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SW Saltire last won the day on April 20 2015

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  1. @Scottish-Irish Skier Absolutely stunning, very jealous. I’m quite sad I didn’t get a ski holiday in this winter but saving the pennies. Been a nice few days down here, quite different conditions to the posts above. Today we reached 10.8c here (car was saying 12c), very sunny day and you can feel some warmth in it now. Yes March can be wintry (2013, 2018) but down here it’s a bit rarer than the north of the country. I’m hoping we get a warmer spring and a 2022 hay/haylage year and not a 2023. Not long back from a short break in Tenerife, weather was cracking
  2. Quinach’s taste of spring must have pushed South overnight as today certainly felt springlike in the sunshine. A high of 9.4c but with not much of a wind it was pleasant. Felt like it was 4 weeks later Fingers crossed for another cold spell!
  3. Shockingly awful. Light/moderate rain all day (11mm so far), currently 4c. Grim
  4. Echo what others have said, a welcome lull tbh after some wild weather. Some dry weather is most welcome, thankfully the fields aren’t too bad but unbelievably this month will record average/above average rainfall. Currently on 129mm (avg 143mm) with rain coming Monday and Wednesday. Hopefully the cold returns next month
  5. Haha yes, that’s crazy Leuchars have had just 1mm. Aberdeenshire/Tayside has been battered this autumn so only right the West take a hit! December was 217mm (25/30% above average) but we were only on 15mm to the 19th so I wrongly assumed January would be a pretty dry month… That’ll be us at 60mm at the time of writing, probably going to be at 75mm+ by end of play today with rain forecast for Tuesday and Thursday. Might not reach the average of 150mm but could get close. Tonight i’m staying at my gf’s who lives around a mile from solway firth, could get interesting.
  6. 41.8mm since early yesterday. A decent effort with much more on the way…. Let’s see how wild tonight gets
  7. I currently do 4/4 and it’s amazing. Best shift pattern i’ve worked, perhaps in the future I might go back to an office job and ideally get condensed hours and work Mon - Thurs 10 hour days. That would be a close second to 4/4. Looks like a tasty storm coming, what’s most rare about this is that for 4 days in a row (Sat to Tues) it’ll be pretty windy. The sunny cold weather will be a distant memory soon sadly.
  8. Some snow showers in Wigtownshire last night made for a fun drive home. Been a better cold spell than I thought it was going to be. Saw falling snow (a few times), annoying about Tuesday’s warm sector. Plus some harsh frosts, (-8.7c the low, would have gone double digits below if there had been proper snow cover). Those of you in the North have done really well. Amber warning now out for Sunday into Monday, tomorrow looks hideous too. Excellent
  9. I work in the public sector for another big employer and it’s the exact same. Staff passing each other on the road (and where I live that’s 30+ miles each way). This has been flagged up to bosses and the attitude is like it or lump it, stop complaining. All training has been centralised and results (like me today) doing very high mileage, I just put 400 miles on a diesel in 2 days.
  10. Amazing pics in this thread. Shall get up a munro on Monday and find the snow. Covered a lot of ground in the last 24 hours. The snow starts on the M74 at Crawford (and then plenty heading South). Nothing north of there (weirdly). Nothing down the A77 but Northern Ireland was looking very white over the water past Ailsa Craig. Despite 3 inches falling in Wigtownshire yesterday nothing survived the day as rain moved in. Back in Dumfries the snow has just about clung on after afternoon rain yesterday. I turned onto the farm track at my parents and my wheels just spun. A brief high of 0.9c, already -3c. The weekend weather looks a delight.
  11. Nothing here in EK but back home caught some of the precipitation. Quite rare really 0396351c-8577-499a-87aa-d4618c48ac10.mp4
  12. Second this, heavy sleet for 30 mins made things lethal. That shower popped up out of nowhere so fingers crossed for some surprises during the week. I look forward to viewing the pics in this thread even if I myself am unlucky. I’m up in East Kilbride Tues and Wed this week so might see some flakes.
  13. Got up some hills north of Langholm on the D&G/Borders border this morning. Was lovely and snowy. My gf’s miniature Dachshund gave up near the top and had to be carried, I knew we should have brought the collies instead. Back at sea level, horribly wet. IMG_0995.mov IMG_0998.mov
  14. I agree, it’s a case of the boy who cried wolf. Yellow warnings for ice when it’s to be a clear night and -1c. I mean… why? Fair enough after recent rain or whatever. Standard ‘storm’ and we get yellows, I didn’t expect this level of rain. It was truly torrential today and widespread. I think we only respect it when it hits Amber. Anyway, very mild now at 10c. 39mm today, which takes me to 181mm for the month (120% of average). Got lucky here in October and November but the fields are a sludgy mess now. Please 2024… Give us some increasingly cold sunny days with a bit of snow.
  15. Lovely scenes for you guys in the North with some festive weather. I started a new role in my job and I’m now based in the far far West (ie water is visible). I don’t think i’ve had one day since I started (early December) with winds below 30mph. Honestly been wild. Yesterday was a rare cracker. Today, polar opposite. Nearly 20mm since this storm started here in Dumfries. Not sure i’ve ever seen the A75 between Annan in Dumfries more flooded. You guys who cancelled your journeys South made a good call as, I presume, the usual river has formed on the M74 near Beattock and caused a crash. Southbound is shut (EDIT - Road now open again) Family member hit it on xmas day in a pickup and nearly lost it. Weather - Biblical.
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