Scotland/Alba Regional Weather Discussion

[SW Saltire]

Yeah huge downgrade on metoffice app for here. Want to cry, anything will be a bonus

[Snowlover2]

Currently snowing here. Lightly but it's just started and snow is snow 

[JoeShmoe]

9 minutes ago, 101_North said:

The closer we get to this 'event' the more I reckon I'll be lucky to see any lying snow. Current forecasts are a big downgrade on yesterday and apart from a short window overnight Euro4 doesn't show much for here! Standard westerly behaviour really so not sure why I let myself believe otherwise 

Agreed 101 - just looks dry and cold for us sadly - usual northerly fare

[Hairy Celt]

Heavy showers all day round here - inner Moray Firth - becoming increasingly wintry and the temp's dropping too. Anomolous spike of 9C very early this morning, now between 2C and 3C mostly.  It was very gusty overnight too - lots of leaf litter redistribution this morning.

Heck and gosh - work stood down due to unsuitable weather so I should get to enjoy the next few days after all . That'll ensure we get lots of sleet...

[Michael Kaii]

an Other snow Shower here in Whitburn but this one is more heavy, Wind is still blowing a gale

 

[NUT]

That's better. Air must be getting colder now as that last shower did leave the hills with more of a covering. Getting there

[Fiona Robertson]

44 minutes ago, 101_North said:

The closer we get to this 'event' the more I reckon I'll be lucky to see any lying snow. Current forecasts are a big downgrade on yesterday and apart from a short window overnight Euro4 doesn't show much for here! Standard westerly behaviour really so not sure why I let myself believe otherwise 

Have a wee lookie at this animation, may cheer you up a bit.
http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=snow;sess=

[spindrift1980]

A definite downgrade on the Met Office updates IMBY this afternoon with more emphasis on words like 'sleet' and 'wintry showers' - precipitation symbols on the graphical forecast have lower % chance precipitation, sparser showers and even rain at times overnight How are the dew points looking for later?

I've revised my expectations to 0cm lying snow at home in Motherwell once again, and maybe 2-5cm on higher ground like East Kilbride.  Hoping to be proved wrong though.

[Gogoslo]

Well the gritters are certainly out in force in Aberdeen....    Must have a stock pile of last years salt to get through !!

 

[Norrona2015]

Chaos on the forth road bridge, power cuts....welcome to Scotland

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38579807

 

[WhiteXmas]

I commute daily between Glasgow and Edinburgh, I wonder what the journey will be like via train tomorrow and Friday? Hopefully there won't be much disruption on the lines. Imagine having to be put up in a hotel for the night, the horror  seriously though, does anyone else share the same concern?

Edited January 11, 2017 by WhiteXmas

[spindrift1980]

3 minutes ago, Fiona Robertson said:

Have a wee lookie at this animation, may cheer you up a bit.
http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=snow;sess=

The snow level on that animation is generally about 200-300m above sea level away from the most inland/central Highland parts, though, so suspect it will largely be a non-event for low ground.  Hoping to be wrong though!

[skifreak]

Been working with the guys at Lowther Hills Ski Club and the Hopetoun Arms Hotel in Leadhills to install a new webcam in Scotland's highest village. Snow is beginning to lie and showers are now rattling in. Just a hint that a streamer might set up as showers are beginning to get more frequent! Heading up the road to Glencoe this evening - could be interesting !! :o

View the cam: http://www.winterhighland.info/cams/lowtherhill/ 

[WhiteXmas]

18 minutes ago, spindrift1980 said:

The snow level on that animation is generally about 200-300m above sea level away from the most inland/central Highland parts, though, so suspect it will largely be a non-event for low ground.  Hoping to be wrong though!

These attempts at reverse psychology on the weather, despite your best efforts, will not bear any fruit  As always, it's near impossible to accurately forecast this kind of weather. Think back 7 years just before Christmas time, who would have thought that weather front would have stalled right across the whole of central Scotland and given over a foot of snow for some! Just enjoy the prospect, it's certainly better than anything we've even had a sniff of in the last couple of years. Furthermore, the models are suggesting a more prolonged period of cold and with that some more shots at the elusive snowflakes; so to summarise it's quite a good time for cold/snow lovers if we put it in context with the last couple of years.

[West Highland Storm]

Here in FW Netweather says 5C and sleet car outside temp says 2C and it's snow and Hail.

[spindrift1980]

4 minutes ago, WhiteXmas said:

These attempts at reverse psychology on the weather, despite your best efforts, will not bear any fruit  As always, it's near impossible to accurately forecast this kind of weather. Think back 7 years just before Christmas time, who would have thought that weather front would have stalled right across the whole of central Scotland and given over a foot of snow for some! Just enjoy the prospect, it's certainly better than anything we've even had a sniff of in the last couple of years. Furthermore, the models are suggesting a more prolonged period of cold and with that some more shots at the elusive snowflakes; so to summarise it's quite a good time for cold/snow lovers if we put it in context with the last couple of years.

It's not reverse psychology, just good old-fashioned Scottish pessimism!

[WhiteXmas]

1 minute ago, spindrift1980 said:

It's not reverse psychology, just good old-fashioned Scottish pessimism!

I'm not sure if that's Scottish, or Lanarkshire! 

Spoiler

 

 

[asjmcguire]

This sort of thing drives me up the wall - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-38586981

Seriously - it would be different if there weren't warnings for severe weather - but there is, and have been for days.  Why do people persist in going "oh well, we'll just go anyway"

[Cheggers]

Well temp has taken a dive down to 1C and snaw flurries keep passing through, wet slush mess now building on my dustbins.

Edited January 11, 2017 by Cheggers

[over_the_rainbow]

I hear tale its been snowing in Blairgowrie, but only rain here. Temp still at about 3C   

Is it snowing in Stirling? 

[spindrift1980]

9 minutes ago, asjmcguire said:

This sort of thing drives me up the wall - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-38586981

Seriously - it would be different if there weren't warnings for severe weather - but there is, and have been for days.  Why do people persist in going "oh well, we'll just go anyway"

Ben Lomond is (unfortunately) along with Ben Nevis, and to a lesser extent The Cobbler and some of the other most well-known hills, a magnet for people who treat the hills and weather casually.  These are the kind of conditions in the Highlands today (albeit on a 4,000-footer, a good bit higher than Ben Lomond), from a video on the Scottish Avalanche Information Service website.  Anyone who goes to the higher hills today needs their head examined (although I'm hoping to go up a hill of some kind on Saturday!!) I walked to East Kilbride town centre at lunch time in a short-lived sleet blizzard and that was harsh enough! 

 

Edited January 11, 2017 by spindrift1980

[asjmcguire]

Thanks @spindrift1980 I like snow as much as the next guy - but seriously - who really enjoys being in *that* -

"let's go to the hills, we'll get frostbite, we may lose some limbs and succumb to hypothermia - we won't actually be able to talk to each other and breathing will be difficult - but let's go anyway - because it will be fun"

..... and the Darwin award goes to......

[Norrona2015]

22 minutes ago, asjmcguire said:

This sort of thing drives me up the wall - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-38586981

Seriously - it would be different if there weren't warnings for severe weather - but there is, and have been for days.  Why do people persist in going "oh well, we'll just go anyway"

£20 the group is from England.

[spindrift1980]

Going to the hills in winter conditions CAN be fun if you use your head to choose a suitable time, but there are days where you just need to say that it's not a hill day, and (as you say) it's not as though today's conditions haven't been well forecast and advertised!

[Hairy Celt]

1 minute ago, Norrona2015 said:

£20 the group is from England.

Eh?