Shandiman

Just travelled to Eurocentral and sky relatively clear. Weather station at home been recording no higher than 2.5°c with a tendency for rain over next 36 hours. Nice for us to see snow on Sunday night, shame it turned to rain by 0300 Monday morning.

Had temp reach 12C in Ayr with frequent rain & hail showers, but when driving home this evening around 1730, encountered rain, hail, sleet and wet snow in the distace of 6 miles! Had temp drop from 11C to 3C in this distance. Had hail on the west side of Failford (B743) that then turned to snow through the hamlet and out the east side. At first I thought it was hail that had laid, but I stopped at the side of the road, and found it was wet snow. Showers have now died out but still have 80 percent cloud cover.

Got temp of 1.9C and windchill is -4.7C.

Strange how the Beeb's weather forecast differs from the Met Office one!!! Looking at passage of precipitation, looks like the next shower is due over me in the next 20-30 minutes. Can't wait for later, will be lamp-post watching once darkness falls!!!

Just had blizzard conditions here giving light covering. Hills to south around New Cumnock totally white. Briefly had sun out, but now clouding back over from the west. Typical Met Office, late as usual! Bring on the delicious whiteness!!!!

Would be happy to give one a new home as my weatherstation rainfall reader looks to have given up recording correct measurements!

Cheers Weather Ship. Link very useful and glad I snapped it when i saw it!! Looks to tick the right boxes as about half mile away is Prestwick Airport so one of the planes from there might have started the effect.

Thought I should share the following pictures. 1st one is a very strange cloud phenomenom that i wonder if anyone could help identify. Other 2 were of a late sunset early on in the year taken as little as 2 minutes apart but catches the evening glow very nicely.

The Met Office tend to always go 'safe', but whatever way any prediction goes, someone out there is going to hit the jackpot. See this morning on BBC Breakfast the presenters holding up the Daily Express who has heralding the next mini Ice Age (once again scaremongering!!!!!) Nothing out of the ordinary there, take it their resident 'forecaster' is getting carried away!!!!

Looked at yesterdays 10 Day Outlook & was a bit surprised to see 60% chance of snow on Wednesday! Now I have seen that it has spread over 3 days:shok: ! Will try to have a look at the GFS charts tomorrow to see if this can be pinned down a bit better. For me, it is looking almost like a repeat of last winter. All the natural signs have gone the same way as last autumn, so who knows:D ? I think that probably from Sunday 12z there should be a lot more certainty on what will happen. At this stage there can be a large swing from what is currently predicted, and going towards balmy conditions (hopefully not, but Hay Ho!!!!)

I found the same as 10123. Got bored of it. Could be scaremongering, but it also seems to be written by people who have it in for the Oil Giants as well. Using BP as an excuse for something that has been seen to be occurring over te last few years is a bit rash, but how would we know if the spilt oil would not have accellerated what this article is calling a total catastrophy! . Quick, stockpile the bread & milk. Two Thirds of us are going to perish!!!!!!! . What a load of tosh. All we can do is wait & see what the forthcoming seasons have to offer.

I agree with 4wd. Got one that looks like this ones predecessor for Xmas last year. Works well, allows you to download to your PC and you can then customise the data to what you want to look at. You can also save the data for other uses. My ones' onboard memory allows it to save up to 90 days at a time before downloading, and the batteries I have in mine are the originals from Dec 2009! I would say good value for money!

Hi all. Heard today on a radio station that some of the Local Authorities didn't have enough warning of this spell of weather to get the supplies of salt/grit in ! However it had been predicted on here since the middle of Nov! It makes me wonder who they were taking advice from. Anyhow had crisp bright sunshine here for the last few days and the highest temp has been -2.2c on the 6th. Currently looking at -12c with the dewpoint sitting at -14.3c and the station is predicting clear skies up to 6hrs out from now!!!

Hi all, been bit busy last few days, but just lookied at the 12z run forecast and looks promising for tonight into tomorrow. Just to let you know lowest recorded temp for my area was -10.7c with a dewpoint of -13c last night, and today's top temp has been a warm -3.7c with dewpoint of -6.5c. Meto not updated warnings as of 10 mins ago, but that is sure to change .

Hi all. Just got back from work and have been watching the clouds steadily increase from the south. Just checked my weatherstation I got for Xmas (Woohoo) and dewpoint here is at -1.9c with outdoor temp at +0.7c & 83% humidity. Looking ok for some more fun tonight !

Mrs Catch, not being rude at all .I used to be in the Armed Forces, Royal Engineers (bottom of crest!). Finished 5 years ago after going to much sunnier climes (the Desert!) . Don't see much snow outthere unless it is this time of year and overnight at that!!!

Just had a look at the car temp, showing -4c (i think it must be stuck on that here ), clear skies and the road outside is like an ice rink from the rain/later snow. Just watched a bus come round the road @ a crawl trying not to hit any prked vehicles . See that MetO has upgraded their warning for the Strathclyde area to cover from midnight tonight to 0900 monday for heavy snow (60% chance minimum!!). I think I will wait until sunup to see what the night brings .

Hi All, just getting ready to go out with a few minutes to spare. Clear skies and hard frost here overnight, but cloudy skies greeted me this morning with a check on the car temp display showing a -4c and a westerly flow of the clouds. Snow we had a couple of days ago still on the ground. Just had a look @ the 00z run forecast and Xmas looks to be a washout again, but still 6 days to go. I do so hope the man in the red suit and white bearddeigns to bring me a weatherstation this year , car is not liking me for using it as a temp gauge

least you have a bin nearby. We don't have anything around here, however there has been no sign of any gritters (as we are on a bus route) and we had another shower not too long ago which is now covering the road outside . Your phrase definitely jumps to mind!!! Clear skies at the mo, with the car outside temp showing -4c. Clouds still on the north-eastern horizon, so we might get another shower before tomorrow morning!

Oh thats it , you've just cyboshed it now!!!!!!!Long live the snow. According to the outlook on here until wednesday, it has snow predicted every day from tomorrow (odd showers) right thru the weekend where it looks to be non-stop snow!

Oh thats it , you've just cyboshed it now !!!!!!! Long live the snow . According to the outlook on here until wednesday, it has snow predicted every day from tomorrow (odd showers) right thru the weekend where it looks to be non-stop snow!

You're lucky. When I left work @ 3pm there was nothing. got thru Coalhall on the A70 and over towards New Cumnock it was all white. Even when i got home there was a nice light covering on the back garden but nothing at all even into Cumnock. Went over to Sorn and they had nothing at around 4:15pm, by the time I left @ 5pm it was all white. Had a couple of showers her which has added to todays snowfall, and it looks like more to come as there is more cloud building to the east of me.

Just seen Rob on BBC late weather, and he is predicting a 'pasting' over the south-east corner tomorrow, but nothing here until Sunday, where the Edinburgh area is due to have snow. He has said that by the end of the weekend just about all of the UK will have seen snow, 'then there is Monday, haha'! Guaranteed to be flipping cold though for the foreseeable future .

Ah well, better placed to have a go at some of the influential players in the places that really hurt then .

Personally, i think a lot of people have had enough of this particular person ramping on about his 'not ancient period of time' and have prevented his cliche being typed ever again