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January 15, 2021

Nipped up a local Ochil this morning for a bit of snowshoeing. The snow was crunchy by the road but much softer and deeper above 300m. Not a breath of wind and so the spruce are still holding well

Visibility pretty impressive on the top too:

And one of the best things about snow is having the otherwise invisible made visible. Otter party by the river

January 15, 2021

42 minutes ago, Blitzen said:

I will have to pay particular attention to my bird feeder station in future. What I thought were Finches, may have been Bramblings.. Certainly very similar in colour.

Yep you'll often see them mingling with chaffinches, and they get lost in the general pinky-greyness

January 15, 2021

58 minutes ago, Quinach said:

Curious temperatures today. 4.4c now (11c in the greenhouse) but frost very stubbornly holding on in the shade.

More the point, got some Scandinavian visitors today, first in a couple of years - Bramblings.

Ooo, not seen them here since Dec 2010!

January 14, 2021

Temp climbing. Up to 1.5C and everything's getting wetter. Marginal here now, with cover compacting.

January 14, 2021

Not a huge amount considering it's been going for 12 hours or more, but sooooooooo nice to wake up to Heavier this morning than it was last night.

January 13, 2021

16 minutes ago, lorenzo said:

Thunder Cows.

Nice !

Almost as elusive as snow itself

January 13, 2021

Thought I heard thunder outside......but turned out to be eight cows that had escaped the barn and were running around the farm. I can therefore confirm yes, it is snowing About 1cm on the ground....which was extremely useful for working out where said coos had gone

January 13, 2021

We had a bit of snow half an hour ago but now......I'm not sure what it's doing. Whatever it is, it's noisy, wet and it bounces.

January 13, 2021

Freakishly calm out there today. I was out and about an hour ago and the distant Pentlands appeared to be half in, half out of the murk.

2C and frosty outside. We watch and wait....

January 13, 2021

2 minutes ago, Blitzen said:

I can't ever recall having experienced freezing rain before. Would like to hear it though.

We had a memorable event in Fife on 15th December 2018. The only time I can remember it happening actually, and yeah there was just this really odd noise outside, a kind of popping sound against the windows. It left a 2mm glaze on absolutely everything, even the outside walls of the house. Couldn't get into my car!

January 11, 2021

High of 8.6C today at 12:45, but now down to 1.8C with snow falling and grassy surfaces turning white again

January 10, 2021

What an utterly utterly rancid day. The parks were much quieter than normal though. I wonder why?

I confess I did fall flat on my weeble at one point....then gave up trying to work outside and retreated to the office.

EDIT - Weeble, Netweather? Really??

January 9, 2021

Only 1.4C here at the moment but with the clag rolling in everything is looking very different to how it did these past few days:

I miss the sun already!

January 9, 2021

2 hours ago, Sceptical said:

Still feeling cold in the wind.

Isn't it just! Wind is gusting to 35mph here so was a bit of a shock when I nipped outside just now

January 9, 2021

Lovely start to the day!

Great to see double digits across Scotland this morning but up here on the hill we never get that cold. Even in Dec 2010 we only got as low as -7C. Nevertheless, a low of -3.9C last night makes it the coldest January day I've recorded since 2013, and my coldest temperature since 1st March 2018. Snow on the ground for 12 consecutive days is possibly our best snowy stretch since Jan 2013. Need to check that one

January 8, 2021

The daytime high here was -0.3C...but annoyingly we weren't subzero at midnight, so 0.5C was the daily high and we didn't really scrape an ice day Low of -2.5C up here but as usual much colder down off the hill in Kinross-shire. I take car info with a bucket of salt but definitely on the cold side at 6pm

January 7, 2021

3 minutes ago, Hawesy said:

Rain has just started here in Pittenweem.

Erm....when are you going to get tired of saying that?

January 7, 2021

1 hour ago, Northern Strath said:

Aye I’ve got a 4x4 pick-up for work which makes things easier in the snow. Tbh though, a good set of winter or all weather tyres (few aficionados on here) will convert a lot of vehicles in to performers in the snow. Some cars surprise you though, partner’s wee Renault is rarely stuck, correct driving goes a long way. When conditions are dicey I often take the back roads as a fair few people on the a9 seem to sh*t themselves and drive too slow, you need a steady pace in the stuff

On snow I'd trust my wee Fiesta with winter tyres on more than I'd trust the 4x4 we have at work...which has pretty rubbish summer tyres on it. It's certainly never failed me getting up and down the hill here. But at the end of the day it's the clearance underneath that brings me to a halt rather than the actual snow surface. The winter tyres are great but there's just not enough clearance underneath the car between the tyre tracks, and so I end up ploughing instead.

EDIT - not that we ever get so much snow that ploughing occurs, mind

January 7, 2021

5 minutes ago, Hawesy said:

we have lying snow in Pittenweem.

January 7, 2021

Snowed pretty much all night here I think, albeit very lightly. An extra 2cm to freshen everything up. Tomorrow looks like a cracking day!!

January 6, 2021

4 hours ago, Puffy MacCloud said:

Just what I want from winter.

AGREED 100%!!!!

It's not much to ask is it

January 6, 2021

4 hours ago, shuggee said:

Gone from a braw -0.5C and blue skies with bright crisp sunshine earlier to thick fog and -1.3C. The fog is merging with the snow cover to produce whiteout of all views. QuIte like that.

Yeah it's been quite the view south towards the Pentlands and Southern Uplands today. Low cloud just sitting there between Edinburgh and Peebles:

....and with Tinto poking through:

Sunshine all the way here today:

....and we went below freezing an hour ago, which is quite unusual for up here as we don't usually go subzero until the early hours of the morning.

As others have said, when it's calm and still and cold and crunchy, oh you've gotta love it!

January 5, 2021

6 minutes ago, NorthernRab said:

-6°C here but - 11°C 25 miles NW of here at Loch Glascarnoch. Chilly!

Haven't even made it subzero here yet. 0.7C That said, I've had more air frosts here since Christmas Day than I had in the whole of last winter !!

January 4, 2021

49 minutes ago, Hairy Celt said:

Just as well we got out today! Crikey, that was a bit abrupt. A small hill near Glen Affric... We walked on a forest road, then ploughed up through heather and snow to Carn Fiaclach for some rather misty views.

Anyway that'll be the lot for a while. The temp here has been a steady 1C from dawn till dusk. No zombies though, yet.

Ugh, you lucky sod!

January 4, 2021

Well, no surprises what the common theme has been in this thread today. I parked at the bottom of the hill in Fife to let my other half know what a nightmare the road was, and the car started siding sideways! Managed (just about) to get to work but the bulk of the day was spent feebly trying to grit key facilities in the three country parks. This is what the front lawn of the visitor centre at Beecraigs looks like just now. It's ice. All of it.

Not surprising all we could hear were sirens in the distance. I dread to think how many accidents there have been today....at a time when A&E could really do without it.

On the plus side, really nice to be out west at Polkemmet as it's well into the snow zone. We had another 0.5cm of snow overnight in Fife but there's nothing left up here really, so it was great to be in properly wintry scenes again

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