NorthernRab

I know, rather unexpected!

I think this would be the lowest ever (-18'C) 850hPa temperatures to hit Scotland? Pity wasn't being forecast for end of November!

It's extremely premature to be discussing wind direction and upper air temperature, don't you think? There's a fairly strong hint for some form of blocking is about all we can really say at the moment. So it's saying that the seas of Europe will almost all be below average, yet none of Europe itself will be? Right...

D'awww, the only thing that ruins that is his incredibly obvious little black genitalia.

That's a light shower in the higher villages of the Highlands (if we had a troll-face smiley I'd be employing it here)

Good grief. I ventured into the Hopes and Expectations for Winter thread, never doing that again! Back to the familiar warmth of the Scotland thread for now I think.

I would expect the trend to delay the cold to be honest, what with winter not yet being here.

It is genuinely impossible to "rule out" an entire month in meteorology.

It'll probably be gone by the 18hz run, I wouldn't worry balach!

It's quite counter-intuitive, it's track just isn't convincing to the eye really.

I could be wrong, but only about half of all "big" coldspells are preceded by sudden stratospheric warming. It's perfectly possible to get a block without a SSW.

That'll do me nicely

Don't worry, we're a bit more laid back in the Highlands, not quite like Glasgow and Edinburgh

-10'C in the Highlands on Halloween anyone?

We've had a few snow showers here today, winter is on its way!

I'll take one if it amounts to anything noteable, it's just occasional flurries at the moment. Temperature falling away, now only 0.7'C, chilly in the wind though! Edit: Windchill of below -7'C in Wick by the looks of things

First snow of the season! Temp: 1.9'C Dewpoint: -0.5'C Wind: NNW, 15mph, occasional strongs gusts.

First snow of the season here in Inverness!

Low pressure - cyclones move in an anti-clockwise direction whereas high pressure involves anti-cyclones which move in a clockwise direction. Depending on where the pressure sets up, this can lead to cold or mild weather as the cyclone will drag in different bodies of air depending on its position. The modeled area of low pressure (which looks to set itself up just to the NW of the UK) signals rather cool weather for the time of year, nothing drastically cold but certain not a depressingly mild prospect either!

-1'C with light snow showers currently being reported at Altnharra!

But then not in the Highlands with a more southerly location and more daylight...which in fairness goes back to your original point!

Sorry, yes, absolute zero does get a bit boring at times though!

I am indeed - Inverness has been doing very well for its favourite nische weather of freezing fog recently, winter on its way!

True, but Altnaharra is notorious for low temperatures, it lies in a lag / hollow.

I think NL lives in Moray...did you mean NR?