Scotland/Alba Weather Discussion 2019

[Cheggers]

-4C and crystal clear at 8am. turning into a glorious winters day.

[Big Innes Madori]

Aboot 1cm o' snaw at hame and -7 Deg C when leaving for work.

Car was showing -10 Deg C at Forestmill while driving tae work!

 

Big Innes 

[Ross B]

Nothing major but the Euro4 and meto forecasts going for more snow showers this evening for the west. I missed yesterday's fun but sounded like a decent event. 

[Northernlights]

Had a light snow shower an hour ago and saw my first falling snowflakes of this winter!!!!

[trebor]

At last ! some snow in Orkney. A shower or two first thing left about a cm or two.

[SW Saltire]

Coldest day of the year (and probably previous night).

Car was reading -5c at 1am when i got home. Neighbour said it was -6c at 06:30. 

Got up to 0c before freezing fog engulfed us.

About 1600 the snow came on, leaving a wee covering. Currently -1.5c. 

We do well out of any westerly component, always going to be winners and losers. 

First lying snow of the winter here on the western fringe of Dumfries

Not amazing but i’ll take it! 

Edited January 23, 2019 by SW Saltire

[Benvironment]

FINALLY!!!!!!!!    

[Mr Frost]

43 minutes ago, Benvironment said:

FINALLY!!!!!!!!    

That picture is amazing! 

Stunning view!

Where was this? 

 

[Benvironment]

It had a more alpine feel today, what with very cold drive to Loch Achray and then t-shirt weather by 11am......albeit still subzero. Just awesome

[Keyring]

Some amazing photos! Can’t wait to get home, and get up north with the camera... 

[Benvironment]

8 minutes ago, Mr Frost said:

That picture is amazing! 

Stunning view!

Where was this? 

 

It's up on Ben Venue in the Trossachs. More snow up above 600m than I was expecting tbh, so trailbreaking was periodically horrendous......but of course, wonderful at the same time

[rob4al]

It’s raining here in Glasgow’s East End

[edinburgh_1992]

Worth keeping an eye on Saturday evening, heavy snowfall could occur.... ECMWF based forecast for Saturday in Edinburgh. 0C level dropping to 200m with snow down to the coast.

GFS P confirms , whilst GFS operational goes for a much milder and drier solution 

[shuggee]

Sparkly snizzle here just now. Looks like this weak front is moving NW-SE and pepping-up maybe.

[edinburgh_1992]

Just now, shuggee said:

Sparkly snizzle here just now. Looks like this weak front is moving NW-SE and helping-up maybe.

Brief flurry about half an hour ago in central Edinburgh too

[Stormeh]

46 minutes ago, edinburgh_1992 said:

Worth keeping an eye on Saturday evening, heavy snowfall could occur.... ECMWF based forecast for Saturday in Edinburgh. 0C level dropping to 200m with snow down to the coast.

GFS P confirms , whilst GFS operational goes for a much milder and drier solution

That’s great, time for you guys in the east to get some snow now

[101_North]

1 hour ago, edinburgh_1992 said:

Worth keeping an eye on Saturday evening, heavy snowfall could occur.... ECMWF based forecast for Saturday in Edinburgh. 0C level dropping to 200m with snow down to the coast.

GFS P confirms , whilst GFS operational goes for a much milder and drier solution 

Curious what site you're using?

Cheers

[JamesM]

No idea of the temperature but a hard hoar  frost this morning making it really look like winter when combined with the remnants of yesterday's snow.

A day off today so headed out to the Locherwood Community Woodland between Lochwinnoch and Kilmalcolm which had a better covering than here. Car was still reading -3.5 at 10am. Stunning morning. 

Bit of a change this afternoon with cloud rolling in. Some snizzle now.

[edinburgh_1992]

2 hours ago, 101_North said:

Curious what site you're using?

Cheers

An Italian site called ilMeteo, their forecasts are based on the ecmwf model. 

A few times it has been more accurate than the metoffice and bbc, for example during the December snowfall event. I also find the 0C altitude quite handy when determining if it will snow or not. Shame that uk sites don't offer such data in their forecasts (snow level and 0°C heights).

GFS18 is quite painful, hopefully we get a better run in the morning... Anything but south-westerlies please!

[Polar Gael]

Snaw cover still intact. Third ice day of the winter so far today, with a max of -0.4C. Average temperature for the past seven days was -0.6C. Winter has arrived - finally. Some more very light snaw this evening and currently -3.1C/-4C. All is well. 

[Spindrift2017]

No great depth of snow in rural South Lanarkshire, but had a nice crisp walk around the Douglas area this afternoon - temperature was still about -2C at noon and I don’t think it got above freezing.

This was the scene just a few miles up the road on Saturday, so today was a joy by comparison!

[Northern Strath]

Repeat performance of yesterday morn, wee top-up overnight of 1 or 2 cms.Currently -7c 

Bit of mammatus?

Edited January 24, 2019 by Northern Strath
Double posting pic

[Sceptical]

22 minutes ago, CatchMyDrift said:

All the charts look tidy for next week

 

A continuation of the generally cold and dry theme or something different?

[Sceptical]

3 minutes ago, CatchMyDrift said:

Cold with snow potential.

Sounds good!

[Cheggers]

Had a wee flurry early evening yesterday, -2 this morning but looking grey and damp now.