Still snow in Dundee although the temperature has went above freezing in the last hour. Want to head home whilst it is light so won't chance staying for it to turn to rain!
Roads in Dundee are much worse than what I can see on the traffic cams outside of the city. I haven't seen a gritter/plough passing my window all day. Car probably stuck in the carpark....
Exactly as I expected, wet, messy, rubbish. It has been far too warm since Friday over a large part of the country, I think people were being a bit too hopeful.
I've been holding off the whole day, touch and go for Cupar and Dundee tomorrow I think. Messy, wet, slushy stuff is what comes to mind but I'd love to be proven wrong with an all snow event!
The front has picked up the pace and is moving at about 25 mph now.
Decided to head out of Dundee after a heavy spell of snow which lasted an hour, got back to Cupar where there were only patches of snow, no sooner was I in the door than the sky went black and it has chucked it down since. Plenty more on the radar!
Very likely there will be bad conditions north of Dundee on the A90 for most of the day, listen to Tay FM online at quarter past and quarter to the hour for traffic reports.
Now sooner in the car park at work in Dundee than the snow came on, instantly lying and the dry flakes are blowing about a little.
Those snowers in the north see have sprung up in the last hour and they are going to give somewhere on the east coast a really good covering!
I went to a burger van last night and got a cheeseburger, the woman asked if I wanted to put anything on it, I said a fiver.
I hope this doesn't end up as a cold but nae snaw much winter, much like 05-06 and 08-09.
You could almost feel the temperature nose diving about 5 to 6 this evening, could be some impressive lows this evening.
The science geek in me spotted something quite unusual in the gfs ensembles this evening, notice how the poor agreement in the very short term converges into good agreement after that. An unusual output from a chaotic system.
It is still raining...
Thankfully the river Eden level out at 15cm short of the record but it hasn't saved a few houses by the river, however I don't know how the river will deal with another 2 days of rain. I suspect the intensity of the rain will decide if it is record breaking flooding or a long drawn out affair at current levels.
http://www.sepa.org.uk/water/river_levels/river_level_data.aspx?sd=t&lc=14929
I don't know, I came back down the Perth road straight to my house by the high school. I think that was a flash flood cause by a thunderstorm but I might be wrong. The A92 wasn't too bad at 6pm, standard flooding we see about 8 or so times per year but I suspect it might be a bit worse by the morning.
Will the river Eden exceed its highest level set 20 years ago?
http://www.sepa.org.uk/water/river_levels/river_level_data.aspx?sd=t&lc=14929
Good chance I'd say if it keeps rising at 10cm per hour whilst it is raining.