Next week looks much better. Mostly dry with sunny periods. Forecast is for a return to wind and rain from Wednesday/Thursday onwards with snow on the hills. The outlook is for generally more of the same over Christmas.
Perhaps signs of a significant change around new year.
Miserable weather, cloudy heavy rain and feeling chilly in the NW winds. Turning colder, and drier, over the weekend. A change to milder weather Thursday next week.
Decided against trudging around the hills today. Feet up in front of the fire.
I found this slightly surprising.
Temps are running between 0.5 C and 1C above the December average in the south of the UK. In the north, between 1C and 3C above the December average.
5C and absolutely lashing down. Met Office forecast is for the rain to continue for the next 22 hours for NE Scotland.
Grim.
The result is apparently a done deal. Huge majority expected.
Atlantic driven low pressure systems are forecast to continue this week and into next week, according to BBC weather.
More rain and more wind to come.
Scottish Ski centres might do quite well. 2013/14.....
I'm thinking we might see snow gates closing tonight or tomorrow. The forecast weather looks suspiciously like blizzard conditions for the higher routes.
Glenshee windchill temps tonight/tomorrow-12C with heavy snow.
Cairngorm windchill temps -17c with heavy snow.
From the Met Office:
A storm will be named when it has the potential to cause an amber or red warning. Other weather types will also be considered, specifically rain if its impact could lead to flooding as advised by the Environment Agency, SEPA and Natural Resources Wales flood warnings.
3 hours ago the Met office tweeted that Storm Brendan, despite media reports, was not official. Instead they were warning of high wind and rain.
Bizarre.