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  1. same here, Postman. I can see Xmas cards being blown oot my hands and ending up in Norway.
  2. yeah, we did, in Jan 2013. But they were further west over the North Atlantic. It's like the whole pattern (longwave/Rossby wave) has moved east this winter. Maybe due to the +QBO?
  3. Its common practice to multiply the sustained wind speed by a factor of 1.5 to 2.0 (depends on the surface roughness) to get the gust speeds. So, 1.5 over the sea to 2 in urban/city area.
  4. The Braer Storm of January 1993 is the most intense extratropical cyclone on record for the northern Atlantic ocean. Developing as a weak frontal wave on January 8, 1993, the system moved rapidly northeast, developing at a moderate pace. The combination of the absorption of a second low-pressure area to its southeast, a stronger than normal sea surface temperature differential along its path, and the presence of a strong jet stream aloft led to a rapid strengthening of the storm, with its central pressure falling to an estimated 914.0 mb (26.99 inHg) on January 10. Its strength was well predicted by forecasters in the United Kingdom, and warnings were issued before the low initially developed. http://www.landforms.eu/shetland/braer%20storm.htm
  5. was it no the storm after the Braer storm, the one that brough the blizzards to Scotland on the 11/12th January 1993; it had min pressure of 914mbar?
  6. it is colder further north. Leuchars is 1C while its 3C in Edinburgh. http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/EGPH.html http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/EGQL.html
  7. Well down here, the earlier wet snow has now turned back to sleet and everything is soaking wet.
  8. check this out http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/25485532
  9. Fresh snow cover above 350m on East Lomond today. Out for a walk earlier, had sleet at 210masl. Sleet down here at 11am.
  10. Surely the warning ought to be amber at this stage. It looks worse than earlier this week and that caused structural damage. Could be red on Tues.
  11. The latest Low has been unremarkable here in the east. A gust of 50mph at Leuchars in the early hours. As for the snow, it was a case of blink and you missed it. We have come a long way since the early 90's when these synoptic set-up's produced proper lying snow down to sea-level in the east.
  12. It sounds like the lightning was near the top of the cloud, so the thunder was in audible. Usually, thunder can be heard up to 10km from the storm. Meanwhile, several people heard loud thunder in my area (I slept through it).
  13. I've checked my records, the thunderstorm was on the 28th December 1990.
  14. I slept through it. Xmas party goers in Dunfermline were hit by thunder, lightning and hailstones around 12am today. Kirkcaldy had a storm around 12.30am, it lasted 10-15 minutes. My sister heard loud thunder here at 1.10pm. The last time I can remember a thunderstorm in December in Fife was in 1990. Either 27th or 28th, it rattled through the Clyde-Forth valley around 6pm. A big flash overhead knocked the power out and there was heavy hailstones. A couple of hours later it was snowing and lying.
  15. I've got the original book and it is a good read. However, it is full of commentary from south of the border, not much from a Scottish perspective. It doesn't have any synoptic charts to back up the stories.
  16. Maybe not? This is what happened in December 1983 across there, albeit it was even more extreme.
  17. the power of facebook, no that I look at it. I reckon Dunfermline is up there being the thunder capital of Scotland over the course of a year.
  18. My sister just told me somebody on facebook has just seen lightning in Dunfermline. Can anyone confirm?
  19. I can't comment on the October 1987 storm apart from what I recall seeing on the TV news. More recently a powerful storm affected the central belt on January 2nd 2012, and like in the 1987 storm, a 'Sting Jet' developed. I recorded a barometric pressure of 960mbar (adjusted to MSL) at 09hr. I've never seen so many trees down in my part of Fife, especially in the nearby forestry. Roofs were blown off houses and my garden shed ended up in the neighbours garden. I think there was a gust of 112mph on Blackford Hill, Edinburgh. It was up there with the '87 storm.
  20. I was in north Perth around noon today. Perth was the dividing line, clear blue sky to the north, cloudy to south.
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