Scottish weather discussion - Spring 2023/24

[Scottish-Irish Skier]

13 minutes ago, jon_d1983 said:

Not holding my breath but this could make the Commute home interesting if it happens! 

I'm hoping I get the call from the garage in Insch that my car MOT is done earlier rather than later the day!

I thought it was all about the central belt today, but then that front is heading slowly but steadily in this direction. Fingers crossed it at least reaches Glenshee / the Lecht to give them a decent dumping.

Edited January 16 by Scottish-Irish Skier

[Ricky67]

3 minutes ago, Ross90 said:

Pretty poor from the met and BBC to be honest. Snow can be difficult to forecast but it wasn't whether it would be sleet or snow that's the issue, they just had it in the wrong place. They were both showing a 50% + chance of snow at less than 4 hrs too, at that stage you'd be as well looking out the window.

Forecasting I know can be difficult at times but to me that's wildly wrong this morning.  

[Sceptical]

The councils relaxed approached to gritting has continued today. Westhill Starbucks drive through was shut because of 3 inches of snow .

Edited January 16 by Sceptical

[snowidea]

We ended up with a few flakes, not even enough to call a dusting but better than nothing. 

[jon_d1983]

6 minutes ago, Scottish-Irish Skier said:

I'm hoping I get the call from the garage in Insch that my car MOT is done earlier rather than later the day!

I thought it was all about the central belt today, but then that front is heading slowly but steadily in this direction. Fingers crossed it at least reaches Glenshee / the Lecht to give them a decent dumping.

Glenshee looking wind scowered on cams this morning so defo needs it!!! 

email in from the boys swimming lesson saying cancelled tonight with the snow forecast for later so likely be bone dry now

[johncam]

14 minutes ago, Bats32 said:

Weather warnings lately seem off to me locally. We've had periods of wind this year and the bins have been all over the street and had no warnings but had warnings and there's been very little wind.  I generally use forecasts as a broad brush and radar/looking out of my window as nowcasting!

Which is a bloody disgrace considering the amount of money spent on the MET

[Penicuikblizzard]

16 minutes ago, Kayemill said:

They are not worth looking at these days. Currently mine shows 90% chance of heavy snow for right now. Utter mince.

Yeah the met office app is a complete waste of time it’s rarely correct

[jon_d1983]

On the app there is a little drop down that says how accurate is the forecast….i was informed a while ago that this is fed back into the matrix to help its learn…could be bollo**s though!! 

[Glaswegianblizzard]

Not the first time this winter that weather warnings have been spectacularly wrong. becoming quite difficult to have faith in the system now. 
 

My work place has started putting a lot investment into weather forecasting and even it has been quite hit and miss at times too. Maybe there’s an issue with the models, or interpretation of the models perhaps? Definitely lacking the accuracy that people would expect.

[Kayemill]

2 minutes ago, jon_d1983 said:

On the app there is a little drop down that says how accurate is the forecast….i was informed a while ago that this is fed back into the matrix to help its learn…could be bollo**s though!! 

I've given my feedback. Thanks.

[NorthYorksWeather]

Persistent light snow here in Dalwhinnie. Slowly starting to accumulate, temp @ 355m asl -1.0°C with a dew of -2.9°C. 

[Beverley Lass]

19 minutes ago, Scottish-Irish Skier said:

I'm hoping I get the call from the garage in Insch that my car MOT is done earlier rather than later the day!

I thought it was all about the central belt today, but then that front is heading slowly but steadily in this direction. Fingers crossed it at least reaches Glenshee / the Lecht to give them a decent dumping.

Just saw a brief snowy video of yours on ITV's This Morning news review !  

[Cheggers]

A few wee flakes falling here in Bannockburn, car park loons like it's dusted with icing suger.

[johncam]

11 minutes ago, jon_d1983 said:

On the app there is a little drop down that says how accurate is the forecast….i was informed a while ago that this is fed back into the matrix to help its learn…could be bollo**s though!! 

Where abouts as can't see it?

[jon_d1983]

5 minutes ago, johncam said:

Where abouts as can't see it?

Click on your location and should be middle of screen 

[Halfamilefromnowhere]

Steady snow overnight here giving several more cms , no wind so no drifting. Heavier snow this morning with temp of -1.3C at the moment. Looks like Central Belt could catch some snow this afternoon. We are attempting to get to Dingwall shortly coming back maybe more challenging looking at the radar. Video from about 830am today

[Big Gally]

More runs needed ! What’s strange is there hardly a shower getting through the central belt just keeps fizzling out. We were in the hot heat for a good event to. Looks like a non starter. 

[Ross B]

5 minutes ago, Big Gally said:

More runs needed ! What’s strange is there hardly a shower getting through the central belt just keeps fizzling out. We were in the hot heat for a good event to. Looks like a non starter. 

I think they will start to make it in soon. Quite interesting watching the radar with some light showers moving north east between the two bands. I would still hope that there will be more shower activity making it in during the afternoon... On the positive side, at least we didn't get the rain/sleet/snow mix that is over Northern Ireland as that would have been more annoying! 

[Big Gally]

 

7 minutes ago, Ross B said:

I think they will start to make it in soon. Quite interesting watching the radar with some light showers moving north east between the two bands. I would still hope that there will be more shower activity making it in during the afternoon... On the positive side, at least we didn't get the rain/sleet/snow mix that is over Northern Ireland as that would have been more annoying! 

Exactly! Beats the sleety pish. Hopefully it drops further south as it moves through. I’ll take a grain now! I aimed to high last night. Nearly 6 inches lol. 

Edited January 16 by Big Gally

[dryfie]

Snow depths at official stations 1100:

Lerwick 17cm,    Altnaharra 12cm,    Dyce 12cm,   Wick 10cm,   Stornoway 8cm,   Loch Glasgarnoch 7cm,   Kirkwall 5cm,   Aboyne 4cm,   Tulloch Bridge 2cm,   Aviemore 2cm.

Don't have figures, but 8cm at Stornoway is probably not common.   3cm here pretty much as forecast on ITV Border, but much less than BBC Scotland.

[Northern Strath]

I imagine the Struie will be some fun driving  @Halfamilefromnowhere , also, that’s a bonnie Collie  

Steady fun-sized snow here and -2C

[johncam]

17 minutes ago, jon_d1983 said:

Click on your location and should be middle of screen 

Cheers 

[aggy]

Just watched the bbc and met office morning weather reports still had the snow coming in way north on the report 

[aggy]

Also I do not believe the band in the north west will sink much more south I think it will head east and Stirling south will stay out the way 

[johncam]

6 minutes ago, aggy said:

Also I do not believe the band in the north west will sink much more south I think it will head east and Stirling south will stay out the way 

Looking like that if you watch it on radar , probably get a little as low gets east of us and precipitation sinks south , another dusting perhaps 

11 minutes ago, aggy said:

Just watched the bbc and met office morning weather reports still had the snow coming in way north on the report 

They really do need to get better at this, thats a bloody joke