Scotland/Alba Regional Weather Discussion - 16/01/2018 Onwards

[pleasesnownow]

Snow in north Lanarkshire and plenty more to come by the look of the radar ❄️❄️❄️❄️

[edo]

epic shower last hour that has lied in city centre.... heading home in excitement to see if my grass blades are non visible for first time since 2013 

[JamesM]

Home time. Let's see how the Firestone Winterhawks do tonight.

[shuggee]

Snow building up on the window sill against the double glazing. And I have a one foot plus drift by the coal bunker. Simply marvellous.

[Benvironment]

6 minutes ago, edo said:

epic shower last hour that has lied in city centre.... heading home in excitement to see if my grass blades are non visible for first time since 2013 

Good luck!!

[101_North]

That was a dreadful journey back from Bonaly/Colinton. Roads were awful and visibility near zero at points. Around 3cm in 10-15mins!

 

[edo]

4 minutes ago, Benvironment said:

Good luck!!

might not get home.... much as we laugh at others not coping in snow... i have been 30 mins in car and went a mile and we only have about 3cm 

Edited January 16, 2018 by edo

[mardatha]

Fabulous full-on mega-heavy white-oot blizzard now.  Yaaaaay!

[Guest]

Nothing here...

[Kayemill]

Thunder snow. Boom

[grifter]

According to Traffic Scotland no point in going anywhere near the M74, or anywhere for that matter:

https://twitter.com/trafficscotland

http://trafficscotland.org/index.aspx

Police Scotland are advising drivers that there is a HIGH RISK OF DISRUPTION FOR ROAD JOURNEYS in the Dumfries and Galloway, Scottish Borders, West Lothian, Falkirk, South Ayrshire, East Ayrshire, South lanarkshire, East Renfrewshire, North Lanarkshire, and Glasgow areas. If you do travel, you are likely to experience significant delays.

Edited January 16, 2018 by grifter

[Glaswegianblizzard]

The snow is lying in grass surfaces here, everywhere else is slush. Not had anything heavy since this afternoon. Actually so far isn’t as good as the snowfall just after Xmas. Lucky if it’s 2cm here and even on side roads it’s turned to slag. At no stage has it been heavy enough for long enough.

[ECOSSE1650]

Started snowing heavily again in Motherwell at 1750.

[Bullseye]

Incredible drive home from work, first time driving in snow since passing test. After that drive can't believe I am saying this but I think I have went off the idea of snow! Never been so nervous. Main roads at Rutherglen at standstill during which 3/4cm snow must have feel in around 15mins. Car now officially abandoned outside Castlemilk. I am right in saying worst still to come?

Edited January 16, 2018 by Bullseye

[SMU]

So congrats to the Scottish contingent for getting the snow

60 cm will be the jackpot zone for some this week - !!!!

[snowidea]

Had heavy showers on and off all day, kids school bus didn't turn up so I worked from home (not easy with two primary school horrors badgering me). 

Edited January 16, 2018 by snowidea

[howham]

Cold but dry here.  Enjoying the photos nonetheless.  Time for a northerly!

[Stuart Taylor]

 Sorry for asking the obvious but is this keeping up all night? That commute from kilmarnock to Motherwell was brutal and I will start looking into taking the train if conditions are similar tomorrow :-D 

[Mr Frost]

14 minutes ago, Bullseye said:

Incredible drive home from work, first time driving in snow since passing test. After that drive can't believe I am saying this but I think I have went off the idea of snow! Never been so nervous. Main roads at Rutherglen at standstill during which 3/4cm snow must have feel in around 15mins. Car now officially abandoned outside Castlemilk. I am right in saying worst still to come?

Cmon mate - you can’t be saying you have went off the idea of snow on here. 

Rutherglen is in the Amber warning - plenty more heavy snow showers to come, especially from now to 1am. 

Absolute pasting I am getting at the minute - keep saying this but...it is incredible!!!! 

Edited January 16, 2018 by Mr Frost

[shuggee]

1 minute ago, Stuart Taylor said:

 Sorry for asking the obvious but is this keeping up all night? That commute from kilmarnock to Motherwell was brutal and I will start looking into taking the train if conditions are similar tomorrow :-D 

2/3am apparently. But that's from the telly and not my forecast.

[Glaswegianblizzard]

34 minutes ago, Glaswegianblizzard said:

The snow is lying in grass surfaces here, everywhere else is slush. Not had anything heavy since this afternoon. Actually so far isn’t as good as the snowfall just after Xmas. Lucky if it’s 2cm here and even on side roads it’s turned to slag. At no stage has it been heavy enough for long enough.

So an unfortunate auto-correct error there - I should learn to check messages more often for that as I seem to be inserting random words into social media messages, emails etc. I promise I don't use that word at all so no idea how it got there, honest!

Some light snow on here, with a couple of decent bands coming up, so I'll stop whinging for now.

[Sunshineandshowers84]

When I left East Kilbride this afternoon snow was deep and roads not great. Came down to Clarkston and Giffnock you would wonder what the fuss just a dusting there and in Glasgow nothing lying.. Trying to get back to EK and every road a car park now Clarkston now getting a hammering with snow.

[Stuart Taylor]

9 minutes ago, shuggee said:

2/3am apparently. But that's from the telly and not my forecast.

Thanks. I will reward you with a photo of a strange coloured sky and a traffic jam in Motherwell! 

 

 

[Hawesy]

1 hour ago, Hairy Celt said:

 

-1C at sea level. First time today I've seen snow falling at this temp and not settling!

Bizarre, HC, I have no explanation for that. I’ve seen it in Toronto during spring where the suns strength even through clouds heated the ground enough for snow to melt on contact even though air temps were below zero but obviously that would not apply!

[101_North]

Snow on again here! 7-8cm in the garden. Hard surfaces more like 3cm am it melted a fair bit earlier!