Scotland Weather discussion

[Northernlights]

Currently  moderate snow this morning at -2c already a fresh inch

[JamesM]

Car reading -8 when I moved it earlier. Cloudy this morning. The milk on the doorstep was frozen solid despite being tucked in against the house. Boiler been making some very strange noises so got someone coming to look at it before it packs in completely. 

[Sceptical]

Offical coldest temperature last night Braemar -17.3c TBC.

Homes without power in Shetland as temperature hits new low

WWW.BBC.CO.UK

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Heavy snow causes problems in Shetland as the temperature drops to -17.3C in Braemar, Aberdeenshire.

 

 

Edited December 13, 2022 by Sceptical

[NUT]

A toasty -8 here atm  God it's cold and I need to venture out in it in a while.........fun

[Ravelin]

Widely negative double digits on the commute from Alford to Westhill this morning. Just waiting on that snow band coming in from the north to arrive now, but not expecting anything significant from it.  Maybe something a bit more substantial tonight and into tomorrow morning? Every forecast on every site seems to be different at the moment.

[Hairy Celt]

Hmm I must have been naughty in a previous life... After a few hours of intermittent, sometimes heavy snow, there's heehaw to show as the temps have gone up. Now it's passed through and the sky clears, we're left with another slushfest to freeze up again.  Oh boy.....

[mistyqueen]

Greetings frame the sub tropics o' Skye!  Temp dropped to -2.4c overnight and we're now basking in a very balmy 4.2c. Lucky us, eh? I'm keeping the stove in the kitchen running overnight, leaving kitchen door open to let some heat through to the sitting room. I'll top it up with wood and dross during the day to eke out the coal. Still no delivery of the black stuff! If the situation remains the same over the next few days it won't be so much a hunt for cold, as a hunt for coal! I hate driving in these kind of conditions, but if needs must.....

[Speedbird]

A good 3 inches here in Nairn - this is the A96 looking a bit treacherous 

[dryfie]

1 hour ago, matty40s said:

This ones just North of the Borders at West Linton south of Edinburgh 

Coldest I’ve driven in was 2010 on the very long straight between Dolphinton and West Linton.  -23 , and that was late morning!  
Currently magnificent morning here.  -12 with -14 overnight.

[NUT]

To add to the freezing weather now got freezing fog

[Quinach]

Overnight low of -12.4c, currently -10.3c with the rise in temperature picking up a bit thanks to cloud coming in from the north.

Sunrise over lying snow at this time of year has a particularly lovely quality.

Snow showers way over to the east first thing...

[Frozen Britain]

There's a band of snow moving south this morning. Currently snowing in places like Carrbridge, Aviemore, Grantown on Spey, etc.

Will the snow come to the central belt later? Or will it fizzle out before it reaches here? 

[Mair Snaw]

9 minutes ago, Frozen Britain said:

There's a band of snow moving south this morning. Currently snowing in places like Carrbridge, Aviemore, Grantown on Spey, etc.

Will the snow come to the central belt later? Or will it fizzle out before it reaches here? 

Cairngorms will soak that up... doubt anything will get south of there.. 

[Eastern Scotland WX]

13 minutes ago, Frozen Britain said:

There's a band of snow moving south this morning. Currently snowing in places like Carrbridge, Aviemore, Grantown on Spey, etc.

Will the snow come to the central belt later? Or will it fizzle out before it reaches here? 

No 

[Sceptical]

Yellow weather warnings extended again for parts of Scotland.

 

[Norrance]

1 hour ago, Mair Snaw said:

Ignore the clock as i dont change it for the winter... but thats blooming cold for Perth....

You may not believe it but one year Perth held the record for the coldest day of the year. It wasnt even that far back when there  were not many reports! 1956 was the year.

Here current temp is -6.1C 

[Ross B]

42 minutes ago, Frozen Britain said:

There's a band of snow moving south this morning. Currently snowing in places like Carrbridge, Aviemore, Grantown on Spey, etc.

Will the snow come to the central belt later? Or will it fizzle out before it reaches here? 

No real chance of anything until overnight Thursday into Friday, the models have the chance of precipitation into the Glasgow region for c.18hours from early Friday but it may be slightly too warm - one to watch over the next few days. Then there are further chances over the weekend and winds hopefully going round to the North West next week at times which gives us a better chance depending on how cold it gets but that's way off at the moment, certainly lots of interest!

[Northernlights]

2 hours ago, Northernlights said:

Currently  moderate snow this morning at -2c already a fresh inch

Now 3 inches and clearing a bit to NW 

[jellybaby1969]

2 hours ago, Mair Snaw said:

Ignore the clock as i dont change it for the winter... but thats blooming cold for Perth....

As you say blooming cold...but as you drive a french car the reading is probably incorrect  

[paget]

Snowing quite hard here now, small flakes not big fat ones but settling on top of the icy snow already there!  
 

Temp risen steeply to -1.1 

dp -1.5 

 

[Frozen Britain]

41 minutes ago, Ross B said:

No real chance of anything until overnight Thursday into Friday, the models have the chance of precipitation into the Glasgow region for c.18hours from early Friday but it may be slightly too warm - one to watch over the next few days. Then there are further chances over the weekend and winds hopefully going round to the North West next week at times which gives us a better chance depending on how cold it gets but that's way off at the moment, certainly lots of interest!

Yeah Ross for sure.......north west and easterly are the best wind directions (especially easterly) in a cold spell like this.....for sure.....for central areas......the last 2 beast from the east events were just brilliant for snow for us......

[101_North]

-4c at 12.30pm. Beautiful winters day!

[Kirkcaldy Weather]

12 hours ago, Northern Strath said:

Any word on how Christmas Day is looking yet? Weather karma says it’ll prob be tropical, fe:kin’ club 18-30 Santa in Bermudas 

0z GFS was beautiful 

The pattern we are looking for over the next few weeks is the high in the Pacific to move through the Arctic and most probably toward Greenland a la ^^ the things helping boost blocking development are quite a big +EAMT event which works in combination with MJO progressing through a number of phases 

21 hours ago, Kirkcaldy Weather said:

Super impressive min temp here of -4.9C! To find a lower temp you have to go back to the 2021 beast with -5.8C on Feb 11th 2021. Low dewpoint overnight of -5.2C, yesterday's lows -3.4C + DP -4.0 and Friday nights mins -1.1C / Dewpoint -2.7C

I expect more snowfalls across the North (say from Inverness extended along the Moray firth coastal towns and up in the northwest with a few fronts dropping south through the next few days 

 

Well there we go officially colder than the 2021 beast as lows overnight here dropped to -5.9C + DP -6.2C  

[Norrance]

Daughter says snowing in Aberdeen near town centre and lying.

[Quinach]

The band of snow has passed through now and left a cheeky extra 1cm of pure powder.

It's not often you can say this, but the weather is warming from the north as the temperature has risen over 10c in the last 4 hours thanks to that band of snow - from -11.8c at 08:15 to the current -1.1c.