Scotland Regional Discussion - January 14th 2013>

[blitzen]

Interesting that the bad winter in 1947 started with a depression from the southwest? Some bedtime reading

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/education/teens/case-studies/severe-winters

[edo]

Well is the charts currently verify, that storm coming in should kill it once and for all hopefully.

can anyone interpret for the colour blind

What colour is over us in relation to the number scale...i cant dechipher between the colours on 5 and 95

[over_the_rainbow]

can anyone interpret for the colour blind

What colour is over us in relation to the number scale...i cant dechipher between the colours on 5 and 95

100 Edo - 100 over all of us

edit - well not quite all looking at the chart as other shades over the islands, top of the highlands and far NE.

Edited January 15, 2013 by over_the_rainbow

[Penicuikblizzard]

Snow shower at Edinburgh Airport!!

[Ruzzi]

Still looking ok for a snowy spell on thursday that I referred to yesterday.

Western Areas possibly turning back to rain with east and central areas fairing better but there will still be plenty east-west correction before it happens.

Max. temps on thursday

Dew points could be touch and go

This is how the GFS has the snow accumulation by the end of thursday

Before unleashing this wee beastie for friday rush hour...

Increasing the accumulation totals to this by friday evening.

All makes for very interesting viewing over the next few days.

[GoldenJackel]

Snowed here again overnight and we just had another heavy shower pass through. I have to say everything looks awesome so I thought I would share a few photos with you all. Current depth is 14 cm!

[Guest]

GFS 06z is spitting out a cracker. Absolute stonker for a lot of places in Scotland.

Edit: Waw! It's still wanting to give us snow by Monday morning.

Edited January 15, 2013 by CatchMyDrift

[Sunny Leith]

Aye, its the old story. We need some degree of undercut for the weekend battleground and a cold fetch. So need some "east of south" in the flow although there have possibly been a few pure southerly flow snowfalls in decades past (can't think of many though).

Anything west of south in the flow and you pretty much can't avoid atlantic warming spoling the party within a few hours. Not that we need any reminder we're basically a skinny wee island surrounded by relatively warm seas...

So its cold undercut (+good uppers, good dew points) , and any flow east of south to have a shot at making this worthwhile.

Edited January 15, 2013 by by-tor

[Sunny Leith]

Weekend could yet go the way of the pear. But high risk also equates to high reward if it comes off just right. We won't know till we get there. As usual !

[martinshaw12003]

just back from a walk with dog up the law hill looks very dark over in fyfe and towards perth. looks like they maybe having heavy snow..blue sky in dundee..i can confirm its proper cold out there though especially when you get that cold wind in your face

[Sunny Leith]

Light micro-graupel falling just now here in Edinburgh and bouncing off surfaces (Chambers Street)

[cscrim]

just back from a walk with dog up the law hill looks very dark over in fyfe and towards perth. looks like they maybe having heavy snow..blue sky in dundee..i can confirm its proper cold out there though especially when you get that cold wind in your face

sadly not the case mate, in fact sun is trying to force its way out in Perth

[martinshaw12003]

mmm strange looks really dark that way, sun is out in dundee now

[101_North]

Fairly heavy snow shower at the minute.

[edo]

100 Edo - 100 over all of us

edit - well not quite all looking at the chart as other shades over the islands, top of the highlands and far NE.

cheers OTR wow

100 m of snow were doomed

joking aside I presume it is millimetres?

Edited January 15, 2013 by edodfc

[blitzen]

Just had a couple of soft hail showers here.

[edo]

have just discovered the benefits of two monitors at work...it makes comparing runs amazingly easy

woops must get back to work!!

[Scottish-Irish Skier]

Light snaw here at Riccarton, W Edinburgh.

EDIT. Sorry, W. Embra. (when in Rome...)

have just discovered the benefits of two monitors at work...it makes comparing runs amazingly easy

woops must get back to work!!

for reasons of safety, radar watching is not permitted in the hydrogen sulphide lab here.

Edited January 15, 2013 by scottish skier

[Stormeh]

Snow accumulation by Sunday afternoon, looks good to me, lets hope it happens!

[Scottish-Irish Skier]

Quite a few showers coming in towards Embra / E Lothian from the NE. Was heavy and settling here at Riccarton earlier.

[LomondSnowstorm]

Snow accumulation by Sunday afternoon, looks good to me, lets hope it happens!

Jeezo, I can't remember the last time I saw a snow accumulation map that didn't have over 8 inches for most of us by the weekend.

[edo]

Light snaw here at Riccarton, W Edinburgh.

EDIT. Sorry, W. Embra. (when in Rome...)

for reasons of safety, radar watching is not permitted in the hydrogen sulphide lab here.

glol thats what you get for being clever and having an impressive occupation (hydrosulphidermuckerabooterwith)

[Guest]

Buried:

Support from the ensemble mean:

Edited January 15, 2013 by CatchMyDrift

[Sunny Leith]

Definitely catching some stuff here in the middle of Embra. But its just extremely light and tiny graupel. So just cold enough aloft but can tell from the clouds theres no big vertical development. Higher parts of town and away from immediate shore/urban heat island could still get a suger-coated dusting though today ?

[Scottish-Irish Skier]

glol thats what you get for being clever and having an impressive occupation (hydrosulphidermuckerabooterwith)

Senior Hydrosulphidermuckerabooterwith if you please (how did you know my job title?)

Another heavy shower ploughing through south Embra. Impressive on bypass cams.

Edited January 15, 2013 by scottish skier