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4 minutes ago, asjmcguire said:
@101_North have you had a look at the predictive radar? The blob due over Edinburgh at 4:05am is massive!
And someones got to watch it. Who better than 101?
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15 minutes ago, 101_North said:
Could be a late one
If that long stringy series of blobs out past Dunbar just now can make its way across the head of East Lothian then I think that's all on track for Edinburgh (currently).
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6 minutes ago, 101_North said:
Could be a late one
I wish I'd stocked up !
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6 minutes ago, Polar Side said:
Haha, all that stressing earlier is forgotten now.
Although I do agree it has been a strange start to this easterly and like you, I expected more widespread showers from the off rather than waiting on convergence zones.
Ha, pathetic wasn't it! Was completely doubting what I thought I knew about what happens here in these situations. Ultimately it has indeed done the business. Phew.
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4 minutes ago, 101_North said:
That wee mini blob over me really intensified in matter of miles on the radar! Absolutely thumping it down!
Yeah I'm tracking them all with the marker pen on the laptop screen
Had a wee fright 10 minutes ago when I tried to clean the marker pen off the touch screen and it wouldn't come off. Luckily these COVID alcohol wipes have more than one use.... Would have been hard to explain the markings on the screen to the wife if I hadn't got them off
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19 minutes ago, JoeShmoe said:
Watching this little rabbit line itself up for a little gallup into embra
I've been tracking the big blob by drawing a felt tip pen around it every 5 minutes (god help me). Its at the mouth of the estuary now. I still can't tell if its going to be a direct hit for Edinburgh or a hefty sideways skelp with the centre hitting nearer to South Queensferry-Boness
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Just now, 101_North said:Insane! Can barely see across the road!
Meanwhile in Leith, ma toys are back in ra pram, and I've unspat the dummy !
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3 minutes ago, Joe Bloggs said:
Room for a very jealous Englishman?
I miss my days living in Dalry when easterlies would bring convective snow roaring up the Firth of Forth. Epic memories of December 2010! A couple of you might remember me.
Enjoy every second of it, the radar looks incredible.
Remember you well Joe, welcome back. Hang around for a while
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Dear Satan, if you're reading this I'm ready to do a deal. Just give me 5 cms of snaw in Leith in the next 24 hours, or even 4 ... or 3 ... and I'll do your evil bidding !
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1 minute ago, Hawesy said:
Incredible in just a few minutes...
Sorry we'll need to see further proof that this is happening in Pitenweem. Can you get a Police Officer or Church Minister to confirm ?
Pleased for you, you were breaking the natural laws of meteorology for too long!
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1 minute ago, Sanserit said:
Radar & satellite image taken from Wunderground looking promising for the NE tonight, you lot down south can keep your streamers
I'd french kiss the cat for a streamer here right now!
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1 minute ago, 101_North said:
The clincher from here is being able to watch them track up the Forth
Ditto. We look across the Forth to Fife. The last shower that passed by gave me the shape of a middle-digit in its cloud formation.
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13 minutes ago, 101_North said:
Just for fun the showers are now intensifying as they pass north of 101 land
Of course. It all makes meteorological sense. They break up over the heightened elevation of a Dunbar chip-shop but as soon as they get past Edinburgh they intensify so the good folk of Helensburgh will probably end up with more than us at this rate.
But I'm not bitter. Much !
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Just now, Ross B said:
The current shower in that area seems to have intensified as it comes in land since you lot have all complained...
TOORP TOORP and again TOORP here in Leith.
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Just now, Penicuikblizzard said:
The showers are running in a SE to NW direction that isn’t helping us and to be fair it was forecast to do so about 4 days ago.
Edinburgh misses out sadly
Might as well be living in Arran at this rate !
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2 minutes ago, JoeShmoe said:
And everything that hits the north Berwick peninsula is dying in a ditch
Like I say, not exactly a mountain snow shadow between us and Berwick Law ! Getting officially annoyed now
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1 minute ago, 101_North said:
The showers north of the Forth seems to be intensifying the minute they pass Kirkcaldy! You can see why the Falkirk direction is in line for a pasting!
The Forth is trolling us. The blob that was due east at Dunbar pretended on the radar it was heading a wee bit south but then kicked due west instead - and broke up for good measure directly east of here. And I'm not exactly impeded by a mountain range snow shadow between here and Haddington
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1 minute ago, shuggee said:
Just glancing at the radar - that'll be the start of the central belt snow train?
Aye. And the train is late.
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31 minutes ago, JoeShmoe said:
is this the convergence line or start of it? .. somewhere getting hit by that later this afternoon anyway!
If its needing any help with directions to here then let me suggest it moves west-south-west.
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15 minutes ago, 101_North said:
Radar has really picked up out to sea! Somewhere is getting pasted!
Hard to see how the one of the coast of Dunbar can miss us, wee test of this sinking south (TBD) convergence zone.
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Just now, GraemeB said:
*TOORP
Thanks Graeme. Not TOORPed for a while and christ I can't even get the acronym right after all this time. Bloody work from home Mondays
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Forth Estuary is gagging for it but flurries apart, being spurned by blobs and streamers to the north in Fife, and to Berwickshire in the south. Something going on in the 3-D dynamics this time that I don't understand. I normally give family and friends 3 or 4 days notice of these events when I'm convinced they're going to happen (anything to make me look clever about the weather LOL), but didn't this time - probably based on the relatively non-standard winter we've had . Something not quite right in the setup for us and not convinced its going to resolve significantly. Anyway, just TORPing in the absence of anything much happening here
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46 minutes ago, Penicuikblizzard said:
There are a lot of showers coming off the North Sea only just to the north and south of Edinburgh you couldn’t make this up lol
The best snow shield going in Edinburgh
Its the Edinburgh divergence zone.
Anyway. TORP!
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6 minutes ago, 101_North said:
Hard not to get 'that feeling' when any possible event here is still just potential and still 12-24hrs away. I'll take all arguments about how we've done OK so far this winter, and we have, but there is nothing that compares to the intensity you get from those easterly blown blizzards! If anything the couple of decent showers we've had have raised the anticipation. The waiting is torturous
Same here. The key ingredients already look to be in place for us from Leith to Currie. "Convergence" is nice but I don't think we had to be under any convergence zone in previous easterlies to see some decent activity here. My open question is why aren't we just seeing more convective activity...more blobs...
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Scotland/Alba weather discussion - Jan 2021 onwards
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Really goes back to over a decade ago when so many of the present crew on here went through 2009-10, 2010-11 and saw how often the MetOffice couldn't even nowcast a weather warning as an event was happening, and then come out with it after the bulk of event. Kind of retrospective warnings LOL.