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

[ciel]

Grey skies, drizzle, foggy over the hills, little wind, temp 0.5C. A slow thaw continues. 

I would appreciate some spring sunshine now.

[Norrance]

2C and steady cold rain. Loads of puddles and surface water on the roads. 

Edited March 5, 2018 by Norrance

[101_North]

After walking the kids to school and nursery I'm staggered at the number of selfish b@st@tds who appear to have spent Sunday afternoon claiming back 'their' on street parking by simply dumping huge piles of snow onto the previously cleared pavements! Kids forced to walk on the roads in places because of these morons

[edo]

heavy rain here and 2c 

drip

drip

hopefully snow cover on astroturf should last till tomorrow night and give me another week off coaching ? 

kids are wired on a school night.....love coaching on weekends but weeknights are a trauma.... apparently its because the wee ones spend all day trying to be good in school but go bonkers at night.... so the local HT tells me. 

looks quite chilly over night later in the week so any remaining snow will be freezing up then by the looks of it

still some signs of a potential NEserly but a mixed bag of models so no real clear indication of where we are headed.  

[su rui ke]

I remember that happened a lot in 2010 as well, 101. Should be illegal! (Or maybe it already is?)

[mistyqueen]

Ok, who's sick of the white stuff now? Glad we didn't get any of that white sh*te, it's such a pain when you can't get anywhere! Apparently the large Co-op in Portree was completely out of fruit and veg yesterday, someone posted a pic on FB, but the wee co-op in the town centre had enough of most things! I did notice a distinct lack of bread on Friday, but the vultures had been in by then! I'm just off to make bread now to go with the home made soup. Yum! Bread makers are brill! ?

 

[Quinach]

Temperature has hovered around 1.5C here since 6pm yesterday.  Snowed off and on during daylight hours yesterday then turned to rain and basically been raining since then - moderate at the moment.

Amazing how quickly the snow disappears when its raining, looks like we've lost about 2 or 3" of snow cover in the last 12 hours.

Schools back today though thank goodness, kids were starting to get stir crazy.

Roads soaking wet, will be fun tomorrow morning if there is a frost overnight.

[Norrance]

Well I never! Its turned back to snow and trying to lie on cars etc. Temp back down to 1C.

[mardatha]

Been snowing very lightly off and on all morning here, but not lying. Finally got out of the village down to the docs for pills.

[Allyw12]

Turning more to snow here also but don’t expect it to last ?

[Norrance]

6 minutes ago, Allyw12 said:

Turning more to snow here also but don’t expect it to last ?

Still snow here but not heavy enough to land on the wet ground, perhaps due to the those damn bulbs. @hawesy?

Maybe higher up at @sawel part of the city it has a chance.

Edited March 5, 2018 by Norrance

[Guest]

Me Snaw is all melting away. Nooooooooooooo. 

[Sawel]

34 minutes ago, Norrance said:

Still snow here but not heavy enough to land on the wet ground, perhaps due to the those damn bulbs. @hawesy?

Maybe higher up at @sawel part of the city it has a chance.

Yep, everything getting covered again. 

[Guest]

According to the BBC forecast I'm on for snaw all night tonight and heavy snaw tomorrow. good job Asda delivery turned up with bread and milk this morning.

[Scottish-Irish Skier]

This is quite impressive; down near coldstream.

Quote

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-43280995

 

There were some real monster drifts up Soutra; 2 m behemoths. 

[Hawesy]

1 hour ago, Sawel said:

Yep, everything getting covered again. 

@Sawel what’s your elevation asl?  

Met Office going with snow above around 200m so if you’re thereabouts that’s a good call.

@Norrance yeah wet bulb freezing level is around 400m over Dundee right now, according to GFS. Generally you want it to be less than 200m from your elevation for snow so it ties in with the above. Other factors in play of course, it’s only a rough guide.

[su rui ke]

Yep, still bits and pieces of snow in the forecasts (as well as rain) and probably a least a couple of frosty nights in most places this week. I don't think those drifts are going anywhere fast!

[ciel]

Popped out to the PO this morning.  Treacherous surface water on the roads.

Currently sleeting - nae good!
 

[Norrance]

Here are a couple of drifts just outside Dundee at Muirhead courtesy of S Finn.

Any roads with fields to their East must have caught the drifts.

Edited March 5, 2018 by Norrance

[NUT]

Drip Drip continues. Absolutely saturated with all the melt going on. Going to be quite sometime before you see completely dry ground again

[Guest]

Snaw back on here. 

[Norrance]

My raingauge shows over 18mms rain / snow equivalent so no wonder there is so much water around with snowmelt added. Still raining steadily at 2.3C

[Sawel]

54 minutes ago, Hawesy said:

@Sawel what’s your elevation asl?  

Met Office going with snow above around 200m so if you’re thereabouts that’s a good call.

@Norrance yeah wet bulb freezing level is around 400m over Dundee right now, according to GFS. Generally you want it to be less than 200m from your elevation for snow so it ties in with the above. Other factors in play of course, it’s only a rough guide.

I'm just over 140 metres ASL. The fact that I'm further inland has a bearing too compared to the rest of the town.

[Quinach]

Temperature still around 1.5C but the rain is now becoming very sleety in nature.

[Hairy Celt]

Intermittent light to moderate rain in lochaber, about 4C and little wind. Plenty of slowly melting ice on the hillsides to catch the unwary. 

The roads had a bit of slush from last night and were full of mincing commuters. 

Ho hum, Monday morning...