SW Saltire
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The morning was disappointing as the showers were fairly potent. The afternoon was lovely however, winds fell lighter and very sunny reaching 12.8c.
Fields are now starting to look really good, plenty grass coming through. I passed a gritter working (Felt weird when the car was still reading 13c and I had the A/C on due to my car being a greenhouse) earlier so anticipating a frost.-
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Whilst the nagging wind is a bit on the cool side, both Tuesday and Wednesday were lovely days. Really feeling warm (ish) in the early afternoon with some shelter. Maxes of 13c and 12c.
Ground is drying up well. I sympathise with those in the East who will have had enough of cool cloudy weather if an easterly develops. However for me in the West it should be fairly sunny and pleasant.
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Flakes of snow in a heavy shower about 7am this morning. Now just very windy and frequently wet, looking forward to the incoming drier weather
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Northernlights I find it crazy to read you say the surface is looking dry.
More very heavy rain today, about 10mm so approximately 110mm for the month so far. I have not known the ground this wet in almost mid april ever.
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Unusually wet for April. Another 24.6mm which will take us to 85mm for the month, already above the monthly average.
So windy as well, was gusting to 40mph for a short time earlier.On a positive note, the sun is packing a punch now. Before the rain arrived yesterday the car was reading 14c and it certainly felt very mild.
We really need some drier weather.
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Was down near Preston today, wind was not notable and when I left it was 17c. Very pleasant.
The drive home was wind assisted until I hit the border, turning West was when I felt it.
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Reliably informed it was a nice weekend, sadly I was in cloudy Germany for that.
Was a poor Monday here and today is shocking. March reached nearly 150mm of rain which is well above average.
April is statistically our driest month (77mm) but it looks like in a weeks time we’ll be rapidly approaching that figure… Grim.
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@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
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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!
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Shockingly awful. Light/moderate rain all day (11mm so far), currently 4c. Grim
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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
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1 minute ago, Hawesy said:Yes this pattern reset means business as usual in terms of rainfall after 3 months of the east bearing the brunt. 47mm at Glasgow Bishopton in the 48 hours to 6am. 1mm at Leuchars.
All eyes on the storm
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.
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41.8mm since early yesterday. A decent effort with much more on the way….
Let’s see how wild tonight gets
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7 minutes ago, MAF said:
used to do 4-4 and its the best working pattern ever! bought my kids up on it, sometimes some of the mothers thought i didn't work at all as i never slept between two 12 hours days and two twelve hour nights - two 12 hour days and two 12 hour nights, then a sleep day and then back to work ... bliss
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.
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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
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4 hours ago, Ravelin said:
You'd also need to ensure the teachers were employed locally too. I could be at my nearest high school in 5mins in the car but drive 35mins. I probably pass lots of the teachers from my nearest school driving the other way. Most schools close as the staff can't get in safely, roads inadequately ploughed and gritted etc, especially in rural areas.
I enquired through my local councillors a while back about whether the council could look at travel distance as a factor when employing teachers at individual schools, more from an emissions, work balance angle but also resilience in poor weather. The answer that came back was that they couldn't as they felt it would contravene employment law (no more detail given). Wouldn't even consider actively asking if teachers wanted to volunteer to 'swap'. There just no lateral thinking in the UK at all.
We had a late start this morning by at my school, which helped as I dropped my son at his school for a Prelim. His school minibus didn't attempt to get up past our house, road was white but not that bad. He's now walking home rather than hang about, but that's his choice. I suspect with the MetO forecast for tonight that there will still be lots of school closures around Aberdeenshire tomorrow.
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.
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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.
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Nothing here in EK but back home caught some of the precipitation. Quite rare really
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4 minutes ago, Kayemill said:
We have incredibly bad black ice here. Roads ok but pavements lethal.
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.
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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.
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15 minutes ago, JamesM said:Horrid day and the rain has just never let up. Now as heavy as it’s been all day. Lots of local flooding.
As others have said, surely the impacts today which have been quite severe warranted an amber warning? Rightly or wrongly, I generally take a yellow warning as something to be aware of, but not something I would generally change my plans because of.
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.
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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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Weather warning issues for Thursday - Rain. Normal service has resumed, wonderful.
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Fantastic day in Aberdeenshire getting the the Cairnwell Munros ticked off the list (Cairnwell, Carn a’Gheoidh and Carn Aosda).
The most snow I saw was around the Cumbernauld area funnily enough. A93 was remarkably clear.
The lowest the car read was -9.5c just near the spittal of Glenshee.
Gloriously sunny and still day. Just enough snow to enjoy, the kind that you can kick with your boots. Pure powder.
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A low of -0.4c, was frosty when I was up at 4am.
Down in Merseyside today, lovely and sunny. Winds were light, so much so the midges (the really tiny ones) were surprisingly a nuisance.
Reliably informed it’s been a decent day back home. Home weather station is at 11.9c. At least April has finally calmed down and we’re getting some warm sunshine.