Ross B

I was right to worry about this the other day, it's currently raining here

I think they will start to make it in soon. Quite interesting watching the radar with some light showers moving north east between the two bands. I would still hope that there will be more shower activity making it in during the afternoon... On the positive side, at least we didn't get the rain/sleet/snow mix that is over Northern Ireland as that would have been more annoying!

Yep, we are overdue a big named storm here, I don't think we've had one for years but we really don't want one that severe!

Light Snaw is on here with a fresh dusting already

Precip is intensifying around the skye area and a few showers building into Ayrshire now so I wouldn't give up yet.

Looking like a bust at the moment.... But UKV (just about makes it to glagsow area) and met office (text) going for snow mid morning getting heavier so we could still be OK...but as mentioned earlier even the early morning modelling is off a bit so who knows.

That would do! 15Z UKV is a bit too far south for my liking at the same time, but does have a second chance later in the day. (charts the wrong way round below)

This one: UKV Model Viewer | Netweather.tv WWW.NETWEATHER.TV Meto text forecast is pretty good, although it is for the whole of Strathclyde. I've also noticed the council are putting out a lot on social medial about how much they are gritting the roads in attempt to avoid the inevitable complaints tomorrow where people expect grit to be like molten lava. "Tuesday: After a dry start for most, sleet and snow will become widespread for a time, some heavy, with fresh accumulations. Turning clearer but icy at night. Maximum temperature 2 °C."

12z UKV looks ok at least, 9am batch is still on although maybe a little further south than I would like but then there is a secondary system at 9pm which makes its way through the central belt. Both Icon and ECM take the heaviest precip either north or south so we're not much further forward...

We managed to get another shower overnight, it must have been that shower at 1am that was mentioned earlier. That has at least meant the ice rink has a bit more grip with the dusting on top! Looking at the charts tomorrow still show differences in the positioning of the front coming in, UKV and aperge have 2 systems moving in with snow to start but rain on the back edge/low ground for western coasts. ECM has a widespread 2-5cm, GFS we hit the jackpot here but more of a chance of sleet/rain for low ground. Icon has a period of heavy snow western central belt and south but only just on the edge here... There is definitely still the risk of warmer air bringing a slushfest for the central belt south (and western coasts) so it looks like it'll be a nowcast situation tomorrow as this still isn't nailed at just 24 hours out!

It has the potential and will make or break this spell for us, Glasgow rush hour with the chance of heavy snow on Tuesday morning... Then possibly back to rain and then snow showers during the day which will ice over at night. Weds and Thurs now showing as snow showers on the meto app too. Good photos and vids from those further north so far, keep them coming! - I'd love a week of endless heavy snow showers here!

We managed a good dusting of snow/graupel from the showers that made it to the central belt. I wasn't in to see it though, a little light snow on the way back up the A77. The snow has half melted on the road and pavements which is now freezing so that'll be an ice rink for the rest of the week now!

Meto warning issued for Tuesday... And extended for the areas exposed to showers up to Thursday. Sounds good to me.. Snow showers will continue to feed inland early on Tuesday morning across northern and western Scotland, parts of Wales and northwest England where 2-5 cm of snow is possible over a few hours in some places. During the day, an area of more organised rain, sleet and snow is likely to move east with further showers following. There is still some uncertainty in the track of more prolonged snow, and it is possible that at lower elevations across Wales and northern England, this could turn to rain for a time. However, there is a chance some places could see 5-10 cm perhaps 20 cm of snow, particularly across the northern half of Scotland and over higher ground elsewhere UK weather warnings - Met Office WWW.METOFFICE.GOV.UK Entire country covered with mention of rain, sleet and snow. Hedging their bets

Yep, GFS 18z has some pretty heavy precipitation from 6am to 6pm here and across much of the country which is better than UKV, but it brings in milder air and even at my elevation I would be worried it's going to be sleet. Still some changes ahead, the met office are going to find this one tricky. Small margins between a dumping or a sleet fest. Yellow warnings should really be going out tomorrow if there is any confidence...

Better from the UKV, although it moves through really quickly.

That would be perfect

Ahh the UKV has that feature on Tuesday only brushing past here at best. Most snow/sleet further southwest and Northern England... Which is also where I'm meant to be driving to on Tuesday so won't be an easy day! Still time for things to change for the better though these things rarely end up moving north.

Below - 20c here if that came off over our snow fields.... Warmer further north but only because it'll still be snowing up there!

Or rain for us....

6th December 2010, I remember it well... I drove to work in Edinburgh from Hamilton early after seeing the front coming down from the north so that I could miss it. I didn't count on the morning traffic still being stuck all day and I finally got home at 4am after leaving the office at lunchtime. That involved bypassing a lot of the M8 on dodgy country roads in the dark from Livingston after I had finally escaped the Edinburgh traffic jam. I think it took something like 4 hours to join the M8 from the Newbridge roundabout which must be all of 500m Great looking charts for next week (even though I said that I wouldn't look!) and the most ramps I've seen in here for many years... I'm optimistic for here, especially since I'll need to travel down south for a few days next week... this always happens! Oh and partly a coincidence I'm sure but I just jogged past the grit depot which was getting a few big deliveries...

Still -10c at Altnaharra at 10am, Aviemore got down to -11c last night. Feels like a cold spell.... Just above freezing here but dewpoints well below 0c so everything has dried up apart from the frozen puddles

Some very light drizzle/sleet made it through to here, it really just raised the temperature enough to melt most of the frost away quickly . Not really sure how we will do here over the next few weeks... think I'll just ignore the charts and see what happens!

Happy new year all! Some heavy sleet when I was driving over the moors there as the front begins to move in. Looks to be too warm for more snaw.

Back to rain here and the thaw is well underway. Nice little surprise though, hopefully more to come!

Traffic across the area with no warnings.... Good few accidents reported now.