Scotland Cold Spell Discussion Part 13

[NorthernRab]

what temp is it up there pete?

0'C, -1'C dewpoint.

[Mondy]

Just been out to the street to break up the pack ice and promptly broke my ******* spade :lol: Says it all!

[Snowplough33]

I know lots of you dont value it but Beeb 24 has a very snowy looking wednesday/thursday right down east coast

[Snowlover2]

radar not looking to good for snow here :lol:

[Mondy]

There is a rather nice comma feature drifting south. It's currently approaching Shetland and can be seen very well here and here

Edited January 4, 2010 by Mondy

[Zerouali lives]

zI: Iooking out of my window to N, sky Iooks ominous. ABZ rports +02/00 & Iight snow, so marginaI stuff. Iamppost watch - don't think anything faIIing in my part of th woods (CornhiII).

Yeah, I can see those orange skies encroaching. Cornhill is higher than me down in Holburn but I'd say snow is doubtful for both of us but we will see!

[LomondSnowstorm]

radar not looking to good for snow here

Hard to say really, I feel we'll either miss it altogether or end with both bands merging over us!

[snowmess]

Oh no @SL2

I hope it changes........... And quick!!!

[LostInABlizzard]

Just been looking at the Glens of Foundland Weather cam and its a white out - wouldn't surprise me if it gets blocked soon too.., Drumocheter is in the same position also - complete white out there right now...so snow is around for sure.

Fiona

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Not certain, but there were a few winters in Inverness where the canal and the river, both of which flow directly from Loch Ness, froze over (the latter only partly), so this suggests some freeze on the loch. However, Loch Ness alone has more fresh water than England and Wales combined, so it gives you an idea of just how cold it would need to be for it to completely, let alone partly, freeze over. Lomond, Morar, Linnhe, Nevis etc are also very big, so I doubt they would freeze over. Small lochan freeze over all the time, especially in the mountains, but it's rare for them to be as frozen solid as they are now with such deep coverings of snow

I knew it was big but never thought it was big! Mind you, Loch Ness is like a pond compared to lakes in the US and Canada!

[thejailender]

It looks like the wind is begining to swing more Northerly now, I wonder if that will change the track of the showers

[Snowlover2]

Lets hope its the latter

[Zerouali lives]

Surely not more famous than the Slochd and Dromochter?

I'd say the top 5 most notorious roads in Scotland are:

1/ A939 Cockbridge - Tomintoul

2/ A9 Drumochter Pass

3/ A93 Braemar - Glenshee

4/ A9 At the Slochd summit

5/ A96 At the Glens of Foudland

Although Glenshee is closed more often than Drumochter, it also the highest.

Edited January 4, 2010 by Zerouali lives

[Northernlights]

Wind is rising and we have falling snow, seems its going for a proper blizzard tonight , wiil soon be blocked in as there are large snow banks at the edge of the roads, minimal drifting will fill them in quickly.Currently just under 0c and falling.

[Mondy]

Many parts of the Forth and Clyde canal are frozen over. Saw this first hand earlier today.

[NorthernRab]

I'd say the top 5 most notorious roads in Scotland are:

1/ A939 Cockbridge - Tomintoul

2/ A9 Drumochter Pass

3/ A93 Braemar - Glenshee

4/ A9 At the Slochd summit

5/ A96 At the Glens of Foudland

Although Glenshee is closed more often than Drumochter, it also the highest.

But the busiest of those are surely Slochd and Drumochter, hence them being more well known? Otherwise, Bealach na ba would probably win out in a NWly snow event

[LomondSnowstorm]

I think the band to our north might just hit us, while the other one might just clip southwest Fife also! Knife-edge stuff.

LS

[Guest]

Reporting Scotland will be showing curlers on the Lake of Menteith at 6.30pm...

Grand Match on the way then???

[Snowplough33]

I think the band to our north might just hit us, while the other one might just clip southwest Fife also! Knife-edge stuff.

LS

Gonna be close. Everything crossed. How are te temps down here with us??

[Guest]

I think the band to our north might just hit us, while the other one might just clip southwest Fife also! Knife-edge stuff.

LS

The band may be light but look at the depth of it. Almost reaching the Clyde yet still piling into the far north!!!

That's a few hours of snow coming :o :o

[howham]

Heavy settling snow!!!

[NorthernRab]

I knew it was big but never thought it was big! Mind you, Loch Ness is like a pond compared to lakes in the US and Canada!

Very true, but you have to remember what makes Loch Ness' volume so impressive is that we are on an island - Scotland is geographically foreign to Europe in that the majority of the country originates from the North American continent and at one point hosted mountains taller than the Alps and perhaps towards the height of the Himalayas. This along with the glaciation which also created Norway's Fjords is what makes Scotland look so oddly beautiful in that the Torridon range hosts some of the oldest rock on this planet

This is like a wee geography lesson :o

Trivia: Inverness' Kessock Bridge is the only earthquake proof bridge in the UK due to the seismically active ridge which runs from Fort William to Inverness (hence the Great Glen being there). We haven't had one since 1901 but I'm sure it's only a matter of time

[Guest]

Wind is rising and we have falling snow, seems its going for a proper blizzard tonight , wiil soon be blocked in as there are large snow banks at the edge of the roads, minimal drifting will fill them in quickly.Currently just under 0c and falling.

I hope you are ok NL!!

Reading posts from you makes me realise that snow is all very well and fun, but there is a serious side to it. It is not too bad I suppose since you have access to heavy farm equipment which must be of some help (?) but even still, I really hope it doesn't get too bad up there.

[Pol]

Continued NetWeather lurking impossible given winter Nirvana is finally here : that as well as this ,the most welcoming thread I have seen since I joined NW a few years ago

South Queensferry now reporting for duty !!!

Pol

[Guest]

Continued NetWeather lurking impossible given winter Nirvana is finally here : that as well as this ,the most welcoming thread I have seen since I joined NW a few years ago

South Queensferry now reporting for duty !!!

Pol

Don't lurk, just get stuck in. A bit like Smeato but applied to weather websites.