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Yesterday = yuk Today = yuk morning, acceptable afternoon Lot more sunshine than forecast this afternoon, allowing things to dry up and raise temperature up to a max of 5c. Top of surrounding hills have stayed white all day, and its frosty at the moment with the grass nice and crunchy. More soggy weather tomorrow by the looks of things. Nice pink sunset this evening.

Hairy Celt Yep, Saxifraga Oppositifolia. Flowers don't last very long but lovely when out and grows easily in the garden here - just as well as the speugs have a bad habit of ripping the mounds apart, so plenty of cutting material. As for the weather, horrible windy morning of heavy showers of rain and hail - even some sleet around Alford at 8am. Afternoon a lot better with some decent spells of sunshine and the winds dying down, max of 8c. Currently 3c outside and clear skies, but as noted above the much advertised aurora is not to be seen, just a moon halo to compensate...

Heavy, frequent - but brief - squally rain showers since dawn; brief spells of sunshine inbetween. Bitterly cold in that strong NW wind even though the thermometer had a max of 9c. Alpine weather so here's a shot of a alpine saxifrage currently in full bloom.

Wet overnight leaving a cool (9c currently) overcast day with just a few hints of blue sky towards the NW. Brisk west wind making this a definite two jacket (fleece + outer) day. Got to love finding abandoned roads in the middle of a forest.. Leading to the remains of a croft abandoned about 100yrs ago. Sad sight really considering the amount of work that was put into building the road and dry-stone walls.

The mainly dry forecast from the Met well out today as everything is soaking wet thanks to heavy showers of rain in the last 90mins or so, with just some brief sunny intervals to compensate. Currently 10c with a brisk NW wind making things feel a lot cooler than yesterday. Even though weather not brilliant plants getting into the spring mood, Corydalis now in full bloom..

Much more like it, a good spring day with decent sunny spells, a max of 12c and a steady Southerly wind helping dry things out. Not often you see a birch tree wrapped around a pine tree..

Really is a poor start to spring. Soggy yesterday and today, though rain intermittent this afternoon with even some hints of brightness. Cool at 6c with steady NW breeze.

Finally, the sun god has returned since last visiting on the 4th Mar. All thanks to the shift in wind direction to the SW, and a gusty wind at that. Temperature also picked up, now 10c so warmest for over a week. Ordinary blue sky but oh how good to see thee!

Day 7 of Aberdeenshire Permagloom™, getting a tad grating now. Cool (4c) with 100% cloud cover and drizzle off and on in the gentle SE breeze.

As above, just vile. 4.5c, steady light rain being blown in on a, at times, brisk east wind. Great day for cloudscapes

Good day (or should I say week) for Pantone Grey spotting... Hint of drizzle in the gentle east wind and a frigid feeling 4c. Spring is not exactly getting off to a great start.

Aberdeenshire Permagloom™ in all its glory once again, with sporadic light rain being blown in on a steady SE wind. Add in a temperature of only 5c and its most definitely winterlike outside.

Grim weather matched by the grim number of responses to this thread! Persistent moderate rain in the morning, now dry but very slow drying of wet hard surfaces (and its mud ahoy elsewhere). Feeling cold in a steady SE wind; thermometer alleges its 6.9c outside.

After a wet weekend, that has returned the lawn to a marsh, new week off to a mainly sunny start. Overnight low of -3c, currently 5c with a steady SSW wind. Warm in the sun, definitely winter in the shade!

Welcome to the first day of spring, winter says hold on and delivers a bitter start to the day as it's -5c at the moment with frost sparkling on the grass. Calm conditions and beautiful clear blue skies.

Respectable couple of days with good spells of sunshine and just a few fleeting showers. Frosty overnight, max today 6.5c with a stiff SW wind in the morning. Crocuses and Miniature Iris now in full bloom, a little earlier than last year.. Kids this evening exploring the chance of missing school tomorrow thanks to the spring show up at Thainstone. The suggestion got short shrift...

Beautiful clear start to the day, calm and everything white with frost Met Office forecast way out on temperature prediction as it's currently -6.3c compared to their prediction of -1c.

Lovely sunny start to the day but a chilly one, currently -4c with the lawn sparkling white. Calm conditions.

Feeling very springlike out there today. 11c, but feeling warmer thanks to very light winds and plenty of sunshine

Finally emerging after Mr Covid paid a unwelcome visit last weekend - nasty little blighter.. Calm, overcast and some spits of rain in the wind - currently 7c. Was reading about the drought situation in the med and went over the European Drought Observatory - really surprised to see they are still recording a moisture deficit across a lot of Western Scotland...

Slushfest out there with the remaining snow from yesterday evening slowly fading away. 1.3c with a strong East wind blowing in pulses of rain/sleet. Grumpy kids as a result, no snow to play in and too wet to go out. Perfectly timed midterm break

A few snow showers earlier on has left about 1cm on the ground. Debatable that it will be all there in the morning as surprised to see temperature has risen over the last few hours from -1.3c at 5pm to 2c now, with a definite thaw on the roof. Stiff easterly wind as well encouraging the dog to do it's business quicker than usual!

Lovely crisp morning (currently -2.5c) with light winds, plenty of sunshine and a covering of fluffy snow.

I admire the optimism of the weather station, not a chance of snow in reality. Steady moderate rain and ground saturated once more.

Decent day overall here with the rain only arriving around 9pm. Max of 8c, generally light winds and some hazy sunshine - especially in the morning. Lots of snowdrops in full bloom up at Castle Fraser and even the grass looks to have started a little bit of growth.