Sunny Leith

Over simplifying I know, but a couple of piddly degrees farenheit across the board would have done it eh.... Not much to ask. About time this descent into a mini ice-age got a bloody move on

Great vids by SS and his better half. Talk about living the dream. Boy racer hatchback - check French missus - check Lives in a snow magnet - check Where did I go wrong !

Aye. Its possible to get some transient snow from these kind of Atlantic breakdowns, but generaly it's a rollover not a battleground, and the cold bogs off with a whimper. When the Atlantic came in to kill off the first half of the Dec 2010 cold-spell, There was deep snow, hard- frost, and many places reporting sub -10C temperatures at the start of the day. Atlantic strolled in without a fight and we went straight to a thaw later that day.

aye same here off and on this last hour, definite rain. It had the cheek to start off as snow for about a minute then it remembered it was low-level Embra and went straight to cold rain. yeuch. BBC. Erse fae elbae. Enough said eh !

Agree with you LS that we're not necessarily done with the easterly yet (and certainly not in the NE today). Theres 36-48 hours coming up where the pressure synoptics are still very much giving us an easterly flow. Cold dry air, warm sea always carries the potential, even when pressure looks high on the face of it. OK we won't have a repitition of the last few days but theres potential for some last-gasp localised surprises for easties just as the forecasters are calling a basically dry end to things. A cm or two here and there wouldn't surprise me before the change kicks in.

Light but steady snow in Leith FWIW. Overnight grey slush cover vastly reduced in extent. From an IMBY perspective will be glad when all this gloop moves on and we can get a couple of decent dry cold days again.

Aye mild start and end could balance out 2 cold - but at the end of the day *not* exceptionally so - weeks. Often wonder why there's been a relative decline (it seems to me) of certain weather types that haven't been seen around for a while. A bog standard north-westerly would be one. And the much missed WNWerly that could funnel decent snow showers and dump a few inches eastwards in the central belt. Almost reminiscing there like they're endangered bird species.

Well, looks like its going to keep spinning up and around and over Scotland for some time to come. Who will catch it worst I don't know ....Pretty sure we're jiggered here on the immediate coastal fringe of Embra but for yourself and many others could be a long way to go yet.

Given that the current band at the border stretches almost all the way back to Norfolk, there must be a strong chance that the SE-NW movement and impact of that coastal loop could be going on for another .... I dunno (finger in the air) ... 10...12 hours or longer ?

Filthy night out there, the two feline members of the household doing the only thing that's makes sense !

Great news 101_North. I have high hopes that The Braid Hills snowbowl will have been replenished in the last few hours on top of the weekend crust the sledgers laid down. If we can just avoid any weekend warming then I might still get in a day or twos winter sports with By-Tor junior.

Even Leith has got a fresh coat of grey slush from that wee spell. Trending the right way Embra-wide ... who knows, if it keeps belting down then I might wake up with as much tomorrow morning as I had 36 hours before

Ach , it's no her fault, she needs to go on the training courses first. She can start off with Lampost Watching Module 1 and progress from there! I expect Catch and SS will add these training packages as a feature of their Borders Winter Wonderland weekend packages...

No need, SS and Catch can build some extra rooms and we can make winter B&B bookings. I'd expect Kilters discount would apply, weekend package including breakfast, lunch, supper, off road driving coming in at a very reasonable price. In fact I'm not sure we'd want to offend them with silly talk about money changing hands! You're living the dream Catch, living the dream !

just traversed the Embra-Leith snow line. The Bridges...wet pavements/minor slush. Carlton Hill...wet snow plastered all over at the top. Down onto London Road....wet pavements/some wet slush in London Road gardens. Fifty metres difference in altitude either side of the hill making all the difference. Really frustrating day here when a couple of degrees Fahrenheit could have made all the difference even at street level Embra. Mother in law saying there's plenty up at Liberton though, so higher points south and west of here look to have eventually picked up a few cms of claggy stuff within the city boundaries. A minor consolation.

Just come out of a meeting, still heavy-ish outside, and the wind-driven claggy sopping wet snaw has attached itself to most of the balcony outside. Looks like someone has plastered it with 20 gallons of wallpaper paste. Eskimo's would have to find yet another word to describe this "snaw". But hey ... beggars can't be choosers. I'm going to walk home back across Calton Hill and see what its like up top. Too early in the day to get mugged there...and all the muggers will be keeping warm in the local Leith pubs and drug-dens anyway.

Christ we are nowcasting street by street in Embra, talk about marginal !

I'm just a mile down the road from you in Chambers Street, been heavy the last while and slushing up on the window ledge. You have a wee bit more height and should work out better there ... but basically would need to keep things at this intensity for quite a while to even start to usefully accumulate this claggy stuff.

Get yer bags packed for the border SS. Another Kilter has already confessed to attending a ceremony at your home where there was frenzied Morris Dancing, Jellied Eels and a chorus of Rule Brittania. The net is closing...

That SS picnic bench will have to be taken in for forensic investigation. It seems to be the focal point for all SS snow falls and I suspect its been robbing The Scottish Peoples Snaw for years now. Probably some kind of witches magic they use in these far-flung borders places ... respectable research scientist by day ... by night though probably goat sacrifices and wacky dancing around a pentangle... Think we'll have to burn the bench immediately after the guilty verdict in a wickerman stylee !

Aye well, end of last week Catch and SS were taking snaw fae cross-border English sourced airflows. Got to be question marks against this pair now, "bought and sold for English snaw". Do The Scottish Peoples Snaw Committee need a jury or can we just move straight to the guilty verdict ?

Currently been good for a few but poor for most. Not fair to take central Embra as any kind of guide, but theres just not enough of it ... not enough intensity. Another yardstick I use sometimes (a commonsense obvious one) is how far away can I see through any falling snow... currently its for bloody miles. When I can't see through the snow for a mile - and preferably much less than that - then I'll know its *probably* falling heavily enough to stick. Not even close to that kind of situation. Don't think this is going to be one to remember for low-level coasties ... but to be fair, thats what the forecast was hinting at. I just wanted to ignore it thats all !

hmmm..increasingly strong and gusty wind off the sea, local coastal dew points going against us, lack of intensity in what's falling. seems like its only going one way today here - cold sleety ...but every now and again a wee burst of snaw will tease us. higher parts of town the place to be but virtually no chance we'll end up with lying snow on Embra coastal fringe from this event IMO.

Doesn't smell right does it ... No reason why inland and folk with height still can't do well today. But us coasties are really struggling at this point. Radar shows track from England has lost a lot of the brighter intense radar returns and and IMBY(ish) the dew point at Embra airport now sitting at 0C. Pavements are wet and sleet at the lamppost just now. No wiggle room left here in Leith, looks like a damp-fest here. Can only wish others luck with this but not looking great for many.

I see Edinburgh airport has been reporting snow showers for the last 7 hours. but that can't be any heavier than the lamppost snow that most of us have been seeing over recent hours. Are they really obliged to report that as "showers" ?