Hairy Celt

-4.5C now. Remarkable how uninteresting the place looks with 1cm of snow on the ground but bugger all elsewhere.

Max of 0.5C during the first band of thin snow late morning into early afternoon, then dropped during the third (and last) band which was almost moderate, to -1.5C and now dropped to -2.5C. Feels like a cold one coming.

You'll have to go back to the co-op then... for sosages, obvs.

Stav on bbc1 now with a map that shows frequent snow showers for here from now through till later tomorrow. Really dunno who programmed his grafix but I'll eat my hat if that comes off.

We're on our third band of epic heavy light snow now, enough to add a bit more than a dusting. Everything looks pretty though as the temp's been hovering around 0C most of the day. Inverness was at 1C and pretty messy earlier. The council have been assiduously gritting every square metre of tarmac so I've no idea whether my fancy new Conti Vikings are as good as the hype. Maybe tomorrow!

Could be a day to pop into the other threads to see snow pics. Have to say it 'feels like' there's snow coming here and everyone is peering up - but I have my doubts, at least till much later.

The old random snow flake generator...

Fks sake I'm not waiting up all night for that purple blob to not make it over Millbuie. Bedtime.

Hands off. That blob is mine.

That matches my memory. Yet the beeb presenters say -10C as if it's icemageddon. It's fkn not.

I don't think the internet has reached Argyll...

-10C is made out to be extreme cold...? I can't be the only one to remember -25C in 1995 and winters with well below -10C more recently. Are we being conditioned to accept milder winters?

Never under-estimate the greediness of the north-west mountains....

I would say there's a good chance for here to have 4 ice days out of 5, with tomorrow being the spoiler - forecast to go slightly above freezing in the middle of the day. Certainly if we get even another dusting of snow tomorrow, that'll help keep temps down from then through till Friday morning. The downer of course is the extra heating costs. Most of the time now we're able to keep the house warm with the wood-burning stove with back-boiler plus an electric oil-filled rad in the kitchen, but when it's constantly sub-zero, the oil boiler has to be fired up too. Not so cheap.

Ice day here, max of -1C. Now -3.5C. No more bloody snow though.

Depends edit: I see @snowidea is out the bath at last

Inverness aka Dresden - brilliant!

That's our dusting. Likely to sit there slowly ablating till tomorrow and that'll be it. Interesting to see the 2cm deep drifts behind the greens and tees. 'Interesting' is stretching a point though.

Enough! I want snow now, IMBY!

Wyvis has a lot to answer for. We should report it to the International Court of Chionophilia Rights. Or some such.

Snowmageddon here... well, the sprinkling has mounted up considerably overnight to a... covering. -2.5C now and just a gentle breeze, can't tell the direction though. Nothing in the forecast suggests much till tomorrow and even then the *no* may swerve south, or east, or north, or west.

This image means nothing...

Bloody mountains.... Ben Wyvis especially! <shakes fist despairingly> Or blue even?

We have a security light but it only comes on when triggered by movement. The useless cat won't go out when it's like this. Unlike that hound above somewhere!!

We now have a fair sprinkling, no more, and sat at -1.5C with a bit more of a north-westerly breeze - feels raw out now. Plenty of folk crossing their fingers to plenty more when they open the curtains in the morning but I fear that locally there will be some disappointment.