Polar Gael

10.5°C and 85.5mm for me please. Crud start, improving gradually.

10.0°C and 95.1mm for me please.

7.0°C and 84.0mm for me please.‹

This is concerning. Current disruptive stuff is looking sustained for days. Definitely preferred the cauld spell - any sign yet of a return to cauld in Feburary @Kirkcaldy Weather?

Many congrats @Northern Strath. Hope you manage some shuteye again soon. Wind is now howling outside. Already taken out one sidegate and not near the peak forecast yet. Power remains on for now. Stay safe, kilters.

An ice day yesterday as the snaw finally arrived here at lunchtime. Overnight low of -8.3°C and about an inch on the level. Bright and brisk this morning: currently -4.1°C/-6°C.

Happy New Year, fellow kilters, from Bonnie Comrie! A White Ne'er Day and lovely and bright, too. Gentle thaw of the snawcover continuing. Currently 2.4°C/3°C and not a puff of wind - a pleasant change after the recent storms. Wishing you all a cracking 2024 with plenty of snaw for a'body! Snaps of the garden, the flambeaux and Ne'er Day 'breakfast' attached.

Well, a wee surprise here today as the snawcover held on despite a gentle thaw thus ensuring a White Hogmanay and likely a White Ne'er Day, too. A wee snawy snap featuring PG junior trudging through the gloamin this arvo with the auld man - the last light of the auld year. Looking like quiet weather for the flambeaux here later on this evening and the snaw will make it all the mair seasonal. Thanks to all the kilters, auld and new, who make this wee spot on the magical t'internet a wee weather haven and may all our snawy dreams be 'stella' and 'nailded on' in 2024! Wherever you are, hae a Guid New Year when it comes and awra the best for 2024.

Update: 5cm on the level and has now turned to freezing rain. Wind picking up a touch as well. Currently 0.2°C/0°C.

Big snaw began around an hour ago and we already have an inch. Falling on well frozen ground so it has stuck readily. Currently -0.3°C/-3°C so this could get tasty!

A belated Merry Christmas, fellow kilters. Hope you all had a good one and the festivities are ongoing. A lively spell of festive weather here these past few days. Christmas Eve: stormy. Polytunnel upended. Again. Christmas Day: slight frost first thing then stayed cold, grey and misty with rain developing in the afternoon. Boxing Day: cold, frosty all day, lovely and bright - perfect for the Boxing Day walk and getting out and about. A very calm and still day. Today (so far): Bowfin. Horizontal wet snaw overnight - enough to give a covering, then horizintal sleet and finally horizontal rain. Lovely. Still raining, temp up to 4.9°C and the wind has eased (for now). 36.4mm of precipitation since 9pm last night. Looks like there could be more pop-up snaw events during the rest of the Daft Days and through Hogmanay and Ne'er Day. And as for the rest of January, it is 'not without interest'... Hae a guid yin, a'body.

1.8°C and 62.3mm for me please.

Revising this to 2.0°C and 96.5mm please. Thanks!

4.0°C and 126.5mm for me please.

Revising this downwards to 4.0°C and 75.2mm please.

6.9°C and 144.8mm for me please.

12.9°C and 127.1mm for me please.

13.9°C and 47.0mm for me please.

A totally honking day for August today: over an inch of rain and no higher than 14C. Looking at the models for August, nothing prolonged and settled for us showing up yet - perhaps a hint of more of a longer lasting high pressure influencing the UK from circa 24th August but too early to pin any detail on it. Huge props to @Kirkcaldy Weather for the post of the summer in the TOORPing thread. Outstanding work! Very much hoping that you are correct re a possible 2009/10 winter redux, albeit per my previous post here, am slightly concerned we could be in for another December 2015. All that said, I doubt this winter will be 'average' and if we do land an extreme pattern, the way that patterns tend to become 'stuck' these days, it could be a whopper (am thinking even more extreme than Dec 2010 if locked in cold). Back to the medium term and am sticking with the prior call for autumn gold in September for now.

Evening, fellow kilters. A brief break in my annual estivation for an update on summer so far: after a stonking June, July was a let down here. A very wet first half, though we did at least have a usable spell of weather from 17th to 27th of the month. Rainfall ended up at 150.1mm (185% of the 30 yeaer average). Cooler than average, too, albeit the nighttime temperatures held up and offset the cooler daytime temps. Rather dull as well and on many days, the light levels were very poor for supposedly high summer. The month reminded me a lot of July 2015 when from memory, El Niño ramped up as the summer progressed. Am loathe to pattern match these days, particularly given changing background climatic signals, but were 2023 to follow 2015, I'd be writing off August and looking towards September for more sustained settled weather. Taking a very early glance forward towards winter, am not sure whether an amped up El Niño would give us another 2015-16 or whether it could deliver another 2009-10 (though again from memory, there was more of a lingering La Nina background state persisting during the 2009-10 winter). Given the choice between December 2015 (honking) and Dec-Jan 2009-10, I know which I'd rather see this year... As ever, time will tell. Meantime, hope all well and let's make the best of the autumn gold should it arrive in September (or earlier)!

17.0°C and 80.2mm for me please.

20.0°C and 75mm for me please.

Heathrow 16th July 37.7°C for me please.

16.5°C and 60.0mm for me please.