Scotland/Alba Regional Weather Discussion

[asjmcguire]

Down to -1.6 here now.

Hearing whispered excitement about the ECMWF on Twitter.

Netweather NMM has us down for sleet overnight - but I think an update will be coming out shortly which will probably obliterate it. That said - the NMM also doesn't have us being anywhere near as low temperature wise as we are - and suggested we should have seen nearly 4C during the day compared to our actual max of 1.9C.

Avg 24hr temp is currently -0.6

[asjmcguire]

Roughly 2 weeks after the supermarkets reduce the price of soup...... funny that......

(You will all be religiously checking the price of soup next winter by the end of this one - I guarantee it.....)

Edited January 5, 2017 by asjmcguire

[asjmcguire]

"It's cold outside, there's no kind of atmosphere"

So.... It's a fire day and the puppy agrees...

[mardatha]

Erm... how can I say this? That's not a puppy - that's a WOLF!

BBC said we were to hit 4c here and we didn't get above zero.

[asjmcguire]

55 minutes ago, mardatha said:

Erm... how can I say this? That's not a puppy - that's a WOLF!

BBC said we were to hit 4c here and we didn't get above zero.

She's an Akita crossed with a GSD - she normally looks a bit like this..... although I call her a puppy - she's nearly 6 now....

[mardatha]

I'm more used to this lol

[asjmcguire]

1 minute ago, mardatha said:

I'm more used to this lol

That's far too small for me - that doesn't look like it will break your kneecaps when it climbs on you..... 

[Hairy Celt]

39 minutes ago, mardatha said:

I'm more used to this lol

Hubby on a good day?

[Guest]

Hi guys and girls... im looking at a 4 bed house to relocate myself and the family to in a place called Sauchen...i looked at the areas height above sea level and it ranges from 100m to 120m asl.. any advice from this thread would be more than welcome... we dont mind being cut off and we dont mind being in the middle of know where either.. the kids just want to know is it a good place for snow??

[Norrona2015]

8 hours ago, More Snow said:

Hi guys and girls... im looking at a 4 bed house to relocate myself and the family to in a place called Sauchen...i looked at the areas height above sea level and it ranges from 100m to 120m asl.. any advice from this thread would be more than welcome... we dont mind being cut off and we dont mind being in the middle of know where either.. the kids just want to know is it a good place for snow??

Hi,

I live close to Sauchen, about 15 minutes by car further inland, and know the place well. A rural quiet village to the west of Aberdeen city by 17 miles, it's also near to Westhill which is on the same road into Aberdeen. Westhill has a large Tesco's, Marks and Spencer's, star buck's etc, travel time 15 minutes tops. Sauchen definetly does well when it snows and I witnessed impressive drifting on the Sauchen straight (section of road A944) during the bad winters 2009/10 and 2010/11. It pretty much gets the same snowfall as my location and it can get very cold. In recent years snow seems to be falling less and less. Heres a video for conditions near where I live December 2010, that year people in remoter areas were cut off due to the snow depth:

P.S House prices in the area are down due to the oil and gas slump so you may be able to negotiate a good deal.

Edited January 6, 2017 by Norrona2015

[Guest]

9 minutes ago, Norrona2015 said:

Hi,

I live close to Sauchen, about 15 minutes by car further inland, and know the place well. A rural quiet village to the west of Aberdeen city by 17 miles, it's also near to Westhill which is on the same road into Aberdeen. Westhill has a large Tesco's, Marks and Spencer's, star buck's etc, travel time 15 minutes tops. Sauchen definetly does well when it snows and I witnessed impressive drifting on the Sauchen straight (section of road A944) during the bad winters 2009/10 and 2010/11. It pretty much gets the same snowfall as my location and it can get very cold. In recent years snow seems to be falling less and less. Heres a video for conditions near where I live December 2010, that year people in remoter areas were cut off due to the snow depth:

P.S House prices in the area are down due to the oil and gas slump so you may be able to negotiate a good deal.

Thanks very much for the help info and advice... i will update you all once a viewing has taken place and a deal has been struck..

[Norrona2015]

Not a problem, if you need any more information, just give me a shout.

[blitzen]

Yuk, yuk, yuk!   7c and light rain.   Typical January weather for this area really.   Will be very surprised if next week delivers for here as January usually never does.   Better chance February and March for some reason.

[101_North]

At the risk of amusing edo - today is awful muck outside! Absolute pish compared to yesterday 

[Ravelin]

10 hours ago, More Snow said:

Hi guys and girls... im looking at a 4 bed house to relocate myself and the family to in a place called Sauchen...i looked at the areas height above sea level and it ranges from 100m to 120m asl.. any advice from this thread would be more than welcome... we dont mind being cut off and we dont mind being in the middle of know where either.. the kids just want to know is it a good place for snow??

I live not far away, in Kemnay, and we do OK for snow, but like most places there's not really been much the last few years. Aberdeenshire usually fairs best when the weather is coming from the North, NE, or East as anything with much of a westerly component and the Cairngorms soak up the snow (works in the summer too though, keeping us dry when it's raining further west). I doubt you'll get 'cut off' very often though, it's not that remote (unless the house is along some minor road). If the 'kids' really need a snow fix then Braemar/Glenshee/Cairngorms is only an hour or so away.

Where are you going to be working, roughly? I ask because Aberdeen can be a bit of a nightmare traffic wise, at least until the bypass opens, so being on the right side of town can make a huge difference in terms of commuting time.

P.S. I know of a lovely 4 bed house for sale **cough** not too far from Sauchen, lovely village, 2 primary schools and the local secondary, various takeways and local shops. We're only wanting to move as my wife is now working in Keith so want to shift that direction a bit and maybe something with a bit more land/garden. PM me if you want any more info (no hard sell, promise).

[Ravelin]

38 minutes ago, Blitzen said:

Will be very surprised if next week delivers for here as January usually never does.

I'm having serious doubts that it'll be anything more than a short snap of normal January weather, something akin to the last couple of days i.e. colder but nothing special.

This morning here it was 4.6C at around 9am but I didn't bother checking the overnight low. Currently dry with a sheet of light cloud but occasional sunny breaks. Flags outside are limps so no wind.

[blitzen]

1 hour ago, CatchMyDrift said:

Moan time, this chart sums up winter for us. Look west, it's cold, look east it's cold. We're stuck in the middle with the relatively mild pish. I know it's just a snapshot but it sums it up well:

Even 1,000 miles south is managing proper winter weather.

I feel your pain!    Just incredible.

[cheshire snow]

5 minutes ago, CatchMyDrift said:

Can anyone speak Italian? I think we should all move:

 

Fortunato ottiene

C.S

Translated to Lucky Gets

[NUT]

Rubbish. Sums the weather up really

[Ravelin]

28 minutes ago, NUT said:

Rubbish. Sums the weather up really

Also sums up the GFS 12z so far, my earlier pessimism in regards to next week looks to have been well founded unfortunately.

[blitzen]

 Personally,  I think I will prepare and freeze the spam fritters anyway.

 I shall also consider a special delivery for Nick Sussex if I have to eat them ...........  I'll give him 'exciting, breath of fresh air ECM run' !!!!

 

[Ravelin]

3 hours ago, CatchMyDrift said:

I'd take the ECM tonight, it's not a guaranteed snowfest for everyone but it's better than most of the guff we've had all winter.

 

It is better than the past GFS I'll admit. GFS control was also on the mild end of its assembly suite by the 16th so there's hope that it was an outlier too. Maybe by the end of the weekend we'll have a better idea, maybe we won't. Still searching for scraps really in what looked like a semi-promising winter. 

[Cheggers]

**YAWN** best describes the weather at present, although we had a pea souper blow away in 5 min here, was weird to watch it move so quickly. Stars now twinkling but still 7C.

[NUT]

Foggy and Mild. November seems such a long long time ago now.........................

[blitzen]

5 hours ago, CatchMyDrift said:

Can anyone speak Italian? I think we should all move:

 

Zatnoa pizza porno?!!!!