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-5.3C overnight, sixteenth air frost, already! Everything was wet after yesterday so a true hard crunchy frost.

 

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Same as above.

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More snow photos of walks - Finn loving it, but was surprisingly rude to a beagle we met:

 

Currently 0.1C - so close but no cigar today.

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Fourteenth air frost at -2.3°C and snow day number four. Only 3rd December! 

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16 minutes ago, snowidea said:

Does anyone know if the Santa shaker is up yet? I can only find the 2022 one. 

Any news @Paul?

Down by t'river:

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No new snow at Shuggee Towers. Steel grey sky and a thaw with a positively Mediterranean 0.6°C for a couple of hours. Of out with the dog shortly to inspect the Tweed... 

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The direction and intensity suggests Glasgow could be experiencing something white in the morn. 

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Best so far here. And it's -8.1°C so I'm not exactly sat in a deckchair waiting

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Keep running out when the polarity goes negative to see whisps of aurora here @Norrancebut nothing worth writing home about just yet.

-7.7°C

 

 

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Where's @snowlessayron such a momentous evening?! 

Car was showing -11.5°C at 7pm coming back from doggy day care earlier. Garden sensor currently -7.6°C.

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Max of -2.5C earlier and already down to -5.4C this evening. Brrrr.

2cm of snow and the next few days look interesting! Always feel it's dicing with the Gods when there's milder air aloft and it's borderline rain/sleet/snow - but it's been a few years that I can remember a decent chance like this of frontal snow.

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13 hours ago, Penicuikblizzard said:

Nice and seasonal looking this morning not a bad start to winter

Took me 1hr 15mins to drive the 1.5miles through Penicuik this morning. I found it a little bit annoying. 

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Quite a queue of showers skirting the coast to hit Edinburgh on that NE wind. Good it's starting to stick. 

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My better half just sent me a shot he'd taken not far from the house on the A701 for prosperity:

 

 

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2hr 45min commute home this evening. The Midlothian rush hour was a complete mess. All roads were black at Straiton, went in to M&S (I'm posh me), came out and there had been 20 minutes of graupel after the earlier sleet and everything white, followed by another half hour of flakes. Auchendinny complete gridlock as northbound traffic couldn't get up the hill and southbound blocked as the tailback went through the two single track bridges. Then of course there's the 19mph driver of a Fiat 500 (hospital green) to contend with on 60 roads. Optimum speed was 37mph in the end - ruts and crunchy crunch. No gritter to be seen and all grit must've washed off from earlier sleet.... A heady mix! 

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I was in Harbro yesterday and the chap in front had de-icer, a snow shovel and a sledge in his trolley. He was way ahead of you and the forecast  @101_North!!!

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Snow in the borders too this morning following ninth air frost at -0.3C. Proper white over at Leadburn/Howgate - 28 Nov not a bad start date this far south. Mesmerising driving!

In these situations, it's good to remember the old adage, "Get the cold in place first (tick) and then see what unfolds...".

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3 hours ago, Polar Maritime said:

Very possible now I would say Shugg..

You were right PM, an ice day with that 2pm max of -1.0°C. Hurrah. 

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-6.4°C around dawn, so a bloody cold sixth air frost so far. 

2pm and precisely -1.0°C. I wonder if... No I'm not going to jinx it. 

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And we're off...

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Same here, fourth air frost at -2.0C and lots of thick fog around above 250m. Beech tree orange stunning in the mist.

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New Red Warning all day Saturday in a more closely defined area of Stonehaven/Laurencekirk/Montrose and inland westward.

 

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-2.8C delivered a thick frost here. Car took some warming up and black leaves have appeared across various plant species. Driving to Peebles, car got down to -4.5C, and was still 0.0C at 11am. Lovely jubbly.

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First air frost for me last night at -0.9°C. And we're off...! 

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Lovely clear polar air. Smashing walks at the moment: