Scotland Weather discussion

[SW Saltire]

A damp morning turned into an increasingly sunny day. A slight wind kept temperatures around 18c all day (max 18.7c). 
Cracking evening

[Quinach]

Lovely sunny start to the day.

Didn't last as by mid morning lots of convective cloud building, this culminating with an absolute deluge from 4-6pm. 

Lots of surface flooding on the roads, especially to the NW of here around the likes of Lumsden and Keig.

Some very moody looking skies this evening with a wide palette of greys in play...

Max of 14.5c and light winds throughout.

[Norrance]

Sunny ints here with showers getting close but no direct hits. My mildest day of the year at just under 19C.

[Norrance]

Just having a prolonged and quite heavy shower with a few rumbles of thunder but the worst seemed to have passed to our West/North West. Not sure if Perth area had any activity?

Edited May 11, 2023 by Norrance

[Snowandrocks]

Still abroad but hearing reports of torrential rain and even mudslides around Aberdeenshire which is slightly concerning given most of my garden is newly sown grass! 

Fingers crossed it's been pretty localised and i'm not returning to a huge mess! 

[Mair Snaw]

3 hours ago, Snowandrocks said:

Still abroad but hearing reports of torrential rain and even mudslides around Aberdeenshire which is slightly concerning given most of my garden is newly sown grass! 

Fingers crossed it's been pretty localised and i'm not returning to a huge mess! 

I can always take a walk up and check it for you if you like?

[Mair Snaw]

A glorious morning here which allowed me to get into the garden and start a bit of digging and finding.. 

Uncovered 8 so far stepping stones that even the landlord didnt uncover in the 10 years they lived here.. on a quick glance i would say another 10..

[Quinach]

Day started very foggy indeed, was not expecting that.

The murk slow to clear, sun returning around 11am.

Thereafter cloud bubbling up fast, with some impressive looking showers loitering around  mid-afternoon-evening, hough they completely missed here giving us a dry day.

Warm with a max of 16c and mainly light winds.

 

[Juanmoorchants]

Spent the day in Caithness,  thick fog hugged the coastline from Dunbeath to JOG. Cleared to overcast in Thurso but fog all the way back to Dunbeath this evening and 8c. 

[Snowandrocks]

10 hours ago, Mair Snaw said:

I can always take a walk up and check it for you if you like?

Thanks for offering but home in a couple of days so should be fine. 

Might be better not knowing if it's ruined anyway when there's nothing I can do about it! 

[SW Saltire]

Dodged the very potent looking showers to the West and North yesterday.

Pleasant morning today, showers forecast to arrive later. Sunny spells and currently 17.1c.

[Quinach]

Back to the usual Aberdeenshire Permagloom™.

Very murky out there with a steady cool NE wind - currently 11c.

As expected, the "warmth" earlier this week is allowing some rapid plant growth.

[Jo Farrow]

one day to the next, same coastline

[Kirkcaldy Weather]

Well yesterday was exciting

First seemed like a mesocyclone was developing with this cell 

   

Another cell almost got a gust front on its leading edge 

And the day rounded off in awesome style with a cell producing whites + purples on radar 

And a 5 star rainbow display

[Jo Farrow]

Quite the View from East Lothian across the Forth

[Norrance]

Can literally see storms forming due North of us and moving South West in the general direction of Perth as noticeable on Jo's radar image posted above?  Stayed dry here so far and blue skies remain to our East. Feeling a bit sticky at 15C with a NE breeze.

Edited May 11, 2023 by Norrance

[NUT]

Glorious day really and of all the potential for storms this week.........total is zilch. Other than monday and a few light showers it's really not been too bad at all much better than probably forecast

[dryfie]

Luck finally given out this pm with a couple of hours of heavy showers, though no thunder heard.  Last hour brings dramatic clearance to full sunshine.  Southron visitors to Corsewall mightily impressed by week’s weather.

[Northernlights]

Good growing week with sun showers and humid with sea fog these last few days. Got all seeds in garden at the beginning of the week so should not be long before they are through the ground.

[101_North]

Cracking day today but the haar has rolled back in with a vengeance in the last half hour. 

[Mair Snaw]

Yesterday was horrible... dull and cold.. log burner was lit at 3pm and used all evening until bed time.. today looks very similar but is meant to brighten up later.. tomorrow looks glorious before horrendous Sunday... summer will be here soon

[dryfie]

Haar much slower to clear than hoped.  Visitors travelled all the way from Rhins to Lochmaben cloudless, only to enter gloom.  Cleared eventually 1300, then increasingly warm with wind dropping.

[Mair Snaw]

A glorious afternoon after a poor start... uncovered the remaining path in the garden.. in total 27 stepping stones.. followed this with a trip to co op for beer and managed to get some bargains in the reduced to clear.. £39 of food for £7.. my particular favourite was diced venison £4.60 reduced to 92p grabbed both of them..and the home for a dog walk in beautiful sunshine 

[Quinach]

Day started cool with the usual Permagloom and light winds...

But blessed are the weather gods as the skies actually cleared by 3pm to leave a lovely late afternoon/evening of sunshine.

Temperatures rocketing as a result from the 8c in the morning to 15c by 5pm.

Clear skies allowing things to cool quickly since dusk, already down to 4.3c - first evening this year that you can actually see the midsummer glow in all its glory.

[Hawesy]

Mixed week with a couple of nice days thrown in (especially Thursday which wasn’t forecast) but overall the gloom and haar has had the balance of conditions. Grey today and doesn’t look like clearing. Sunshine for May is way below average in NE Fife (just 32 hours so far at Leuchars, though I shouldn’t complain as only 19 in Aberdeen). May averages are 210 hours at Leuchars and 202 at Aberdeen.