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Juat had some freezing rain here in Liberton, south side of Edinburgh. Having been out and about at various relatives the past 24 hours, looks like the Embra-wide snow cover should be able to stick about nicely over the next 24-36 hours, as long as the air temp continues to hang around freezing or a degree or two above and we manage another ground frost tonight. Snow cover here about 9-10 cms in the back garden, crusted on top, softer underneath. Crust making snowman building too hard but just had a snowball fight with the youngster so its still serviceable for fun and games !
Edit: just being replaced here now by big wet heavy flakes.
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Happy Xmas Snow1975 ! Cloud breaking here too and sun threatening. Dusk in a couple of hours and a ground frost would stop the rot for all of us in east-central areas.
Not quite so badly hit up town and as any Leither will tell you, "Leith isnae Embra". Heading up to the in-laws at Liberton in a while, often chalk and cheese between there and here in these situations ... was pretty deep up there until 24 hours ago and I expect these higher parts of town to still be in good-nick snow-wise
Merry Xmas people!
Well there is still plenty of snow on the ground here, but it's thawing today. We had mainly light rain showers here earlier this morning. However, there was a moderate burst of sleety rain while i was doing my 0900hr observation. Temp, 1.5C and Tdew, 1C at the time.
2100-0900 min temp, 0.5C at 2100hr.
Snow depth at 0900hr, 9cm in garden and 6.5cm in nearby field- so a loss of 3cm from yesterday.
The sun is out now and temp is near 3C.
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Frankly dissapointing day here met-wise in Leith after the build-up of the last week.
Still spitting steady light rain on the window. Aiport temp is 1c/DP1c, inevitably its warmer here and we've got a slow but quite steady thaw on. Expect the back gardens and open/grassy areas to hold into it longest .. the deep stuff there is getting very claggy and flattening down. Street wise we're in slush city. Twenty four hours ago the cold felt invincible here but the reality is that we're in marginal situations most of the time...
Not exactly setting us up to hold onto the snow cover here over the next 24-48 hours but other parts of the town had more than us and might yet hold onto just enough to get to the next cold spell. But I'm not optimistic.
Oh well !
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Have a great day everyone !
Light rain here in Leith but ho-hum
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Merry Xmas to yourself LS and to all others on the Scottish thread. Been a fascinating few days and looks like another week or two of high interest to come.
Edit: not too shabby here in Leith as it turns out, patchy rain stopped an hour or so ago and any snow hit is pretty much from the tenement roofs and cars. Most pavements still snow covered and 8 to 10 cms of claggy dense snow still on the grassy areas, nothing that a decent ground frost won't patch up tonight ! Up town, Princes Street Gardens etc its all still in excellent nick, so the tourists will still get their winter wonderland
Temperatures now 1.9C here, though I'm a bit dubious as another station in Freuchie is recording 0.3C. The main thing is it's dry, though, and the cloud is beginning to clear. Hopefully temperatures tonight will drop below freezing, though the snow melt seems to be less extensive than in Leith, with only the roofs and cars losing a little snow during the day. Merry Christmas one and all: I expect it will be white on the ground for most parts, and the chance of a technical white christmas at the end of the day across southwestern parts. 18Z shows the band struggling to get north of Edinburgh, however the next band hits with the thicknesses below 528 dam and with dew points below freezing in most places, so the precipitation would be snow in most places. I'm sure things will change slightly over the next 24 hours before the band actually hits, and one run decides very little, but it is just another possible outcome of Boxing Day. All models are agreed on the 27th onwards bringing firstly a northerly then an easterly from an atlantic low tracking well to the south of here.
In summation, looking good for a reload of the cold after an atlantic incursion on Boxing Day.
Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!!
LS
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Still spitting rain here in Leith (has been the last 3 hours or more).
Starting to impact street level ... roofs clearing, snow on cars going to mush, slushy pavements. Grassy areas still holding onto the snow readily so no danger of that going anytime soon. Actually feels the mildest it has for the best part of a week ... air is saturated and I guess its at least 1c ... although the airport hasn't gone above 0c yet so unlikely to be any general adverse Embra-wide impact from these last few (ahem) "warm" hours...
Just hope it stops soon and sky clears a bit so we can get at least a minor frost back on and halt the decline here.
Typical Leith, its that old nearer the sea, lower part of the city thing going on just now ....
Edit: cloud lifting to the North-West and can see Fife shimmering away in the distance now. Good chance we'll at least manage a ground frost before the night is out.
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Bit of a minor warming trend right on the east coast. Charterall, Berwick-on-tweed both over the 0 mark (not too surprising admittedly). Edinburgh Gogarbank also on the rise, also just under the 0 mark, warmest its been all day.
Minor anxiety that there could be some slight east coast mushing coming along for a while.
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With my Leith hat on , I'm hoping for the snizzle to pull to the east and the wind to back more to the north. In fact any direction that isn't down the ne/sw line of the estuary. At least to cut off any obvious flow from the sea. As long as we retain the surface cold - uppers or not - then I'll be happy.
Not worried too much, just want to consolidate in advance of any possible warming in the 24-26-48 hour timeframe.
Its not killing the lying snow here, just makes it all a bit less "idealistic" than I like it (if you know what I mean...)
We are very marginal here too with sleet. Anyone know why this is......I guess because of the sea, and is it likely to cool at all???
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My feeling just now is that it depends how far inland you are. I think the whole east coast (right at the coast anyway) is under a slightly moderating influence just now, the fetch from the east seems pretty localised bringing in north sea sourced air. Right on the coast that makes things more marginal (I actually think Leith will do very well to get more than a degree or so below tonight). Further inland - and higher up - you'll see less of that effect.
I guess I could have summarised there by saying "I dunno". Good luck anyway !
Are the showers in Aberdeenshire likely to become more snow later? It's been really frustrating the last two days with slightly higher temps and sleet showers...
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Just back in from town after a mild (and really pathetic !) anxiety attack (ok not a real anxiety attack...) after seeing some slight snow melt occuring on roofs and other surfaces in Leith/town. But at surface level though... Princes Street gardens , St. Andrew square/Charlotte square ... every open/grassy surface ... that cover is going precisely nowhere. Nice and deep. Just the usual urban heat-island gave me the heebee-jeebess ... all those houses, shops, car pumping out heat does make a degree or so difference on the streets at least. Airport reporting -1c , Gogarburn -0.8c ... so its all under control . Phew !
In saying that, the sooner we get to dusk, lose some cloud and get some more frost to bed things in, the happier I'll be
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Mate, who are we going to believe .. these lads and lassies in a TV studio 400 miles away ... or our own eyes and the network of keen observers here on this site
East Lothian just got a mention on BBC News 24 a minute ago and more snow is expected for eastern scotland
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Looks like we can expect more showers then next week LOL ! Reading between the lines, ongoing cold to continue as we all pretty much expected.
UK Outlook for Tuesday 29 Dec 2009 to Thursday 7 Jan 2010:Scotland and Northern England should have sunny spells on Tuesday and Wednesday with occasional showers. These should be most frequent in the Northeast and could also fall as sleet or snow. Frost and freezing fog is possible overnight. Further south it is likely to be wet and windy with a risk of snow for Wales and the Midlands. This clearing to wintry showers during Wednesday. Temperatures are expected to be briefly mild in the far south but cold elsewhere. The rest of the period will have sunny spells but also wintry showers. Some longer spells of rain, sleet of snow are possible, although inland Central parts should see some good dry and sunny interludes. It will be cold or very cold with hard overnight frosts.
Updated: 1212 on Thu 24 Dec 2009
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Understood Hiya, I was merely joshing !!!
No he can't cause he is in Dundee! Heading home in about an hour.
Mrs Hiya can comfirm there is intermittent snow in Cupar.
By-Tor, those geese are flying south because of what has happened, not what is going to happen. Snow covering the ground means they can't feed and ice on the lochs and marshes where they roast means the foxes can walk out and get them.
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I'll be happy if they can forecast it correctly at all JS, let alone to a Glasgow /Edinburgh timescale. I usually find their predictions of when rain or snow will "arrive" to be way off the mark.
Nowcasting ... looking out windows and at the radar ... its the only way !
BBC 24 just showed the forecasted snow tomrrow evening. Looks like they think abut 7pm in Glasgow and 10pm into Edinburgh. Between 5-10 cms, more over high ground
Edit: mettofice have taken down the warnings for today I see. Hope they know what they're doing !
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Doesn't look like its doing much. Looks good on the radar but generally here its just sub-zero snizzling and an infrequent moderate 10 minute spell.
Not complaining, I'm more concerned about holding onto what we have over the weekend (looks like we will). The danger of days like this in Embra/Leith is that the freezing cold gets pushed away by relatively mild north sea air. Any on-shore flow today though seems non-agressive and slack, and unwanted warming doesn't look to be on the cards. I'll be happy enough to get to dusk though and another cold night to keep bedding the cold in !
Edit: just seen my 3rd flock of geese in 24 hours heading south. Bit of a cliche I know (might even have been the same geese LOL !). Bit of an old-wives tale to add into the mix of things that are happening out there
They obviously "know" whats coming up in the next week or two
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Don't get me started on our communal battery of ad-hoc met tests Pete ... we'll be here all day and I still have presents to buy, wine to drink, a film to go to ... and every other spare second is given to weather watching !
I was going to mention that one, yesterday...Aren't we a bunch of anoraks!!! -
Things might change but I'm nort expecting much from this feature. We're all spoiled rotten now !
Currently we have what looked like fine drizzle but the "window ledge test" (plus my reading glasses) reveals them to be tiny individual snow-crystals.
We've had every type of snow this past week, this is just another type to add to the list !
now stopped
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I'm sticking with NetWeather and some people who are very adept at Scottish/local local forecasting. That and checking the radar, and looking out of the window will do me for the coming days !
local kno
Just caught a News 24 weather forecast and they are predicting (ahem!) 10cms for the central belt tomorrow tea-time. Any thoughts? Snow grains a plenty at the moment.
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Certainly more chance of them copping it I'd think. On the other hand they stick out a bit into the estuary/North Sea and could be locally warmed a little by any onshore flow. Although not expecting that to play a big part today, the flow seems very slack. The snow showers we've had today have come from cloud carried from the east ... but the snow has mostly fallen gently and very vertically ... no real wind/blowing about to spoil the cold too much.
Haddington, North Berwick etc must be getting pasted
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Its showery Gilly. Moderate for a few minutes ... then stops.
Not really adding anything here in Leith but in the higher parts of town/suburbs I believe they've had a centimtetre+
Net effect here is just to cover up any brown snow on the roads and pavements, the lightest of coverings.
Mostly just making the day feel very seasonal !
This would pass for an unremarkable bog-standard winter day in Oslo or Helsinki ... for us, every passing hour is special !
Hi by-tor, Are you still getting heavy snow in Edinburgh?
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As the saying goes on here "chucking it down" in Leith currently.
Oh lordy, this spell is heaven !
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Give it a week or two mate, give it a week or two !
Nostalgia alert: in the bitter bitter December of 1981 (we're not close to that level of cold yet), my mate and me walked home from the student union along long stretches of the union canal from Tolcross (middle of Edinburgh basically) to Slateford where I lived. I can only guess how thick the ice was ... 6 ...12 ...18 inches ... not a clue. Thick enough to take the weight of 2 drunken students larking about on it for a couple of miles !
Once we get past any weekend (ahem) warm-up then the next phase of the cold-spell could start to see frozen canals/lochs country-wide !
Anyone for speed skating along the Forth and Clyde canal? <_<
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If I'm being cynical, it co-relates with the current end of their own cold spell. If its not happening down there, then they don't give a monkeys.
I agree NR..........it's almost as if we dont exist. <_<
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Yes.
Seriously though, does no-one in that organisation actually read warnings before they go out, to see if it makes logical sense !
This is a strange one for the Highlands...warning for just widespread ice on the roads but also: "The snow giving further falls of several centimetres in places."
Is this perhaps the most creative way of warning for heavy snow but trying to save their own skins?
Met report just in from my in-law (ahem) observers in the higher part of town (Liberton, Gracemeount)
Having cleared the car/driveway by last night, they called to say another inch has fallen on those surfaces. I can confidently translate that to mean in reality another fresh centimetre (they don't do metric)
I was going to mention that one, yesterday...Aren't we a bunch of anoraks!!!
Scottish Cold Spell Discussion 7
in Spring Weather Discussion
Posted · Edited by by-tor
Think I have a couple of hundred feet on you Shuggee up here at Liberton/Gracemount. Right on the margin up here - light but very wet snow now stopped here. Gone to sleet/rain.