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    Scottish weather discussion - Spring 2023/24

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    8 minutes ago, damianslaw said:

    Good to see postings of temps tonight and early hours and how quickly the cold air is descending behind the cold front.. the min temp thread the place to post..

    Max of 0.5C during the first band of thin snow late morning into early afternoon, then dropped during the third (and last) band which was almost moderate, to -1.5C and now dropped to -2.5C. Feels like a cold one coming.

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    Scottish weather discussion - Spring 2023/24

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    We're on our third band of epic heavy light snow now, enough to add a bit more than a dusting. Everything looks pretty though as the temp's been hovering around 0C most of the day.

    Inverness was at 1C and pretty messy earlier.

    The council have been assiduously gritting every square metre of tarmac so I've no idea whether my fancy new Conti Vikings are as good as the hype. Maybe tomorrow!

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    Scottish weather discussion - Spring 2023/24

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    Just now, Snowandrocks said:

    Even in recent years we've had sub minus 20 locally here I'm sure? I've got a photo somewhere of the temperature gauge in the pickup that I bought in 2020 reading minus 19.5 outside the house during the daytime. I seem to remember others on here posting similar. 

    That matches my memory. Yet the beeb presenters say -10C as if it's icemageddon. It's fkn not.

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    Scottish weather discussion - Spring 2023/24

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    19 minutes ago, Ravelin said:

    Currently -3.7C here, and with a high of -1.7C around 2pm it's easily made an 'ice day', barring a miricle warm up in the next 1.5hrs. MetO app, XC Weather, and Yr.No forecasts all suggest it'll stay below freezing right through to later on Friday (only just tomorrow, with a possible max of between -1 and 0C).

    Can we make it 4 straight ice days in a row? That in itself would be relatively unusual

    I would say there's a good chance for here to have 4 ice days out of 5, with tomorrow being the spoiler - forecast to go slightly above freezing in the middle of the day. Certainly if we get even another dusting of snow tomorrow, that'll help keep temps down from then through till Friday morning.

    The downer of course is the extra heating costs. Most of the time now we're able to keep the house warm with the wood-burning stove with back-boiler plus an electric oil-filled rad in the kitchen, but when it's constantly sub-zero, the oil boiler has to be fired up too. Not so cheap.

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    Scottish weather discussion - Spring 2023/24

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    21 minutes ago, Northernlights said:

    Ben Wyvis takes most of our showers on a NW wind so we only have a couple of centimetres. penetrating frost with a strong wind and -2c. Real arctic sky with  all the intense colours. Much dryer air too so steading dry and cattle and me  breathing easier . A lot of sublimation going on with this very cold drying wind. 

    Another load of wood barrowed over so we can keep the log burner going Most of the neighbours lighting theirs just now judging by  the smoke from chimmines

    Wyvis has a lot to answer for. We should report it to the International Court of Chionophilia Rights. Or some such.

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