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3 minutes ago, 101_North said:

-2c here. 

-1.4C. A real joy to have snow falling in subzero conditions for a change. We didn't manage an ice day today, it rushed up to 0.9C at lunch time but fell back very quickly. Maybe tomorrow.....

Finally caught the edge of a blob a moment ago. First time we've had actual snow falling today rather than graupel. 

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5 minutes ago, Hawesy said:

Now 4cm in Pittenweem! 

Four times more than here. The world has gone mad  About bloody time you got some though. Is that the most since 2010?

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Erm...at what point should I get the snow shovel out do you think?

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Don't even have 1cm here yet. As per usual we're still splitting those blobs just before they arrive and we just get clipped   

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Waiting for the AA this morning

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20 minutes ago, LomondSnowstorm said:

I suspect we could end up with a couple of convergence lines, one more Tay based and one more Forth based, developing on that basis

Ugh,I'm having flashbacks!  

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The cold is the headline here this morning rather than the snow. -2.2C, which is pretty good for us  Any showers coming through have been fizzling out in the 20 miles between us and the coast....which is reminiscent of previous easterlies tbh.

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Just a couple of snowy piccies from today. The hill emerged from the murk this morning for the first time since Monday I think......and still looked fairly white considering how much rain we had the other day(s):

...and then the view south to East Cairn and West Cairn in the Pentlands, as seen from Beecraigs this afternoon

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20 minutes ago, edo said:

Cant believe after 10 years in the house just realised I can switch my outside light at the front on and watch the snow..

Bless. You just won the thread

 

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40 minutes ago, lorenzo said:

Spot on Ben.. got it in one.

Meanwhile on the ECM by next Monday we get a lower latitude Scandi High...

Not to worry, it's soon off on it's travels, definitely something to keep watching. Real deal Easterly still firmly in the mix.

I've been up there quite a bit the past few weeks and it always holds the snow better than here. Seems it clung onto the snow there long after it turned to rain here.....plus of course they got as much as we did on Mon Tues Weds. 

 Grand, thanks v much for that

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3 hours ago, lorenzo said:

Last blob passing through had some proper 'cornflake' flakes mixed in - vs the polystyrene stuff from earlier as per pic.

Also just sent these from a friend out at the Eastern end of the Ochils, 450m ASL. That's a 4 foot high fence post..

 

Ooo, can you ask them whereabouts that is? Looks a bit like Innerdouny Hill, but with spruce plantations in the Ochils you never can tell

Got a day off tomorrow so want to head to the where the best local snow is. While we do get snow here from these set ups we also seem to sit in a weird blank spot that only ever gets clipped, rather than dumped. We did okay in 2010 but it was Edinburgh and the Lothians that sat under the showers for days and got pummelled. Then in 2018 it was east Fife, Lochore Meadows, Cowdenbeath that got the lion's share but also right along the Tay got it too. I vivdly remember being up on East Lomond on 28th Feb, under blue skies, watching streamers pile along the Tay and the Forth...with us in the middle, wondering what all the fuss was about 

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It’s been snowing intermittently much of the day here but has only started settling in the last hour. 1C with a light white dusting on the ground. Still feels wet out there though.

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27 minutes ago, edo said:

 

Weirdly though whilst this little tributary was the highest and fastest I have ever seen it the tay was not even at its highest this winter. 

 

 

 

 

Guessing much of the water that would normally flood into the Tay during prolonged heavy rainfall is locked up as snow on the hills, where as smaller burns lower down in the rain zone are bursting?

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13 minutes ago, MAXcrazystorm said:

I technically don’t live in fife, I am in Abernethy like 2 miles out of fife....

Ach you're one of us now. Fife consumes all around it  I've lost count of how many travel bloggers write-up about Loch Leven 'in Fife'

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44 minutes ago, Hawesy said:

Right, just for fun and I’m keeping to Fife only, there’s too many on the thread these days for a full round up! 

Snowfall predictions tonight through Wednesday (total snowfall):

@Benvironment 30cm

@Big Innes Madori 25cm

@Blitzen 20cm

@Kirkcaldy Weather 12cm

@ghoneym 10cm

@LomondSnowstorm (Fife location) 18cm

@Snowlover2 20cm

@Hawesy <drum roll> 5cm

Ach I’ll throw in Dundee too:

@Norrance 15cm

@Sawel 20cm

Apologies to anyone I’ve missed out!

 

 

Ugh, that's bound to be cursed now. You just know it'll end up being the other way around completely with the East Neuk digging out till Friday

 

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Incidentally, the local farmer chat is that in 40yrs they've not seen so much water rushing down the hill or in the flooded burn.

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Agonisingly slow descent to 2.3C this afternoon but....as you can see slap bang in the middle of the pic, WE'VE GOT OUR TINY PINK SQUARE BACK!!

 

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8 minutes ago, Hawesy said:

I’ve been keeping an eye on the temperature difference between our sites during this easterly. More often that not it’s pretty bang on 2c. Will be interesting to see how things stand by Sunday.

I wonder if we’ll sneak an ice day at Leuchars. They’re unusual anyway but in a strong easterly you need a real depth of cold. There was one ice day during BFTE (Feb 28th) and 3 in January 1987. I’m thinking probably not and daytime temperatures will be just above freezing with -10/-11 850s.

Our temperatures are pretty stable up here but ice days are almost as rare as they are on the coast! Often spend a whole day sat at 0.1C.

Sleeting here now.....

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High of 3.9C overnight but down to 2.7C and steadily falling. 40mm since the snow turned wet yesterday morning but add that to whatever fell Monday to Wednesday as snow and hasn't registered. I haven't been off the hill for days but I dread to think what the local flooding is like.

Big loss of snow from adjacent fields but miraculously we still have seemingly unblemished snow carpet in the garden!

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5 minutes ago, Blitzen said:

We were forced to install a pumping system in the stone- walled garden after the August storms.   Been out to check, and it is working overtime right now!

If it overtops, you could always try the famous snowblower on it

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3 minutes ago, Blitzen said:

We were forced to install a pumping system in the stone- walled garden after the August storms.   Been out to check, and it is working overtime right now!

Gawd!

 

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Up to 3.7C now, with an inch of rain and a foot of snowmelt cascading off the hill. I can't bear it, SUCH A WASTE!!!  

Easily our worst rain since the August storms up here.

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Really appreciate all the model updates on here from all you learn-ed folk. Always such interesting reading

2C here and just about managing to stay on the snowy side of sleet when the heavy stuff comes through. Not sure how long it'll stay that way though. Tonight looks wet!

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Up to 2.1C here now with lots of drip drip drip.

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It's snowing up here this morning. Hard to tell how much we've got on the ground but it seems to be around 18cm (7"). It's warmed up overnight though, now 1.5C, so it's all compacted down a bit since yesterday and is too wet to drift. I walked over to Craigmead last night and there was a level foot of lying snow in the lee of the higher ground.