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Scotland/Alba weather discussion - Jan 2021 onwards
Frosty the Snowman replied to LomondSnowstorm's topic in Regional
It's only hilarious because the police managed to stop him. Headline could easily have been 'Dangerous Driver kills cyclist/schoolchildren." Bloody ridiculous anybody could look at that car and think it's safe to drive. -
Beast from the East 2021.Post-mortem.
Frosty the Snowman replied to sunnijim's topic in Spring Weather Discussion
4/10 at most. A little bit nippy - especially the last few nights getting down to -5/6 overnight, but not even the most snowy period of this winter round here, a covering at most one day. Awful. Would have took sunshine, mild and rain showers above a snowless Easterly like this. -
Winter 2020/21 chat, ramps, moans and banter
Frosty the Snowman replied to Paul's topic in Spring Weather Discussion
It looks as though this cold spell has been predictably naff in this part of the country - not even the best cold spell of the winter imby - the temps are probably a little bit lower than they got during the far snowier spell between the 27th December and the middle of January, an Easterly reliant on convective snow is just a poor option for our area, I posted a picture early today showing the issue in our regional thread with the Yorkshire Dales to our North East and the Pennines to our South East there's only a narrow band of space for any Easterly convection to make it through, sadly and it hasn't found the gap. We got a light covering of snow that may have measured about half a centimetre a few days back, otherwise dustings and infrequent showers. Other snow events this winter have given us 10cm of snow for comparison. It looks increasingly likely the best hope these parts is going to be any form of snowy breakdown with a front from the west but that seems less and less likely with each model run. It seems outside of the extreme north and eastern areas of Scotland and a narrow band of the South East coast this has largely been a pretty poor snow event - whilst the images from Scotland and parts of the East Coast of the country are captivating that's a relatively small area of the country. I certainly will be taken model hyping with a lot less seriousness in future, when supposed boom charts lead to this drab of an event. Thankfully we in the North West knew the score before the event started having seen enough lame Easterlies like this one and the 2018 "Beast" that delivered sod all. Until we get a full on Atlantic Front moving in from the west coast into cold air it seems unlikely we'll get any notable snowfall in this part of the world. -
There's the two main directions snow have come from next week. No wonder @chicken soup was so adamant that Easterly's would be crap in this neck of the woods. Awful cold spell, woke up to a covering one day and dustings the rest but with 600m hills to kill precip from one direction and 500m hills to kill it from another direction, no wonder it's dung. All eyes on breakdown.
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Scotland/Alba weather discussion - Jan 2021 onwards
Frosty the Snowman replied to LomondSnowstorm's topic in Regional
Why the hell are they shoveling the grit out of the back of a van rather than just driving a spreader through?