Scotland/Alba Regional Weather Discussion

[asjmcguire]

3 hours ago, CatchMyDrift said:

Winter might start about ten days from now...

Nope! This is not the model thread. I appreciate that this *also gestures vaguely in the general direction of any window* sucks - but we all know that "here it comes guys - it's just 10 days away" never gets closer than 7 days away.......

[asjmcguire]

1 minute ago, CatchMyDrift said:

One of these times the GFS has to be right at +260hrs??  

True - but let's wait for it to manage some sort of accuracy at T+96 (this winter) before we ask for more haha

[Hairy Celt]

5 hours ago, Benvironment said:

1.3C here. It's been snowing on and off all day but nothing to show for it. I imagine West Lomond is getting a nice white top up though

From what I can see of the Sutherland hills from Buckie (telescope assisted!), they have been plastered down to low level.

[Hairy Celt]

11 hours ago, mardatha said:

We've got 4 inches of snow and still snowing!!

Seems like a crap winter when someone a thousand feet up a Scottish mountain gets 4" of snow and the biggest cheer of the day...

@mardatha - no disrespect to you or your snow meant

[Northernlights]

About 40% frozen slush cover left  in the moonlight and a ground frost at 1.5c. Still wintry.

[Cheggers]

Naff all here except rain. I think I jinxed it for Central Scotland when I said it should stay away whilst in a knee brace, well another 4 weeks and it should be off and it will snaw so much we will be digging fir days. THis will be one of your GFS @ +260hr Catch 

[asjmcguire]

1 hour ago, Hairy Celt said:

Seems like a crap winter when someone a thousand feet up a Scottish mountain gets 4" of snow and the biggest cheer of the day...

@mardatha - no disrespect to you or your snow meant

I was just thinking that earlier today - when people were living vicariously through snow in BC..... I mean it's bad enough having to live vicariously through snow elsewhere in the UK - but when you have to do it via an entirely different country - something is very very wrong......

[Hairy Celt]

9 hours ago, asjmcguire said:

I was just thinking that earlier today - when people were living vicariously through snow in BC..... I mean it's bad enough having to live vicariously through snow elsewhere in the UK - but when you have to do it via an entirely different country - something is very very wrong......

I'm convinced it's nature's revenge for the Brexit vote - although that doesn't explain why Scotland's being targetted.

[Hairy Celt]

In Place of Strife Interesting Weather, today's theme is decay... 

An abandoned boat - I wonder who Connie is?

And just round the corner, a couple of drums to catch rainwater, except not doing a very good job...

[mardatha]

Our snow yesterday didnt lie for long, then turned to rain later. Snowing again now though and the fields and hills are all still white.

Edited February 12, 2017 by mardatha

[101_North]

Briefly hammering down with...... snow! Obviously not settling and lasted about 5mins but still.....

[Northernlights]

Fabulous start to the day, bright blue skies, no wind, currently 0c but very icy underfoot

[Benvironment]

A jaunt up West Lomond before breakfast

[Northern Strath]

Cool but pleasant here today with outbreaks of sunshine after a low of -3c

Sitting here bored and waiting on the rugby so here's a few from yesterday's dog walking up glen affric. The place always reminds me of camping with the family as a nipper and that great Weir's Way episode where it snows like hell all over wee Tom and his bunnet, a time when winters really kicked your erse not this tame stuff we get now

 

Edited February 12, 2017 by Northern Strath

[Kayemill]

Heavy dandruff shower here interrupting my car washing. 

[Scottish-Irish Skier]

Not quite as dramatic as @Northern Strath's, but a few snaps taken on a walk from Slochd back to Carrbridge via Sluggan.

~2C, fairly calm and dry but overcast. Sun only broke through very briefly, mainly over the hills in the distance.

 

Edited February 12, 2017 by scottish skier

[skifreak]

A couple of images from this morning and at dusk from the new Summit Webcam on Aonach Mor in the Nevis Range. Check out the updating images at http://www.winterhighland.info/cams/nevisrange/ .

 

[101_North]

Quite a few fairly potent snow showers today but they were brief. At one point it was starting to settle but stopped before it really had a chance. Pretty damp, miserable and cold out there now.

[Ravelin]

Saturday - Cool , damp with light rain at times, dull & grey

Sunday - Cool, damp with light rain at times, dull & grey

Today - Cool, damp feeling but dry so far, dull & grey

Oh, there may have been some wet snow falling on Sunday evening but I'd lost interest so only very briefly glanced out past the blinds.

[asjmcguire]

3 minutes ago, Ravelin said:

but I'd lost interest

I think there is a lot of that about right now.... I certainly have. Especially when the snow turned to rain and I thought - well, that was utterly pointless then.

[Hairy Celt]

Oh what a dreary dull day, no sun, a nagging easterly and everyone complaining about the cold. Pfffft.

[mardatha]

Sun? erm. SUN? I think we had that once. In 1972. I remember it well.

[Hairy Celt]

31 minutes ago, mardatha said:

Sun? erm. SUN? I think we had that once. In 1972. I remember it well.

Summer of 72 - I remember it well. My last summer of freedom before starting at big school. I got taken to the school uniform shop and dressed up in some dreadful stiff, dark blue clothes that I quickly outgrew but weren't replaced (for the obvious reason) till next year. I spent the rest of the summer with this huge dark cloud hanging over me, and it didn't lift till I left school.  Nearly all the teachers from that era are dead now - I keep an eye on the local paper still cos there's a couple left...

[Scottish-Irish Skier]

1 hour ago, mardatha said:

Sun? erm. SUN? I think we had that once. In 1972. I remember it well.

(Ellan Wood, Carrbridge and Loch Morlich / Glenmore the morn).

Edited February 13, 2017 by scottish skier

[biggreyface]

School the best days of your life (not) i can remember it like yesterday  most people listening and learning  me eyes focused out the window seeing what the weather was doing far more interesting. Like yourself HC i too look in the paper to see how my old teachers are getting on not the obituary  part but the crime one only a matter of time until all the bullys and beasts  are jailed