Scottish-Irish Skier

Looks like about 1 cm fell during the night, then melted a bit, then froze. Still, first falling and lying snaw of 15/16 recorded. Currently -0.2 °C.

A835 Aultguish East = serious snaw. http://trafficscotland.org/livetrafficcameras/view/?cam=124 Likewise Braemore West: http://trafficscotland.org/livetrafficcameras/view/?cam=77 EDIT East coast inland a bit too. A9 Ousdale South (not that for north of HC's beach hut). http://trafficscotland.org/livetrafficcameras/view/?cam=87 Down to 2.8 °C here. Falling quite quickly. DP now -3.1 °C.

Well, winter tyres on and ready for a taste of the white stuff hopefully. Struggled to get above 5 °C here at fort SS today. A right raw wind as I was up in the apple tree collecting the last of the crop. T dropping steadily away now. Occasional light drizzly showers. --- EDIT Currently 3.7 °C / DP = -4.0 °C.

Should be collecting my car from the garage with winter tyres on just as this comes into force. Nice timing.

GFS 06Z shows a reload. But then it's the GFS 06Z so...

Reload on the morn's ECM. One: Two: Sub -5C uppers on 7 out of 10 charts...

Folks can blame me too. I'm booked in for Friday. I'm officially on 2 t-shirts as well, which marks the start of proper winter. When I go to t-shirt + jumper, that's when the fun properly begins.

Hmmm. Thinking probably time to finally put the winter tyres on after today and charts like this appearing.

Wet sleet here. 5.0 °C. Miserable.

I reckon that's where the answer is my friend. -- Fairly quiet here. Roughish commute home from Embra with lashing rain at times and fairly gusty wind. Had to keep speed down due to crappy visibility and a lot of surface water / spray. However, Abigail not giving fort SS much of look in right now. Hope all are keeping safe out to the west and north.

Aye, crazy here. Biblical downpour with gutters overflowing and road outside now a decent sized stream.

Ok, stayed sunny - still blue skies with the sun setting. When putting bulbs in the front beds, caught the woods just south of the house at their finest. Tried to grab a few snaps. Don't quite do it justice.

Well, load of crocus bulbs in now. Also my wild 'Scottish Bluebell' (aka harebell) seedlings which I've been tending all summer. Moving on next to some iris and tulips. Fog didn't stick around. Blue skies, calm and 11.5 °C. Perfect 'prep for winter' gardening weather.

Was expecting fog today. On hols and planning to do some bulb planting in the garden. Fog a bit crap, but at least not raining... Well, fog just lifted to give a blue sky. Hope it lasts! 3.3 °C.

Hope the government aren't getting their forecasts from the Express. Sorry, the Herald? I know the herald has gone downhill, but?

That used to be a running joke between Mrs SS and I. In the past, she used to get Ryanair from Prestwick to Paris 'Beauvais'; her family being French. After numerous trips, she finally turns to me on one and asks innocently 'Why does it always start to rain when we get near Glasgow?'

If you mean the new types that are emerging that are a hybrid between what we used to think of as all seasons and what are actual winters... I fitted some of these from Hankook to Mrs SS's car earlier this year. She doesn't do many miles / much if any motorway driving, so seemed an ideal solution. Decent at modest speeds on dry summer roads / don't wear out like mad, yet also not bad at all in the snaw, although not as good as full winters. Not had a chance to test them on snaw, ice etc, but came recommended by a mate for that. Not sure they are for me, as I like summers in summer and winters in winter. I'm just uncompromising like that. --- Weather-wise... starting to want the fire on more and more at night now. Chill in the air today. Only been a couple of C about that magic 7 C which marks tyre change time...

Maybe it depends on when you are needing your rubber hard? I drive to work in the morning when it's still cold. As of tomorrow (cool, an extra free hour of beer before bed!), will be heading home in the dark when T is heading down for the evening. So car sits most of the warm part of the day outside the office. I contrast, I understand you're flying about at different times of the day(?). While my summers corner like I'm on rails from modestly mild upwards, even in the wet, I'll be like a drunk elephant on roller skates if I get caught in 0.5 mm of snaw with these on. Anyway, I'm officially bored of autumn. Putting on the winters is an important moment. Means I'm ready for chart watching for snaw. Let's call it an annual ritual.

Aye. Starting to think about getting winter tyres on. Summer rubber starting to harden up in the cold mornings and becoming less grippy.

Snaw story. In terms of skiing in Scotland, that almost looks good enough to piste.

First frost of winter 15/16 at Fort SS the morn. That's me initially signing in to the regional thread then. --- My main complain right now is the jacket choice problem. It's 2 C outside, but by lunchtime, will be t-shirt weather!

Creeping towards that time of year again... Sounds like we can give Eskimos a run for their money.

Pretty decent thunderstorm here. Just had our first lightning lighting up the sky after plenty of distant rumbles. Biblical rain. EDIT Regular lightning now. Some real sky light ups and booms.

Aye. Incoming! Sky has just gone really dark and heard our first big boom of thunder. No had that in a while. Had a crackin lightning storm in France on hols but couldn't report due to basically no internet. Oh, that's the rain on! EDIT. Dug retreated from the gairden in a hurry. Torrential now. EDIT More thunder in the distance, but nae lightening viewable from the windae.

Aberdeen FC tweeted a pic of flash flooding of their ticket office. Heavy showers here with some thunder. Not too bad though.