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Scottish-Irish Skier

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  1. Evening. The very lightest of falls began here about an hour ago. Just a mm now, but lying. Can hardly see it on the radar. Not getting excited, but any snow is good snow... T was -4 at 7 pm, climed to -1.4 as the ppn approached.
  2. T rising all of a sudden. Is that slight ppn over east lothian/lammermuirs on the radar or freezing fog maybe?
  3. BBC monthly outlook says cold snow/cold until March... Never seen such a ramp before there. Hope they are serious: W1 “Cold with heavy snow.” W2 "Remaining cold with risk of further snow." W3-4 “Cold with wintry flurries.” After wet and cold today at ~3 C, all froze rapidly at the end of the day. Now hanging around -3 C.
  4. 1.5 C and miserable wet sleet here this morning. Yesterdays lovely snow melting away..... Looks like it will dry up later today. So, back to work. Hey-ho. Lets just hope we might see some more action as the winds turn more northerly over the next few days.
  5. Still a bit wet/snow showers, with T holding at 1 C. off to bed now.
  6. Still a little wet but snow, wind picking up, T staying below 1 C
  7. When you stand up before the group and say 'Hello, my name is cwpiper and I am a snowaholic'
  8. Still hovering between almost sleet and almost snow here... no noticable melt, but can't help hoping for big flakes.... T very steady at 0.9 C for past few hours
  9. Far as I can recall, looked not too bad for the grampians tonight. Lecht and cairngorm will get some, so ballater should be waking up to white.
  10. Yep, thats a defo. Is snow now again - floating in the breeze. Panic over (temporariliy at least).
  11. That might just be happening here. What was looking increasingly wet now seems to be turning back to more slightly more fluffy flakes. T is thankfully still holding just below 1 C, which can only be good.
  12. Heavier stuff closing in, T holding just below 1 C. Some bigger flakes starting to appear within the wetter drizzly/almost sleet stuff.
  13. Lets not give up hope. The warm air is not that warm and as it mixes in with cold it should be diluted. I'm still confident of a decent dump, although it may be a little wet. The bbc/met are always conservative, yet are sticking with their warnings. Just have to keep fingers crossed. Wahey - dropped form 0.9 to 0.8!
  14. Yep, hate to say it, but what is falling here now (at 175 m asl) is also looking a little wet, with T rising all the time, albeit slowly. Radar suggests heavier stuff on the way - hopefully the T won't rise much more.
  15. Feel this could turn out marginal for many, esp if you are near the east coast. No expert, but I'm (luckily) quite high up and far from the coast. So far, what is arriving is snow, but T went up quickly as it came in. Still only 0.8 C, but enough to make things seem a just a little wetter. Lived in North Berwick as a teenager. Snow desert - warm air off the sea meant we were always gazing inland longingly at the snow covered garleton hills while getting soaked in cold rain. Even where I am now, I can drive along the bottom of the leader water valley and see the 'snowline' along the hills on either side. Climb maybe 75 m to my house and it's snow again. If it gets heavy enough, it should stay snow if you are not sitting on the beach, as it tries to melt it can suck all the heat from the air, holding the temp lower, even if it is above zero. Not going to forecast as I'm a chemist, not a weatherman, but like shuggee says, don't give up hope and if in doubt, stick your head out...
  16. Arrived here now for sure, and is snow, although the temp has gone up quite quickly: 0.7 C compared to 0 just after sunset. Snowing continuously now, not huge flakes, but still whiteout
  17. Ok, quite heavy now. 0.6 C, smaller flakes, put pelting down. Think the front has officially arrived in the east borders. Let the games begin.
  18. Continuous drizzly snow now. Maybe a bit wet....? but 0.5 C and holding. Should hopefully see something more substantial arrive soon.
  19. T rising slighlty - 0.4 now with light snow. Think the leading edge of the front is arriving. Better not turn to sleet.....
  20. No streetlights here - have to stick my arm out the window and wave it about to trigger the halogen. Could leave it on, but then it gets hot and what if if the bulb went.....
  21. Another shower coming through. Think the correct word is graupel? Little pellets, but not hail. Usually got that ahead of bigger flake flurries today. T still zero, so fingers crossed it stays snow.
  22. I'm about 20 miles from the border. Will be putting in my tuppenceworth when I see anything. Calm but clouding over again for the moment. Wind seemed to drop for while, but picking up again now. Been hovering around 0 C for the past hour after dropping towards sunset.
  23. Heavy showers passing over with brief clear interludes here. Beautiful sunset. Should see the arrival of that front (looks like the leading edge is now at Newcastle?) within the next few hours hopefully. Will be staying up as late as can anyway! Temps at zero now and falling slowly, hopefully I'm far enough from the coast and high enough for it to all fall as snow. Fingers crossed.
  24. Bit of a break in the showers here, but temp heading back towards freezing (0.1 C) from a 'peak' of 0.8, so the 7 cm or so lying is going nowhere for the mo
  25. After an hour or so of sunshine, snow showers back on here. Climbed to about 0.8 C with the sun out, now on the way down again. Will hopefully keep dropping as the sun sets. Showers look to be funnelling through the Midland Valley to an extent, feeding quite well into western areas.
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