Scotland - Regional Discussion

[penicuikblizz]

This snowfall was not forecast, snow was only forecast to fall on hills above 400m must have been the cooling effect due to the heavy precipitation.

Snow has now turned back to rain.

[A Winter's Tale]

Snow? What! I must have missed but it's good to hear that some of you have seen the white stuff.

[Benvironment]

It was just rain up here but was snowing when I got to Edinburgh around 9am. Utterly rancid morning there. Wet, cold and miserable with motionless traffic and enormous tram trenches filling with water. Eurgh!

[lorenzo]

Proper April variance today, sleet, snow, blue skies and warm in the sunshine, towering Cb and every other cloud possible visible in an active sky.

Looking at the archive run upper temps of -4 projected across Scotland this morning at 0800 so a few cold 'sectorz' must have delivered the wintry blast this morning.

[Ruzzi]

There seems to be a reasonable possibility of some decent transitional snow for monday night into tuesday for Central and Southern Scotland and Northern England. A band of precipitation moving in from a West/Southwesterly direction and bumping into colder air over the Nothern half of Britain leading to snow before turning back to rain later on tuesday.

Temps hovering around freezing at this time aswell.

I do concede that it's a long shot and in weather terms, it's still a long way off . . . still something to keep an eye on though

Edited April 10, 2012 by ruzzi (snowboy)

[spindrift1980]

Some quite large falls of snow in the West Highlands. 8-14 inches (level, with light winds meaning not much drifting) being reported at Glencoe Ski Centre

[Scottish-Irish Skier]

Some quite large falls of snow in the West Highlands. 8-14 inches (level, with light winds meaning not much drifting) being reported at Glencoe Ski Centre

Aye, maybe the Scottish ski season can start running April to September in the future...

[thebigyin]

hi all

Mixed weekend just passed, predominately grey and gloomy and drizzly, but was brighter at times. a mixed bag!

Raw today and heavy rain this morning. I did wonder if there would be snow anywhere and so not surprised to read the reports!

Hoping to get at least one last blast at one of the ski centres so looking promising in the short term..

[NUT]

Had a crack of thunder here. Lovely

[skyeblue]

Thought I heard thunder

[Ruzzi]

Where was this chart 2 months ago!!? For the last 6-8 months now it has always been the perfect synoptics at exactly the wrong time of year

[Cheggers]

Thought I heard thunder

Sorry!

Nondescript gash day here, with it ending with a downpour!

[lorenzo]

Started off pretty gloomy here today, grey blanket, static, boring.

Things beginning to break up a bit now.

Bring on the Cb towers !!

[Cheggers]

Cold (2C) start, then blue skies, now heavy hail shower. Might just stay in office till it passes.

[Northernlights]

Much cooler after a wet morning then blue skies until showers built to the NE.   One large shower inbound off the Firth just now looks as though it could be hail/snow judging by the colours of the cloud. Currently 5c and a fresh NE wind

[lorenzo]

Weekend looking cooler as each run passes. After that we have our first GFS Atlantic Dartboard for a while. Mirrored by ECM.

This one really barrels in a mini-bomb in the Atlantic before stalling and heading SSW. One to watch...

[Benvironment]

Ooo 'ello. It's snowing!

[penicuikblizz]

Light hail showers on and off in Edinburgh, looking rather dark to the NE of here maybe something heavier to come!!

[john175]

hope it turns into something noisy its been a while

[Northernlights]

1c at 6.30pam this morning with a ground frost and a dusting of grauple and snow.Ground now to wet to travel on so back to winter feeding routine. The fertilizer can go on the 12 degree or greater slopes not near an open water course as the proposal had been wrongly drafted according to the Scottish government. This was the outcome after all their mailboxes were jammed earlier in the week by the farming community so that is a relief. See post 806

Edited April 14, 2012 by Northernlights

[Northernlights]

Just had a wet snow shower, several more coming in off the Firth,currently 2c. May be quite frosty tonight.

[howham]

Snowing here after earlier hail.

[Norrance]

Just had a changeable and coolish weeks holiday in a cottage in SW Scotland. Returned home this afternoon to hail and soft hail showers with sunny intervals. Wind Northerly. Temp 5.4C.

[Northernlights]

One of my favourite views across the Firth tonight with small wintry showers coming down from the North with snow/hail streamers hanging below them all the way to sea level..The greys and the yellows of the clouds will soon change to pink giving a very wintry sunset in April.

Always see this as winters farewell when in actual fact we can see snow flurries to the begining of June here and only 3 months later in October we can see snow flurries again so wintry weather really only leaves us for a short time.

Currently 2c with well broken skies so a very cold night on the cards up here.

Edited April 14, 2012 by Northernlights

[A Winter's Tale]

Sounds lovely NL. A special area is the North East, Moray coast and surrounding area, a great place to live and made even more special by it's weather!

Can't believe it's possible for it too snow as Late as June and as early as October and whilst being a warm place in summer too! Surely you don't get wintryness that often, though I wouldn't be surprised with it's special and changeable climate up there!

Sounds lovely NL. A special area is the North East, Moray coast and surrounding area, a great place to live and made even more special by it's weather!

Can't believe it's possible for it too snow as Late as June and as early as October and whilst being a warm place in summer too! Surely you don't get wintryness that often, though I wouldn't be surprised with it's special and changeable climate up there!