markg

well another day and another day with no snow in Ayr , it was dry all day till 3pm just in time to pick kids up at school , then rain / wet sleet(ayrshire term for snow)temp 2*c all day , thats no days of snow again this winter , global warming intit great , thank god im just back from a weeks skiing in st anton

up to 126 hrs on the 0600 gfs is the azores high trying to link up with the euro/scandi high and would that be good or bad for our next return to cold as at the moment everything is 300hrs plus for cold?

Some very nice charts and and nice finale to the 0600 gfs run with everything being thrown at us from the north and east with greeny high and another to our west cool and showery from friday with us, plenty of snow for the northern hills , ski glenshee here we come !

The most pleasing difference about model watching this year against the 6 years ive been watching them on here is that the cold theme has been there since early december and hasnt really changed in that whole period , yes the models have flighted some less cold interludes(mainly at weekends with less data) whereas previous years when we were all going into meltdown when the models showed day after tomorrow at t384 , just been a great blocked theme!! :blink: and models today still going for cold to mid march by that point we could do with some warmer weather.

hi all been a strange old day in Ayr today snow all day till about 4 pm lay a bit early on in day but mush after that ,webcams on traffic scotland look good up north even glasgow m77 at newton mearns still looks like its snowing heavy , teletext says M77 FENWICK IS ONLY JUST PASSABLE , current temp here is 2.6*c highest all day chucking with rain , may be bad news tomrrrow moring if cold air and this lot starts to move south again as forecast.

Well said Pete , we have too much data and info these days, much of which is all FI after 144hrs and generally only trends are spotted after this in low resolution , if we only had up to 144 hrs if would be a lot more fun , and as you say a small change in the short term makes a hugh change in the eventual evolution ,bring on the next one its still only the middle of january 28 days with snow on the ground here is just the best winter ever in my memory

i know what u mean, :lol: recently unless its showin the day after tomorrow easterly everyone is on a downer, weve all been spoilt by this codl spell, we have had moderate snow for over 2 hours and a white covering everywhere again temp currently 0.4*c, thats 26 days in AYR with snow on the ground amazing by any standard , if it keeps snowing lke it is forecast we are in for the best covering since 18th december , get in

HI ALL TONIGHT , BEEN A STRANGE OLD DAY LEFT AYR AT -5*C AT 8AM GOT TO GLASGOW AND IT WAS 0*C WENT SKIING AT XCAPE AND SHOP BRAEHEAD LEFT AT 2.30PM AND IT WAS 6*C GOT BACK TO AYR AND TEMP WAS 1.5*C , AT 5PM MY WEATHER STATION SAID -3.8*C AND KNOW IT SAYING +1.7*C AND CLOUD COVER , ON THE RADAR I HOPE THIS ISNT SMIZZLE HEADING OUR WAY AS WE TEND TO GET ON THE COAST

hate to bring bad news but i went to glasgow early this morning and the temp was -5 when i left here but zero in glasgow, when i left glasgow at 2.30pm the temp was+6*c and all the snow was melting fast ,that alone leads me to believe that any front coming in from the south west is only going to give snow on high ground as the forecast for tomorrow on the bbc stats also, after that if the GFS is to be believed it is definetly looking less cold 3-4*c is still cold, weve just been spoilt the last 3 weeks :lol: and after 144hrs is anybodys guess!! <_<

i think having watched all the charts over the last 3-4 days that no model seems to have a difinitive take on next week and whether or not we are going to stay cold or turn less cold after tuesday when push comes to shove the first low direction will have abig impact on any future develpoments ,times like this it may be better to stop watching every single model and run and just enjoy what we get!! weve had 22 days with snow on the ground here at sea level

more snow in ayr and snowing lightly at present temp -4.1 another inch on top sledging with the kids today 22 days of snow cover and off to meribel skiing nxt weekend doesnt get any better

Takes me back to early eighties on Kay Park Pond frozen over in 15 inch ice and the school off for a week cause the old boiler wouldnt work :unsure: -5.4 in Ayr just know

well its -5.1*c in Ayr at present never got up above -2 today got 2 inches of snow overnight and went sledging to the golf course at lunchtime hope the snow moving south currently doesnt run out of steam before it gets to us , its certainly heading south west at present , weve had snow/ice!!! lying since the 19th december expecting -10 even here at the coast tonight :lol:

later the better for us in the central belt as the temp is dropping like a stone again loooking borderline tho at the coasts but who knows with this cold spell we have had it all and still have 2 inch of ice everywhere!!

yeah chris i remember this also, the data coming in was less as not all stations reported data , its only one run and the 12 previous were all good for cold coming back, mind due it hasnt ever left us up here and we are on the coast, we had snow again last night on top of the snow we had on the ground since last friday