Scotland/Alba Weather Discussion 2019

[Norrance]

Sounds like hard work@Ravelin

Here mildish, damp and gloomy. Don't normally get depressed with the weather and forecasts but the next couple of weeks look awful and a right waste of Winter.

[NUT]

Mild, Drizzly and pish absolute meh hopefully everyone had a good christmas

[Mair Snaw]

Horrible day. driving rain windy and dull.

[Sceptical]

And so the mild dross continues:

Temperatures for parts of NE Scotland wont fall below 9C over the next 48 hours.

Bizarre!

[edinburgh_1992]

22 minutes ago, Sceptical said:

And so the mild dross continues:

Temperatures for parts of NE Scotland wont fall below 9C over the next 48 hours.

Bizarre!

9C in north-eastern Scotland, meanwhile snow is expected at 300m above sea level in southern Italy... What a strange winter

[shuggee]

I'd just put it down as incredibly boring so far! And the yawnfest just drags on and on. December 2019 will certainly be quickly forgotten and never mentioned ever again. 

 

[Sceptical]

Parts of the Moray Firth tomorrow are expected to hit 15C. 

[101_North]

It's like late October out there! Horrible stuff!

[Benvironment]

6 minutes ago, 101_North said:

It's like late October out there! Horrible stuff!

I can't even summon the enthusiasm to go for a walk in it!

[Mair Snaw]

Wow its warm out. only had the heating on for 3 hours from 7am. the stove is on a low rumble and i might be forced into shorts and t-shirt before long. what the f**k is going on with this winter?

[Hairy Celt]

This is Scotland chaps.  If you want snow and ice, head north and east - Scandinavia still gets proper winters, although no doubt the old fogeys there grumble like us.

'When I were a lad, we used to get hunted by packs of wolves on the way to school and had to dig shelters in snow drifts to escape. When the polar bears appeared, we knew we were up lemon creek. Paddles were no use as the ice was too thick to break.'

[Northernlights]

Dull but dry so far this morning. It was so dark all morning that we  needed lights on in steading to feed /bed  cattle  even at midday. Strong southerly  wind but mild at 12c

[Sceptical]

1 hour ago, bigsnow said:

what the f**k is going on with this winter?

Not just this winter, but future UK winters.

Climate change.

[Benvironment]

1 hour ago, Hairy Celt said:

This is Scotland chaps.  If you want snow and ice, head north and east - Scandinavia still gets proper winters, although no doubt the old fogeys there grumble like us.

'When I were a lad, we used to get hunted by packs of wolves on the way to school and had to dig shelters in snow drifts to escape. When the polar bears appeared, we knew we were up lemon creek. Paddles were no use as the ice was too thick to break.'

Ha ha! Too true! My pals in Vest-Agder are dismayed at their 8C and pishing rain as well  

This is our tenth winter up here at 900ft and it looks like going down as our first without any lying snow this side of the new year

[edinburgh_1992]

2 hours ago, Hairy Celt said:

This is Scotland chaps.  If you want snow and ice, head north and east - Scandinavia still gets proper winters, although no doubt the old fogeys there grumble like us.

'When I were a lad, we used to get hunted by packs of wolves on the way to school and had to dig shelters in snow drifts to escape. When the polar bears appeared, we knew we were up lemon creek. Paddles were no use as the ice was too thick to break.'

I know this is Scotland, but the current temperatures and outlook are anything but normal - 13-15C in parts of the country. 

If the high pressure settles over us, we could get some temperature inversions with seasonal temperatures at ground level. I think we will end up sandwiched between high pressure to our south and Atlantic systems tracking to the north (mild, windy and occasionally wet). 

Also heading east and north wouldn't help either. Most of the European half of Russia has no snow at the moment, Moscow has been experiencing near record breaking temperatures. It was +9 last week there

Edited December 28, 2019 by edinburgh_1992

[mardatha]

I'M TOO CRABBIT TO EVEN COMMENT!

[shuggee]

The December 2019 Scrabble hand equivalent.... 

 

[Norrance]

1 hour ago, shuggee said:

The December 2019 Scrabble hand equivalent.... 

 

Icy! 
Just like it was in November, before Winter started.

Edited December 28, 2019 by Norrance

[shuggee]

Lol I genuinely didn't see that! Winter. Pffft. 

[Northernlights]

Still 12 c here and this afternoon you could see all the grass fields getting greener. Bulbs are coming trough too.

[carinthian]

11 minutes ago, Northernlights said:

Still 12 c here and this afternoon you could see all the grass fields getting greener. Bulbs are coming trough too.

I suppose NL is not that unusual to get those sort of temps in this set up, especially if you trace the isobar flow back to deepest NW Africa and this source of air mass carried through your domain. See West coast of Norway close to double positive digits as well.. Still does not seem right for winter and I am sure its not all good for the farming cycle up there.

C

[Hairy Celt]

4 hours ago, edinburgh_1992 said:

I know this is Scotland, but the current temperatures and outlook are anything but normal - 13-15C in parts of the country. 

If the high pressure settles over us, we could get some temperature inversions with seasonal temperatures at ground level. I think we will end up sandwiched between high pressure to our south and Atlantic systems tracking to the north (mild, windy and occasionally wet). 

Also heading east and north wouldn't help either. Most of the European half of Russia has no snow at the moment, Moscow has been experiencing near record breaking temperatures. It was +9 last week there

Iceland and northern Scandinavia currently have proper winter...

No, you're right, 14C (we're forecast this tonight) isn't 'normal' - but this is the way it's going.

[Hairy Celt]

2 minutes ago, carinthian said:

I suppose NL is not that unusual to get those sort of temps in this set up, especially if you trace the isobar flow back to deepest NW Africa and this source of air mass carried through your domain. See West coast of Norway close to double positive digits as well.. Still does not seem right for winter and I am sure its not all good for the farming cycle up there.

C

You'll only get grass growth is the overnight temps don't drop below about 7C so it isn't that common in Scotland except next to the sea. Dunno quite how close NL is. My garden is almost littoral (inner firth) and we could mow our lawn all year round. Except when it's covered in snow 

[Glaswegianblizzard]

This seems to remind me of 2006-07 - would I be right there?

[Northernlights]

24 minutes ago, Hairy Celt said:

You'll only get grass growth is the overnight temps don't drop below about 7C so it isn't that common in Scotland except next to the sea. Dunno quite how close NL is. My garden is almost littoral (inner firth) and we could mow our lawn all year round. Except when it's covered in snow .

As the crow flies about 4 miles but its now 13c and last nights temperature was about 9c so growth has started ,descending wind off the the Cairngorms to the south of us is the culprit.