Scottish weather discussion - Spring 2023/24

[Stormeh]

8 minutes ago, Sanserit said:

Flight from Seville to Edinburgh has had a change of plan by looks of it, no idea where it's heading as climbed back up to 33,000 feet and out over the North Sea.

That’s crazy, looks like it’s heading to Cologne.

[JamesM]

17 minutes ago, Stormeh said:

That’s crazy, looks like it’s heading to Cologne.

Some weird and wonderful diversions out there tonight. Tenerife to Edinburgh diverted to Cologne earlier. 
 

Wind still really gusting here and you can hear it roaring in the trees to the south of us. House also really creaking.  Reports of lots of trees down locally. 

[edo]

nothing managing to land at Edinburgh yet planes still taking off  from London heading to edi which I can't understand. If thought was dying down soon planes wouldn't be diverting to Germany from Edi.... amazing to see a plane take off from Shannon for a 40 min flight to edi and gonna end up on a plane for 2 and a quarter hours and land in cologne

[Stormeh]

 

7 minutes ago, edo said:

nothing managing to land at Edinburgh yet planes still taking off  from London heading to edi which I can't understand. If thought was dying down soon planes wouldn't be diverting to Germany from Edi.... amazing to see a plane take off from Shannon for a 40 min flight to edi and gonna end up on a plane for 2 and a quarter hours and land in cologne

Haha I am addicted to the flight radar app tonight. After two attempts to land it looks like the London to Edinburgh will now try to land in Belfast. There are more flights inbound, I hate flying and I am glad I am not on one of those planes tonight. Must be tough for the pilots.

[Stormeh]

9 minutes ago, Stormeh said:

9 minutes ago, Stormeh said:

it looks like the London to Edinburgh will now try to land in Belfast

Or maybe Dublin? 

Edited January 22 by Stormeh

[edo]

Dublin it was.... and a couple of planes just made it in.... NFL finished now so should go to sleep but it's actually getting noisier here in the wind,. 

[Glaswegianblizzard]

Was pretty wild here around midnight, much calmer now.

[Boydie]

The family and I just hunkered down last night, the wind was wild around 0100-0300. Ill go out at first light and keep my fingers crossed there is no damage, same goes for everyone else.

[Jo Farrow]

So this happened overnight  RED WARNING  in NE

Early Monday 01-05.  UKV had the core of winds shown yesterday

[Snowlover2]

Horrible drive to work. Had a brush with a tree thanks to the oncoming driver blinding me with his lights. Thankfully it wasn’t more on the road and has just scraped the side of the car! 

[Jo Farrow]

No trains running in Scotland until after the morning rush hour period. Chaos on the network with fallen trees, damage to overhead wires, a shed on line, flooding. Nothing from Lothian Buses, no update at all this morning

 

[Scottish-Irish Skier]

1 hour ago, Jo Farrow said:

So this happened overnight  RED WARNING  in NE

Early Monday 01-05.  UKV had the core of winds shown yesterday

Holy guacamole.

Totally slept through that. Hoose still standing.

Power never went aff either so generator purchase worked!

[Boydie]

14 minutes ago, Jo Farrow said:

No trains running in Scotland until after the morning rush hour period. Chaos on the network with fallen trees, damage to overhead wires, a shed on line, flooding. Nothing from Lothian Buses, no update at all this morning

 

Was that 99mph gust over Fife?

 

[Jo Farrow]

8 minutes ago, Boydie said:

Was that 99mph gust over Fife?

 

Cairnwell (mountain site)

[Ross B]

Quite a few lightning strikes showing on the radar from the showers rattling in. 

[Huntforsnow]

Driving to work and there was the biggest flash of lightning in kilbirnie! 

[Scottish-Irish Skier]

Wee bro's hoose near Penicuik.

 

EDIT. Road near him / somewhere in Penicuik.

He says that bizarrely, the wind took the coping stones off, but left the bins standing!

Edited January 22 by Scottish-Irish Skier

[Quinach]

Unpleasant night, going by the groaning of the roof peak winds around 3am.  Kids (and thus parents) finally asleep just after that.  Will be zombie apocalypse in the school today if same story repeated elsewhere.

No damage noticed so far bar double plastic seat jumping to the other side of the lawn, dislodging the bag of compost that was supposed to have held it down.

Impressive snow melt overnight, all gone bar the 4ft snow ramp the kids built - now barely an inch high.

Strong west wind and 4c with clear skies.

[johncam]

Just had a heavy hail shower , left the place temporarily white .

[Kayemill]

Going by the clock on the cooker we had a power cut for 11 1/2 hours overnight. I slept through it like I always do. However upon getting up only some of the lights work in the house. Some are really dim. Lights in bathroom came on dim then brightened up but the expelair did not come on. No heating no hot water. Checked the board and nothing tripped. No street lights. Its like we're on some kind of low power mode or something. Old school halogen bulbs not coming on but new LED's in the kitchen work fine. Strange. 

Seen 2 trees down on the way in and a lot of debris on the roads. 

[Scottish-Irish Skier]

Snaw back oan at the ski centres.

They didn't lose that much cover with the blowtorch. 

General pattern is trending to caulder too.

 

[Northernlights]

The Saga of the partially felled trees continues on the farm road. Field fence flattened this morning. Forester says machine was coming today anyway but has said they will reinstate fences and stone walls  Electricity firm take trees down in red zone next power lines and second machine takes down rest. Any saving gone  in new fences etc. Internal dispute in milling companies in house transport seems to have been the problem. Without being political this country is in a mess A 6 week job from cutting to clearance has taken 19 months and counting.

[Ross B]

Some nice mammatus on the back of the heavy shower that just went through. 

[Snowandrocks]

No damage to report here but did see that someone had 2 touring caravans blow away overnight on the Suie Rd so it was as lively as it sounded at 3am. 

Still pretty blowy out there now but at least the sun's out. 

[Hairy Celt]

I fell asleep last night before the worst of the wind was forecast. It didn't wake me up so I can't comment other than to say there are local power outages and more trees down.

What I hadn't remembered to report here was that the heavy snow last Thursday brought down the odd tree locally. That's the first time I remember this happening round here since 2010.

Brief but lively showers blowing through today...