Scotland/Alba Regional Weather Discussion 16/03/2018 Onwards

[Guest]

not so sure if its snowing or just the same 3 flakes being blown in the wind for the past few hours.

[Guest]

And as if by magic its smashing it down with SNAW!! 

[Hawesy]

Flurries on and off here in Broughty Ferry. Very Toronto-like weather. ‘Flurries’ aren’t really part of the forecasting vocabulary in this country but are a mainstay of Canadian winter forecasts.

[mardatha]

Snowing steadily here and has been for a wee while, light covering on the ground. Lorenzo I don't understand you post at all lol - are you saying that we're gonny have a rotten summer? Will I just get the knitting back oot and keep the cardi on?
And we looked out of the kitchen window to the coalhouse where hubby feeds the birds on Sainsbugs digestives - to see a big fat fatty sitting there stuffing his face. Husband screamed, cat fainted, and I chased the rat. Sigh.

[Sunny Leith]

Radar looks like all of east/central Scotland is generally under the same kind of very-light precipitation, certainly a few flakes blowing about in the wind here. But there's bigger blobs out in the North Sea so maybe we'll just have to wait a bit for the convection machine to get going. Semi-optimistic :-)

[snowidea]

Live from Bo'ness leisure centre (kids swimming lessons though why on earth I agreed to 9.00 start on a Saturday I'll never know) and a few flakes fluttering down outside. 

[Hairy Celt]

Inner Moray Firth snowshield still fully functional this week. The snow god really has it in for us this month. 

[Norrance]

39 minutes ago, Hawesy said:

Flurries on and off here in Broughty Ferry. Very Toronto-like weather. ‘Flurries’ aren’t really part of the forecasting vocabulary in this country but are a mainstay of Canadian winter forecasts.

Same here. Just a light covering with the wind having blown some into drifts of up to a cm in places?

[Polar Side]

17 minutes ago, LeithRayOfSunshine said:

Radar looks like all of east/central Scotland is generally under the same kind of very-light precipitation, certainly a few flakes blowing about in the wind here. But there's bigger blobs out in the North Sea so maybe we'll just have to wait a bit for the convection machine to get going. Semi-optimistic :-)

Another bitterly cold trip to tynecastle looming for me today. If I could only be guaranteed free flowing attacking football to keep me warm, but I sadly doubt it.

[Sunny Leith]

3 minutes ago, Polar Side said:

Another bitterly cold trip to tynecastle looming for me today. If I could only be guaranteed free flowing attacking football to keep me warm, but I sadly doubt it.

Don't get me started. The club and the players have given up for this season (again), so I'm reciprocating in kind. Be doing well to hold onto top-six at this rate. Rugby not really my game but opted to meet some pals in a pub this afternoon and watch Scotland and then Ireland out of that bloody cold !

[Polar Side]

1 minute ago, LeithRayOfSunshine said:

Don't get me started. The club and the players have given up for this season (again), so I'm reciprocating in kind. Be doing well to hold onto top-six at this rate. Rugby not really my game but opted to meet some pals in a pub this afternoon and watch Scotland and then Ireland out of that bloody cold !

Yeah it's not great at the moment, another rebuild of the squad in the summer to come.

A warm pub sounds good, enjoy !

[Cheggers]

I wonder if something brewing, or just covering all bases, but just drop son off at work, and 2 ploughs parked up at Castlecary arches, north and southbound, and passed 2 on side roads.

Snaw falling, but think it must be @More Snow few flakes making it down here in the wind.

[Sunny Leith]

Decent proper snow shower on here just now, blowing about the streets like a scene from a cold-war film. 

[Guest]

@Cheggers your welcome but don't forget to share them on  just had a few really heavy showers come thru and cover everything in white. might go check out the radar for a bit.

[Cheggers]

2 minutes ago, More Snow said:

@Cheggers your welcome but don't forget to share them on  just had a few really heavy showers come thru and cover everything in white. might go check out the radar for a bit.

That wind doing a good job of sending it west ? 

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Cheggers said:

That wind doing a good job of sending it west ? 

must be the vindaloo....

[101_North]

Heaviest shower of the morning here now. Car reading -1c. Wind chill is brutal!

[shuggee]

Morning. Much the same in my neck of the woods. Light to moderate snow, grass nearly white. Cats spectacularly unimpressed. Heating racked-up so my tomato seeds germinate, and getting ready to go out to the local model rail exhibition! 

[mardatha]

Still light but steady, blowing a lot in that wind and gradually turning everything nice and white

[Serac]

Starting to settle here, current depth around 0.0004mm

[Sunny Leith]

5 minutes ago, 101_North said:

Heaviest shower of the morning here now. Car reading -1c. Wind chill is brutal!

Sounds about right, even allowing for variation these home observation stations are showing how cold it is city wide, and that strong east-wind is a killer. Airport is reporting a windchill -of -6c.

[Hairy Celt]

14 minutes ago, More Snow said:

@Cheggers your welcome but don't forget to share them on  just had a few really heavy showers come thru and cover everything in white. might go check out the radar for a bit.

Excuse me... Don't go diverting the snow southwards....

[Serac]

Will we see the beast in the clouds again like last time (I posted this at start of the original beast but was at the time we were generating a page of posts every few minutes so don’t know if it was lost in the mayhem , either that or people thought it was cack)

[CoastRainbow]

The wind , the wind !! So cold !! 

And Wee flurries in that cold wind !! 

[DR(S)NO]

Heavy horizontal snow shower currently in Helensburgh..... don’t imagine it’ll last long but gives an indication of just how brisk that wind is.... brrr