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

[shuggee]

I have taken the shovel, duvet, water and chocolate out of the car already.  How foolish was I thinking that winter is over?!  Going home at 4.30pm might be interesting up over the hills.... 

[101_North]

Looks like it's turned to wet snow here in Edinburgh City Center. 

[Penicuikblizzard]

Horrible sleety weather in Edinburgh hopefully the last of this dreadful weather,,,bring on some spring sunshine ☀️ ☀️ ☀️ 

[Norrance]

Just sleety pish here. Not far inland quite a bit of snow. Here is the A9 at Auchterarder  and the A822 at  Amulree also in Perthshire.just a few minutes ago!

[Sunny Leith]

5 minutes ago, 101_North said:

Looks like it's turned to wet snow here in Edinburgh City Center. 

Aye, alternating rain, sleet and snow just now in Leith, looks like the cold undercut from the North is underway. No chance of it lying here but up your way and round about then it must be game on again. Radar isn't that intense but on and on it goes, day 3 of this cold garbage.

[Methuselah]

Hope you guys up there don't have another Spring like 1996....?

[TinyTim]

Good Morning all.

Well... yet another snowy surprise when waking up this morning!  Just a dusting here in town, but a few cms up on the hill.  I 'think' this might be the latest I've seen snow lying here... I can certainly remember it lying at the end of March in the past few years (for a few hours!) and I reckon this will probably be gone later.  Echoing what Edo said, I'm not exactly 'tired' of it by now, but it's starting to lose its novelty somewhat.  However, am off for the Easter holidays this week, so don't really mind it  

Tim

[JamesM]

Flipping heck, was surprised by this on the run to work this morning. 

Heavy wet snow, lying well down to about 100 metres and compacting onto the roads.

[Polar Side]

31 minutes ago, 101_North said:

Looks like it's turned to wet snow here in Edinburgh City Center. 

Accumulating in Currie again, gardens and cars that is.

[mardatha]

Temp dropping fast here, was 5C when I got up and is now under 3C.

[101_North]

Starting to settle on the bypass traffic cams:

 

Edited April 4, 2018 by 101_North

[Hairy Celt]

Frosty start, snowing moderately now with a heavy grey sky. Near Halkirk. 

[Northern Strath]

As NL eluded, the weather is certainly on repeat, 5 days in the last 6 with an overnight covering. Cover 5+ inches as I left this morn with heavy snow

Hefty wall of snow heading south

A farmer on the radio earlier mentioned dealing with "an 8 or 9 month winter" hard to disagree, we'll have passed the 100 days snow lying/falling mark here, Looking forward to some weather where I can start shedding the layers at work, Gollum's skin saw more light 

[Allyw12]

2 hours ago, edo said:

ironically it is the whitest it has been here durimg this spell right now and didnt expect that

yesterday i drove from Perth to Falkirk to Straiton and back to Perth in a kind of circle and the differences in snow in different areas was remarkable.... 

Auchterarder really is some kind of weird micro climate that always seems to do very well yet it is only 12 miles from. Perth and 90m higher at 100 ASL.... 

kids are actually. not phased by snow now that's a sign we have seen a lot falling this winter if not always givimg. significant depths..... 

its weird not hearing excited yelps at flakes falling from the sky lets hope they are back next winter after a glorious summer. 

 

Great ending to a hard story @More Snow heres to many snowy weathers together with the ? 

 @edo I was surprised to see the snow & how much was lying this morning. It’s  more like slush now than snow ?

Never thought I would say this but I hope this is the last of the snow.  I would like some dry & warm weather for a change. ☀️?

[Polar Side]

Steady snow and temp 1c here.

 

[101_North]

2 minutes ago, Polar Side said:

Steady snow and temp 1c here.

 

Grrrr - and I'm stuck in town with increasingly heavy, sleety muck! 

[Sunny Leith]

9 minutes ago, 101_North said:

Grrrr - and I'm stuck in town with increasingly heavy, sleety muck! 

Mostly snaw now most of the time even down here. Just ugly though.

[Kirkcaldy Weather]

Wet snow / sleet here 2.3C / 0.4C

[colrobs]

Hi. Heavy wet snow in Cambuslang all morning, not lying though. Forecast for same till 4 or 5pm. Radar looks good, almost 3/4 Scottish mainland has snow !

[Polar Side]

29 minutes ago, 101_North said:

Grrrr - and I'm stuck in town with increasingly heavy, sleety muck! 

Turning heavier. Picture of Lanark road near the Ricci.

 

[frogesque]

Back from walking the dog. Went to Kirkcaldy via Cluny and fields are white, lot of loose water lying in hollows with ground at saturation. Top end of town has snow on the grass but lower end is clear. Beach was wild with driving sleet on the Easterly wind. Grass at Seafield carpark squelching. Must be a real danger of flooding now as the ground can't take much more.

Yet more debris on the strand line with a high proportion of plastic based materials. Begining to get a real problem with it trapped in the Forth estuary.

Glad to be home again with lunch and a hot cuppa.

[101_North]

Fairly heavy wet snow now in Edinburgh City Center - miserable stuff altogether! Seriously considering ditching the office and working from home this afternoon! If nothing else the view from the window would be better 

[Polar Side]

24 minutes ago, 101_North said:

Fairly heavy wet snow now in Edinburgh City Center - miserable stuff altogether! Seriously considering ditching the office and working from home this afternoon! If nothing else the view from the window would be better 

One last day/night of curtain twitching .

Cant believe how bad it is now, really steady heavy snow.

 

[101_North]

Just now, Polar Side said:

One last day/night of curtain twitching .

Cant believe how bad it is now, really steady heavy snow.

 

No accumulations under 200m according to the Met Office warning

[Hairy Celt]

Recent showers now hail. I'm at 80m asl in Caithness still.