shunthebartlett92

Nice to see some getting snow! Ive seen the odd light covering past few days but it was transient at best. Been a pretty meh winter. That said, i did a gorgeous coastal walk earlier south of stonehaven. Who needs snow when youve got the north sea coast!

Hmmmm wondering about a eastern cairngorms hike tomorrow! Only 600m elevation or so, could be tasty!

uh oh, i booked a night in a hotel in aberdeen because the power was out in skene (just outside westhill) at around 4.45. I kinda hope the power stays off for 24 hours so we have a compensation case to make...

It's got everything to do with it. Warmer atmosphere, more instability, more energy for low pressure systems to gain momentum. They'll get deeper and more energetic in years to come.

Yes indeed, im starving and want to go to the shops and id rather just stay put tonight! Cant wait for this to pass and a calmer week ahead already, its gonna be a right mess commuting in the morning i feel.

I have to say, having been on the NE coast for a few weeks now there is some security and calm to the west mids weather on the whole. Never seen winds like this weekend past back home. Its pretty scary when you get intense 60 mph gusts for an hour or two! Does put you off living up here permanently, with climate change those north sea lows will only get more intense. At least down here you know, at worst youre talking 50-60mph gusts but its fairly rare on the whole?

As has been said before, what a messy story this morning here. Easily 60mph gusts and the drive from westhill to tarland was interesting at 10am (perhaps idiotic) with several fallen trees or parts of along the roadside. thankfully it eased up and we got to tarland for a decent lil hike, and afterwards my mate and I got down to Montrose a little later for some no nonsense football and a glorious coastal drive down the A92. Not a bad day!

Urgh I know. My friends up for the weekend and I was hoping to get to pittodrie and tick off a new ground and tick off a hike near tarland. Think we’ll be taking shelter inside, damn North Sea lows

You know what, im starting to like aberdeen, despite all the grey associations it gets. Its been amazing weather since i got here 9 days ago. Beach nearby, good hiking within an hour. Whats not to like!

Same in the cairngorms, drove past the ski centre on the aberdeenshire border and there was an absolutely minimal amount of snow. Really dry on the peaks overall.

What i cant understand (this is one for those with more met knowledge than i do), is why that trough digging well into E/SE europe cannot move just 500 miles further west but it just never does. I would imagine the jet stream is the significant influencer here, its too strong to allow a NW-SE aligned trough to persist for any length of time, and the other blinking irritating factor in UK synoptics, the azores high!

All to do with the temperature inversion under the high pressure, warmer at higher levels than the surface (exemplified earlier this week by the fact high ground in the southwest was seeing temperatures some 4 to 5c HIGHER than those in the valleys! I guess this is causing such variation in the min temps recorded

i think most of continental europe is in a better position to see these extremes anyway. The landmass effect of colder air aids to cool a larger surface area at least giving southern europe a chance. Too much water modifies the temperatures we can see in this country. It is depressing when southern europe sees snow, or the far southwest of BC has had 3 weeks of snow and bitter temperatures, when its the mildest part of the country.

I mean, although it is easy to feel resigned given that teleconnections have been working in our favour; solar activity, MJO and QBO phases looking favourable, i wouldnt be as defeatist. Last winter delivered at least a little snow for most of us at some stage (We were lucky in the midlands) and im still fairly confident one of the next few winters will have a decent cold spell at some stage (hardly sticking my neck out here) but i think this winter serves a stark reminder that a fired up jet stream and positive NAO setup will always be the default for the UK, with west or southwesterlies prevailing. This is mainly due to the power of the coriolis force, in the NH pressure systems rarely move from east to west, with the atlantic far too powerful compared to anything else in UK weather setups. When i see a northerly modelled for the UK i always feel uneasy, because i know well that the mid atlantic high is never far away from spoiling the party and blowing troughs to our east out the picture very quickly. A good east or northeasterly is the most exciting it gets really for most, and even then its incredibly difficult to get a UK wide setup where everyone is happy. In summary though, although i feel fairly resigned about this winter too, a cold spell can crop up out of nowhere and i still feel amidst a warming planet, we'll get our chance before long again.

Potential for a little further snow from the odd shower within the next 24 hours?

True! At least using a camera is good evidence for the current situation, then noone can argue otherwise. The higher parts of the black country do well in snowy setups. That said, i know that reading the northwest thread and some local media, Ashbourne up to Buxton got a right old dumping today and google maps showed that the roads were a write off extensively, so its hard to compete with that on a midlands basis (for today at least). I'll shutup now and go back to my snowless cave

Fair enough! It looked like a good few cm covering in Matlock there. I would've expected derbyshire to be in for some decent accumulations today, but i didnt see a lot to suggest anything in the west mids was close to that. As always, elevation helps with settling snow.

I dont think you're really understanding my point. I think my point is pretty robust, in that i dont believe parts of the black country got accumulations to that level. Maybe slushy, grass verges etc, a temporary covering or the odd cm or so, but that video showed significantly accumulating snow, but what i wouldve expected given Matlock (or locally to Matlock) is well located for snow. If you did, well done to you. I got a sugar dusting on the top of my gazebo at best. I'm fine in stourbridge thanks, its a good location for walking and for my day-to-day life.

Because we dont know where it's been posted from.... But we do know there's been significant disruption local to matlock and heading up towards Buxton.

Between 90 and 203m apparently, but surrounded by hills of 3-400m easily. Also, a damn sight closer to hotspots in the peaks where its been carnage these past few hours.

And i'm telling you, i don't believe you! I'm sure you got a temporary covering, but i doubt it was quite at that Matlock level. And i'm not just talking about that one video, im talking about current conditions in that part of Derbyshire. Anyway, look, this is petty.

Because you didn't get the same amount of snow as at matlock! Transitory accumulations at best. The atlitude is significant in that part of derbyshire. Sorry

No, and neither did you

Thats a beaut! Get me to matlock!

I hear you. 20 mins of lovely thick flakes of snow but its now heavy rain. May get some stilts for the old house Nout worse than cold rain, urgh.