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lorenzo Maestro

lorenzo

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  • Location: @scotlandwx
  • Weather Preferences: Crystal Clear High Pressure & Blue Skies
  • Location: @scotlandwx
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Thankfully quiet traffic on the way home from work, getting very cold , very quickly now.

Kids having an absolute rammy and won the snowball fight convincingly.

Grabbed this pic of the sun hiding out behind some very icy looking skies on the m-8.

Fantastic weather. Loving it !

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Sunny Leith

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  • Location: Leith
  • Weather Preferences: Anything outwith the mean.
  • Location: Leith
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Brilliant Lorenzo !

Edit: just leaving work, still big piles of snow and graupel sitting on the window ledge and balcony at work. Thats not meant to happen in inner-city Embra in mid-March !

Thankfully quiet traffic on the way home from work, getting very cold , very quickly now.

Kids having an absolute rammy and won the snowball fight convincingly.

Grabbed this pic of the sun hiding out behind some very icy looking skies on the m-8.

Fantastic weather. Loving it !

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lorenzo Maestro

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  • Location: @scotlandwx
  • Weather Preferences: Crystal Clear High Pressure & Blue Skies
  • Location: @scotlandwx
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Cairngorms looking stunning. Simply awesome.

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lorenzo Maestro

lorenzo

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  • Location: @scotlandwx
  • Weather Preferences: Crystal Clear High Pressure & Blue Skies
  • Location: @scotlandwx
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From the Modis Satellite Aeronet Link Here http://lance-modis.eosdis.nasa.gov/imagery/subsets/?subset=AERONET_Edinburgh

Pretty much a direct hit down the east coast with the inland continuation of showers clearly visible.

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Link also has image at higher res of 250m.

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NUT Accomplished

NUT

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  • Location: Condorrat, Cumbernauld G67
  • Location: Condorrat, Cumbernauld G67
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Cairngorms looking stunning. Simply awesome.

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That is amazing!

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Sunny Leith

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  • Location: Leith
  • Weather Preferences: Anything outwith the mean.
  • Location: Leith
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That was bloody baltic walk home up over Calton Hill and then the final trudge along London Road... Now to get stuck into a big bowl of home-made soup !

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101_North Maestro

101_North

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  • Location: Currie, SW Edinburgh, 140m asl
  • Location: Currie, SW Edinburgh, 140m asl
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Fair to say that it's not often you cycle home from work chatting to someone on skis! My last mile or so is off road.

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Hawesy Veteran

Hawesy

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  • Location: Home: Glenrothes, Fife Work: St Andrews, Fife
  • Location: Home: Glenrothes, Fife Work: St Andrews, Fife
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Some great images! While I would have been overjoyed to see more than the thinnest of coverings we ended up with in Crail at least there was a decent inch or so in St Andrews at work today so I didn't miss out completely...photo taken by a colleague at work included among this lot: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-21744901 Also happy to see some other snow starved coast dwellers rewarded for their patience this winter!

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NUT Accomplished

NUT

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  • Location: Condorrat, Cumbernauld G67
  • Location: Condorrat, Cumbernauld G67
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Some great images! While I would have been overjoyed to see more than the thinnest of coverings we ended up with in Crail at least there was a decent inch or so in St Andrews at work today so I didn't miss out completely...photo taken by a colleague at work included among this lot: http://www.bbc.co.uk...otland-21744901 Also happy to see some other snow starved coast dwellers rewarded for their patience this winter!

Loved the pic of the golf course. Would be interesting playing in a whiteout! :p

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Buriedundersnow Experienced

Buriedundersnow

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  • Location: falkirk, scotland, 16.505m, 54.151ft above sea level
  • Weather Preferences: dry sunny average summers and really cold snowy winters
  • Location: falkirk, scotland, 16.505m, 54.151ft above sea level
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i saw them saying on the news a little while ago how this is the last blast of winter before spring moves in.

seems a little premature when we still have a possible reload on the cards.

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LomondSnowstorm Accomplished

LomondSnowstorm

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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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To put today in context:

No. days with 1C or lower maximum at Edinburgh Airport by winter period:

2012/13: 3 to date (one ice day, in December)

2011/12: none

2010/11:16

2009/10: 14

2008/9: 2 (no ice days)

2007/8:5 (3 ice days)

2006/7: none (none below 3C either)

2005/6:4 (3 ice days)

going further back:

1978/79: 9 (none in the famous March blizzard either)

1981/82: 17

1983/84: 4 (no ice days)

1984/85:7

1995/96:10

While 1C or lower maxima are not exactly rare, very few winters have more than 10, even among some of the classics, and in that respect 2009/10 and 2010/11 really do stand out as being perhaps in the top three winters of the last 50 years. However, I also tried to find 1C or lower maxima in March and so far I've only come up with two, both maxing out at 1C - the 1st and 2nd of March 2001. That search includes all of the well below average Marches since 1973, and a few that were only moderately below average, and in fact it may be that, for Edinburgh Airport at least, this is the latest we've seen a sub 2C maximum since its records began. Today was one of the coldest March days of the last 40 years for lowland Scotland.

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November13 Community Regular

November13

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  • Location: Maddiston , Falkirk, Scotland 390ft above sea level
  • Location: Maddiston , Falkirk, Scotland 390ft above sea level
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i saw them saying on the news a little while ago how this is the last blast of winter before spring moves in.

seems a little premature when we still have a possible reload on the cards.

Oh how I laughed at that.Briefly up TO 5c Friday cold again after.The media are hopleless sometimes.
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November13 Community Regular

November13

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  • Location: Maddiston , Falkirk, Scotland 390ft above sea level
  • Location: Maddiston , Falkirk, Scotland 390ft above sea level
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Good chance of marginal snow event Friday.Sunday looks very interesting.

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Highland Snow

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  • Location: Perth (Huntingtowerfield, 3 miles West) asl 0m
  • Weather Preferences: A foggy and frosty morning with newly fallen pristine snow - Paradise!
  • Location: Perth (Huntingtowerfield, 3 miles West) asl 0m
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Minimum last night -7.0C at 06.56 the coldest this Winter. Maximum today +2.9C at 13.43.

Working in Cupar today and it was a fantastic snowy drive through Abernethy and Newburgh. Snow still lying thick in Fife coming home but largely gone around Perth.

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November13

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  • Location: Maddiston , Falkirk, Scotland 390ft above sea level
  • Location: Maddiston , Falkirk, Scotland 390ft above sea level
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Back garden winter.Front garden spring.Amazing.

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Northernlights Maestro

Northernlights

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  • Location: N.E. Scotland South Side Moray Firth 100m asl
  • Location: N.E. Scotland South Side Moray Firth 100m asl
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A photo of the fridge at 4.00pm pristine powdery snow in the shade of the trees.post-2744-0-86653900-1363031992_thumb.jp

Another one of a wintery sunset over the neep fieldpost-2744-0-58373200-1363032044_thumb.jp Currently -4c

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Ruzzi Experienced

Ruzzi

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  • Location: Caldercruix, North Lanarkshire - 188m asl
  • Location: Caldercruix, North Lanarkshire - 188m asl
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ECM this evening still looks promising with plenty of opportunities for more severe cold and snow and from T168 - T240, the weather actually flows from east to west with low pressure backing from the english channel all the way back into the mid Atlantic.... reminds me of November/december 2010. It's not over yet!

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Snowplough33

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  • Location: Out the back of Monifieth .. .. 50m ish
  • Location: Out the back of Monifieth .. .. 50m ish
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It was a great fun weekend. Glad most people got something. Thoughts where are likely to go from here, LS, BUS, Lorenzo or others that have offerings. Still some cold options on the table by the looks of things

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Buriedundersnow Experienced

Buriedundersnow

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  • Location: falkirk, scotland, 16.505m, 54.151ft above sea level
  • Weather Preferences: dry sunny average summers and really cold snowy winters
  • Location: falkirk, scotland, 16.505m, 54.151ft above sea level
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It was a great fun weekend. Glad most people got something. Thoughts where are likely to go from here, LS, BUS, Lorenzo or others that have offerings. Still some cold options on the table by the looks of things

i would say we're sat bout 50/50 on getting more cold like we have just had it all depends how much southeast movement there is from that sliding low.

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Sunny Leith

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  • Location: Leith
  • Weather Preferences: Anything outwith the mean.
  • Location: Leith
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Thanks for digging out those numbers LS, I go as far back as that 70s data as well :-)

I know we've all had deeper later snow than this, that's well documented. And I expect we'll possibly see some mair snaw of some kind or other in the coming weeeks. But today was a bloody cold January day transplanted into mid-March, not sure I can recall one like that...confirmed by looking out my window onto my ungritted street, which is a 100 metre long curling rink - solid sheet ice. Aye, in mid-March ! That's a new one... Normally the street lamp glare comes from shiny wet slush, not tonight though. It's solid.

To put today in context:

No. days with 1C or lower maximum at Edinburgh Airport by winter period:

2012/13: 3 to date (one ice day, in December)

2011/12: none

2010/11:16

2009/10: 14

2008/9: 2 (no ice days)

2007/8:5 (3 ice days)

2006/7: none (none below 3C either)

2005/6:4 (3 ice days)

going further back:

1978/79: 9 (none in the famous March blizzard either)

1981/82: 17

1983/84: 4 (no ice days)

1984/85:7

1995/96:10

While 1C or lower maxima are not exactly rare, very few winters have more than 10, even among some of the classics, and in that respect 2009/10 and 2010/11 really do stand out as being perhaps in the top three winters of the last 50 years. However, I also tried to find 1C or lower maxima in March and so far I've only come up with two, both maxing out at 1C - the 1st and 2nd of March 2001. That search includes all of the well below average Marches since 1973, and a few that were only moderately below average, and in fact it may be that, for Edinburgh Airport at least, this is the latest we've seen a sub 2C maximum since its records began. Today was one of the coldest March days of the last 40 years for lowland Scotland.

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Buriedundersnow Experienced

Buriedundersnow

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  • Location: falkirk, scotland, 16.505m, 54.151ft above sea level
  • Weather Preferences: dry sunny average summers and really cold snowy winters
  • Location: falkirk, scotland, 16.505m, 54.151ft above sea level
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i know i keep showing this model but its cos it keeps showing the best looking charts.

thats low pressure to our north has started its journey right across at the pacific and came over the pole to sit where it is now like it does on other models aswell and the low pressure over us on this model is still moving southeast till the end of the run.

now it would be really snowy if that low pressure was to drop down over the top of us.

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the whole run is here

http://www.meteociel.fr/modeles/geose_cartes.php?ech=3&code=0&mode=0&carte=1&archive=0

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Hairy Celt

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  • Location: NH7256
  • Weather Preferences: where's my vote?
  • Location: NH7256
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-5C last night, up to 2C today, a few very light flurries during the afternoon. Been working today, tomorrow the car's in for repairs, so I aim to get up a hill on Weds which looks like poss a good one for light wind. Parp!

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