreated surfaces.

Heavy snow when I left the house this morning down to around 100 metres. Now bright and sunny at work in Greenock. Not really the day I was expecting. Not seeing too much on the radar for south of the central belt. The current big blob I think will be north of here. Not quite the day I was expecting as I thought much more frequent showers.

Nothing when I got up. Now moderate snow settling on all surfaces.

There was a frost here but the shower is heavy rain with a bit of sleet.

Not a cloud in the sky here today. Cold with a stiff breeze. The next two or three days could be good for us here in the west, particularly with any embedded features in the flow. Always a bit hit and miss with showers though. Thursday into Friday looks interesting. I am sure it will correct north and south a few times in the next couple of days but I'd like too see it about 50 miles further north west over what is shown on the charts currently @Ruzzi. I remember the event late Feb 2001. I was at uni in Dundee and went from Glasgow to Dundee on the train just before the worst hit. The Kilmarnock to Glasgow train got stuck in a drift about a mile down the line to where I live now.

Stunning sunrise this morning.

No idea of the temperature but a hard hoar frost this morning making it really look like winter when combined with the remnants of yesterday's snow. A day off today so headed out to the Locherwood Community Woodland between Lochwinnoch and Kilmalcolm which had a better covering than here. Car was still reading -3.5 at 10am. Stunning morning. Bit of a change this afternoon with cloud rolling in. Some snizzle now.

Had to scrape the car leaving work and reached -4 on the way home according to the car. Roads in Inverclyde in particular were sheet ice and glistening in the headlights.

Good run to work this morning!

A little dusting. Big blob incoming from the west just as I am about to leave for work.

Very heavy rain, torrential at times coming home. Surprising amount of water lying on the roads. Not even a hint of sleet at the highest point of my commute which is around 220 metres. There are however the first signs of something a bit more sleety at home now. Looks like the cold air is starting to come in a little. Had this photo come up in a Facebook memory from a year ago today. Hopefully see something this winter!