Scotland - Weather Chat

[grifter]

Hee haw snow at lower levels just muck and pish as usual but the hills about say over 300 meters are pure white. Might be tempted to take a walk up towards some of the hills this weekend just to see some real snow not this grey slush lying on cars crap!

Edited February 24, 2015 by grifter

[SW Saltire]

Pouring with rain... Yawn.

No snow forecast here it the problem is for Thursday/Friday that say Lanark has heavy snow one minute then rain then back to snow. Maybe in reality there will be more snow but it just seems a waste if you get snow and then it's washed away and then more snow and the cycle repeats....

Damn this marginality...

[Northernlights]

Foul night and morning with strong wind and heavy sleet.Currently 1c. The mud has returned!

[SW Saltire]

Foul night and morning with strong wind and heavy sleet.Currently 1c. The mud has returned!

Vms. The fields are resembling a quagmire again, just when we thought we'd made it through the 'rainy' season fairly unscathed. Not too bad yet but we could do with some high pressure soon...

It does look like there will be high pressure in our vicinity in the next two weeks but whether that ridges far enough north is a worry, or as modelled this morning growing support for a high to our east/North east.

I put this as a 'low probability' scenario a couple days ago but it has since gained support. That would deliver colder uppers with less slush than now.

Although, the met aren't on board, they back HP to be either over us or to the SW which would promote fairly springlike conditions by mid-March.

We'll have to wait and see

[Glaswegianblizzard]

Couple of big thunderclaps in Glasgow there.

 

And now heavy shower of hail, very dark, some more thunder too.

Edited February 24, 2015 by Glaswegianblizzard

[NUT]

Couple of big thunderclaps in Glasgow there.

 

And now heavy shower of hail, very dark, some more thunder too.

Getting that shower here I think but no thunder

[grifter]

Loud crack of thunder there in Paisley and hail/sleet.

[Ross B]

Gone dark here nr Edinburgh airport and sleet / snow falling. Could of sworn I just saw lighting but not heard any thunder

[SW Saltire]

Was 4.6c at 11:30 an rainy. Several very heavy showers piled in thereafter and the last was all of snow, covering my coat and the dogs etc but not lying. Temperature fell to 2.1c.

Sun is back and temperature is up to 3.4c, chilly and windy

[101_North]

Just had a very heavy shower of soft hail and snow which has left a light slushy covering on the grass.

[NUT]

Not had too many showers admittedly today but when they have hit they lasted. Not bad at all

[Sunshineandshowers84]

Gone dark here nr Edinburgh airport and sleet / snow falling. Could of sworn I just saw lighting but not heard any thunder

Can see tops of some anvils many miles east of Glasgow think that could be the possible thundery shower you are talking about.

[101_North]

The weather this afternoon has suddenly turned into the most interesting we've had for a while. Real mix of heavy hail, graupel, snow and gusty winds.

[SW Saltire]

Surprised none of you are reporting snow...

Temp went up to 3.7c and sunny. Thought it was an ok time to ride the horse although radar did show an incoming heavy but (apparently) brief shower...

It was a huge hailstorm, covering most surfaces white. I could only fact one direction (ESE) as the hail stones were so painful on your face, about the size of large peas. The 2nd biggest hailstorm I've had here (lived here 6 years). Temp fell to 1.8c as the storm lasted 15 mins. After a minute lull it picked up once more with huge flakes of snow falling as the temperature continued to plummet to 1.1c.

A saw a very slight covering at the top of the hill (about 200m) which has since melted. The snow lasted 10 mins, the hail is still present in plant pots and under gates etc.

Now sunny and 3.3c....

Quite a wild day, shame this isn't December as I feel we'd have a white out. I think this is very reminiscent to the pattern of late Jan with better uppers back then and less sun irradiance. Shower after shower bringing the temperature down... Somewhere in the southern uplands will surely have several feet of snow from all the recent sleet/hail/wet snow and cold rain that had been experienced at low ground

[A Winter's Tale]

It's now a super afternoon with plenty of blue sky and sunshine after showers which brought a mix of rain, hail, sleet and snow.

[GrangemouthBairn]

Couple of wet snow showers in Edinburgh this afternoon. On the train home and just went through a very heavy snow shower in linlithgoe

[SW Saltire]

A brief spell of blue sky allowed me to see the snow line at about 2,000 feet. Very white Mountains to the North West.

Next heavy shower has moved in, started off as rain, then hail and now wet snow.

An interesting but pretty unuseable day...

[Jo Farrow]

Super view of Mammatus clouds out in Dunbar about 2:50pm from the cell that came from Edinburgh across E.Lothian

[lorenzo]

On train  back to Edinburgh and at the mercy of dodgy wi-fi. Mrs L reporting snow in West Lothian. Here a mix of crystal clear skies and heavy cloudscapes.

[101_North]

Last few showers here have been snow after the earlier hail/snow mix.

[NorthernRab]

All white here, some very heavy snow showers over the past half hour.

[Northern Strath]

Sporadic heavy snow showers through the day but aye, as Rab mentioned, pepped up a bit in the last hour and we've had a few more cms topping up the snow cover and currently snowing heavily

Edited February 24, 2015 by Northern Strath

[Guest]

At least we've managed a frost down here, not jealous of you at all NS :D I'll give this winter one thing, it's been frosty at least.

 

The ECM maintains a fairly chilly/cold looking theme right the way through the first week of March. There'll certainly be a lot of snow to come for the hills and mountains, it doesn't look too shabby for places with even moderate altitude (150m+) at various points in the next ten days. Much better further north, the central belt and south may struggle to see as much, if any, snow.

[Hawesy]

Morning all,

Managed an air frost overnight, min -0.4c here in Crail, -2c at Leuchars. Notched another 8.5 hours of sun yesterday and it stayed dry, max temp at Leuchars 7.3c.

[Northernlights]

Frosty here too no sign of any grass growth and daffs only just peeping through.Turnip tops completely frosted off showing the number of bare frosts we have had as this time time last year they were green and growing. A dusting again this morning and currently 0.5c.

A bit of a forecast, after a winter of dustings I can see a spring blizzard with a good fall of at least 6 inches!!!!any time up to April.