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

[101_North]

1 hour ago, Hairy Celt said:

And where's Hawsey when he's needed?

Is October too early to mention his wet baws?

[Northernlights]

Cold windy and more snow showers on the radar heading my way although the Firth may turn them to sleet.Currently 3.5c

[Hairy Celt]

I have sleet battering into my north-facing windows. 

[Northern Strath]

A wee covering of the white stuff when we left the hoose earlier this evening after showers from a biting cold wind, forecast  looks promising for more through the night

[Hairy Celt]

The car had a blanket of frozen sleet... otherwise, zippo.

[ciel]

Ooooh there's a dusting of snow on the hills here.

Blue sky, above at the mo, rain spattered windows and doggie is reluctant to venture out as am I.

[Northern Strath]

Not enough to trouble the shovel but nice to see the first cover of the season here -1c with light snow 

Edited October 27, 2018 by Northern Strath

[Northernlights]

Black isle has a dusting but nothing here at 1.5c and bright. Snow dwon to 600 feet just the west of us and Cawdor hills completely white. Lots of snow covered high ground to the north across the Firth.. Camera on the blink so sorry no photos.

[101_North]

Beautiful day! Blue sky, sun and a slight breeze. Serious error of clothing judgement though! At the boys football, standing around and it's absolutely

[Guest]

Monster hail shower here has left everything covered.. wish I was back up with you lot already as I would be out in 4x4 searching for my Snaw 

[mardatha]

101_North I've got the same, bright lovely sun, blue sky, and bloody baltic

[shuggee]

Snap.

Very dry with the negative dew.

[Hairy Celt]

That was some cold monsoon that just washed over.  Good riddance!

[Benvironment]

<wakes......blinks......yawns.....stretches.....>

Summer slumber over ;-)

 

[Guest]

Just out of interest does anybody know of a good pub to go to for food with kids for when we move back up to Crieff in 5 weeks??

[shuggee]

Sleet pellet-snow, cold wind. Not forecast - love it. Dew point back up now though 2.2/1°C.

[Northernlights]

See the A939 Cockbridge to Tomintoul is blocked due to snow on the traffic information sign at Nairn  tonight. Quite surreal reading it   Will it appear every month till May now?    Currently clear and 5c

[NUT]

Was in edinburgh today for a event. While it started clear and beautiful as soon as it was finished saw some very dark clouds at haymarket thought we gonna get clobbered but no only a light burst of rain in the end. Was not half cold though

[Quinach]

Proper winter's day with plenty of sleet/hail showers blowing through quickly on a stiff N-NNE wind.

Wind preventing it getting to below freezing so far, with a maximum temperature during the day of 5C.

Surrounding hills have a dusting of snow on them, slushy though I suspect.

Some beautiful cloudscapes today, love the pink topped clouds you get at this time of year with the sun being that bit lower in the sky.

Multiple skeins of geese went over just before dusk.

Mightily impressive and loud, must have been over a thousand birds at least - the photos don't do the spectacle justice.

[Hairy Celt]

Frosty this morning, crunchy on the grass.

[101_North]

Beautiful morning! Temp around 0c, perfectly still and frosty!

[Hawesy]

Morning folks,

Great to see the first wintry reports of the winter (or Autumn in fact). I’m down visiting family in Lancashire where it’s a beautiful frosty morning. No need for wet baws considerations here but there was accumulating snow in higher areas of NE England.

Nice to see some of the winter regulars back! 

Edited October 28, 2018 by Hawesy

[mistyqueen]

Back home from hols in the Far East ( Banffshire! ) where the wind did blow mightily! It was absolutely Baltic yesterday morning when we left, but once we got home we'd left the wind and sleet behind. Plenty of white stuff on the mountains at Cluanie but not so much here. Temp was bang on zero around 8.30 but has now rushed up to the heady height of 1.8c with wall to wall sunshine. We had a lovely wee holiday cottage over by, the only downside was the total lack of WiFi or mobile signal, so I have a lot of catching up to do!

Edited October 28, 2018 by mistyqueen

[Scottish-Irish Skier]

16 hours ago, shuggee said:

Sleet pellet-snow, cold wind. Not forecast - love it. Dew point back up now though 2.2/1°C.

Aye, we had the same here at fort SS yesterday evening. Was hammering down at times from some meaty NE showers. These rarely fail to deliver here.

First wintry prep of '18/19.

Glorious cold, crisp morning right now after a bonus extra hour in bed. 

Edited October 28, 2018 by scottish skier

[snowidea]

I can confidently predict a very cold, very snowy winter. Our boiler has just given up the ghost and the last time it died was 2010. Thank goodness for British Gas cover, engineer arriving tomorrow.