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Yep that's my back garden Still a good dollop of snow in the Lomonds, although after the strong winds the sunward slopes are pretty exposed and thinning fast. Interesting to get an aerial view of where the green areas are in this part of Fife / Kinross too.

It's not often I get to snowshoe from the front door so I made the most of it today About as local as you can get! If this is what lockdown weather looks like then lock me up for life

Fluctuating between 0.6C and 1.2C here this evening, but everything has frozen up outside. The sun didn't come out till late afternoon, so a lot of the stuff on vertical surfaces has been retained And because of all the blowing snow this morning, the windward side of the hill is actually whiter now than it was at 8am: Both tomorrow and Saturday are looking unreal for getting out and about locally in the snow here, and I think for me it might be unprecedented to have been able to do that locally (on a Friday) for four weeks in a row! I mean, it's not too unusual to be able to find a snowy walk in the highlands every week in winter, but to be able to do so in Fife and Kinross.....well.....it's joyous Not much colour out there this morning....but plenty of stark monochrome and spindrift

Ere you go. A quick taste of this morning's 'leisurely' stroll in the Lomond Hills

Well. That was.....bracing! It was relatively calm when I set out at 8, but when I came back before 10 the wind had picked up and there were 2ft drifts where earlier there was nothing. Blowing over the road here now, which explains why it's so weirdly quiet. Savagely cold up on the top of East Lomond though, proper frost-nip stuff. Up to 1.8C here.

Off for a pre-work snowshoe Have fun sledging, folks!! Oh sorry, I meant 'home schooling'

WELL!

0.8C and crunchy. Coldest it's been all day

It was a slow start but we’ve had an extra 10cm up here this evening

Ooo how cool is that?

Railway Station is just above 212m on OS maps. Glenmore more like 300m.....although that 100m gain is incredibly subtle as you drive out that way. Braemar is a good 100m higher than Aviemore, and it certainly feels that way when you walk the Lairig Ghru southwards

Yeah, it didn't really factor into our decision to move here but I'm enormously thankful that we did. If and when we have to move I can't bear the thought of descending lower It'll have to be equal or higher. Am thinking of appealing to CNPA for planning permission for an annex on the side of Cairn Gorm's weather station. Not that we CAN ever move of course.....cos I've got over ten years worth of weather data for this location! Moving would render that data worthless. I'd have no historic figures to compare current weather against! AARGH!!! Trapped!! Nothing for it, we'll have to stay EDIT - PS, big white feathers are now falling from the sky

280m

Ha ha, that's all they EVER show for this location. This past two weeks they've shown sleet 24hrs a day, EVERY day Meanwhile it's been snowing here steadily for the last 90 minutes or so but maybe only 1mm to show for it.

Our road today I pity the poor parents whose kids will soon be dragging them up the hill to play in the rather unpleasantly wet cover we currently have EDIT - then again, maybe said parents are snowmaniacs like the rest of us and it's THEM dragging the reluctant kids up the hill as an excuse to get out and play That's what I'd do!

Easing off here now.....having left 5cm of crunchy wet snow. Down to 0.8C.

3cm here now. Not as cold as folk elsewhere though, hovering around 1.1C so I expect a repeat of last week when, despite it snizzling all night, I awoke to less snow than when I went to bed.

Took its time to de-sleet but now snowing here. A slow slide down from 2.4C to 1.6C over the past 90 mins.

Yep it was pretty spectacular from the Bathgate Hills today. A very settled layer of fog in the Forth Valley, with the Ochils and the three Forth bridges poking up through Eerily calm.

Our largest remaining snow patch in the garden this evening. Cover has waxed & waned since it first fell on 29th December, retreating to just a few small patches of ice for a day or two, but it was soon topped up and this is nonetheless our 22nd consecutive day with SOMETHING icy on the ground outside. Quite remarkable for this location in recent years

Rapid thaw up here today. But still bloody cold in that wind.

Yes. Yes you do! Gawd, can you imagine!!!!???

Sun's out!! Looks lovely but now 4.5C and melting fast.

Well I genuinely hadn't expected to wake up to whiteness again, but if anything we've actually gained a cm or two. It was bucketing down when I went to bed, and according to the weather station it wasn't falling as rain until about 7am. Nice to see but it's pretty horrid to be out in. 3.3C so not the kind of snow that makes me want to run out and play

Likewise. Pretty heavy too.