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YeahBabyYeah, I can see yours on the Laurencekirk traffic cam, very impressive! - Ours hasn't reached the Huntly cam yet but it should any minute, if only the Ellon cam was working as ours must have passed over it
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hmm am surprised had a few sleet showers, which left a very think dusting, earlier but it's now SNOWING with proper thick flakes and lying,
I didn't really expect much here today as I thought we were a little too far North for the action (though it would be mainly centered on Fife!) until perhaps this evening
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very true Northern Rab, however we tend to know the signs a bit better and can prepare t shorter notice (old habits die hard!).
I think that's why even the METO can't get the warnings right for Scotland until the last minute, as it really is a country with regions that have very different micro climates because of the precise wind direction and different lots of Hills can make or break .. who knows.. like you Mondy, I don't like that Scotland is lumped because very rarely, if ever, will the E/W or N/S have the same conditions
it does make our hobby more intersting at times though, don't you think
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Yes Blitzen, don't let those pretty pink pictures get to you.. best way to not be let down is not get those hopes up too high
certainly getting a bit chillier here, it's been averaging about 6C for the last 2 days now down to 2.8, DP 0
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GG would you not be due to do well out of Sunday if there's a more Westerly flow?
I was just kidding earlier btw, yes they frequently do not get the warnings right for up here so I rarely pay attention to them especially this far out - and besides I'm in a Que Sera Sera mood
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YBY, looks like we're not getting anything :lol:, no warnings, nothing for Saturday on MO for NE, Oh Well
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btw, j/k - patience is a virtue so they say
yes had a hit of sleet inland here this afternoon too, temp now 4 too, been loads of squally showers most of the day and the hilltops showing signs of whiteness
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No alert or warning from Net Weather. Wonder if the Meto are being too rash ?
Was thinking the same Mondy, surely the W SW peeps would be reporting sleet already, but most places I'm just seeing rain?
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-3 to -4c here
-6 to -7c in Aboyne.
Ah the Glory
:rolleyes:As it turns out both guesstimates were close, I recorded -3.4c here.
Beautiful sight this morning, lovely and white, festive start to Winter!
re: -8 to -10 in the Highlands I only saw quite a few places reach -7, so it's quite possible they dipped lower around 4am
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finally dipped below freezing here, currently -0.1c : dp -1
think I'm a little too far NE for major competition tonite, Rosehearty on the far NE Coast is till showing +6c
another Scottish site with sortable columns shows the SW is coldest so far (aside from the Highlands frost hollow which is, Loch Glascarnoch) with temps around -4 to -6. Assuming this is going over the borders too as Shap showing fairly cold -3/-4 too
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temps fell to +0.4 low at 8pm, now risen to +0.8c
(still not revising guesstimate yet, hehe, but there's a long way to go )
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sorry wrong thread..
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Update anything
OK, haha think I might need that liquid Nitrogen too
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-3 to -4c here
-6 to -7c in Aboyne.
currently 1.5c
are we allowed to update forecasts throughout the evening, or just update our own locations? -
still going, now heavy thick flakes here, hasn't stopped since 7:30am - gotta go get weeyun from school as it's closing.
re: Dufftown JCB's etc.. been a long time since I saw that happening
- That's a lot you had up there in Moray in a short space of time..just waiting for the rain now
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Yup LadyP, didn't think it would get over here, started at 7 as per meto warning. Snowing moderately and slow moving
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Nice post Shuggee, and I agree there's no telling until it happens
local forecast here is for rain/sleet/snow (which for here is a pretty safe bet as always
!)we had a few snow showers earlier this evening and I'm watching closely what Coastie is reporting as that is usually indicative of what we can expect especially if thon win' goes a bit more northerly..
I've seen the South of the Uk have a high pressure mild westerly with the northerly stream in full flow up here but only affecting the extreme North (aka, the isles!), but with a tiny bit of an easterly influence can make a huge difference to us here.. and more so you, I think!
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you're welcome, White Xmas, at least we have some other heating sources and will worry about paying for it later
Andy nobody wants an argument, but with your seasoned knowledge there's no need to come in here saying how you had it worse. You maybe had it different.. but so do we (or most of us, just like you) - we weren't jealous and some still have the lying/falling snow to prove it. However it's not a competition as far as I know?
I think we can all agree that we're on this forum (Netweather, not the Scotland thread!) because we have an interest in the weather.. normally we Scots wouldn't even get a chance to discuss these little "anomalies" that occur up here, so it's interesting that we are finally getting a space in between the greater noise to "chat", for instance I would never dream of mention 'curly' things in other threads.. but I do READ them.
LadyP is right, there was a cracking sat pic that indeed showed 3 of those "Curly" things in a row, in fact it was one of them that gave us (NE) our snow last thurs/friday, however the fact you didn't notice is either indicative or normal
- it would not, even in a "normal" winter, have been of interest to the majority because it would have been dismissed as "normal for them".. when in fact it isn'tThis winter is different all around I think!
carry on.. hope this doesn't cross the border RossB.. if so I alopogise ..
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as has been pointed out in previous replies, it probably isn't/wasn't a polar low, however it is/was a very interesting feature because it disbanded and reformed a couple times (in the same place just of the NW coast). Apparently it's just a low pressure passing through, and as Coastie noticed its interesting because whenever the curly/swirly thing has formed then disbanded it has thrown off troughs (?right word?) which have provided a few bands of weather as is being reported from the north downwards
follow it here during the last 24 hours
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it certainly is skirting us I think, I'm about 18 miles east of Huntly and 18 miles west of Aberdeen city - we've about a cm now, NW features always seem to miss the sheltered east Aberdeenshire and Aberdeen itself.
However I measured today and we've still 6.5 inches of level snow so a cm or 2 top up will do quite nicely
Don't think Glasgow will see this one, but the one following behind is supposed to track more to the west coast isn't it?
PS: White Xmas, thanks for your input in this thread I enjoy readin your posts
PPS: LadyP, where'd you lose it (I've done that myself a time or 2
) hard not to lose patience at timesPPPS my c.heating is still frozen
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the band over us just now isn't the "polar low" thingy though is it? they are still quite distinct on the satellite with the curly thing still off the NW
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Just saw that warning too, tbh I wasn't expecting it this far east..
Just a report to say that temp dropped from +5.8 to 0.0 in 2.5 hours between 2pm and 4.30pm
don't have a barometer to see the pressure drop, and that band that's on the radar is further East that I thought it was going to be
Ah.. have just seen a few light flakes and Huntly cam shows the snow is there or there abouts, it's hard to tell in the half light but it matches what I see to the west out my window..
believe Portsoy has seen an inch or so already, apparently it's falling very thickly and blowing
the worst may still not reach here but it's close
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woke up to another whiteout, maybe another 2-3 inches, don't know when it happenened, but I think it must've been that heavy band now over the SW/Lothian.
Is threatening to turn to rain, but it's now snowing again, blowy squally shower. I think it'll be intermittent rain/snow looking at those showers coming down, temp 0.6º - it's very windy too making it blizzard like and treacherous for driving I imagine, thankfully not got to go out today
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Well if the Meto need to see that it's actually snowing (and has been for a couple hours leaving another couple inches) before they put out the warning then I think that pretty much sums up the nowcasting nature of all of these events.
I think the charts & forecasts are a bit useless just now too, nobody's fault, just don't hink anyone really knows for sure when/where because of the unusual combination of events?
Name me one place up here which has suffered school closures and travel problems today?http://www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/adverse/list.asp
and more schools just closing now.. oh we're on there now too .. need to go get him
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the tail of that polar/lee low thingy off the far NE coast does have a little left in it
it's snowing heavily again, no warnings on meto, nor can I find it on any forecast.. on top of yesterdays which froze and is looking beautiful still hanging on the trees etc, this is a bit unexpected but - yippee!!
PS: am in favour of keeping a Scotttish thread pinned too, all too often our wee bits of news get lost in "favoured area" type comments
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) hard not to lose patience at times
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