Snow Watch: Scotland

[jellybaby1969]

Snow virtually off at the mo.. just a few tiny flakes falling. Hope this is not the end....

[glasgow-guy]

met-office updated again http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/uk_...ings.html?day=1

[Mondy]

Man alive! I've never seen such pathetic "snow".

[WhiteXmas]

For God's sake! The snow goes off and people are talking about it being the end! Look at any of the links people have posted up and you will see that it clearly isn't the end. There is far more to come than this. This is only the beginning of the front. :lol:

Edited February 8, 2009 by WhiteXmas

[shuggee]

It'll be hard to beat last Wednesday for patheticness Mondy - surely?

[Mondy]

It'll be hard to beat last Wednesday for patheticness Mondy - surely?

Nah, today has won hands down! Wednesday at least looked white for about 10 mins :-)

[Graeme B]

Hee Haw here just now...

It's baltic though...

[WhiteXmas]

Imo most people will be very satisfied with the remainder of the front coming in later on. I think this will be the main event. The fact the temps and dewpoints will have further dropped and there will already be some lying snow points towards favourable conditions!

[sammie]

Nah, today has won hands down! Wednesday at least looked white for about 10 mins :-)

We had so much 'no on Wednesday I honestly though I was going to be 'noed out my house. At least I'm in doors this time around.

[LomondSnowstorm]

Imo most people will be very satisfied with the remainder of the front coming in later on. I think this will be the main event. The fact the temps and dewpoints will have further dropped and there will already be some lying snow points towards favourable conditions!

hope so!!!

the stuff you've had is approaching here very slowly but should arrive soonish

the heavy stuff looks like it will come later though and this is what the gfs run is suggesting

the warning for us is actually for icy roads :lol:

how pathetic!!

[Mondy]

Pfft, so much cloud steaming by overhead. It's freezing out there and the snaw has stopped. I don't get it :lol:

http://www.sat24.com/homepage.aspx?html=zo...257&yas=145

This front has some Front I can tell you!

Edited February 8, 2009 by Delta X-Ray

[Ross B]

Snow has turned very light here. Should start snowing again in Irvine etc soon, also a heavier bit just to the West of Arran :lol:

[sammie]

The font looks like its splitting down south...

[WhiteXmas]

hope so!!!

the stuff you've had is approaching here very slowly but should arrive soonish

the heavy stuff looks like it will come later though and this is what the gfs run is suggesting

the warning for us is actually for icy roads :lol:

how pathetic!!

Well that's what I'm hoping for anyway. The heavier stuff would be much better coming later as it is more likely to stick on the ground.

[glasgow-guy]

Pfft, so much cloud steaming by overhead. It's freezing out there and the snaw has stopped. I don't get it :lol:

http://www.sat24.com/homepage.aspx?html=zo...257&yas=145

This front has some Front I can tell you!

that sat data you put up i suspect it might stall over ground i think thats why met office updated there warning :lol:

[jellybaby1969]

Yip Ross... snow fall has picked up again after a 15min lull

[Hiya]

Of all the front we've ever had from the Atlantic how come we had to get this pathetic example...

[WhiteXmas]

Of all the front we've ever had from the Atlantic how come we had to get this pathetic example...

Probably because the main sector of the front hasn't even come close to arriving yet! Have patience

[Scottish-Irish Skier]

T continuing to fall and getting faster. 0.7 C, DP = -2.9. Just need some ppn now!

Could probably climb a tree and see it in the distance.

[shuggee]

WhiteXmas - I don't want to sound like a killjoy - but where exactly is this 'heavy stuff' - there's nothing on the radar to get excited about?

[Mondy]

Probably because the main sector of the front hasn't even come close to arriving yet! Have patience

You mean the streamers will be more "effective" than a huge front colliding with a cold air mass? Hope you're right, but I ain't so sure.

[LomondSnowstorm]

Of all the front we've ever had from the Atlantic how come we had to get this pathetic example...

patience, snow isn't even forecast on the charts here till around midnight!

any snow we get now will be a bonus

[WhiteXmas]

WhiteXmas - I don't want to sound like a killjoy - but where exactly is this 'heavy stuff' - there's nothing on the radar to get excited about?

Can't remember the link there shuggee but the satellite image showed quite a beefy amount of cloud rolling in later with streamers forming behind the front. I don't know whether these cloud will carry a lot of ppn but we shall see.

[shuggee]

Here's the radar at 14h00:

And the latest at 16h30:

I think the phrase I've been struggling for is 'fizzling out'.

Will have a look in a mo at the overnight forecasts - hopefully will re-ignite my interest

[WhiteXmas]

Here's the radar at 14h00:

And the latest at 16h30:

I think the phrase I've been struggling for is 'fizzling out'.

Will have a look in a mo at the overnight forecasts - hopefully will re-ignite my interest

That's only ppn though atm Shuggee. There is a big mass of cloud from Ireland to the mainland. Showers could therefore intensify as the front goes over the Irish sea. The radar doesn't pick up on this.