Scotland Weather discussion

[Mair Snaw]

Glorious morning...

[Kayemill]

Low of -2.7 here. Not bad for end of March. 

[Ravelin]

Currently -0.4C after an overnight low of -1.6C, mainly sunny with just some fluffy white cloud, dusting of snow lying from overnight shower(s).

[NUT]

Clear and Blue. Lovely day. Shame it not gonna last...............

[Bats32]

What a gorgeous day! Pretty sad it's back to grey and rain tomorrow.

[Quinach]

Another cold start with a covering of snow on the ground.

That surprisingly survived the day in well shaded locations, elsewhere the unbroken sunshine made short work of it.

A high of 6c, currently 0.9c and light winds.

Bit shocked to see the first Camellia flowers out, especially with all the hard frost recently...

Bennachie looking quite radiant at dusk...

[Norrance]

Been up in Aberfeldy for a couple of days for a get together with family for my birthday. Yesterday was cold with a few snow pellet type flurries. Today beautiful sunshine all day so 18 holes of golf on the endurance test that is Strathtay golf course. Felt very warm in the sun but frost remained in the shade of the trees and with the ground solid underneath when the ball landed there was a bang sound and it bounced way up in any direction. Finished the day with a nice meal out at Kenmore. The picture with my brother in it is actually one of the holes (the locally famous Spion Kop) with the green tucked in behind the ridge, one of three blind holes in the first five.

[Norrance]

About to head back to Dundee shortly. Just started snowing lightly here in Aberfeldy.

[Northernlights]

Cool start to the day at 2c with a ground frost.  Clouded over this morning with a bit of light rain recently. Dried up a lot yesterday and a few tractors ventured into fields on the sandier coastal farms but still too sticky here.

[Spindrift2017]

Took a walk round some of the Lowther Hills near Wanlockhead yesterday – was a sparkling spring day with just a dusting of snow higher up. Some interesting fair-weather clouds in the last photo, with some appearing vertical rather than horizontal (possibly not the meterologically correct term!).

Back to grotty grey drizzle (and work) today!

[dryfie]

Lovely shots.  Folk are often surprised that our highest village is down here, rather than in the highlands, as is the highest pub.  Never quite sure why Cairngorm doesn't count.   Has the golf ball been removed or is it just out of shot? 

I didn't see any convective cloud yesterday, but there were some dissipating contrails which might give that effect.  Majority of them are usually aligned about SE to NW, but any are possible.

[Spindrift2017]

The “golf ball” is still there - it’s in the distance in the middle top image and the ones in the bottom row - clearer if you enlarge them.

I did wonder whether the clouds might be contrails at the time, but when I looked at the photos I managed to convince myself they were natural clouds!

[dryfie]

Got it now thanks….need a better display.  Used to a different shot with it on the skyline (from M74?).  Leadhills used to provide data to Met but seems to have stopped.

[dryfie]

Does anybody have access to March overnight temperature records?  I reckon tonight might challenge highest overnight minimum?

[Spindrift2017]

The Met Office has the highest March minimum for Scotland at 12.7C (Kinloss in 2021 and Benmore, Argyll in 1948, on the 9th!) - I think the latter is the Benmore Botanic Gardens on the Cowal Peninsula, with its mild, very maritime climate.

The overall record for the UK is 14.2C in 1990 at Arthog in North Wales.

Changing the options on here gives a variety of different figures for UK climate extremes:

UK climate extremes

WWW.METOFFICE.GOV.UK

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UK climate extremes

 

 

 

 

[dryfie]

25 minutes ago, Spindrift2017 said:

The Met Office has the highest March minimum for Scotland at 12.7C (Kinloss in 2021 and Benmore, Argyll in 1948, on the 9th!) - I think the latter is the Benmore Botanic Gardens on the Cowal Peninsula, with its mild, very maritime climate.

The overall record for the UK is 14.2C in 1990 at Arthog in North Wales.

Changing the options on here gives a variety of different figures for UK climate extremes:

UK climate extremes

WWW.METOFFICE.GOV.UK

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UK climate extremes

 

 

 

 

Brilliant site, many thanks.  Quite a few places reporting 13 at present, and rising from the south, so who knows.  Nerd fact - Lewis Fry Richardson (inventor of weather forecasting as we know it) last abode a few miles from RBG Benmore at Kilmun.

[Northernlights]

Miserable day here with steady rain most of the day great for chopping up some fallen trees from early February 

Only consolation it got a bit milder and was 11c by 5.00pm

[Quinach]

What a naff couple of days.

Yesterday, cold grey damp Aberdeenshire Permagloom™.

Today, mild grey damp Aberdeenshire Permagloom™.

A view of today's tedium...

Currently 9.1c - which is not a lot different to the days max of 9.4c (around 2pm this afternoon).

[Snowandrocks]

This is more like it! What an absolutely beautiful morning - clear blue skies, sunshine already feeling warm and not a breath of wind. 

[Northernlights]

Better day here a bit dull in the morning but sunny afternoon with one short sharp shower. Load of lime delivered this afternoon so hope forecast for weekend is correct.    Currently calm and 10c

[Northernlights]

A bit of growth now wintering sheep onto a couple of inches of new grass growth .

 

Badger  M1  still very visible in ploughed fields next to house.

[Hawesy]

A balmy 15.3c at Leuchars today, felt very pleasant in the sun at work in St Andrews. Back home we managed 13.8c in Pittenweem. More like mid-May than late March.

Rewind to last weekend and I got some good walking in in the Cairngorms.

[Quinach]

2 hours ago, Northernlights said:

Badger  M1  still very visible in ploughed fields next to house.

Badgers round here are either getting bolder - or are becoming overpopulated - and over the winter ended up in places they've never been seen before, including the middle of the local village.   Mating season must be on going by the number of road casualties.

As for the weather, a day that felt distinctly summerlike in the warm sunshine.

Mainly sunny in morning after a foggy start, more in the way of cloud in the afternoon, that clearing again around dusk.  A very nice max of 14.5c with light winds.

Nice sunset to round things off.

[Mair Snaw]

We have a badger who is getting closer to the back of the house every night...and have been informed by landlord that he lives under the cabin at the bottom of the garden..

He spends his nights digging up my lawn meaning 20 mins every morning replacing the various bit of turf he has dug up..

Video from 2020 of said Badger..

[Northernlights]

9 hours ago, Quinach said:

Badgers round here are either getting bolder - or are becoming overpopulated - and over the winter ended up in places they've never been seen before, including the middle of the local village.   Mating season must be on going by the number of road casualties.

As for the weather, a day that felt distinctly summerlike in the warm sunshine.

Mainly sunny in morning after a foggy start, more in the way of cloud in the afternoon, that clearing again around dusk.  A very nice max of 14.5c with light winds.

Nice sunset to round things off.

I said before that we are overrun by badgers  .Speaking to the postie who is an ex gamekeeper yesterday and we were just discussing how devoid of ground  based wildlife we are no oyster  catchers ,lapwings, wild pheasants, hares hedgehogs or even rabbits Wild bee nests are dug up round the edges of fields and bees and honey eaten and he also told me that  houseowner just a mile away had all their carrots  in the garden eaten last autumn.

Just a heads up  for everyone in the next couple of months was his comment that the old brock badgers are currently chasing out the juvenile brocks from the setts from last breeding season to fend for themselves. Being very hungry they are much more likely to be aggressive. Also just recently we have had to take our spaniel upstairs to stop her barking all night as they grumble past the window and she sits on the bench barking at them.

What"s  ironic is that farmers support payments will be linked to biodiversity in the future and  I was at a     Zoom meeting the other night where another 6 farmers raised this question with the Scottish government representative present. The destruction of wild  bee nests really resonates with them as we all need pollinating insects.

Currently dull calm and 7c