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

[DR(S)NO]

I don’t wish to ramp up the expectations here..

But, the sky just went all dark there and we had a rather heavy shower of wet snow down here in Helensburgh.

This had resulted in a whopping 1 mm of slush on the cars!!!

The excitement is there for all to see.... the joys of living down at the coast!!

[Cheggers]

6 minutes ago, Benvironment said:

The hill road's fun just now

My road pretty similar this morning, so going to be fun in a few hours. Heavy showers keep battering through here

[Norrance]

Light snow here now. Just catching the Northern edge of the good stuff in Fife!

Edited January 19, 2018 by Norrance
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[edo]

mild sector alert getting sleety in town centre and major drip drips grrrrrrrr

[Ross B]

Police Scotland telling people to get home early as the worst of the weather expected after 3pm. Starting to snow here now

[Kerwin]

Aberdeen Snow Shield holding strong. 

[jellybaby1969]

Moderate snow in Strathaven South Lanarkshire..now have over 20cm  of snow on top of cars

[GraemeB]

6 minutes ago, Ross B said:

Police Scotland telling people to get home early as the worst of the weather expected after 3pm. Starting to snow here now

Where about?  Can't see anything on their twitter?

[edo]

8 minutes ago, Ross B said:

Police Scotland telling people to get home early as the worst of the weather expected after 3pm. Starting to snow here now

which areas ross? 

[Ross B]

In the Amber warning area. Heavy  Snow falling here in the Amber zone. 

[frogesque]

Just back from Dunfermline, 35mm snow dump and still falling. Roads ok with care, most folk being sensible.

Stay safe out there if you absolutely have to go out. Otherwise make a cuppa and put the feet up.

Dog out in the garden, going nuts!

[blitzen]

Aw shoot..........The sun's coming out!

[DG1]

The blue bin lin was clear last night. I reckon 6 inches have fallen this morning.

[Mr Frost]

My sister based in Rutherglen has just had a text from the primary school of my niece telling her they are closing and to come and pick her up due to adverse weather conditions!? There is absolutely nothing happening in that area - blue sky most of the morning and the odd light passing sleet shower. 

Everyone can see that all the action is missing Glasgow/South Lanarkshire and North Lanarkshire - yes we have snow/ice on the ground but I just can’t see any disruptive snowfall incoming? We can all clearly see the action is further North and probably Ayrshire/Borders soon. 

The mind boggles! 

 

[Deep Snow please]

Looks like it's going to be an absolute stormer of an event for you guys. If you can brave it keep the picks coming - there beautiful to us snow starved sassenachs.

[BlizzardConditions]

3 minutes ago, Mr Frost said:

My sister based in Rutherglen has just had a text from the primary school of my niece telling her they are closing and to come and pick her up due to adverse weather conditions!? There is absolutely nothing happening in that area - blue sky most of the morning and the odd light passing sleet shower. 

Everyone can see that all the action is missing Glasgow/South Lanarkshire and North Lanarkshire - yes we have snow/ice on the ground but I just can’t see any disruptive snowfall incoming? We can all clearly see the action is further North and probably Ayrshire/Borders soon. 

The mind boggles! 

 

I would have agreed wholeheartedly with that about 5 minutes ago but snow getting a bit heavier here now  hopefully an indication of things to come but I'm inclined to think the Glasgow area will miss the worst of it.

[Kirkcaldy Weather]

Hi all long time lurker first post, just had a spell of heavy snow leaving a couple of cm's in about 15 mins and judging by the radar more on the way 

[frogesque]

7 minutes ago, Blitzen said:

Aw shoot..........The sun's coming out!

Aye, sun out here in Thornton but still s few flakes falling. Through in Dumfries, pal has sent video from Leadhills. Looks to be a couple of feet deep and a snow blower has gone up the road.

[Mr Frost]

4 minutes ago, BlizzardConditions said:

I would have agreed wholeheartedly with that about 5 minutes ago but snow getting a bit heavier here now  hopefully an indication of things to come but I'm inclined to think the Glasgow area will miss the worst of it.

Indeed - but looking at the radar the sun is going to be out in five minutes and the snow shower currently is nowhere near as bad as Tuesday’s when there was extremely heavy snow every hour in that area. 

They really need to look into a better warning system for this Country - it’s been a shambles with the motorway fiasco and these Amber warnings this week. 

Edited January 19, 2018 by Mr Frost

[jellybaby1969]

Mr Frost.. STRATHAVEN in SOUTH LANARKSHIRE is getting absoulutley pummeled.

[Ross B]

Look further west people... 

[blitzen]

Wonder if this is the 'after 3pm' quote that you can see on the radar out to the west now?

ETA - Sorry Ross - you beat me to it!

https://www.netweather.tv/live-weather/radar

Edited January 19, 2018 by Blitzen

[BlizzardConditions]

2 minutes ago, Mr Frost said:

Indeed - but looking at the radar the sun is going to be out in five minutes and the snow shower currently is nowhere near as bad as Tuesday’s when there was extremely heavy snow every hour in that area. 

Yeah you're right - I'm just hoping the MO have it right this time for this afternoon but as it stands areas like Fife are the ones taking a pounding. Great pics from those areas!

[ECOSSE1650]

Had a look at Traffic Scotland Traffic cameras at 1230 and snow appears to be falling heavily on M77 Floak, Kingswell & Maidenhill

[Stormeh]

Nothing much here but East Kilbride is getting pumped again, maybe not make it work again later.