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Rainy and dreech in Glasgow, but no signs of convection none of the ingredients are there to produce anything exciting. I think the last time I heard thunder was the first month of Autumn

Really squally rain in Glasgow last hour or so, accompanied by wind gusts nudging 50mph or so. Hope to see some lying tomorrow morning certainly long overdue!

I reckon this will be the windiest storm of the season for my location (Glasgow). It will probably undergo explosive cyclogenesis on Tuesday and I wouldnt put inland wind gusts of 70mph, 75mph at a stretch out of the equation.

This winter, and what looks like coming is pure, unadulterated mince for coldies.

I agree unfortunately I had to nip out to the pharmacy decided to leave the car as its RWD. Big mistake! Near to my house there is a hill with a gradient of about 1:15 (1 meter up for every 15 travelled) and it was bedlam. No grit in sight, hard coating of black ice on the road with cars skidding all over the place. Witnessed from the bus about 5 serious crashes in the mile and a half travelled before it reached a sliding standstill at a hill and driver could do nothing. So I walked the remaining ¾ mile. About 2' lying snow, Glasgow East. Roads treacherous but seems to be turning slushy as of now. If this were London or home counties it would be a red warning; unquestionably. Here is a pic of my back garden. As you can see it's starting to melt now but was easily double this in depth two hours ago. Must have been a squall of wind as my table and chairs blew over-- was probably a fox or something.

Very very light dusting of snow in Glasgow, East. Barely lying. 1.9°

Merry Christmas everyone! 1.6* in Glasgow, but feels a bit colder due to easterly wind. Once again, the seemingly never ending foggy overcast engulfs my part of the city. Dreich is a perfect word to sum up the conditions.

Jeez looks like a 4 at least.

I was born 22-4-89 and I my mum recalls it being very snowy? (Glasgow). Is that true, or was that just the morphine

East of Glasgow and I cant recall hearing the wind roar like that for some time. Could hear it hammering on my door with the chain rattling for a good two to three hours. This normally doesnt happen due to the position of my front door, although I think due to the unique position of the storm in the north sea the isobars had the winds going like the @ sign , affecting areas that are normally naturally protected. I'll need to see figures but a sustained gust of 45-55mph would not surprise me. Only mild precipitation, but made feel much worse by the wind. Current temp 2° sky clear, reckon that is the end of it. Was good to enjoy instead of the usual banal zonality we are used to. Bring on the next one--preferably with snow included! Edit:Checked UKMO, highest recorded gust was indeed 55mph, however that's at Glasgow Bishopton-which is some ten miles west from here. From that I'd hazard a guess my location may well have saw 60mph. Cheers folks

UKMO just issued two yellow warnings for wind, the first covering whole of Scotland down to Cumbria and parts of NI. First is for Friday midday to midnight. The second warning extends the location to cover essentially the whole of the UK bar a small portion of Kent/E.Anglia. Going to be a wild weekend. I bet they got into their offices and looked at the updated models and thought Oh Crap! Some coffee may have been spilled also extending further south through the evening across the rest of Scotland, Northern Ireland and some exposed coasts of northern England. The location and strength of the very strongest winds remains uncertain. However, gusts seem likely to reach 50 to 60 mph widely, with 70 to 80 mph possible in coastal locations, particularly in parts of Scotland.

I have always struggled to get my head around the MJO and ENSO until I found this allegory/description. I hope it helps similarly MJO challenged folk as myself! Imagine ENSO as a person riding a stationary exercise bike in the middle of a stage all day long. His unchanging location is associated with the persistent changes in tropical rainfall and winds that we have previously described as being linked to ENSO. Now imagine another bike rider entering the stage on the left and pedaling slowly across the stage, passing the stationary bike (ENSO), and exiting the stage at the right. This bike rider we will call the MJO and he/she may cross the stage from left to right several times during the show. So, unlike ENSO, which is stationary, the MJO is an eastward moving disturbance of clouds, rainfall, winds, and pressure that traverses the planet in the tropics and returns to its initial starting point in 30 to 60 days, on average.

I must say here in Glasgow on my daily morning walk to the shop I saw something in the sky that I havent for nearly a year-con trails! A real abundance of them and I know roughly air temp must be -50c for them to form...so in the mid trop it's certainly cooling--I have went a few walks in the last weeks with a clear sky and surface temps around 5*--no contrails. Forgive my ignorance but what chart gives temps for Fl30-40? Glad to be riding the winter train again with you all...eight years ago I'd be waking up a hungover student with a banging headache having if lucky, ridden something else How time changes you! Would good to see the MJO get into phase 8, I believe there to be a fair prospect of this happening.

Glasgow East absolutely hammered by streamers. 3.8 inches in my garden, beautiful untouched snow. Still pelting down, stunning to watch.

Got a bit over excited for this event, transpired into sleety wet snow and temp 1.1° Glassgow East..

Please make the confirmed SSW lead to a BFTE for us and give the whole of ?????????? a real dumping of that lovely fluffy Scandi type snaw

Woke up to this wonderful pre sunrise scene (do we call it twilight in the morning?), and decided I had to go a walk for some excercise. Glasgow east, temp -5.2. Got about half an inch overnight One pic facing east, other to the west.

Any side areas are like an icerink, black ice alert! This is east glasgow 1 min from a main A road. Temp 1.7 feels like -2. I nearly slipped going out to take this picture, all in the name of meteorology lol!

Pretty wild in Glasgow right now I presume it to be the arrival of Bella. Temp on waking was 5.9°, gusts of 55mph predicted. Would have thought UKMO would have extended their yellow warning to cover Glasgow-Edinburgh reigon and south.

Thanks to everyone who helped me with my question, it's great to be in a community that you truly feel part of.

Thanks bud, I appreciate you pointing me in the right direction. Will give it a thorough read

Could someone be kind enough to explain the relationship between dewpoint,temp and snow please? I understand pretty well other concepts like the ensembles, synoptics, el/la nina/nine, SSW,MJO,NAO etc. I just cant seem to get my head round it. It's like a block (no pun intended lol). I've tried google and things but like I said it's like a total block on the concept for me. Thanks so much if anyone can help.

This is Glasgow east, elevation about 55m asl at 10.06AM. It's about 2 to 3 cm. Was a delightful surprise, went out a walk for a paper and it's hard snow underfoot. for low dews and north sea convection tonight and enough wind to blow it east into the colder air the charts are showing in the clyde valley :). Spot the squirrel in the pic lol.

Forgive me for asking here, but which month is typically best for north sea temps. to be at their lowest?