Highland Snow

Today is Candlemas Day and folklore suggests "if its fair and bright winter will have another fight". For the uninitiated Candlemas Day is the Christian commemoration of the presentation of Jesus in the Temple at Jerusalem and the purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary as ordained in the Jewish Law (Torah) by Yahweh the God of Israel in Leviticus 12. It is known in the States as Groundhog Day and Punxsutawney Phil has indeed popped out of his burrow this Sunday morning, predicting six more weeks of Winter - ie. rain and gales! http://www.usatoday....y-phil/5101379/ Today we are halfway between the Winter Solstice and the Vernal Equinox ie. Midwinter. It also coincides with Imbolic the ancient Pagan Festival. If Candlemas Day be fair and bright Winter will have another fight. If Candlemas Day brings cloud and rain, Winter won't come again. If Candlemas Day be dry and fair, The half o the winter's to come and mair; If Candlemas Day be wet and foul, The half o the winter's gane at Yule.

Today is Candlemas Day and folklore suggests "if its fair and bright winter will have another fight". For the uninitiated Candlemas Day is the Christian commemoration of the presentation of Jesus in the Temple at Jerusalem and the purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary as ordained in the Jewish Law (Torah) by Yahweh the God of Israel in Leviticus 12. It is known in the States as Groundhog Day and Punxsutawney Phil has indeed popped out of his burrow this Sunday morning, predicting six more weeks of Winter - ie. rain and gales! http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2014/02/02/groundhog-day-punxsutawney-phil/5101379/ Today we are halfway between the Winter Solstice and the Vernal Equinox ie. Midwinter. It also coincides with Imbolic the ancient Pagan Festival. If Candlemas Day be fair and bright Winter will have another fight. If Candlemas Day brings cloud and rain, Winter won't come again. If Candlemas Day be dry and fair, The half o the winter's to come and mair; If Candlemas Day be wet and foul, The half o the winter's gane at Yule.

BUS has left the building - nuf said about ANY possible evolution to cold!

No comment. Next!

Now 2.4C/-0.2C so still very marginal even for wet snow. Starry sky.

Temperature started to rise at 02.00 from 2.7C/1.9C to a maximum of 5.2C/4.3C at 03.50 and then fell back quickly to 4.0C/1.9C at 04.05. Wind really howling outside atm.

No early snow prospects here either with a minimum of 2.0C and currently 4.5C/2.8C. I expect some sleet or perhaps wet snow overnight though.

BBC Weather - nathin tomorrow, snow on high hills in Scotland on Friday.

You're a glass half full lady Blitzen. Now where's my prozac.

Heavy rain at 11.00 and now still raining but lighter. Temperatue 4.0C(+0.5C/hr). Minimum last night was 3.2C. METO forecasting sleet for here Friday and I will be surprised if we even get that.

Cairngorm currently: But Aviemore village:

Wet, dreich Monday again. Temperature 4.8C/3.9C (Minimum 3.3C), 100% cloud cover, 1.7mm rain since 07.00, Wind Force 1, Pressure 976.8hPa.

Temperature stuck here at 3.7C/2.5C.

Concur Ravelin temperature here 3.7C/3.0C and 17.8mm precipitation since 07.00 this morning. Brief sunny interval but clouded over again.

What a dreich morning. Started to rain at 07.00 and up to 11.25 there has been 16.3mm and still pouring down. Some ice mixed in at times with a minimum of +0.9C at 04.57 and currently +2.2C/+1.3C.

Minimum -1.7 but now 100% cloud cover at -0.5C/-1.2C(+0.3C/hr). Rain due in after dark according to 07.58 Radio 4 weather.

Temperature 5.5C/2.8C damp and dreich.

Or Leeds United either for that matter HC!

Sunday storm?

I hope this is not in a "snow parking zone" - a snow sculpture after the December blizzard in Israel:

So cold in Lapland (-36C) that at the Levi ski resort no-one is venturing out!

Aye when it goes from pictures of snawmageddon to pictures of The Four Horsemen of The Apocalypse and Armageddon we've had it!

Aye this Winter is doomed I tell you doomed!

Little variation in temperature over the previous 24 hours, currently 6.2C with a heavy shower after 09.00. 100% cloud cover and calm, 981.9hPa steady.

Reported earlier as an internal family matter.