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Just back from a few hours on the hills. Temperature 2C at the carpark but much colder in the wind and at elevation. Mixed conditions from heavy snow to bright sunshine with the wind ever present. Snow lying from top to bottom and remaining on the north facing sides. The new jacket exceeded expectations, warm and windproof during heavy snow and 40mph gusts. Astonishing, given how paper thin it feels. A few pictures from today's hike.

The day in two photaes.

As far as I'm aware the term as used in meteorology originally applied to a specific event such as the 'Spanish Plume' which, put very simplistically, is the movement of a warm (hot) airmass north from Iberia. From this the word plume has been plucked to refer, more or less, to any advcetion of warm air from the south. To refer to a cold plume merely adds another expression to the NW glossary

The town park in Glenrothes this afternoon. Never seen it like this, and our hill road is flooded in places I have never seen flood before either.

Highly confusing to any new folk. Why do some want to use a term that is not in use.? I suspect to sound 'clever' but if you want a sensible term for what adjective to add to 'cold air' then perhaps plunge is the best, certainly not a plume. In the meantime no real signal for any deep cold air other than very briefly on the rear of deep lows that will continue to sweep across to the NW of the UK. Obviously if a calmer period coincides with a night period then cold and frosty. In over 60 years dealing with the weather I can honestly say I have never see such a long period of disturbed weather. The upper air pattern, which governs our surface weather is shown in the usual 500 mb anomaly charts. Not all too similar but all 3 shows some kind of strong westerly over the Atlantic into the UK and NW Europe for another 10 days, perhaps longer. Also perhaps a suggestion that Pm type air will be more prevalent than Tm air. This MIGHT decrease the intensity of the storms and also the amount of rain they have been producing as the temperature contrast would be smaller. Climate Prediction Center - 6-10 Day 500mb Outlook WWW.CPC.NCEP.NOAA.GOV http://mp1.met.psu.edu/~fxg1/ECMWF_0z/hgtcomp.html

1.5c and squally snow showers. A promising start to winter. Looking forward to a white Easter.

I think most of us have now spent the last 3 months of our lives on a cold and snow watch, and still we have nowt to show for it!! Well, we may as well spend a few more weeks going for it now.... What have we to lose but our sanity!! Early March folks.... A pattern change perhaps, and hopefully a little bit of the white stuff thrown in! Still a long way to go, so not to be taken literally... So hold the front pages tabloids... Its not set in stone yet!

OK, do not Google wetbaws, I repeat do not Google wetbaws. Especially not in front of your kids

Heavy again in Braemar. Really wet snow though.

Still going

Temperature is 10C colder compared to yesterday. Currently 2C with moderate snow, the hills have a slight covering. Bank. Heavier snow out at Braemar. Latest update from the Met office, for this area, is for heavy snow 11am..

Even the North East of Scotland is covered by the warning. A rarity this winter

Local hills around Alford Aberdeenshire. Low level hike around 450 mts asl max Today's trip to Lochnagar was cancelled due to the weather forecast. Wind gusting to 45nph with snow continuing to fall over the surrounding hills. Quick video showing conditions in Alford an hour ago. 20200222_092808.mp4

Approaching 2cm up here in the space of about 20 mins.

Signal definitely there for a below average March.

Some day for a bit of everything! That old favourite graupel/wet snow included. Wind was a nightmare - gusts hitting 50/55mph and giving a feels like temperature of -4C. (WSW/W wind whistling straight off my face!) Cracking bit of lightning and rip roaring thunder from that wee beaut above. Looking forward to my rain/sleety pish on Monday morning. Have a good weekend all!

Took the little fella out to our favourite spot and I think this is the moment the wet baws said yes!

Over the next few days We need to keep an eye on this air mass at day 6 > for its direction of travel > No mega high pressure so CAA will be slow rather than fast > but potential to strike the UK

Proper heavy snow here at the minute. Settling too! Edit: Shame it wasn't on for very long

The ECM 0z ensemble mean indicates a very unsettled / disturbed outlook and predominantly rather cold, especially further north with some frost / ice, a few milder interludes across southern uk. I expect some areas will see snow next week, mainly further north and with elevation but even across the south some occasional wintry ness can’t be ruled out but it seems there’s plenty more rain to come for the foreseeable future but probably less windy with time.

That's a pity. This area can do very well, snow wise, out of a sustainaned easterly. May 2010 they were back using snowploughs locally after a freak snowstorm from the east kicked in. I had to phone work and try and explain that I couldn't get into work due to 2.5feet snowdridts blocking the road. Unsurprisingly, my work didnt believe me and I had to email photos by way of proof.

Heavy shower here is starting to lie.

Yes I'm liking this run, at last thank the Lord, who cares if it verifies or not! Just nice to see some eye candy for a change... Here we go, battleground scenario....

@CatchMyDrift's pheasant strikes again!

I hear you on that Don. My garden path is fortunately as long as the M6 corridor don't want to get ya hopes up mate, but Check out p19... Come to papa!!! The mean remains quite chilly to!! Cold spring anyone!!

Snaw warning out for Monday for most of the country

Off out to watch the daughter play football in driving sleet in perth.... Delightful.... Think there will be a few girls shivering uninterested today

Staggering run to run continuity from the GFS on a microscale level - 96 redux showing again.

Unrelenting wind and hail at Butt of Lewis today.

Well lets hope for something widespread so that everyone can enjoy some snow!

Tiles off the roof this time round. First all winter, it's usually happened long before now. Pilot buddy said he had a 170 knot tailwind on his run back from Belfast.

Surprised this place isn’t a bit busier ! In the UK although northern blocking is always the best option for snow these wedges of heights to the n/ne can still provide that . As long as you stay on the northern side of the jet and any shortwaves which run east se are quite shallow you can see snow on the northern flank of those . As I stressed though in my previous post that re amplification upstream is crucial to help direct the energy se which allows any wedge to develop to the n/ne . Anyway lets see what tonights outputs produce.

How will new folk learn the right and wrong language/terms if they are not correctly applied in here. Off topic , yes, important yes.

Been snowing on and off all morning, but everything melting when it hits the ground. Off to Google wetbaws so I understand how this affects the snow ?

Planning to hit the hills after 12pm, as any precipitation should have cleared by then. Decent windchill temps, -5C, and bright conditions should make for an excellent hike. Great opportunity to test out a new synthetic insulation jacket. Ridiculously light weight at 335g and I have doubts it will keep me warm. We shall see....

Snowing and settling here, 1.9C. Surprised to find that the weather station recorded a max sustained speed of 57.1mph and a gust of 63.1mph at 00:45....which is stronger than either Ciara or Dennis. Not sure how I managed to sleep through that!

Heavy snow here with thunder & lightning

Been a real wintry day with wet snow / sleet and that earlier shower which produced a 2nd big rumble of thunder and just want to mention how wild it was last night, certainly the most stormy winds for quite some time which made for a sleepless night at times. And not to jinx it but Monday morning

This morning's wet snow slowly turned to wet sleet and rain and the wind has now eased a little. Kept busy and eventually warm* in the yard. *ok, not frozen!

And the GFS 12z has this for the SE.

The southerners could wake to a covering on snow Wednesday morning according to the Icon.

BANK If only it was this simple

Hail, graupel, snow grains, big flakes. The lot. 1.6/1.1°C. Haven't had a really sustained burst so still mainly green at my height but looking over the Tweed it's white at 300m+. Here we go again.

Torrential hail shower with a few flashes of lightning now turning to heavy wet horizontal snow in Motherwell.

Wedge gate ! Both the GFS and ECM now want to develop a wedge of heights to the n/ne around day 8. The upstream pattern is very complicated because as the original eastern USA storm heads east the flow over the ne USA reamplifies. So instead of all that energy barreling eastwards it starts heading se allowing that wedge of heights to develop . The re amplification is now key and that opens up some opportunities if of course it verifies.

Just had a massive thunderclap here.

Heavy snow in Westhill

Brief moderate snow shower here earlier, which was lying on some surfaces, but back to sunshine again for the moment. I suspect the hills will soak up most of the showers again before they reach here so despite the forecast I'm not expecting much other than the odd flurry.

I don't think so, plumes usually go upwards/northwards, we rarely if ever have cold air masses to our south, which is why cold masses are usually defined as troughs

What I’m looking for in the models at present is some letup in the current pattern for those that have, or will have had a terrible time with flooding. For the rest of us, some dry days and some sign of spring. Here’s the moan.... the incessant hunt for snow in the model thread is very boring. A few terrible bores in there. Isn’t there more to offer in meteorology then snow? I know they get likes and all. But it’s almost verging on unhealthy in my view.