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Certainly starting to feel like spring outside. 9C this afternoon in Edinburgh, surprised it’s so warm considering the isotherms well below zero. Some cloud around but also plenty of sun. Latest GFS runs indicating the high pressure may be strong enough to push away the atlantic fronts... although still a fair amount of cloud around as we head into next week. “Beast from the east” most likely to impact italy, I’m concerned about the impact it will have on agriculture over there... some very low temperatures for the time of year expected if confirmed

Sleety pish a few minutes ago in central Edinburgh when it was heaviest. Back to rain now.

Yep, worth keeping an eye on. Unfortunately very marginal again. Next week could high pressure finally bring us some good weather? GFS thinks so, ECMWF keeping us on the wet, mild and windy edge again :( Looking abroad, quite a significant spell of cold weather seems to be heading towards south-eastern europe. A beast that keeps on coming. Shame it’s not heading anywhere near us

I’ve been keeping an eye on the models for a few days now, they are showing some very cold scenarios for scotland in the long term... a few members going for <-10C isotherms. Blustery wintry showers are likely to return from next wednesday, again down to low levels at times should it be confirmed.

Considering how bad December and January have been, it's been nice to see a few snowfalls over the last couple of weeks. The blizzardy showers from the west were quite exciting to watch too (10-12 February and again last Saturday)

GFS 12 definitely an upgrade (for Edinburgh at least). 0C at midday? I think I'm getting carried away, it is Edinburgh, all I should be expecting is rain and 3C.

Maybe I shouldn't be so quick to dismiss snow on Monday. 0C over the forth Monday morning even as the milder uppers flow in, hopefully GFS is right. Reminds me a bit of the snow event we had in December 2018 where uppers were hovering around 0 and ground temperatures stayed very low on eastern winds.

And there's the Edinburgh snow shield

I'm thinking more snow than sleet tomorrow, uppers looking less marginal than of late. I'm not expecting anything on Monday, maybe some wet flakes mixed in, but these situations rarely bring anything other than rain to Edinburgh.

Can confirm the snow showers earlier in Edinburgh. More to come on Saturday I think with uppers touching -8C. Mild spell on Monday and then temperatures should drop again with plenty of opportunities for snow showers to low levels. At least February is feeling wintry.

Possible snow tomorrow? Uppers dropping to -7 by midday tomorrow across many parts of Scotland

Snow in some of the heaviest showers that passed over Edinburgh today.

Squall line passing over Edinburgh, windows rattling and rain lashing

Fizzling out on the radar, doubt it will make it here.

It has been great in Edinburgh, proper blizzards moving in from the west all day. Goes to show we can get snow even with an extremely strong polar vortex and jet stream (provided it tracks low enough). I strongly suspect the snow showers will merge into a longer spell of rain later on tonight, but back to snow showers tomorrow.

Snowing in Edinburgh

I’m starting to doubt whether showers will actually reach Edinburgh from the west. Latest GFS showing marginal precipitation. We’d need hefty showers to see something wintry as the temperatures are just too high...

I'm still hoping to see at least sleet in edinburgh at some point over the next few days. Maybe hail?

These charts are quite exceptional, the westerly winds modelled are so strong that cold air looks like it is being pulled over all the way from North America to the UK with little warming along the way. Quite exciting days ahead if these charts get confirmed. I think they will get watered down though, both in terms of temperature and wind.

Just rain showers in Edinburgh I wasn't expecting snow to be honest. Next week could be interesting for many. -8 uppers showing on GFS from Monday with snow at sea level. Assuming the jet stream does fire up as predicted and flattens that high pressure to our south

AO is going off the scale (almost). Charts like this could well become reality this February, in which case I’d be more worried about the wind than hoping for snow.

I've put my bike away and I don't think I'll be taking it back out anytime soon looking at the forecasts. Couldn't get worse for us

Temperatures dropping fast in Edinburgh ahead of the next band of snow (hopefully). Only 2C outside now, was 3.-3.5 earlier even during the heavy wet snow

Sleet in the city centre too now. Surprised it isn't completely snow up in Currie, there was a moment 2 minutes ago with pure snow falling here.

Edinburgh airport was reporting light snow, changed to light rain about 5 minutes ago. Just rain in the city centre