scotland Scotland - Regional Discussion 16/12/2013 >

[mistyqueen]

Morning all! Currently 4c, calm, nae rain! We had just about everything yesterday, wind, sleet, hail, thunder & lightening and some snow on higher ground. The calm at the moment has me worried. I know it's gauny get a wee bit blawy especially on Xmas Eve, and I fully expect the power to go off at some point. Todays plan is to cook the wee roast birdie today then freeze it. I doubt I'll be able to roast any tatties, but got plenty other veg and stuff to fill the plates. See....always thinking of her stomach. Just hope when/if the power goes off it's not for too long. Dinnae want the freezers to defrost! Got them both packed wi' scran!

[Blizzardo]

Temperature currently 3.4c/2.3c and showers have now turned to sleet. Looks like snow falling now over the hills. Great weather watching day ahead.

[tinybill]

hi all hope  you all keep safe with the  storm  coming this a  quote from another  site

 

The T60 fax is a shocker for Scotland. The isobaric tightening is scary.

 

 

 

be  safe!!!!

[Polar Maritime]

Hope people that are travelling up in the Highlands are prepared over the next 48hrs, many of the high routes will be impassable later today. Meaning they could be stuck for some considerable time, with blizzards and heavy snow forecast even down to low levels. With many travelling up there for Christmas not aware of the dangers.

Edited December 22, 2013 by Polar Maritime

[BurntFishTrousers]

[mistyqueen]

EEEEEEEEEKKK!!!   

[Highland Snow]

Kingussie this morning OTR:

 

 

[CoastRainbow]

Nothing says Christmas more,,,,, than driving sleet! Hoping the storm won't be too bad for Santa!

[Stormeh]

Heavy hail shower here, gone very dark.

[BurntFishTrousers]

Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!! latest run @ 928mb.

 

Edited December 22, 2013 by BurntFishTrousers

[BleakMidwinter]

This is getting kinda scary, isn't it?

Emailing young relatives to emphasise that if they're foolish enough to drive here on 23rd/24th then we're confiscating their keys and not letting them drive away again, so they're best off staying put in the first place...

[lorenzo]

First glimpse of this Beastie on Sat. and Surface plots.

 

White Xmas for a few folks..edit, day ahead of myself, snow on the ground for a few folks..

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/cgi-bin/expertcharts?LANG=en&MENU=0000000000&CONT=ukuk&MODELL=euro4&MODELLTYP=1&BASE=200912201800&VAR=prty&HH=30&LOOP=1&ZOOM=0&ARCHIV=0&RES=0&WMO=

 

Friday looking wild all over again, pretty surreal when you read U.S experts referring to this system making 'landfall'...

Edited December 22, 2013 by lorenzo

[Cheggers]

A9 now closed at House of Braur going North, and Drumochter heading South, 3 lorry crash I think, and very snawy conditions.

Recent snap via Windy FB

Edited December 22, 2013 by Cheggers

[edo]

Off to Blair Atholl castle for a Santa afternoon today......what's it looking like for there this afternoon...would be perfect to even get a bit of wet snow falling

[NUT]

Really did get pretty dark now rain and hail (with sleet) battering away

[howham]

Lovely sunny morning and feeling seasonal at 2.9C. No wind!

[Big Innes Madori]

A bit O' wet Snaw here at the mo.

Some big flakes wi a bit Hail thrown in 

 

 

Big Innes

[November13]

Wet snow gone off.it's cold enough for snow here.So I guess the uppers are still to warm.

[mardatha]

Mistyqueen I have an LPG cooker, big proper cooker, a Cannon- because we get frequent power cuts. And I've turned the freezer down to -25 to superfreeze all the stuff in there, in case it goes off, that way the stuff should stay frozen longer. 

edited - not saying that to brag lol - meant when your cooker dies it might be an idea to buy one of them

Edited December 22, 2013 by mardatha

[Blizzardo]

Snow lying on the hills above about 300m. Temp still dropping slowly 2.8c/1.8c. Sleet showers off and on over the last few hours.

[lorenzo]

F.Uni Berlin have named this one Dirk. ( Link unrelated - ish).

[ForeverPomeroysnow]

I thought it would have been named son of baw bag, no?

[edo]

Oh dear house of bruar only 10 miles from Blair Atholl ....hope we don't end up with massive tailbacks

[BurntFishTrousers]

Here's the culprit at Drumochter (credit twitter)

 

F.Uni Berlin have named this one Dirk. ( Link unrelated - ish).

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Once this passes over, with probable power outages, I suspect peeps will change the "r" to a "c".

[Polar Gael]

Dirk? Not exactly festive, is it? You think they could have mustered up Rudolf? Or Donner and Blitzen? Must be that whacky German humour... ;-)>