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

[Mr Frost]

Huge flakes now - very heavy snow falling! 

[Mildcarlisle]

Wet sleety snow in Galashiels.

[Hairy Celt]

Moderate sleet at 1C here. This could be fun on the road. 

[Northernlights]

30 minutes ago it was 3c and heavy rain/sleet, now its 1c and moderate snow settling

[ciel]

34 minutes ago, aggy said:

Well that was a suprise it’s snowing and it’s lying so it must be pasting elsewhere with altitude 

Well done, aggy. 

Still no snow here, just light to moderate rain and it does not feel too cold either.

Have to go to Ellon today and judging by the meto forecast Ellon and the A90 should be clear too, hopefully anyway.

[101_North]

If nothing else the radar suggests I'll miss the most of the heavy sleet / rain!

Edited February 13, 2018 by 101_North

[Northern Strath]

Heavy snow since I got up 

Safe drive @Hairy Celt Above was the A9 about 20 mins ago ?  slow but manageable, looks like it may start to ease off beyond 9am/10

 

 

[Ravelin]

18 minutes ago, ciel said:

Have to go to Ellon today and judging by the meto forecast Ellon and the A90 should be clear too, hopefully anyway

Stick to the coast then as its currently snowing inland despite being forecast for sleet. Nice to know it still can, big fat flakes too, and lying, but not to any depth so far. 

[ciel]

9 minutes ago, Ravelin said:

Stick to the coast then as its currently snowing inland despite being forecast for sleet. Nice to know it still can, big fat flakes too, and lying, but not to any depth so far. 

Yes, Ravelin, good advice. I saw it was snowing on the Cairn webcam.

[Ruzzi]

Snowing here too, turned from rain very quickly and settled surprisingly fast. About half a cm but judging by the radar it won't last very long 

[Scottish-Irish Skier]

1 hour ago, grifter said:

Looked out this morning and it was rainy sleet, now snow and pelting down, and starting to catch as it looks like heavy wet snow.

I'll just ditto your post lazily if you don't mind as exactly same is happening here.

Cannae see Soutra, which I have to drive over shortly. 

Edited February 13, 2018 by scottish skier

[101_North]

Rain to sleet here. Pretty miserable stuff!

[howham]

Snowing in Tarves this morning (turned about 7am) and was sticking readily with nice big fat flakes.    Raining in Aberdeen at work now...

[shuggee]

10 hours ago, Hawesy said:

Have to be honest and say I reckon you’ll need at least 200m altitude to see anything significant tomorrow. Aside from those members living the high life (altitudinally speaking) such as @Northern Strath @igloo @shuggee I think it’s rain and sleet for most, with perhaps some wet snow before it clears.

In other words, it’s nailed on. 

Just sleety blobs.  Certainly nothing settling - washing away the snow that's been about for a couple of days even.

Very geographically localised it seems.

[Cheggers]

Pishy rain, snaw melting away

[blitzen]

11 minutes ago, Cheggers said:

Pishy rain, snaw melting away

Ditto!

[Stormeh]

Pishy sleet here, non event, winter is over blah blah blah!

....Or maybe not!

[Ravelin]

30 minutes ago, howham said:

Snowing in Tarves this morning (turned about 7am) and was sticking readily with nice big fat flakes.    Raining in Aberdeen at work now...

Yep, in Aberdeen myself now and it turned sleety by Kintore and though to Dyce. Pretty much heavy cold rain with just a hint of sleet in Aberdeen currently. 

[Norrance]

A93 this morning at the Spittal. Can only be good for the slopes. Here just light intermittent cold rain.

[mardatha]

Sleet here, lying snow is melting but very slowly. Gritted roads are staying black though. Temp sitting on 0c.

Edited February 13, 2018 by mardatha

[Ruzzi]

Still flakes of snow fluttering around in the wind but the precipitation is pretty much past here now, once it turned to snow, it stayed as snow through-out and lay extremely quickly. Unfortunately the heavy precipitation was past us in a flash so topped out about half a cm but that gathered in half an hour, it was just very light after that. Maybe some front edge stuff for a time tomorrow? 

[Northern Strath]

Hearing the A9 is blocked southbound at daviot due to lorries off the road, daviot of course not in the warning area

*this is your annual reminder that weather warnings/warning areas are a load of sh+te*

[Kayemill]

Managed to catch another half inch or so. Day off today so don't need to worry about the A71 for now. 

[JamesM]

Despite hearing rain in the night there was a few cms of wet snow this morning.

[Northern Strath]

The Met may get ripped on here for the skewed warnings (rightly so) but credit where it's due, that's the snow off and it deposited 10cm, on the money with their amounts