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A lot of the glen floor and Rannoch Moor are only at 250-400m, it can easily be quite bare in the winter months. Absolutely stunning photo though.

You can get monthly reports here and also news releases here, but these will only appear a few days after the end of the month. I've come across an autoupdating .txt site for the UK's met stations of mean temperatures/rainfall/sunshine etc. for the current month but I haven't saved it. Indeed much of Scotland has been very chilly. I think the frequent hard frosts will have made the month even colder than it has seemed. And just as in October, there's been plenty of sunshine and not too much rain in the west. What a tremendous month.

Much like autumn as a whole, it's been rather anticyclonic in Scotland which usually produces some deceptively cold average temperatures due to consistently chilly nights. The CET zone has seen quite a few milder incursions (such as today parts have seen an ice day whereas much of the CET zone has averaged 5-8c). I expect a greater discrepancy than normal this month. Easily my favourite autumn I've experienced since moving here in 2012.

Morning, only hovering around freezing here, but Loch Glascarnoch was at a chilly -8.7c at 6am on the hourly readings. Potentially colder still tonight.

In terms of public interest? Global warming is nothing new anymore, and because people's worlds haven't necessarily noticeably fallen apart due to it since it was more prominent in news headlines ten or twenty years ago, its threat is, fatally, mistaken to be diminished. It really is the exact same story as 2007 or 2012, which isn't particularly exciting to hear the third time around, but each time the new territory we're approaching is further and further removed from the equilibrium that the Earth's ecosystems are used to.

Would be nice to have a below average December for the first time in five years. 4.5c. Anticyclonic with many chilly nights but some milder incursions, especially in the day.

Been above 10c all day with grey cloud. Flashback to December 2015.

The bridge over the River Kelvin at Garscube looking towards the East Dumbartonshire side no?

Snowing near Clydebank.

It's been one of the most pleasant Octobers I can remember here.

10th October and I don't think it's rained yet out West in Glasgow this month (?), this must be some kind of record for an autumn month?

The next two weeks at least look like being better than the last 2-3 weeks. I don't think it's hit 20c since early June (although I believe we've had lots of near misses), 20c isn't too ambitious.

Hovering just under 13c at 13:00 here. It's 04 July. Please.

12c max temperatures aren't welcome at the end of June.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skye#Climate Hottest day of all time on Skye no? It didn't feel *that* hot. I suppose I've just been spoilt by spending my last two summers in Belgium.

Up to 15cm of snow in the south and east of Belgium yesterday.

Did he not underestimate last December? I'll try 11.5c.

Snow falling and lying in Luxembourg (province), Belgium.

Around 2cm in Maryhill, Glasgow.

This ain't the rainfall thread, but 44mm in Wick, 777mm in Shap and less than 30mm in many southern England sites? That's quite something.

172cm of snow now forecast for La Grave in the next 9 days according to the same link (based off the GFS).

Looks like there will indeed be snow in early January, at least for France (but encouragingly this includes the southern end of the French Alps). It's just a question of snowline altitude and how much there will be - it could still only be a sprinkling. edit: 60cm of snow forecast around the Grandes Rousses and Ecrins massifs (Alpe D'Huez, Les 2 Alpes, Serre Chevalier) between the 2nd and the 5th. Obviously it's still a way off but seeing it on the forecast is at least encouraging.

5.8c

The next set of storms aren't falling in quite so ragingly mild conditions, but even so there could be rain to all levels at times.

People would be on a terrace at 9am?. At least in France, it makes sense for the higher resorts to actually benefit as people change their plans.