Scottish Cold Spell Discussion 18:

[Scottish-Irish Skier]

Afternoon all.

Had quite a few heavy showers come in this morning. A few cm more.

Definitely a bit warmer; a tropical -2.1 C right now.

In the middle of transferring all my soft to a new PC. Nightmare. Looks cool though.

[GraemeB]

raintoday showing some more nice formations coming from the NS to the Forth....

[LomondSnowstorm]

Positively alpine now - temperature drop of 2C in 30 minutes with bright sunshine and a few showers in the vicinity with almost a foot on the ground - perfect!

[JoeShmoe]

Light snow again now

Looks dark out to the east and rain today suggests stuff coming up for the forth

[LadyPakal]

"Elsewhere, as many as 60 people took part in a curling game under floodlights on the Lake of Menteith on Friday night, and two ice hockey teams are expected to play on the frozen lake over the weekend."

From here...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/8449133.stm

The snow showers seem to be bubbling up out of nowhere just off the coast and drifting inland - nice!

Edited January 9, 2010 by LadyPakal

[Mondy]

Drift ice on the tidal River Forth at Kincardine, Fife.

Crossed the old Kincardine Bridge and down a dirt (snow) tracked road which I never knew existed. Ended up face to face with the eerily looking mudflats with ice drift in the background. Ice was flowing downstream into Firth of Forth - if it made it.

[Hairy Celt]

Thin mist and no wind beneath the blue, 0.9/0.9. Quite spooky just now, very quiet*.

Excellent photos, Mondy. I guess you're not shaking with fury over the approval of the Beauly to Denny line?

* apart from the kids upstairs of course!

Edited January 9, 2010 by Hairy Celt

[Mondy]

You can shove your Health & Safety you know where :wacko:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy7IdhZjlW4

Lake of Menteith 2010

Excellent photos, Mondy. I guess you're not shaking with fury over the approval of the Beauly to Denny line? :blink:

It's raping the countryside if you ask me - there's a thread on it in serious area :-)

Edited January 9, 2010 by Mondy

[Snowplough33]

Heavy snow and not a breath of wind. Big fluffy flakes..........really cool. You dont often see it like this here

[GraemeB]

Clearish (hazy) interlude here in Stirling, very "alpine" :blink:

There's a hefty bank of cloud moving this way as well - maybe another hour or so....

[snowy owl]

Still light snow falling , looks like a wee bit more on the radar again.

I have delved into the model thread and boy is it up in the air what'll happen eh!

Anybodys guess where we'll be except slightly warmer eventually at maybe +2 or +3. around coastal areas, winds look to be east/south east.

Will wait until later tmrw i think to look again too many factors i think confusing everyone and then theres the big snow event doon south to happen on sun/mon first

Edit: does anyone have any good links for following the predicted huge snowfall in Germany? thanks.

Edited January 9, 2010 by snowy owl

[snowy owl]

Just a small bit of news In the Netherlands, which connects nicely with our cancelled Bonspiel -

In the Netherlands, thousands took to the iceon Saturday as skating federation KNSB gave the green light for impromptu skating events on three lakes in the centre and north-east of the country - wonder what they did with health and safety?

Edited January 9, 2010 by snowy owl

[Mondy]

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/pws/invent/weathermap/

[Guest]

Finally!! Some pictures of outdoor lowland curling taking place today. I will post some more pictures when my Dad e-mails some better quality ones to me, rather than my wee snaps:

Then later on today, on the way back from Sainsbury's, I stopped to take photos of this frozen river:

The river is the Locher just off the main road between Bridge of Weir and Brookfield. There was still some water running behind the ice, but even still, it is one of the most amazing things I have ever seen with my own eyes. The closest fall is quite big, about 30ft, while the rear one is 20ft. What an eerie sight.

[Snowplough33]

http://www.metoffice...ent/weathermap/

I've not seen that before, I usually just use the normal site. Thats smart!

Edited January 9, 2010 by Snowplough33

[Methuselah]

Thick fog here, 0Cish...

[Hawesy]

Smashing day here with great cloudscapes and flurries on and off all day. Temperatures generally just above freezing with -1c dewpoint.

Caught a heavy shower at 3pm which dropped half an inch in 20 minutes. Total accumulation today an inch.

[Scottish-Irish Skier]

The big band of cloud in the middle of the NS; seems to be starting to bring some heavier showers into NE England.

Looks like its heading our way, i.e. into the central belt?

[Snowplough33]

The big band of cloud in the middle of the NS; seems to be starting to bring some heavier showers into NE England.

Looks like its heading our way, i.e. into the central belt?

Nothing on the radar yet anyway

[Scottish-Irish Skier]

Nothing on the radar yet anyway

Seems to be generating something where it has come ashore near the border?

[Kerwin]

Photos of the River Dee , road to Kennerty Golf Club and the graveyard beside the heritage centre in Peterculter.

[GraemeB]

The front coming up through Engerlund tomorrow night looks interesting - will it deposit a pile of snow on it's front edge or will the cold air here keep it at bay - the last image on the meto rainfall for Sunday brings it a lot closer to us than I thought...

[Norrance]

Intermittent light snow here continuing on the light SE breeze. Temp now -1.5C from a max of -0.2C so a seventh ice day on the cards. Good for being relatively near the coast with forecasts from some organisations showing +4C and sunny.

Hopefully we will not get too much warming off the North Sea in the next couple of days. I would like to keep the snowcover for some time yet.

Edit: Some impressive ice floes on the Tay this afternoon.

Edited January 9, 2010 by Norrance

[GraemeB]

That meto weathermap is the mutts nuts....

You can zoom in

[Snowplough33]

That meto weathermap is the mutts nuts....

You can zoom in

Its the buisness.......good call Mondy!!