Scotland/Alba Regional Weather Discussion

[blitzen]

Anyone ventured into the mad house today?   I kind of avoided it because the forum list shows 'Model Moan and Ramp Thread' where 'Model Output Discussion' should be....(always a bad sign)   Funny how it is always moans and never ramps.   Wonder why?

I always say that every winter tells a story......I think I'll just leave it there!

1.1c/0.1c/ESE started snowing lightly.

[101_North]

3 hours ago, Benvironment said:

I've got pals in southern BC who have seen 1 metre of snow fall in the last few days, and THIS is the worst that our feeble excuse for a winter can deliver.

It's just embarrassing  Embarrassing I tell you!!!!

I'd start to panic Ben! I'm coming to get you!

 

[Sunny Leith]

12 minutes ago, 101_North said:

I'd start to panic Ben! I'm coming to get you!

 

Sure that's not dandruff  There's off/on barely discernible lamp-post snow here in Leith. But the radar has some stringy blobs out there and maybe they'll beef up this next 24 hours...I'm semi-optimistic still. Noticed the gritters were out and about earlier, overkill but fair enough to take no chances.

[Big Innes Madori]

A thin covering o' snaw here noo, there must have been a few wee spells while ah've been watching pash oan the telly and eh snoozing!

Big Innes

Edited February 9, 2017 by Big Innes Madori

[Ravelin]

3 hours ago, Hairy Celt said:

Has @Ravelinbeen in today? He should be getting more snow than anyone else... Perhaps he's cut off by 10' drifts already!

Hah, no chance in this pathetic excuse for a winter. Having said that, there's a heavy shower overhead at the moment and everything is turning slightly white but no doubt it'll pass over in 5mins.

[Ravelin]

OK, so that got very heavy as I think we took a direct hit from that shower. Just didn't last long enough. White outside now though. 

Quite a few more showers out in the North Sea heading inland so I might have a measurable covering by the morning if I'm really lucky. 

[Hawesy]

Morning all. Snowing lightly here in Broughty Ferry right now but all surfaces are wet so there has been no accumulation from any overnight showers. I suspect higher parts of Dundee will have a light covering of snow.

[snowidea]

Morning. About one snowflake every 10 feet here in Falkirk when I dropped OH to the train station this morning.

[101_North]

Not even a sprinkling! This winter is dead to me!

Sadly Euro4 agrees with you Catch!

 

Edited February 10, 2017 by 101_North

[101_North]

30 minutes ago, CatchMyDrift said:

Sprinkle sprinkle little snow, to 101 you'll never go.

I actually had more than that before I left for work - at least double!!! I guess with no photo no one will ever believe me lol

Edited February 10, 2017 by 101_North

[Benvironment]

Seems Fife caught the lion's share of what little was on offer. 

[Cheggers]

Light snaw falling here, the odd burst heavy but mainly falling at a rate of 5 flakes an hour.

[snowidea]

Whoo white out here lol. Not even enough to make it worth while going outside to photograph my finger 

Edited February 10, 2017 by snowidea

[blitzen]

Oh well, at least the pic is different this morning!   Stopped now tho'.

[Hairy Celt]

57 minutes ago, Benvironment said:

Seems Fife caught the lion's share of what little was on offer. 

That's a horse...

Last night's showers inevitably didn't settle here so I just had to de-ice the car this morning - -2C and still at -1C in full sun. Can see snow showers drifting west in the firth (or could a few mins ago) and hopefully the wind will turn to the NE later. Yeah right, by which time the showers will have died off.

This is the weather god's revenge for brexit, I'm sure.

Edited February 10, 2017 by Hairy Celt

[Ravelin]

Eventful morning here after a temp drop to -3.4C and an accumulation of all of maybe half a cm on last nights damp roads. Our morning started as follows..

Wife (to daughter) - Stick on the main roads this morning, don't go the back road.

Daughter - I'm no doing that, I'll get stuck at the Haudigan Roundabout.

Wife - Oh well, suit yourself but you'd be better staying on the main roads.

5 mins after she left...Ring...Ring..Ring...

Panicked Daughter - I'm stuck on the hill going past Castle Fraser, the car's sliding back down, oh no there's a car coming towards me out of control...it's ok the've stopped and are stuck now.

Me - Just try to carefully reverse or roll back down the hill to the junction, turn round and take the bloody main roads like you were told.

Daughter (eventually) - I've managed to turn round, OK.

5 mins later...Ring...Ring...Ring...

Daughter - Now I'm stuck on the little hill coming back...oh, there's a big truck stuck in the verge...oh, that car's just slid off the road...

Me - Oh, bleeping hell! We'll come and get you.

Wife and I hastily throw some clothes on and jump in my car (4x4) and 2 mins later are at the scene of carnage with 2 large lorries stuck, several cars and a van or two but luckily nobody has actually hit anyone else. I pull through a gate into a field and park up. With the application of some grit (always handy to keep some in the car) and much man/woman power we all manage to extract daughter, and most of the cars from what, to be honest was a very slippy slope. The trucks were waiting for the police to turn up as they weren't going to try to move until all the cars were gone. If there had been more snow it probably wouldn't have been as bad, but a small fall on icy roads and it polished up nicely to a shine.

Anyway, eventually got home and off to work, but slowly as none of the roads had been gritted. Very unusual for the council around here as they are normally pretty good at at least doing the main ones through the villages etc. Maybe they forgot it was winter, but it was forecast to get cold and snow overnight so someone has messed up.

Edit: She's getting a set of winter tyres for her birthday this year.

Edited February 10, 2017 by Ravelin

[Ravelin]

This is the road out of the village, not the one the daughter got stuck on, which was much worse. 

Hastily taken and didn't have time to take any more, or better ones. 

Edited February 10, 2017 by Ravelin

[ciel]

Glad you were able to sort out your daughter's difficulties and no harm was done.

Roads pretty dicy here too with a thin covering of freezing snow.

I am due to go to the Mintlaw, New Pitsligo area this afternoon, but I'm minded to cancel - especially after reading your post above!.

[Hawesy]

That's a cautionary tale @Ravelin, glad it worked out okay. There's no snow in St Andrews but the higher areas out of town and in the surrounding countryside have a light cover. The roads have been bad here too. The gritters were out but I think the showers just around dawn washed away some of the grit and then black ice took hold. 

Mostly cloudy with the odd light flurry, 2c.

 

[101_North]

That's the warnings issued for overnight and into tomorrow for Lothians, Borders and further south. Mostly higher ground but temp accumulations to lower levels blah, blah, blah. Pretty standard wording which generally equates to" hee-haw for most"! 

[Sawel]

More than enough to build a snowman!

[Hairy Celt]

17 minutes ago, ciel said:

Glad you were able to sort out your daughter's difficulties and no harm was done.

Roads pretty dicy here too with a thin covering of freezing snow.

I am due to go to the Mintlaw, New Pitsligo area this afternoon, but I'm minded to cancel - especially after reading your post above!.

Not wishing to jinx either your journey or the snow for those who want it, but the radar is showing showers heading towards most of the east coast from Caithness down to the borders (apart from the inner Moray Firth of course).

[Ravelin]

31 minutes ago, ciel said:

Glad you were able to sort out your daughter's difficulties and no harm was done.

Roads pretty dicy here too with a thin covering of freezing snow.

I am due to go to the Mintlaw, New Pitsligo area this afternoon, but I'm minded to cancel - especially after reading your post above!.

Only you can decide whether it's necessary but if the council get their act in gear and grit the roads you should be OK. Daytime temps will help and I doubt that any of the showers will be heavy or sustained enough to cause problems. 

[ciel]

15 minutes ago, Hairy Celt said:

Not wishing to jinx either your journey or the snow for those who want it, but the radar is showing showers heading towards most of the east coast from Caithness down to the borders (apart from the inner Moray Firth of course).

 

4 minutes ago, Ravelin said:

Only you can decide whether it's necessary but if the council get their act in gear and grit the roads you should be OK. Daytime temps will help and I doubt that any of the showers will be heavy or sustained enough to cause problems. 

I've cancelled and rearranged for next week - I would be traveling home around dusk and, in addition to the road conditions, I really dislike driving in that half-light.

I'm not actually able to link to the NW radar - the page is telling me that it is unavailable or busy, but my internet connection is pretty hopeless anyway atm.

[Ruzzi]

4 hours ago, 101_North said:

Not even a sprinkling! This winter is dead to me!

Sadly Euro4 agrees with you Catch!

 

That darkest pink blob below the 1036 line is pretty slap bang over me and at 200 meters ASL and just about far enough west to hang on to the 0C dew points then I fancy my chances for something a tad more than a dusting tomorrow. Fingers tightly crossed for just one decent fall before the end of winter.