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

[Snowlover2]

Wee boys school got closed. Took me an hour to get from Kinross to Kelty to get him. M90 north and south was a nightmare. This is how much we had since 7. 

Also had to abandon my car and get my friend to bring us home in the Land Rover ?

Edited January 19, 2018 by Snowlover2

[Andy92]

[Kayemill]

I just had to pick up my sick daughter and take her back to Darvel.

I would describe the driving conditions as brutal.

[101_North]

25 minutes ago, Blitzen said:

Queue 101-North?........That might shut him up for a few hours!

No danger 

[Mr Frost]

16 minutes ago, Andy92 said:

Sweet baby Jesus of Nazareth!!!! Now that is what I like to see! That is going to be chaos! Be keeping a close eye on it as it splits in two and snakes North and South of me. 

Three hours of total whiteout carnage hopefully. 

 

Edited January 19, 2018 by Mr Frost

[Cheggers]

mmmmm needing a top up me thinks to reach @Hawesy prediction. 

[Glaswegianblizzard]

8 minutes ago, Mr Frost said:

Sweet baby Jesus of Nazareth!!!! Now that is what I like to see! That is going to be chaos! Be keeping a close eye on it as it splits in two and snakes North and South of me. 

I’ll believe it when I see it.

[mardatha]

Heavy snow here and has lasted over half an hour. The A7 at Middleton Moor was dodgy earlier and will be awful now. Weather advisory on tv saying don't travel after 3pm.

[lorenzo]

Progress update on the Kinky Thing...

Snow filter on Eumetsat totally loaded...http://eumetview.eumetsat.int/mapviewer/

 

Edited January 19, 2018 by lorenzo

[Mr Frost]

2 minutes ago, lorenzo said:

Progress update on the Kinky Thing...

Snow filter on Eumetsat totally loaded...http://eumetview.eumetsat.int/mapviewer/

 

Where do you think will take the hit from that? 

[shuggee]

Heaviest snow since Tuesday here again.  Just got back from the neighbour's when it started.  Mr fatty flakes billowing down there and the gritted A701 covered once again.  Snow Farrah only went past 90 minttes ago.

[101_North]

That break in the ppn is aligning itself perfectly 

[Kayemill]

School now closed.

I'm going to be driving home while it's falling. Doh!

[blitzen]

1 minute ago, 101_North said:

That break in the ppn is aligning itself perfectly 

Oh shut up you tart!

[Kerwin]

https://en.sat24.com/en/gb/visual

Is it just me or is there a bit of rotation going on in the top left corner, to the right of the timestamp?

 

[Daniel*]

A sickening amount of snow some of you are having at least more snow is having a break . 

 

[ghoneym]

Managed to scrape together enough of the white stuff to make the worlds skinniest snowman! 

[aggy]

18 hours ago, More Snow said:

You've over done mine by 1cm....lol

I haven’t had one proper flake from anything this week . Earlier in week the snaw was tiny grupal 

[Ruzzi]

Sorry a bit off topic considering what's going on but just seen the forecast for here on Sunday update to this 

 

 

Amber warnig written all over that on Sunday ????

Edited January 19, 2018 by Ruzzi

[shuggee]

Remarkable to think that the massive area of snow just approaching the Ayrshire/Inverclyde coast isn't even here yet....  20cm?

[GraemeB]

Still arguing with myself whether we'll (IMBY) will see anything from that.

[Duncan McAlister]

18 minutes ago, aggy said:

I haven’t had one proper flake from anything this week . Earlier in week the snaw was tiny grupal 

There has been a noticeable decline in snow events here since circa 2000. Of course, being on the coast they were pretty rare anyway but Feb 1991, Feb 1994, Feb 1998, Feb 2000 and Christmas/Boxing Day 2000 all stand out in the memory as bringing large dumps of snow that lasted at least a day. We've had cold uppers, from a 'wet' direction but apart from a 'nice' dusting on Tuesday night they have failed to deliver. Anything between SW and NW is invariably too mild, anything clockwise of NNW is invariably too dry. 

I do wonder if we'll see anything like Feb or Christmas 2000 here again in my lifetime. Remarkable that they were both the same year yet nothing like it since. Maybe there is just too much background warming. The uppers this week have been -6 or -7 but it's not really cooled us at ground level - temps have been 3-4 which is just a degree or two too high for anything significant. 20 years ago, maybe the same system would have been -8 or -9 and with it copious dumpings. An interesting test case perhaps of how small shifts in global temperature can lead to dramatic changes on the margins.

Edited January 19, 2018 by Duncan McAlister

[Ross B]

2 minutes ago, shuggee said:

Remarkable to think that the massive area of snow just approaching the Ayrshire/Inverclyde coast isn't even here yet....  20cm?

Yep, about to be bang on time though with the 3pm estimate for the Amber area. I'll be happy to get a covering out of it. 

[GraemeB]

It's raining in Paisley...

[jellybaby1969]

Snowing again in Strathaven......Had enough now !!