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Aye, well it was lying there since about 4 so I think it should be good enough, especially given we've got another 24 hours of precipitation to come at least. Still think Leith might redeem itself tomorrow night but that's just a hunch for the moment...

Great stuff, always amazes me how well Dundee does even in marginal setups, enjoy your snow!

No sign of degradation as such here, cover still reasonable on the grass and trees, just transient on tarmac and cars. I think we might just be able to salvage something out of it in this part of town when the front comes in since it does seem to lie quite well when there's a bit of intensity to it and some of it is just down to a lack of persistent heavy showers but Leith is looking a bit precarious at the moment.

My current analysis is that the front seems to be moving into East Lothian and Edinburgh but we still have convection developing underneath that which will crucially enhance precipitation intensity. Remember though, fronts are dangerous things and have a habit of turning on you, especially if you live near the coast. Still, for those whom fortune favours this will be a night to remember for a long, long time even in a winter packed with locally outstanding events.

Yes, in this instance they're very much in the better position, but often that isn't the case in easterlies when there's no 'north advantage' to the uppers and the flow is due east rather than ENE. This is classic Fife snow machine synoptics. And just like that we're back to almost full cover again. This stuff looks a little less transient so perhaps we'll be able to get a good base built up in the next hour.

Excellent - band really pepping up as it hits here. The convection seems to be close to the coast rather than from further out at sea since the intensity increases so dramatically when moving 10-15 miles inland (i.e. West Lothian and Lanarkshire).

The 17th-18th was good for eastern England too I believe but certainly December 2009 was execptionally snowy for Scotland, with no breakdown from the 17th when the snow started falling through to the 15th January and snow falling here on almost every day.

Looks like something more organised moving towards Edinburgh from the east. A bit frustrating to see other parts copping the snow but I suppose that's just par for the course here, plus it is March! Shaping up to be a good event, and hopefully we can stave off the marginality and allow accumulations to build up overnight and into tomorrow.

Very high:

Not a huge amount going down here either, seem to be just skirting here at the moment, but the next one looks more likely to be a direct hit. Arthur's Seat playing havoc with snow distribution I think!

Looks like some should start to track your way through Fife in the next few hours.

Back on quite heavy here, should be with you in the next 10-15 minutes. It's an underrated part of the world, some quite nice bits to it In all seriousness, next shower should be on in just a minute if it's not on now, looks like a lot pilling in there in the next few hours.

At present rate you'll be digging yourself out by the morning. I doubt any marginality issues that us mere Edinburgh mortals might see will affect you and I think you'll be in the firing line all night and into tomorrow so, em, could be looking at anywhere from 4 inches to a foot, IMO.

The occlusion that's currently sitting off the northeast of England will push up towards us I believe.

Showers just skirting Edinburgh at the moment and heading west, though the East Lothian stream looks to be heading our way soon. A92 is covered back in Fife, typical!

At the moment you keep missing the beefiest of the showers so yes, I'd imagine it will get better.

Next shower looks like hitting this side a bit more, starting off as soft hail now before moving towards the bigger flakes and then fine sheets.

Dammit man you've skipped the snow queue somehow! Still not quite there yet on the tarmac, must just be lack of intensity at the moment, West Lothian taking a beating as always! Glad I didn't go out to Armadale or I don't think I would've made it back.

Temperatures continuing to drop, now down to 0C at the Airport, 1C at the wunderground stations all around the town (including 1C in Leith), intensity to increase too, big line of showers heading in to work with so some will undoubtedly be heavier.

That's not quite true, yes in FI some have been more extreme but in February and in March the ECM 12Z were both pretty on the money in terms of the modelling of uppers at least. In fact it slightly underestimated the upper air temperatures for last Monday. Certainly not sure how it could have overplayed the snow potential here for this week so far either, given the ensuing snowmaggedon outside my window and the snowfalls of the last few days in other parts of the British Isles. Had the GFS generally verified better at these critical junctures it would have been a very different winter with almost no notable cold spell to speak of when in fact there have been many.

Reminds me very much of November 28th 2010, when uppers were similarly forecast to nudge just slightly above -8C when the main band was meant to come in. Fortunately this also coincided with nightfall and in the endit remained as snow, beginning perhaps the snowiest week of my lifetime for my location.

Aye, the mild air's winning by a country mile in FI: Up to that point -8C uppers on every frame from central Scotland northwards, with the boundary between milder and colder air shifting back and forth from southern to northern England. One of the colder runs certainly and different in that it disrupts the low but as long as one of the three main models shows something substantially different to the others this won't be settled.

Not much if any melt on the grass here between the showers, tarmac seeing a bit of melt but that should be seen off fairly soon once it's completely dark.

It is! Small world. What a view of the Pentlands you get, or today of just snow. Proper covering almost here now.

Just before the first big shower got going 17:20 Five minutes later