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Gilly Newbie

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  • Location: Brittany, France
  • Location: Brittany, France
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Yes these showers on the radar coming up the Firth look set for a wee while methinks!!

Unless they dive south before coming any further west!!!!:good:

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Sunny Leith

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  • Location: Leith
  • Weather Preferences: Anything outwith the mean.
  • Location: Leith
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Its one of the setups that the MO get wrong time and time again for these parts (they get this one wrong over decades , you'd think they'd learn). We're tucked in under Fife, Tayside/Angus, the Eastern Grampians /Aberdeenshire in this situation. Unless the flow goes just E of NE that means we won't get a sniff of it.

Met office site has snow showers becoming frequent and heavier in lothian and borders how are they forecasting this with a northerly? only the extreme coastal parts will catch any going from past experience, am i missing something here any views??

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Its one of the setups that the MO get wrong time and time again for these parts (they get this one wrong over decades , you'd think they'd learn). We're tucked in under Fife, Tayside/Angus, the Eastern Grampians /Aberdeenshire in this situation. Unless the flow goes just E of NE that means we won't get a sniff of it.

Wind looks borderline at a NE if I am reading the charts correctly. So you may grasp some showers later today :lol:

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  • Location: Beccles, Suffolk.
  • Weather Preferences: Thunder, snow, heat, sunshine...
  • Location: Beccles, Suffolk.
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Its one of the setups that the MO get wrong time and time again for these parts (they get this one wrong over decades , you'd think they'd learn). We're tucked in under Fife, Tayside/Angus, the Eastern Grampians /Aberdeenshire in this situation. Unless the flow goes just E of NE that means we won't get a sniff of it.

Now, there's a criticism of the MetO I agree with...I've often found here that, if the wind is between NNW and NNE all the snow goes either down the West coast or over Aberdeenshire; all the other showers being snuffed-out by Caithness...But, the MetO will always forecast heavy snowfalls for Inverness! :lol:

Which, is why I always look for a NW or NE wind. Although a NEelry needs to be much more precisely aligned, IMO? :lol:

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su rui ke

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  • Location: Beijing and (sometimes) Dundee
  • Location: Beijing and (sometimes) Dundee
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Its one of the setups that the MO get wrong time and time again for these parts (they get this one wrong over decades , you'd think they'd learn). We're tucked in under Fife, Tayside/Angus, the Eastern Grampians /Aberdeenshire in this situation. Unless the flow goes just E of NE that means we won't get a sniff of it.

Though there's a band of showers out to the east stretching almost to Aberdeen that looks like it's getting quite organised to me. Might be something for a few of us in the east later?

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  • Location: Glasgow, Scotland (Charing Cross, 40m asl)
  • Weather Preferences: cold and snowy in winter, a good mix of weather the rest of the time
  • Location: Glasgow, Scotland (Charing Cross, 40m asl)
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Its one of the setups that the MO get wrong time and time again for these parts (they get this one wrong over decades , you'd think they'd learn). We're tucked in under Fife, Tayside/Angus, the Eastern Grampians /Aberdeenshire in this situation. Unless the flow goes just E of NE that means we won't get a sniff of it.

By evening though, that is exactly what the flow does

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Before that, we just have to hope that some of those showers track their way down the coast and southeast towards us.

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  • Location: Inbhir Nis / Inverness - 636 ft asl
  • Weather Preferences: Freezing fog, frost, snow, sunshine.
  • Location: Inbhir Nis / Inverness - 636 ft asl
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Now, there's a criticism of the MetO I agree with...I've often found here that, if the wind is between NNW and NNE all the snow goes either down the West coast or over Aberdeenshire; all the other showers being snuffed-out by Caithness...But, the MetO will always forecast heavy snowfalls for Inverness! :)

Which, is why I always look for a NW or NE wind. Although a NEelry needs to be much more precisely aligned, IMO? :)

Just like Hogmanay :)

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  • Location: Beccles, Suffolk.
  • Weather Preferences: Thunder, snow, heat, sunshine...
  • Location: Beccles, Suffolk.
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yes well it's snowing here too but of course up goes the temp/dp to 1.8/1.1 so no accumulation. :)

Looking like -8C uppers will arrive by lunchtime... :)

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  • Location: Fife
  • Location: Fife
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I'm hopeful for something later, but I'm doubting it :)

Not to worry, got (at least 1) day off school! Hopefully, LS's school remained closed :)

Edit: Sorry, missed your earlier post :)

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  • Location: Glasgow, Scotland (Charing Cross, 40m asl)
  • Weather Preferences: cold and snowy in winter, a good mix of weather the rest of the time
  • Location: Glasgow, Scotland (Charing Cross, 40m asl)
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I'm hopeful for something later, but I'm doubting it doh.gif

Not to worry, got (at least 1) day off school! Hopefully, LS's school remained closed good.gif

I hope so, otherwise technically I'm skiivingrofl.gif

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  • Location: Inbhir Nis / Inverness - 636 ft asl
  • Weather Preferences: Freezing fog, frost, snow, sunshine.
  • Location: Inbhir Nis / Inverness - 636 ft asl
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Very, very, very, very heavy snow in Inverness now! Dear God!!

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  • Location: Inbhir Nis / Inverness - 636 ft asl
  • Weather Preferences: Freezing fog, frost, snow, sunshine.
  • Location: Inbhir Nis / Inverness - 636 ft asl
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It's now only heavy snow :girl_devil:

That was an insane shower!

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  • Location: Glasgow, Scotland (Charing Cross, 40m asl)
  • Weather Preferences: cold and snowy in winter, a good mix of weather the rest of the time
  • Location: Glasgow, Scotland (Charing Cross, 40m asl)
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Now that's a chart and a half!

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  • Location: Inbhir Nis / Inverness - 636 ft asl
  • Weather Preferences: Freezing fog, frost, snow, sunshine.
  • Location: Inbhir Nis / Inverness - 636 ft asl
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drinks.gif Enjoy!

Cheers :girl_devil: These showers coming down the Firth are quite the heavyweights!

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Sunny Leith

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  • Location: Leith
  • Weather Preferences: Anything outwith the mean.
  • Location: Leith
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Would be possibilities there CMD. Just a few degrees towards North from NE though and we'd still miss them (from an Embra perspectivee) ... even a NE flow often sees activity just playing with East Lothian/Berwickshire. Just a smidgeon East of NE and its game on. Also I guess there'd be more chance of any activity making it right through to you :o

By-tor:

A little bit like this :)

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  • Location: Glasgow, Scotland (Charing Cross, 40m asl)
  • Weather Preferences: cold and snowy in winter, a good mix of weather the rest of the time
  • Location: Glasgow, Scotland (Charing Cross, 40m asl)
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Would be possibilities there CMD. Just a few degrees towards North from NE though and we'd still miss them (from an Embra perspectivee) ... even a NE flow often sees activity just playing with East Lothian/Berwickshire. Just a smidgeon East of NE and its game on. Also I guess there'd be more chance of any activity making it right through to you good.gif

Yep, the difference between NE and ENE is pretty stark - ENE is probably the best direction for northeast Fife, but anymore northerly and we miss out completely! I think patience is required in radar watching today, as the winds won't turn until later on in the day.

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Cheers :o These showers coming down the Firth are quite the heavyweights!

After last night's shower from the north, I wouldn't bet against at least some remnants of your heavy duty showers making it all the way south to the central belt by late afternoon/early evening.

Indeed, looking at the charts I think there is every chance of even this far west catching some snow in the next 48-96 hours as the low sinks south and the pressure falls slack. Did we not get unexpected snow in slack flows earlier in this cold spell??

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