Scottish-Irish Skier

I'd agree with that first bit*, but the tweet was light hearted and by someone who's moniker is 'NewScotGirl', not Stuart Campbell / WoS (based in Bath not fife) who just re-tweeted it. Rain still mainly light to moderate here and fairly windy. Need to pop out to the shops so I'll get a bit of local reconnaissance in too re wind damage and flooding. --- *And there's nothing the Scot Gov can do about that as its not something they have control over, but that's for the politics thread.

Jeez.

Rain shadow seems to be protecting the eastern borders so far too. Oh aye it's still raining, but not torrential and even just light at times. Radar does show a lower intensity band running along the midland valley axis with the east of course getting away with less intensity. NW England / SW Scotland and the Highlands taking the biggest hit. Of course with the ground saturated though, even lighter rain can cause localised flooding. Then there's what's over Ireland right now making its way towards us...

And another: Stay safe folks. Looks like a day to avoid long journeys anyway! EDIT. Looks like a fair bit of aquaplaning going on today. Pic from traffic Scotland which looks like a classic case:

I guess this might have influenced your decision to join a weather forum.. I was on the A68 - just made it across before it was closed at Soutra due to snaw and stuck cars which I had to navigate my way past. Welcome to the NW kilted thread!

LOL

Aye, lots of stream bed debris on the backroads here where fields have been so saturated, they can't absorb the rain and overland flow starts. Back roads lacking good drainage can form nice temporary stream paths. Just been out to clear the ditch next to us of debris where it goes into a pipe under the road. That can block up and cause a stream to run past the house. Not a problem for our house as I built various drystane walled flower bed defences, raised up the drive etc, and the road is steep so what flows is never deep. However, has caused problems for the cottage down from us in the past. Blawin a fair hoolie here and rain now moving in.

Some pics on this BBC article. A68 Looked a bit like the above at Soutra on my way home, but with less back visible as it hadn't been ploughed.

Photae of oot back. Not a patch on Lorenzo's contributions, but an hour ago it was torrential rain here, so fairly impressive change.

Like that here to now. Whoop whoop!

Ok, I can class it as falling and lying snaw now here at fort SS. T continues to drop; now 1.4 C down from 2.5 C when I got home earlier. Gonna be slippery the morn if this all freezes up!

Well, glad I did my cheeky wee overtaking! Quite a trip to get home by other ways. EDIT turned more to sleet now instead of mainly rain with some sleet. Even a layer of sleet building on the grass it so heavy.

Well, that was unexpected. Sleet when I left work W. Embra. Turned to heavy lying snaw on the higher part of the City Bypass. Then back again to snaw A68 Pathhead all the way to the other side of Soutra at Oxton. Plenty of cars and even a lorry unable to ascend Soutra; wheels just spinning. After I while I just drove past them all in the deeper snow in the space between the two lanes there. Some geezer beeped at me so I beeped back. He was in a '4 x 4' Chelsea tractor, I'm guessing with motorway tires on so less than useless, and he was miffed at me happily overtaking him / all the stuck traffic. I love winter tyres. Oh, and sadly just lashin doon with a bit of sleet mixed in here at fort SS. Seems the colder air is north of the Hills in the Forth Valley. Not unusual in this type of set-up.

Weird. I see full size images (Rather than the smaller thumbnails). I used the 'insert other media' tab on the bottom right.

Birthday pressie for SS on the ECM?

Aye, just cold rain here too. Although Soutra looks fun for later... http://trafficscotland.org/livetrafficcameras/view/?cam=101 EDIT Is the plural not mongeese?

So not thinking I'll get any snaw the morn. Don't want tae jinx it. But a commute in a Blizzard, however temporary....

Google today:

Heavy wet snaw now here at fort SS. Seems to be sticking up Soutra too. Might yet get something out of this.

Sleet here now.

Well that was a big change... Took the wee yin to swimming lesson for 11:45. On the way there windy, wet and 8.5 C according to the car. Seems while we were at the pool, the wind really picked up then peaked, as on the way home it was much calmer, but with a lot more branches down on the road (even a small tree fallen and cleared) and wheelie bins had been doing some travelling. T had also dropped 4 C in an hour. Anyway, was 8 C when I left fort SS, now 3.5 C. Also DP appears to be -9.8 C. Hmmm. Seems a nuts DP, but then when we got back to the car from the pool, it was completely steamed up, even with nobody in it, meaning the DP must have bombed along with the T.

Aw man, snaw in f'n Crail yet just cauld pish here in the borders.

Actually a fairly chilly outlook on both models the morn. Wet, windy and wintry, mainly from the west. Could be a good period for the ski resorts if milder sectors are muted and transient. Anyway, FI chart of the day: = To keep generally on topic.

IMBY fine. I'm from Carrbridge. Folks still own the house I grew up in there on station road - they built it themselves as their first house (my dad was a civil engineer working on the A9). Borders may be home for now, but the heart will always be in the Dulnain valley. I'll be back for good one day.

Proper winter tyre morn the morn. Minor roads covered in crusty melted snaw ice and slush. Mazda mx5 ahead of me was zooming along at 60 until it fishtailed wildly on an icy bend, after which it decided it was best to slow to 30-40. 1.0 °C and a light but cutting wind.