scotland Scotland Regional Weather Discussion 07/01/14

[Ross Andrew Hemphill]

Sleet, sleet and more sleet.

Edited January 26, 2014 by Ross Andrew Hemphill

[blitzen]

Sleet, sleet and more sleet.

In the words of Mrs Brown.."that's nice!" Actually, I would like to see some sleet right now! I think I will have another look at the Drumochter web cam for a snow fix......There you go, just imagine that's the view from your window!

Edited January 26, 2014 by Blitzen

[Ravelin]

Nice picture and videos BUS, at least you found some snow for your daughter and she looked to be enjoying it. More snow where you were than here that's for sure.

At least I saw snow on the hills just to our West, which is a rare sight this year and a far cry from 2 or 3 years ago when I abandoned an attempt to get to the top of Mither Tap as I kept disappearing up to my thighs in snow. Maybe if I'd had time to go inland a bit today I'd have found some decent stuff but even the road and verges on the Braemar snow gate webcam looked that bare I doubt it'd have been worth the trip.

Unless Feb brings us something special I'll be another who won't be too sad to see the end of this winter. That's as long as spring doesn't just bring us more rain that is. This afternoons walk around the local woods with the dog, although enjoyable enough, involved walking through quagmires in places. After hosing down the dog on our return I resorted to hosing down my own boots and trousers (luckily both waterproof).

[LomondSnowstorm]

Pub run shortens the easterly somewhat but makes up for it with this:

Big frontal snowfall with a cold, slack trough to follow. Shunt the pattern a bit further west and we still have a bit longer with the easterly, but that's basically what we want to happen afterwards - SSE winds and widespread lowland snowfall with the sub 0C DPs ahead of a stalling front.

[Buriedundersnow]

Pub run shortens the easterly somewhat but makes up for it with this:

Big frontal snowfall with a cold, slack trough to follow. Shunt the pattern a bit further west and we still have a bit longer with the easterly, but that's basically what we want to happen afterwards - SSE winds and widespread lowland snowfall with the sub 0C DPs ahead of a stalling front.

 

 

the other good thing from that chart for cold and snow chances futher down the road is where has all the power in the atlantic went to.

[Buriedundersnow]

found this on twitter there is some wintry stuff about.

 

all that green and pink around and look at Falkirk with the little blob of blue maybe its payback for going on the hunt today

 

[Buriedundersnow]

after a little bump in the road this morning and  it throwing in a big warm sector the NASA HIGH RES has gone back to its original plans we could do with that azores a little flatter to help the uppers from the west but a nice frontal snow event incoming at 120hr on the 12z

 

 

it also brought in -9/-10 uppers with the easterly

 

Edited January 27, 2014 by Buriedundersnow

[Buriedundersnow]

look at how the front when it moves in bends and heads back west towards Iceland so maybe the possibility theres more staying power in the block and energy will go underneath

 

 

[Buriedundersnow]

snow still pushing steadily west over Europe and a few more little blobs of white over us

 

[101_North]

Another stinking damp, miserable morning.

[scottishandy]

Just to follow up on yesterday's pics - how have we all (well most of us) dreamed of finding our house like this?

 

 

 

Had to put a smile on my face after going on a brief snow hunt this morning and being very frustrated as to how high the snow line is. 

[Ravelin]

Another stinking damp, miserable morning.

 

Same here! 3C and heavy rain this morning on the drive to work, just, only just, turning to sleet in the heavier bursts. That, it being Monday, and stupid traffic congestion yet again around Dyce this morning doesn't exactly see me in the cheeriest of moods. I need my snow fix, maybe I'll have to force myself to find the time to go skiing this weekend as hopefully at least the hills will do well this week even if low level snow is scarce.

[Hawesy]

Cloudy and damp, 5c/3c.

 

What I wouldn't give a for a few days of sunny, frosty weather!

[Highland Snow]

Wet, dreich Monday again. Temperature 4.8C/3.9C (Minimum 3.3C), 100% cloud cover, 1.7mm rain since 07.00, Wind Force 1, Pressure 976.8hPa.

[Highland Snow]

Cairngorm currently:

 

 

But Aviemore village:

 

[November13]

Oh god how much more of this winter is there to go! Glad the ski centres are getting plastered though!

[edo]

lol I shouldnt laugh N13 but I had visions of you headbutting your keyboard when seen things were going titticus verticus again..... still chance of something not bad this week just bit unlikely to be prolonged but u never know we could get lucky and get a coupe of corrections needed and end up wih something decent

 

#stayingpositive

Edited January 27, 2014 by edodfc

[mistyqueen]

I'm much the same here as most folk....dreich again, temp 5.1c pressure 969. Both my weather stations are displaying the sun symbols. They are bare faced liars as it is p*shin' doon the noo.

[November13]

lol I shouldnt laugh N13 but I had visions of you headbutting your keyboard when seen things were going titticus verticus again..... still chance of something not bad this week just bit unlikely to be prolonged but u never know we could get lucky and get a coupe of corrections needed and end up wih something decent #stayingpositive

No I am beyond that now! Into don't care anymore mode! As long as I get to Ski...well if the wind plays ball!

[snowy owl]

Not a bad day here! (or maybe because i've been at the gym! lol) 

 

Couldn't see any rain, was and is cloudy with little sun but its dry.

 

Hoping we can at least see some snowfall this week fingers crossed  

[Stormeh]

It better snow when I go to Aviemore and Inverness on the 18th Feb!

[Ravelin]

Just went for a wander in the MOD and it's on 'Suicide Watch'. Getting so bad I think the Samaritans have had to create a Netweather account.

 

Rain stopped here now and the sun is valiantly trying to put in an appearance.

[Snowangel-MK]

With any luck snow this winter will be like buses....you wait for ages and then three (feet) turns up all at once...

 

 

 

 

...in the meantime I'll open you a nice new thread..link to follow ....

 

 

 

 

 

 

[November13]

Check this out it's not just our perception we are a gloomy nation in Scotland:

Sunshine[edit]

The maximum amount of sunshine in a calendar month was 329 hours in Tiree in May 1946 and again in May 1975 while the minimum, a mere 36 minutes, was recorded at Cape Wrath in the Highlands in January 1983.[3] Dundee is the sunniest city in Scotland. On the longest day of the year there is no complete darkness over the northern isles of Scotland. Lerwick, Shetland, has about four hours more daylight at midsummer than London, although this is reversed in midwinter. Annual average sunshine totals vary from as little as 711–1140 hours in the highlands and the north-west,[4] up to 1471–1540 hours on the extreme eastern and south-western coasts.[4] Average annual sunshine hours over the whole territory are 1160 (taking 1971 to 2000 as standard) meaning that the sun shines just over 25% of the time.

Seems to me this winter the sun has only shone about 10% of the time.

[Snowangel-MK]

locking this now....here is the new one...

 

http://forum.netweather.tv/topic/79228-scotland-regional-weather-discussion-270114/