Scottish Cold Spell Discussion 4

[Methuselah]

Here we go again... :blink:

[shuggee]

I'm feeling generous this morning :blink:

[Ross B]

I reckon you should stick up a cheeky wee nw radar shot for us!I would subscribe but I had to cancel my credit cards the other day due to my wallet sliding down the side of the bed and me not being able to find it in the 15 minutes before I left for work.

I drove into Ayr earlier to go to Morrisons for breakfast and felt like a king with my big pile of snow on my car whilst the poor Ayr dwellers only had a little covering.

Haha nice one, I did the same on thursday when i came back from Edinburgh with snow frozen onto the car as I headed into Kilmarnock!

Radar: ( few posts down - didn't want to post 2 within 5mins)

Everything moving SE at the moment, snow should be with us in a few hours.

[Matty M]

Hello lads, just wondering does anyone know where you can acces vapour satellite images? would be helpful to me?

Thanks

[Snowplough33]

I'm feeling generous this morning

Will it survive the journey south to Tayside and Fife though??

[Ross B]

Hello lads, just wondering does anyone know where you can acces vapour satellite images? would be helpful to me?

Thanks

Here you go mate: http://oiswww.eumetsat.org/IPPS/html/MSG/IMAGERY/WV062/BW/WESTERNEUROPE/index.htm assuming this is what you are after.

[shuggee]

Everything moving SE at the moment, snow should be with us in a few hours.

Yep - I'm hoping it will wait until after dark because temps are above freezing now for the next few hours.

Much more snow about over a wider area than even the current now-casts on the BBC.

[Ross B]

Yep - I'm hoping it will wait until after dark because temps are above freezing now for the next few hours.

Much more snow about over a wider area than even the current now-casts on the BBC.

Thats a point actually the dewpoint has risen to 0c here with temp of 1c. Should still be ok though...

Lets hope this works out!

[Snooz]

It's getting quite dark here now too.. but even if it does get here those Heilans look to be taking a fair bit of intensity out of them..

Currently: Dry

Temp: -0.5 (down from a high of -0.2 @ 11am)

DP: -3

Pressure: 986.5 (lowest of the day)

What a day for Highlands & Islands

[Matty M]

Here you go mate: http://oiswww.eumetsat.org/IPPS/html/MSG/IMAGERY/WV062/BW/WESTERNEUROPE/index.htm assuming this is what you are after.

Yep thanks mate, shame we cant get better ones for our area though!

Just think a front is forming to the west of Scotland at the minute.

[Mandy Langlands]

Snow just starting to fall here ( dundee just off forfar to aberdeen road).

[Matty M]

There is an dry airstreak cutting into the covection just at the west of the Isle of Skye say.

Will be keeping an eye on it.

[Highland Snow]

Perth 0C Dew Point -1.3 looks threatening to the North. Leading edge must only be about 20 miles away.

[thejailender]

A good few more inches fell here this morning too. Must be around 6 or 7 inches of lying snow now. Must admit though I was expecting a bit more wind, it is almost completely calm.

If we had the wind it would have caused bad drifts.. Maybe the west coast are getting the wind

[shuggee]

I suspect you're in the centre of the low pressure by now jailender

[Gilly]

Temp at -2C still snowing after almost three hours. Difficult to work out how much longer it will continue. Perhaps ease off in an hour or so.

[Northernlights]

A couple of pictures of this mornings snow approaching from the north acoss the Black Isle and the Firth.Have had about another 2 inches although the snow is lghter now but is still blowing about in the wind. Currently -1c

[Mondy]

There is an dry airstreak cutting into the covection just at the west of the Isle of Skye say.

Will be keeping an eye on it.

Try this too: http://www.meteoam.it/modules.php?name=meteosat7&fileNameView=satellit/WWW/vapore7_2009-12-20%2012:00:00.jpg

[Norrance]

Snow just started here just West of Dundee. Temp -0.1C with a light WNW breeze.

[Snooz]

I can see it now.. Over hills to SW (about 3 miles away) travelling very slowly or stuck! - It's the same band as yours I think Amanda.. can it get here

[blitzen]

If this all pans out later, I bet this thread has a few spectators from the English regions. Wouldn't it be funny if we all started speaking in our regional dialects.

eg: "Were startin' tae tak' a fair skelp doon bye!"

Edited December 20, 2009 by Blitzen

[thejailender]

A few pictures I took wile out clearing a few old folks paths this morning... First one was a perticularly heavy snow fall, localised over my wife

Edited December 20, 2009 by thejailender

[Methuselah]

Nice one, JL...For a second there, I thought your wife had a Farrah Fawcett hairdo! :blush:

Do I spy some further 'darkening' coming from the NW?

[Zenarcher]

Snow has turned to rain here and the dusting of snow has melted kind of disappointed was expecting a bit more conditions were perfect last night but the showers didn't last long enough. Temps now 4c it might snow again tonight and tommorow but not expecting anything special.

[Methuselah]

I feart that might happen, WM...There's a slight thaw here too... :blush: