scotland Scotland Regional Discussion - Autumn 2013

[lorenzo]

The Daily Mash strike back at the Daily Express..

 

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/environment/britain-to-be-hit-by-entirely-typical-weather-201110174431

[Northern Strath]

*Door creeks.......

 

Howdy Kilted people! I yawned so big during last winter that I broke my jaw rather severely, only now am I able to type without it hanging down and smacking of the keyboard....... ok so that's baws but I think I've made it back just in time for the fun! Hope everyone is well. 

 

Currently 1C and can report we had a few cheeky snow showers here this afternoon, none of which lay, but lets hope there is plenty more of that to come up and down this fine land for us all in the coming months

[Snowlover2]

Temp down to 1.9 and dp 0.0. Feeling verrrryy chilly. Just cranked the heating up a little bit.

[mardatha]

I remember winter 84, that's the year I grabbed the railing at my back door and left my skin stuck to it! Dono how cold it was...

Edited November 18, 2013 by mardatha

[Buriedundersnow]

might have a little surprise later on for us all just busy copy and pasting and uploading stuff just now but hopefully will be done before 9ish.

[aggy]

Forecast current temp 6oc actual current temp 2 oc fricking gonna be baltico

[Gogoslo]

Evening All. First post of winter .. Hope everyone is well.

Left work back of 5 and was 6 degrees ( according to car) back home now and it is Baltic. My cheap Oregon clock says -3. Happy lamppost watching!!!

[scottishandy]

So as we wait for the firstish batch of winter for this year I can't help dream back to 36 months ago.

Left work early on the Sunday and took 2 hours to get up the road and 1/2 hour to dig out a parking space.

Then did some more digging!

 

 

Fed the hungry ducks.

 

 

Played with the cat

 

 

 

Then it snowed,

 

 

and snowed,

 

 

Our parking area became passable to small vehicles only

 

 

But not this small vehicle.

 

 

So we had to dig it out.

 

 

And dig the Mini out too.

 

 

Then the sun came out for a while.

 

 

And did a wee tiny bit of melting which soon froze again.

 

 

 

 

 

So we found some fun things to do with ice.

 

 

And snow

 

 

 

And both.

 

 

One of my funniest memories was one day in mid December where I decided to head North to take advantage of snow on the mountains, a nice snowy front was passing though N to S so I drove up through some heavyish snow to Perth and the the sun came out.

 

 

Imagine my surprise then when I phoned home at lunchtime to find that the central belt had shut down.  Wife was a bit less impressed with the day than I was!

 

A fantastic winter with about 60 days of continuous lying snow, and the joy of watching it approach from FI on all the models!

 

Here's to another one. 

 

 

[Jo Farrow]

Braemore and Cluanie , that is lying snow? NW HIghlands

 

http://www.trafficscotland.org/map/?x=270000&y=755000&scale=5348388&itemtypeids=26

[Harve]

Anyone west or south of Glasgow? Showers are rolling in across Argyll, Ayrshire and Renfrewshire now, as well as further north. Glasgow Airport is at 0c.

Edited November 18, 2013 by Harve

[Jo Farrow]

Anyone west or south of Glasgow? Showers are rolling in across Argyll, Ayrshire and Renfrewshire now, as well as further north. Glasgow Airport is at 0c.

The wind is going to veer more NW during the night so it will take the feed of showers down the west coast of Scotland and through the North Channel, pushign them a bit more inland SW scotland, but then they fade, bit of a ridge (HP) for tomorrow, so it's wether you get the right combination for a shower to come into you. There are wintry showers about already near to Glasgow 

[Harve]

Braemore and Cluanie , that is lying snow? NW HIghlands http://www.trafficscotland.org/map/?x=270000&y=755000&scale=5348388&itemtypeids=26

Looks like lying snow on the road of Glenfinnan's camera, west of Fort William, and possibly right on the coast at Morar too.

[A Winter's Tale]

A shower just passed through here. Started as rain, some icy stuff falling on surfaces and towards the end there might have been some proper snowflakes. Glasgow airport reported first snow of the season.

Edited November 18, 2013 by A Winter's Tale

[Zenarcher]

Wednesday is looking interesting 50 to 60mph gusts being widespread across Scotland with 70mph possible in the Western and Northern coastal areas. With the wind being in a North direction temperatures will be very cold between -2c to 4c through out Scotland although it will feel much colder in that strong Northly wind. 

Edited November 18, 2013 by weathermaster

[Hairy Celt]

The showers are penetrating well inland, very impressive and certainly well worth radar watching for a lot of people tonight

Glad you reminded me - Lettuceing look at that lot coming this way!!!!!

 

Edit: 5 mins of sleet. As young HC says, 'Yay.' In a kind of 'oh really?' tone that teenagers have.

Edited November 18, 2013 by Hairy Celt

[CoastRainbow]

Howdy, some sleet so far, hoping for at least one snowflake before bedtime! Whatever happens going to be icy walk down hill to train in the morning

[Northernlights]

Fine cool winters day today with long sunny periods and few scattered wintry showers to the west. Another fine heap of neeps up just 7 drills left to lift tomorrow? Currently clear and frosty temperature -0.5c.

Edited November 18, 2013 by Northernlights

[LomondSnowstorm]

Hmm, well this is interesting - NMM high resolution brings a feature across the central belt between 9pm and midnight, which is hardly surprising given the current level of convection building in from the west:

A good night for lamping I'd say...

[Ravelin]

Looks like lying snow on the road of Glenfinnan's camera, west of Fort William, and possibly right on the coast at Morar too.

Snow showing on lots of the northern and NWern traffic cams now. Temperature around here dropped to around or a degree or two below freezing by 6pm.

[Blizzardo]

Looking quite frozen outside at 0.2c/-0.7c. Decent amount of shower activity to my north west. First night of radar watching of the season.

[A Winter's Tale]

Looking quite frozen outside at 0.2c/-0.7c. Decent amount of shower activity to my north west. First night of radar watching of the season.

There was ice on the car tops two hours ago but by the morning it'll be a real ice rink out there. A sleet shower passed through an hour ago with plenty of sleety stuff falling on the cars but it was hard to tell if there was any proper snow. Hopefully more of us will catch the showers tonight. Up north, the traffic cams are impressive with some lying snow.

[doctormog]

Snow showing on lots of the northern and NWern traffic cams now. Temperature around here dropped to around or a degree or two below freezing by 6pm.

I rather liked this webcam shot from a few minutes ago

[over_the_rainbow]

My folks in Kingussie have just reported it is snowing and beginning to settle. 

[Buriedundersnow]

are we anywhere near going on to a new thread as will be uploading something soon and would hate it put it in and end up going on to a new thread

Edited November 18, 2013 by Buriedundersnow

[Hairy Celt]

Hmm, well this is interesting - NMM high resolution brings a feature across the central belt between 9pm and midnight, which is hardly surprising given the current level of convection building in from the west:

nmm tonight.png

A good night for lamping I'd say...

 

Keep away from the coast and get a bit of altitude, I'd say, based on our recent 'yay' event.