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Heavy snow this morning, don’t think it had stopped much at all through the night, pic from first thing 28cms cover. Showers through first part of the day. After a bit of a dig, we followed the blue skies down to Laggan Tired the dog out on the way home up above Aviemore, snow knee deep in parts. Dying light but great conditions. Hope people get a snow fix tomo morning

ECM clusters - more of the same generally. Confirmation of how unsettled this weekend is with those very tight lines - I think we've been lucky not to have had it worse, actually, one of those late developing lows could easily have occured nearer us. Later next week - well there's the promise the Atlantic ridge will nudge a little higher, but this could easily flatten back to square one: Further out to the end of the month - with heights finally rising further west and a strong signal for a Scandi trough, you never know, a northerly might just squeeze in:

Some more pics from this morning in the Lomond Hills. Just the most sublime colours at sunrise. We had 12cm this morning, sunny all day except for a slight freshening up in the afternoon, now -0.7C and crazy icy on the road.

Still digging here. Well over the top of my wellies in places and I'm running out of dry socks. Still flurries now and again..

Dream still alive on the gfs 18z just before winters out ? Please just one good dumping of snow in this shocker of a winter . Not too much to ask is it ?

Sun now out here giving perfect conditions for a wee walk. Temp up to 4.7C Schiehallion looking glorious in the Winter sunshine this afternoon.

That's some pressure anomaly

Finally managed out of doors this afternoon but didn't want to chance the Leadhills or Wanlockhead areas given the reports of vehicles stuck on the Dalveen Pass and deep snow. Had a wander around the Strathaven area, where there was a lot of melting and running water! Things were starting to look pretty green, particularly on south-facing areas . Later on, a heavy snow shower came on and things looked a bit more wintry. Just a wee bit short of the depths of snow found in Highland Perthshire and Braemar, mind you...

There was a wee dusting of snow first thing this morning but it quickly disappeared. Decided to take a short 10 min drive from my house to Whitelee wind farm which stands around 300m. Not a massive amount of snow but still was a nice wee walk.

-3c start to the day no wind so although it remained frosty in the shade all day it was pleasant to work outside. Very wet ground has frozen solid to about 3 inches. A bit late getting a photo across the Firth but I think you can just see the pink tipped snow showers to the NE out in the North Sea and in the middle left the snow covered hills near Wick. Frosty this evening again at 0c Another photo showing the hills to the north

A slight covering at home and some slushy deposits here and there on way to work. Then the sleet changed to snow in the space of a few hundred metres. This was a very localised section of the B788.

Pummeled with rain here This winter can get to fochabers When 101 has built a snowman and ive not managed a snowball that's when you know

OMG I just got Netweather Extra for my birthday! The charts are amazing and I can't wait to track Storm Dennis even more with them!

What you see when you open the front door on Saturday morning:

Some peaches from the 6z ens, what's it gonna take to just get one of these to come off this winter... 5 days would do!! I've also chucked in a couple of warm scenarios for the lovers of Spring.

The achievement of an Arctic oscillation of +6 has taken 70 odd years to record- So you could say that its a 1:70 event. Tonights ECM goes for a +7 index value in just 9 days time .... Record on top of record if it happens. Thats how special this winter is....

Another lovely sunset, after a rather showery Low pressure-dominated day.

Hi guys. As you brace yourselves for Storm Dennis. I am on the northern side of the Storm System in Reykjavik where we have a red alert for friday from the Icelandic met office for sustained winds of 68mph and gust in excess of this. The upside is that it will be accompanied by sleet and snow.

Look at the size of that!

It's been another nice sunny day here in Dunoon we didn't get any snow overnight or this morning though its been mainly dry all day. Last night the temperature got down to 0.0c our coldest night since the 19th of January.

@CatchMyDrift the wrf can't get them all right and I still think it has handled this recent spell well with areas of showers and didn't just show them all as pure snow like the euro 4 though both models got the widespread lying snow wrong for whatever wetbulbing reason @edo @Mr Frost it's when it snows for only the second time in 100 years in Baghdad that's when you know Winter storm coats Baghdad in snow for only the second time in 100 years WWW.MSN.COM A rare winter storm coated Baghdad in snow Tuesday morning for only the second time in the Iraqi capital in the past century.

Ah Met Office you sure do love to disappoint...snow at the moment you say...radar now heavy rain and the actual weather outside agrees! The hills/mountains across the water look great but snow above 350 meters does not cut it anymore! (It has been the story of Winter 2019/2020) The days I have planned to head up the higher hills this Winter have been non starters due to last minute working, storm force winds or my son having a wee bug or a bad cold! It’s February 13th and I have seen about ten minutes of snowfall at sea level! What a pile of sh*te this Winter has been! (Feel better after that moan and getting it off my chest! ) So now I look forward to Storm Dennis but no doubt that will be another letdown from an extreme winds point of view as it will be the bog standard 50mph to 60mph gusts pish! Before that arrives a wee windy spell on Saturday. Then Storm Dennis: I need to relocate to Lapland from November to March, Oklahoma from April to June and Miami from July to October.

The joys of pattern matching....some good, some bad, some in the middle.....so basically, this summer could be anything We could actually do with an extended dry spell of weather now - it's been very wet since Autumn in a large number of areas in the UK.

Must be folk in here getting pummelled with snow at the moment! Looks great in South Lanarkshire! Radar and Met Office say sleet here currently but the lamppost reports snowfall! Have a good day everyone!

The gfs incoming at 318,it has been showing amplified solutions in fl for a couple of days,will this be a trend. last chance saloon gfs,play it again in the morning otherwise i will walk out on you. i will just walk back in and forgive you

Awesome pictures @Benvironment I seen some nice mammatus clouds after a hail shower cleared while travelling to work earlier.

A lot has been said about the vortex this year and how it's buggered up our winter, we'll infact its messed up the E/SE section of the states, and a good chunk of Europe to! Never a good sign when the vortex sits over Greenland, as we all know, it serves to promote lower pressure in the North Atlantic and a milder Wstly flow across towards Europe. I mentioned a few weeks ago how the vortex was running at literally record speed, some of the coldest temps in 50 years circulating within it, and 600km winds a circulating... Pretty amazing really... What I do think is possible is going on the fact this vortex is so huge and strong, that perhaps when it finally relaxes its grip we could be looking at some serious cold being spilled South later into March! For me there will be some knock on effect resulting from this record breaking vortex!! Could it mean mid to late March or even April!! One to keep an eye on for sure. If this does come to fruition, I will gladly take it, Summer can wait till June for me... Let Spring be winter..

Feb GloSea5 is out, just one plot tells you all you need to know about the 'winter' legacy, 2m temperature Mar-May: No clear signal on precipitation at all so I won't post the chart. I have to say I'm interested in this from the point of view of summer now, so here 2m temperature and z500 for May-Jul: Maybe hardly surprising that hotter than average is favourite given the recent past, and nothing that suggests some summer nightmare from the heights charts, although obviously they are are means over 3 months and many runs, uncertainty over summer, but not much of a hint of the doomsday 2007 at all, I would say, at this early stage, so I'll take that. In fact that leaves me optimistic about the warm season! First time GloSea5 has left me optimistic about anything for ages.

Masie has updated... 6 days since I last reported.. Has seen changes of (+76K, +50K, -36K, +33K, -122K and finally today +40K) for a net gain of 41K Km2 and an overall total of 14,578K Km2. Masie has it at second best since 2010, and Jaxa is still at 12th lowest in the last 15 years. A small dent in the hopes of achieving greater than 15,000K Km2 (for only the third time since 2010), since the maximum extent is normally around the first weeks of March. Barents has been the biggest loser with -160K km2 loss over the 6days, as winds seem to have disrupted the ice and pushed it back north again towards the Arctic pack. Greenland has similarly been effected with a loss (-28K). Baffin (incl, Labrador) leapt by 193K as the Labrador coastline re-froze. Bering gained and then contracted but added +36Kin the 6 days, and SOO gained +16K being similarly impacted. The smaller sea areas lost with Baltic (-9K), Cooke Inlet (-4K) and the Yellow Sea (-3K). The temperatures over the last few days have been low for this year, Forecasts show an 'increase (+1 to 2C), as a deep cyclone forms in the Kara and Barents and extending towards the UK - Can I suggest that the results from this could be unpredictable, with relative warmth being brought up from Central Western Russia but storms form the North East are expected in the Central and Barents Areas. An interesting week ahead can be expected. MIA

Guys... Back again after 2 days off due to a minor op. These last 4 days have seen a drop in the sea ice, but snow has finally started to move into Europe. Ice contraction apparently due to the winds (rather than melting) seems to be the reason for the Ice reduction. Last nights report (below) - show ice gains again in all regions except Barents. So I will attempt to give some details of the last few days after Masie this pm later today. MIA

Alleluja...my charts of the day! Bon riddance, to a horrible damp squib of a winter!

-6C in Halkirk and all white too, must have copped a last late snow shower overnight. Really wintry this morning. Animals static still, drivers crawling around (better than speeding I guess) and ditches with thick ice.

That's one hell of a memory!

Loving everyone's stunning pics

Our Government is currently fighting like ferrets in a sack as it's reshuffle day over here, so are the official opposition for that matter. Anyways, once the spoils of the ministerial red boxes have been divided, they may turn their attention to important matters such as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, but then again, they may not. Who knows with this bunch of idiots. Edit - and I should of added prior to my rant about our political leadership - Absolutely Nick, i think you are spot on about the need for a public information campaign. Hygiene measures, 111 phone number, symptoms (which appear to be very different from influenza and colds). If nothing else it will help reassure people and will maybe also help quell social media misinformation.

Oh Mark, Zippy it up please!! Meanwhile on the Weather front, Rainbows aside, Dennis still on course for a wild Sunday/Monday: Fortunately, I don't think we'll get down as far as: Mary, Mungo or Midge but possibly Fifi and Hector. Right, I'm really showing my age now.(I know, 5!!). Those Members still wanting to enter my Weather prediction Competition, it's on a separate Thread over on the Lounge Forum. Regards, Tom.

Some photos I took today:

Great Charts , Onwards and upwards , No need to worry about the rain , let’s have high pressure all the way and a significant warm up . If we can’t have snow let’s have some lovely sunny warm sunshine . Lovely Double Rainbow where I am this evening .

Interesting on this run, and maybe just algorithms awry, but wedges over the Arctic region and an Arctic high: I assume that is to do with the strat-trop coupling as it doesn't appear to be from the ebb and flow of features? If that is a new trend then we may see that cold spill south...

Ah Geoffrey . IMG_2558.MOV

It's my birthday on the 16th and these are the sort of charts that were more typical in mid Feb not Atlantic rubbish of recent years.

Snow earlier. Got down to -2.0C before midnight and temps rose soon after.

Looks good back end although there doesn't look a logical reason why it would happen to me yet.

Tromso from November to March that’s a very snowy city

Concerning rainfall totals up to 6am Monday for GFS 0z ECM 0z

Lovely! Always seems a bit of a waste when you don’t get the blue skies after a heavy fall. That’s my only gripe with March 2018. Sooooooo bloody grey!

A busy few days for mountain rescue teams - in the Southern Uplands they were rescuing vehicles from snow in the Dalveen Pass, right in the heart of the amber warning area. Motorists stranded in heavy snow thank rescuers WWW.BBC.CO.UK They were among 12 people helped to safety by a mountain rescue team after their vehicles became stuck.

Ben Nevis tourists thank rescuers with 'generous' gifts Muppets but at least remorseful muppets!

Two walkers spark four-hour search in Pentland Hills involving police helicopter - but 'fail to tell' authorities they made it to safety Absolute Muppets!

That’s as good as it gets on the 00z, so I’ll take it. If you like long fetch South Westerly’s then Sunday should be to your liking; from the Azores to Russia.......I won’t post the chart as it makes me a bit