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Lovely fine snaw here in Leith just now too. It's been a great few days. We're just back from the Braid Hills snow-bowl after 2 hours of sledging. My backside is battered, bruised and bewildered - on the painkillers now (worth it though) and I think a big malt is required as well. Possibly a wee nap
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3 minutes ago, johndunnhawthorn said:
Starting now Edinburgh
Well it's taken about an hour to get here from Dunbar on the radar ... slow moving but might hang about a bit and pack a wee punch.
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I'm in one of my occasional "at work to take abuse from members of the public" days. Spotted this on the walk to work in Pilrig Park earlier.
I don't think I need to say anything more.
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2 minutes ago, 101_North said:
Decent snow shower here
Wasn't even looking at the radar ! (Ha I'm so relaxed now I have decent snaw). Looks like this one and the one behind it are moving east to west (again).
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7 minutes ago, Scottish-Irish Skier said:
Few mair photaes fae fort SIS.
Dug the cars oot; surprisingly easy as the snaw is aw light and fluffy.
Pity a dinnae hae a leaf blower!
Always keep an eye open for photos of your bench(mark), one of the visual highlights of the back to back cauld winters a decade ago.
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11 minutes ago, pdiddy said:
Latest GFS has the cold winning the battle and we get a re-load Easterly in FI... a trend to watch out for!
Noticed that. It would certainly kill the uppers and further snow chances for a while, but the surface cold in a Southerly/SSE-erly/SE-erly up the spine of the UK (if that's how the flow turns out) would keep a lot of the snow on the ground for quite a while - could feel even more bitter actually. Would generally work locally even here, as we get to pretend that we're "inland" (LOL) relative to Berwick-upon-Tweed, and as long as we can maintain night ground frosts at least.
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21 minutes ago, pdiddy said:wondering whether there is another blob heading our way as a final hurrah?
Looks like a few Anstruther clippers might squeeze their way over here, wouldn't bet on intensity, suspect these are going to fade in potency.
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2 minutes ago, Blitzen said:moaning.
not about the snow, we have 30cms at least here.
Went out to feed the birds, slipped, and I think I have broken my arm or put my shoulder out! Gawd, the pain!
Hospital job unfortunately!
-2.7c/-4c.
Dear god, hope you're OK. Only a kilted forum stalwart would possibly break an arm and still manage to give a local report! Let us all know how you get on.
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39 minutes ago, aggy said:
I don’t want it to be over
Think we safely have the snaw secure on the ground until Saturday minimum, probably Sunday too. Think too that the metoffice have been over-exaggerating any Sunday warm-up, its going to feel baltic in that southerly/SSE/SE-easterly by the weekend, surface cold will see to that.
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We can't compete with the big boys but 12cms here on the level in the back garden. Not quite 2018 repeat but certainly 3rd best of the last decade. It must have been going some a few hours ago, will need to replay the radar. Three big flights of geese moving south overhead when I was out, Dundee/Perth/Tayside refugees I presume !
Edit: the wind has picked up again here and enjoying watching that spindrift thing of tenement roofs, which means this is proper snaw, the good stuff.
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Bonus snow here in Leith on what is (probably) the last day of convection. The flow came good for us down the estuary and easily doubled up on what we had on the ground before I went to bed.
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15 minutes ago, LomondSnowstorm said:
Certainly not! Fife location LS was at 5 inches at lunchtime prior to some very intense showers, no measurements since but, you can decide, could be 18cm? I also think there's a reasonable shot they get more too
Incoming blobs for East Neuk and Forth Estuary? Maybe both!
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3 minutes ago, 101_North said:
Just hit here. Heavy so far. For such a short shower it's leaving it's mark!
Well these blobs to the north-east are not without interest and certainly moving in the right general direction. Might be the last hurrah for here but no chance I'm waiting up to 3AM to find out! Que sera sera
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Ha, just been hit by this science fiction vertical blob from here to Kirkcaldy that was all graupel. It was only the noise on the window that made me even look out. Pesky mini blobs like this are popping up, I'd be as happy to get a good frost in now to be honest.
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2 minutes ago, 101_North said:
"Some barely detectable lamppost snow just now in Currie, Edinburgh"
Barely detectable lamppost that is.
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7 minutes ago, edo said:
just seen windy Wilson saying rain in Perth and Dundee tomorrow night barely looked at anything except radar for three days...Is this a possibility??
Windy must be extracting the urine I think !
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1 minute ago, JoeShmoe said:
Arthur’s seat ... at night !
Nice one Joe Could you hang about a bit to capture the air ambulance shot? My boy went sledging up there an hour ago with his daft pals. I did suggest he join the genteel middle classes over on the polished slopes at Bruntsfield Links but teenage idiocy has prevailed. Fingers crossed.
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2 minutes ago, drm said:
Language Timothy
I plead 11 months of work from home stress plus relative snaw envy your honour. First offence !
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About f*****g time here
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2 minutes ago, 101_North said:
3rd place behind 2018 (24cms) 2010 (56cm) - figures from memory!
Surprise 2nd place from this one might still be on the cards
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1 minute ago, 101_North said:
Think I've underestimated depths here slightly. 5cm fallen today on cleared paths taking the total closer to 19cm! Hoping to break 20cm
That's really decent. About 4cms here so that's the depth range from one end of The Water of Leith to getting up to the other end in Currie/Balerno. Where does that stand in your depth league table from 2009 or so onwards?
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13 minutes ago, jamieson87 said:
To whom do I send my request for this to link up and intensify?
FAO god almighty, but he's having way too much fun with the Edinburgh snowshield he put up for the best part of this last 18 hours
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10 minutes ago, JoeShmoe said:
Snow back on here ... thick and fast ... with another behind it
Aye, these showers are frustrating though, skinny vertical blobs that we get through too quickly. Looks like we've maybe got maybe another 24 hours at best before it all dies away.
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15 minutes ago, 101_North said:
Nice wee shower here - although nothing compared to elsewhere - will be short sadly. Just not in the game today so far.
Aye. Other areas north of here, west of here doing much better. Game not over yet but locally this could end up being a kind of mid-table easterly performance. Not up with the best here but ho-hum, no greetin' about it
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Scotland/Alba weather discussion - Jan 2021 onwards
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Big thaw of any remaining back-garden snaw through the day here and that's it gone. It's been a really interesting 7 weeks or so since the first snaw fell after Xmas, but I'm done with it now. I don't want any more days of murk and rain just a few degrees above freezing, and the easterly was a great sign-off. Did cause us some ceiling damage at the end though, had to get the roofers in to fix things this morning. Crack had appeared where the flat roof meets the slates over the bay window, and the melt took a slate off as well, so that all was £200 quid to fix and it'll be a redecorating job in here. But it's a communal repair so we'll live. Although I've yet to understand the benefits of a flat roof !