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Lovely couple of days - warm enough in the sun to be working in a t shirt. 

Tomorrow looks pretty wet - hoping it doesn't come to much so the ground stays relatively dry but that might be wishful thinking! 

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Cool feeling and a bit grey but certainly nowhere near as miserable as yesterday thankfully. 

Cautiously optimistic that the ground might dry out enough over the next week or so to finish off the abandoned groundworks. 

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Completely overrun by badgers here too, with again no rabbits left and quite a few cases of ground nesting being dug out. They're also quite partial to tulip bulbs - overturning my gf's pots and digging them out. 

Miserable start to the day - cool and misty with occasional drizzle. 

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This is more like it! What an absolutely beautiful morning - clear blue skies, sunshine already feeling warm and not a breath of wind. 

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4 hours ago, Halfamilefromnowhere said:

Cold but bright here, a few hail/sleety showers pushing through on a distinctly biting NE wind. Ground very wet and pond is overflowing but we have frogspawn for the first time since I dug the pond out last winter.

I hired in a slew digger during the dry spell in February and dug a decent sized pond out along with some other drainage work - just had some final tidying up to do when we ended up with that dump of snow. Still waiting for the ground to even dry out slightly to get the digger back but not looking very promising! It's like a swamp at the moment. 

Also spotted some frog spawn in a ditch si hopefully next year they might be in my pond. 

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Bit of cloud around here too but still quite strong at times with moving columns easily visible to the naked eye. 

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Windy but pleasant enough with almost unbroken sunshine this morning until a recent shower came through when things turned wild for about 10 minutes - driving rain and squally winds that overturned the garden furniture. 

Now back to sunshine and blue skies just as quickly. 

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Lovely so far today - very mild, light breeze and some decent sunny spells. I also spotted some frogspawn when I was out with the dog earlier. Looking forward to some dry weather though - the ground is soaking wet. 

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Very pleasant for the most part today - some warm sunshine, light winds and mild enough that I was working outside in a t-shirt. Just had a heavy shower pass over but seems to brightening up again now. 

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Snowing steadily now, nothing dramatic but it's given a fresh covering. 

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Quite pleasant out there today, mostly calm with occasional milky sunshine breaking through. 

Snow cover hanging on with the ground still frozen hard underneath. 

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As MS mentioned it's been snowing steadily for the last half hour or so. Settling instantly on the hard frozen ground with lovely fluffy dry flakes that are being blown around in the wind. 

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Sleet/wet snow now after what must have been a pretty wet night - burns roaring away with the normally trickling spring in full flow spilling out and flooding the garden. 

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28 minutes ago, Coopsy said:

Would anyone be able to help? I’m trying to look at historical red snow warnings from the met office for Scotland. Specifically to see what’s been the highest snow totals ever forecast.

I vaguely remember one within the last 5/10 years or so. I think it was for NE Scotland for up to 80cm’s of snow. And if memory serves reports came in of huge totals. 

I'm not sure the red warnings will get you what you're looking for. The met office only seem to issue red warnings if they are going to affect significant numbers of people (i.e. the Central Belt). 

Higher parts of inland Aberdeenshire get high snow totals on a fairly regular basis and rarely (if ever?) seem to get anything more than a yellow warning. 

A friend lives in one of the glens off Strathdon and I can think of a number of occasions when the level snowfall total would have been 1m+. It's usually difficult to actually measure because of drifting but the photo below is of quite a tall shed to give a recent example from 2021.

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Been snowing lightly but steadily for the last hour or so giving a fresh covering to the existing snow cover.

Another amazingly day of almost alpine conditions earlier today, I had a snooze at lunchtime in warm sun on the back porch surrounded by glistening snow, blue skies and no wind at all to speak of. 

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I mostly drive a Hilux with 16 inch steel wheels, 70 profile tyres and suspension that is perfectly capable of dealing with rural Mongolia yet even major roads across both Edinburgh and Highland are often wince inducing. 

Aberdeenshire Council seem perfectly capable of keeping on top of things - our dead end single track road that only leads to a farm and 3 houses is ploughed daily and has the odd pothole repaired quite promptly. I've no idea why other councils make such a hash of it. 

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35 minutes ago, Quinach said:

It always amazes me how many unrepaired potholes there are on Edinburgh roads, profitable times for suspension specialists in the city.

I think Aberdeenshire roads are generally pretty well maintained which makes the appalling state of roads elsewhere in Scotland even more noticable. We have good friends in both Edinburgh and Skye and we laugh about how rough the roads are when we visit either, even driving a farm pickup. 

A little top up of fresh over the last hour or so after yet another day of alpine weather - warm sunshine, crisp powdery snow cover and little wind. 

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Just in from a very pleasant evening in the wood fired hot tub (making them is the day job btw if anyone's ever interested!). 

Calm with the moonlight lighting the snow cover up beautifully and cold enough that our hair was frozen solid from the steam of the tub! 

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Beautiful day out there now - mixture of bluebird sunshine and occasional snow showers coming through. 

Not a massive fall here but my parents measured a level 9 inches closer to Aberdeen. No surprise that some of the roads are a bit tricky given it's all fallen this morning. 

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Plenty of heavy snow and hail showers this morning, just on the verge of lying with the hill above looking white in the odd clearer spell. 

Forecast suggests that tomorrow will be colder so still cautiously optimistic of getting the XC skis out this week. 

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Yeah pretty uninspiring day - never properly raining but just damp and drizzly all day. Great day to be rebuilding a rockery with back breakingly heavy rocks covered in thick heavy clay! 

Heading to Braemar to stay with friends for the Mountain Festival so hopeful of at least some white stuff by the time we return on Monday. 

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Absolutely glorious today - near unbroken sunshine and no wind meant it felt pretty warm despite the fairly low air temperature. Seems quite frosty already too. 

Hopefully the next few days stay clear instead of the gloominess forecast by the met automated forecasts. 

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I don't actually have many complaints about this winter - we've had knee deep snow that lasted a good while and temperatures down to below minus 15c.

The last month or so has been quite boring but at least it's been dry with lots of pleasant days for being outside. Another good snowy spell and then some decent spring weather would suit me nicely. 

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4 hours ago, Mair Snaw said:

A beautiful day here, took the dog out on a long walk and Mrs Mair Snaw got trigger happy with the camera.. dog loved it and was out for the count not long after coming home..  

 

Hopefully my digger driving/chainsaw wielding racket in the woods in front of you didn't ruin your walk too much! 

It did turn out to be a cracking day, some warm sunshine at times once the wind died down. Tomorrow looking pretty promising too. 

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1 hour ago, Quinach said:

Aberdeenshire Permagloom™ yesterday, wet Aberdeenshire Permagloom™ so far this morning (though blue skies are tantalisingly over towards the NE).

Quite nice over this side of the hill this morning, dry with some decent sunny spells. 

Mair Snow - will give you a shout next time I cut some up.