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Ravelin

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  1. Very impressive display this evening.... Seen them before, but not anything like this impressive. Photos don't really do them justice either. Oh, very windy outside too.
  2. Temperature rose rapidly from around 9pm yesterday evening to hit a high of 9.1C overnight, but has now dropped off a bit to 7.5C. Most of yesterday's snow has now gone as expected , but surprisingly some small remnants remain. Very little cloud around so far this morning, but pretty windy. I think some of us will manage a 'technical' white Xmas tomorrow , with some falling snow. Not likely to be much settles though. Edit: Nacreous clouds visible here too, but can't get decent photo due to position of the sun in relation to them. Edit 2: Managed it...
  3. Temperature here is still only 0.5C, which means there's still a fair bit of snow lying despite it having turned to rain for most of the daylight hours. Real soggy mess though, would rather it just went, and last thing I'd want would be for it to freeze up.
  4. @TillyS Sadly even the Lecht scenes are likely to turn browner again as that front pushes further East, such are the vagaries of the Scottish weather. Hopefully after Xmas the temp will stay cold enough that even if we don't get low level snow, the ski resorts can get, and keep, some. Can't remember the exact winter, but not that long ago we had one where it was frequent cold rain at low levels but the hills got plastered. At Glenshee they had to dig out some of the pomma lines, it was that deep. Only time I can remember being towed uphill through a virtually head height channel of dug out snow.
  5. Looks fairly wet stuff, but hey, it's snow... Edit: Just been out to the bins, it's very wet stuff, cos it's now raining. Better looked at from inside the house.
  6. Been in a strange pattern of waking up around 5am this week and its just happened again. It's very white looking outside, but I'll have to wait until it's light to see quite how deep, assuming it survives until then.
  7. Certainly for north of Scotland and Orkney/Shetland, would have thought an Amber was warranted. I'm sure I heard all schools in Orkney are shut tomorrow due to the forecast. Breezy here already, but nothing major.
  8. For 23rd to 25th I currently have Yr.no (0z ECM) saying barely getting above freezing here with wintry showers, yet XC Weather (12z GFS) saying mild, windy and wet for the same days. Spread on GFS ensemblies is all over the place though beyond the 22nd. I don't think any of the models currently have clue what will happen after Friday.
  9. I'm sure there wasn't supposed to be much in the way of cold before the very end of the week for anyone, and even here we don't get anything close to cold until after Thursday/Friday's windy spell. Check what Yr.No and XC Weather show for Coatbridge. Both are pretty much raw model outputs, former ECM output, latter GFS. They can vary from run to run, quite wildly at times, so take them with a pinch of salt. MetO forecasts in the short term, say a couple of days, are good, but I find the further ahead they go the more they 'average out' the temps, and they rarely show much in the way of precipitation more than a day or two ahead unless it's frontal. As the days gets closer, then during winter the MetO forecast almost always trends the temp down as a colder period approaches. Currently MetO have Alford at max/min 4/1 for Fri and 3/0 Sat, but I'll not be at all surprised if by Wed those, are both forecast a couple of degrees lower at least.
  10. Is it? That's a week away though so could, and likely will, easily change in either direction. Anything beyond that is pure fantasy for the timebeing. Currently 11.1C here, yesterday varied between 9.8C and 12.2C.
  11. I'd say it's 50:50 for a noteably windy period at the end of next week, beyond that is anyones guess.
  12. It wasn't, probably worse actually. Grey with some drizzle in the morning, heavier rain early afternoon onwards. Made the mistake before the dog walk late morning of checking the level of clothing required by popping out the back door. Didn't seem too chilly, but that was sheltered. Once out on the hill a stiff wind made it feel much colder, despite coming from a southerly direction. Next shot at something interesting? Almost certainly will change in detail, and the GFS OP was at the colder end of its ensemblies, but persistent hints that after a warmer spell next weekend it could cool down again significantly ahead of Xmas?
  13. Pick any one or more from the following and it'll describe the weather today... disgusting nasty terrible dreadful ghastly horrid horrible vile foul abominable appalling atrocious horrendous hideous offensive objectionable obnoxious frightful loathsome revolting repulsive repellent repugnant odious sickening nauseating nauseous gruesome diabolical yucky Not sure tomorrow will be any better either.
  14. A less than easy commute home in awful weather just now. Windy, 5C, pitch black, heavy rain, lots of surface water, including the A944 fully submerged in a couple of the usual places. At least the ice has gone from the driveway, which is about the only positive I can think of.
  15. I saw -8c in Alford and -6C in Westhill, with nothing any higher in between, on this morning's commute (after spending 10mins trying to clear a thick frost off the car windows) . Too busy to notice what kind of day it was, but the commute home was pretty much all sub zero too. In fact, just looking at various weather stations around Alford it was an ice day (so far), or damn close to it, on most. Roads much less icy than yesterday though despite it being colder. Could be interesting again in the morning if the forecast rain moves in overnight. Will have to warm up quickly, and even then the ground will still be very cold.
  16. Currently -2.9C and this might be the last sub-zero night for a bit. Probably welcome too, as the driveway and a lot of the back roads were skating rinks this morning as wet roads refroze. On to the search for the next cold spell, one at Xmas would be nice for a change.
  17. Low of 1.3C, high of 3.3C, currently 2.2C, and the 7mm or so of overnight rain just made the driveway icier than it'd been during the cold spell. Had to throw salt over it again after I got home from work as, if anything, it seemed worse than this morning.
  18. 2C here and very similar to the above, just thrown grit across a very icy driveway. Might catch out some of the "must get to work", couldn't get out of bed 5mins earlier, idiots on the A944
  19. Well if the local weather station is to be believed, not quite an ice day as the temp got above freezing around 6pm and has been hovvering around 1C pretty much since then. Stuck my head out the back door and I'd say its currently raining lightly, but the thin covering of snow on the driveway and cars out front seems intact. Possibly as they are still very cold? Could be an interesting commute in the morning if it stays like this. Forecasts suggesting it still stays relatively cold here, if not as cold as the last few days, until late Wed. Then gets a bit milder, but still below average for Dec?
  20. Still -1.8C and just had a brief light snow shower. VID_20231203_120800289.mp4
  21. Rather chilly inside too by the looks of that. Overnight low here of -7.0C in the early hours but it's risen to -3.9C currently. Looks like a bit more cloud around than yesterday. Forecasts a bit all over the place as to when exactly it'll turn milder here, but it should stay on the cold side today. Can we get a second ice day in a row though? Edit: I'm sure Glenshee Ski Center would love this ECM forecast for the end of the week to actually happen...
  22. Warmest it's been so far here is - 1.6C, and with the sun dropping and the temperature back down to - 3.0C I think we can safely call it an ice day. Certainly felt rather chilly when out walking the dog a little while ago, even with it calm and being in the sun some of the time.
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