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Any guesses as to where you think this could happen mountain shadow? I'm crap at reading Fax charts but the wind seems a bit too direct from the North so places south of Stonehaven would be dry? Although I notice some fronts moving down..... as I said, I'm not good with Fax charts!

Wednesday to friday could be interesting.

My idea of a proper city (in the UK) is London, Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Leeds, Bristol, Belfast etc...

I was referring to the actual size rather than what it does and doesn't have. And anyway, it only has one Burger King for goodness sake

Further to LadyP's post about Scotland's cities, I thought Perth was already a city but by it doesn't have legal status just yet. (I've just looked it up) So we can scrub Perth from the snowiest city in Scotland possibility list. I'm not from Dundee originally but I will say that Dundee has more of a large town feel rather than a city feel. A lot of my friends from university in Dundee felt the same. It should probably be classified as a town.

But they're 2 separate places? There's cities in N. Ireland with populations of 20,000- 40,000

Dundee has almost 4 times the population of Inverness. Dundee's population is close to 150,000 and it's the most densely populated city in Scotland. I would have thought that Perth is the coldest city in Scotland.

I remember reading a thread by one of the forecasters about the different types of easterlies that you can get in the UK in winter, ranging from dull and drizzly to prolonged heavy snowfall. I think there were 4 or 5 different types. I can't remember if it was last winter or the winter before that it was posted but it was a great read and had examples.

I still remember this well. The UKMO went up a lot in my estimations after this as it never once went for an easterly whilst the other big two models struggled badly.

Definitely an easterly. We're a bit too sheltered here from a northerly. What PersianPaladin said rings true for here too- if the orientation of the high pressure is just right easterlies usually deliver. Due to the long fetch across the sea we can get heavy snow showers here, but easterlies seem a rarity these days. The Feb 2005 easterly brought some heavy falls of snow at night time, that's the last easterly we had.

For my area, it has been a very poor winter so far. Last winter was very poor also and this winter is on course to be comparable to last years as the crappiest winters in my memory. Truly horrible stuff....

lol. Beat that

Gotta love the internet- The best source for incorrect information :o

Oh so Flash it is then. Goes to show why you cannot trust random websites on the internet or indeed, newspaper reports! lol.

Wikipedia cannot be trusted nor can that newspaper link I posted. 1983 Guinness book of records has it as Flash? that's quite out of date. Who knows

We'd need to see evidence that Wanlockhead's altitude of 1531 is incorrect. I've done some googling and haven't come up with anything.

Um, yes it is. Flash= 1518 ft ASL Wanlockhead= 1531 ft ASL http://travel.independent.co.uk/uk/article64015.ece And the pictures I posted earlier...

Obviously the highest village doesn't mean it's the coldest, but I mistook Stephen Prudence's post and thought he was referring to altitude, hence the reason why I posted the altitudes. Anyway, Braemar is the coldest (with a weather station)

Shap is only around 250 M, Spadeadam 285 M, although I think the RAF base in Spadeadam is a bit higher than this

Wanlockhead in the Southern Uplands in Scotland is slightly higher than Flash.

Just off the top of my head, Braemar probably. Althought that doesn't mean it's the coldest place. It probably records the coldest temperatures of all weather stations in the UK. Loch Glascarnoch and Altnaharra are two others that spring to mind also.

Yes it really isn't, but it's blatantly obvious that this person is just pig-ignorant with his ramblings about something that he obviously doesn't understand. Anyway, not going to waste my time replying any further as it's a complete waste of time. Ah the "notorious" Tayside river.... :unsure:

You said you've been in Dundee before right? If you really have been then you'd surely know that The Dee does not run through Dundee. Dundee city centre is low lying, but the North and Northwest certainly isn't with the highest point in the entire city being 174 metres above sea level. "Dundee is a small city and most parts can be easily reached in 20-30 minutes by bicycle from the city centre. Dundee is fairly hilly when travelling North/South but is flat when travelling East/West........................." http://www.dundee.ac.uk/general/travel/cycle.htm No doubt the city centre and low-lying areas along the river see little snow most years, but that's certainly not the case the further North you go in the city as demonstrated just last week.

Many residents in the "notoriously snowless" town of Dundee woke up to a covering of strange white stuff this morning. No one knows what this mysterious white substance is and Council chiefs have called many City Councils in England for advice but they were unable to help as their cities woke up to rain. As Duran Duran once sang- No-No-Notorious