Scotland - Weather Chat

[November13]

It is further north but its much lighter. We will get something from it now temps are dropping.

[Hairy Celt]

Heavy wet sleet in the far north just now; the rivers are well up and very cold after this week's ppn, something to consider if you were thinking of a swim in a Highland river tomorrow.

[Northernlights]

 A really foul day here with a strong west wind and frequent sleet snow and hail showers which only partially settled with a maximum temperature of 1c and  a fair old  windchill. The ground is absolutely saturated.

 

 My face is burning tonight after even short periods today being exposed to the above weather

 

Dry snow level is about 600 feet and when it occasionally cleared at times today these areas were very white with snow covered trees.

 

Currently dry 0.4c and starry with a moderate ground frost  and sheet ice everywhere. Almost every surface is difficult to walk on.

 

[Ross Andrew Hemphill]

Moderate flurries of snow currently, 2C

[edo]

I hope LS studying charts and no away gallivanting someplace update required

[Bullseye]

Well after my post the other day about lack of snow for Christmas period(I apologise heat of the moment etc haha) may take this back after reading latest posts by Steve Murr and now Fergieweather in Model thread, interesting and exciting read. After 4mins Fergieweather post had 16likes is that new record ha.

Edited December 11, 2014 by Bullseye

[edo]

I think fergie likes teasing them

[edo]

Charts beginning to look more promising I think we may wake up to some boom charts....been quite a few trends for a very cold nd potentially snowy xmas day but I guess we should wait at least another week before even thinking about that...very quiet weather tonight

[NUT]

The paths looks like they going to be fun to walk the 3 dogs in the morning Looks cold out there already and can only get colder....................

[LomondSnowstorm]

I hope LS studying charts and no away gallivanting someplace update required

Haha, I'm still about, been revising for my final exam next week and struggling with a throat infection so I'll give a fuller update tomorrow hopefully.

In the meantime, just a few things to look out for:

more showers feeding into Ayrshire and the Northwest Highlands overnight, potentially extending further east at times (according to the Netweather mesoscale model):

Frontal snowfall from the north at some point tomorrow afternoon, with potentially another trough following through overnight:

A harsh frost early Saturday morning, temperatures bottoming out around -3C for most but potentially some minus double digit temperatures recorded somewhere, probably around MoffatRoss' patch:

 

Some showers heading into sub zero temperatures through the day Saturday in the slack westerly flow, with the potential for a top up before milder air moves in behind:

Potential for a northwesterly reload (albeit probably less stormy this time) early-mid next week:

 

 

Hints of a northerly flow just in time for Christmas (not just based on this, also from fergie at the MO's comments on the MT):

 

In summary, intermittent   potentially leading to more prolonged       by Christmas.

Stay safe out there, very icy already here so it's going to be dangerous/hilarious trying to walk outside tomorrow morning

[edo]

Great stuff ls cheers

[mardatha]

White world here, with the lying snow frozen and twinkling away like diamonds. I dono what the temp is cos ony hubby can reach up to see it and he's oot. But it's cauld.

[Hawesy]

Morning all,

Clear skies and frosty at -1.6c. After a frost-free Autumn that's my third air frost this month.

[Northernlights]

Nice calm dry start to the day patches of frozen snow sparkling and currently -0.5c. Appears to be a line of showers heading down from the NW on the radar so nice frozen base ready for them.

[Hawesy]

Nice calm dry start to the day patches of frozen snow sparkling and currently -0.5c. Appears to be a line of showers heading down from the NW on the radar so nice frozen base ready for them.

This feature is lIkely to be rain at lower levels (I think) as a pocket of milder air heads south through the day, with colder air returning immediately behind it. Of course I may be misreading the charts!

[Mother Goose]

Had quite a few hefty showers on and off all day yesterday, and a few more over night by the look of things. Garden looking beautiful in it's winter coat!

[Gogoslo]

Beautiful crisp clear frosty morning in Balmedie. -1 first thing.    Next best thing to snow in my opinion.  Fantastic view of moon and Jupiter ( I think )...      Great to hear of so many getting their first real snow of the winter.     Enjoy. 

[Guest]

I've looked through the ECM this morning, out of 11 charts covering the next 10 days I'd say that 7 were cold/very cool, 2 were intermediate and 2 were vaguely mild. I know for many lowland areas it hasn't been a remarkable spell of cold weather, but it's a start and it will continue vaguely cold for the foreseeable.

[Scottish-Irish Skier]

This feature is lIkely to be rain at lower levels (I think) as a pocket of milder air heads south through the day, with colder air returning immediately behind it. Of course I may be misreading the charts!

 

Seems to be producing snow on the TS cams at the moment, at least inland and with some elevation.

 

Was -1 C when I woke up. 2 cm of crisp snaw. Gairden all white. Now -0.3 C.

 

Road outside would appeal to Torvill and Dean.

[Big Innes Madori]

-4 Deg C and a couple of inches of crisp lying snaw this morning

Christ, even Knock hill Racing Circuit got a spot on the STV News last night!!!

Big Innes

Edited December 12, 2014 by Big Innes Madori

[Hairy Celt]

Heavy frontal sleet passing through here for a couple of hours so should be a pasting heading for most folk if it doesn't break up too badly.

 

How many pages this week? In summer it was a page a week max!

[blitzen]

Lovely cold, crisp morning here.   After an overnight low of -1.7c we are now sitting at -0.7c/-1.3c.   Hope for later today then?

[Kayemill]

Fairly steady snow here at the moment. Everything white but can't see it lasting.

[Polar Maritime]

Looking good for Snow sports this weekend.

 

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Edited December 12, 2014 by Polar Maritime

[Ravelin]

I'm doing pretty well for air frosts this months. Notched up another one last night with a low of -1.7C under clear skies. I've still to witness a flake of snow fall though. Wife has seen some in Huntly, my youngest even said it snowed in Kemnay the other day (didn't lie) but nowt seen by my own eyes. Maybe today is the day (or I'm cursed, cos 2 weeks out from my ski trip to La Plagne and it's not looking as if I'll be doing much skiing).