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Temp dropped from 3.1C to 1.2C in the last 20 minutes and light, now moderate snow is falling. Radar showing stuff perking to the west of the central belt and incoming. Ooooo.

A slushy, patchy nothingness here. Nearby, away from the trees is a slushy more uniform white covering and at 300m it's pretty decent. That curl-around will head east later this morning....

Chris Fawkes at 1.30pm on BBC1 did a good job there Nick - Eunice "strongest storm for many decades" twice....

Wind just kicked off here in the last 10 minutes.

@CatchMyDrift does a very good lesson in reading the 925hpa (or 950) charts and the relationship to air pressure (low pressure today) and bringing down the 850hpa level so that the usual temp you would expect to see converted at surface is less than usual e.g. higher pressure at 850s of -5C = surface at say 3C, but lower pressure and 850s of -5C = surface at 0 or 1C. This is because at higher pressure the 850 level is, say, 1.5km in the sky and at lower pressure it's lower down nearer surface. You see - I'm not very good at explaining it, but that's something like the correct answer! (I hope!)

No you're not! ScotRail closes at 4pm today for Dudley.... So I would imagine Network Rail and English/Welsh operators will be closing down too for Eunice?

I'm surprised the snow risk hasn't gone amber yet for southern Scotland/far north of England. 20+ cm of snow is going to be disruptive and it's even to low levels....

We shall see!

We had F-15s high up in pairs over Tweeddale last week. Two sets painting stripes in the sky (must've been sunny!). On a work call earlier and my Kirkcaldy colleague said Dudley and Eunice sound like characters in a Victoria Wood sketch. Made me smile.

Air frost No.24 at -4.3C. Proper welded-on ice on the car - at 300m above Skirling earlier the car said -7C.

Urgh. Wet wet wet snow. There's a joke in there somewhere. Woke up to a wet dusting. Not counting a snow day though - too patchy. At 300m it's a winter wonderland with frosted pine trees. Got down to 0.6C back up to 1.6C now - so not the wintryest spell of the season as billed... Pffft.

Doesn't surprise me @101_North. 17 of this year's 23 air frosts have been in the range of -0.1 to -1.9C which is hardly bone chilling...

You're right HC! What a frosty year 20/21. Monday just gone was our 23rd air frost, whilst last year we were at 38 by today.

Showers of wet snow here now - 1.6C and the snowline is around 300m. Could be the most wintry morning of the season here tomorrow - defined by temp and depth/severity of snow. But that's not saying much this year!

Great shots @Halfamilefromnowhere Snow line at 250m here. This afternoon's walk illustrates it nicely:

Same here guys. Nothing an hour ago. Now white over and pelting down at 0.5C. Marv.

Snow shower incoming from the west. Snow shower exiting to the east. Saturday is rinse and Sunday is repeat?

Heavy wet snow at 0.6C. It's 9am so it's a surprise snow day!

It's almost like as soon as another Met Org names a storm, our Meto then upgrade to amber. They seem so adverse to using the system...

Like Gordon Brown's occasional emergence from his crypt, I looked at the models today and I'm wide awake. Go look. Whilst it's probably more of a meh than a miracle, at least there's something potentially interesting on the horizon.... Ski centre delivery Sunday? Widespread white hills Friday?

Nope. Nothing much happening.

Snap @Sceptical

An Eevee? I'll get my coat.

Does weather exist anymore? Might as well be in a chilly leisure centre hall where the lights get turned off at 4.15pm.

Fantastic day yesterday - favourite shot: