Scotland Weather Discussion - 20th November 2015 and Onwards...

[A Winter's Tale]

Flash of lightning over the south side of Glasgow. 

[snowidea]

Heavy, sleety rain here.

[biggreyface]

I wish you guys would stop winding up all the people who read the Scottish regional forum with photos of snow and talk of temperatures hovering around the freezing mark and Buzz words like sleet hail thunder and lightning .I've been looking in the model discussion forum the last couple of weeks and it's all talk about bbqs shorts and t-shirts and beaches even woodsheds I appreciate a good windup as much as the next person but enough is enough .

Currently 1.5c and heavy sleet showers with a  raw icy wind 

 

[Hairy Celt]

Arise Sir Da.... hack, hack, I just choked on my tongue...

[moffatross]

As we've informed the Lowther Hills Ski Club members now, I can share the post-Desmond scene that greeted us on Sunday with our (nearly 2 tonne with its contents) portacabin that had been donated by Clark Tracks from Dumfries and had served as a temporary club hut, found about 200 metres away from where we'd positioned it halfway up the hill. An enormous amount of work had gone into setting it up but it's totally wrecked and it'll be an interesting recovery and clear-up mission, the last thing we need as we've got so much still to do ready for the season. It's not the first storm damage we've suffered, and it won't be the last so we'll just get on with making Scotland's only not-for-profit ski centre happen :-)

 

 

[peborant]

Another day of falling snow in dollar min of 1.4 at 5pm, now sitting at a balmy 2.6º. Max of 8.3º at 00.10am 

Today's rain 14,6mm so far. 

[Sunshineandshowers84]

Just left pub did see lightning on radar..

[grifter]

Sleety/snowy muck passing through here, little white pellets landing on my jacket, not sure what that is, is it soft hail, half hail, small hail, hail in the development stage, half melted snow drops, half frozen rain drops or sleet in the process of further freezing, not sure!

[snowidea]

47 minutes ago, grifter said:

Sleety/snowy muck passing through here, little white pellets landing on my jacket, not sure what that is, is it soft hail, half hail, small hail, hail in the development stage, half melted snow drops, half frozen rain drops or sleet in the process of further freezing, not sure!

It's splat! 

 

[Scottish-Irish Skier]

Heavy wet sleet here now, having been largely dry until past 20 mins or so.

T was steady at about 4 C, but dropping quite quickly in the sleet.

Increasingly wintry on the M74 Beattock cams, which I suppose is good for me.

Edited December 10, 2015 by scottish skier

[Hairy Celt]

Just hovering above freezing here, which is lower than forecast, unusually.  The car will be a block of ice in the morning, again unusually.  I wonder how white the site I'll be at tomorrow will be...

[Ravelin]

2 hours ago, grifter said:

Sleety/snowy muck passing through here, little white pellets landing on my jacket, not sure what that is, is it soft hail, half hail, small hail, hail in the development stage, half melted snow drops, half frozen rain drops or sleet in the process of further freezing, not sure!

I think the technical term for that is Graupel. 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graupel

Weather station currently showing -1.5C and dropping. 

Edited December 10, 2015 by Ravelin

[NUT]

Really quite intense wintry shower just rolled through

[lorenzo]

Some nice cells around today, long may that continue, if the 'action' from the NWest is going to continue delivering like that until we opefully get a shift for Winter then all good !

Caught a great view of this one rolling through the M 8 corridor on the way home today against the failing light. Pretty Epic to see.

[Sunshineandshowers84]

Good photo that is.. Just shows you how Far East these showers can go helped by a strong wind.. That wind has picked up again here been an evening of heavy wintry showers.. Doesn't look like we are in for dry weather soon.. Met Office predict an easterly wind Saturday but will be short lived..

[Mildcarlisle]

And day five now of falling snow in Galashiels.More to come in next days.Who needs a Scandi high when you live in Scotland likes? ;-) 

[Frost HoIIow]

Light snow cover in Aviemore. http://winterhighland.info/cams/aviemore/aviemore@2.jpeg

 

[Scottish-Irish Skier]

Nae snaw, but a decent enough ground frost.

Fairly icy given the sleet last night.

2.0 C.

[Northernlights]

Fine winters morning wintry showers to west a slight ground frost drying up the mud and currently clear and 0c

[Ravelin]

Overnight low of -1.7C with a slight frost. Started off clear but clouding over now, light stuff with some blue patches still remaining. Temp up to 2.4C and no wind.

[mardatha]

Hard frost here this morning, thermometer read 1.4 earlier. Neighbour spinning wheels going up the hill, and snow lying a tiny wee bit higher up. Looks like it's going to do something today

[Ross B]

A half melted covering of snow here this morning.  I looked out at about 4am and it was frozen but it's now raining and melting quickly. 

 

Snow warning also out for the North West - look's like glencoe might be getting a good dump of snow. Traffic cams looking snowy in the area too!

[spindrift1980]

Yeah, looking pretty good at Glencoe Ski Centre - not sure how much will survive next week if it turns out as mild as some of the forecasts though.

[Northernlights]

Fantastic  winters day with sunshine / blue skies and the   wind has dropped off .   Frost lying in the shade,  currently 1.5c

[Hairy Celt]

3C at 8 this morning and I thought it'd be ok on site.  Clear all the way down to Invermoriston then once I left the big buffer (Loch Ness) behind, down came the snow line to roadside.  Heavy wet snow for an hour before I said fukit and went home. Guess what, it's raining at home!

Edited December 11, 2015 by Hairy Celt