Scotland /Alba weather discussion 2020

[Quinach]

Annoying day, blue skies on the horizon to the South and NE, but overcast here for most of the day.

In one of the few sunny intervals, temperature managed to get up to 16.0c

Light winds and dry.  Farmers combining like mad all around here the last few days.

[Northernlights]

Farmers combining like mad this afternoon around here too.Started

in first field at 1.00pm  in dull breezy conditions but sun came out by 2.30pm,temperature rose to 17c   and the dust really started to fly. Got into last field at 4.45pm and finished  cutting 2020 harvest at 9.00pm . Grain fairly dry.Great to get it off as getting very ripe after another week of no combining and the first strong winds would have knocked the heads onto the ground.Now just got to bale up a lot of straw Hope the good forecast for tomorrow is correct. 40 years ago one good day would not have been enough.Machines are now so big that they can get through a tremendous amount/day.Just as well as the weather windows seem to get shorter and shorter.

Full harvest moon now with clear skies and falling temperature,currently 7c

Edited August 31, 2020 by Northernlights

[Mair Snaw]

Pinch punch first day of the month..

Another glorious morning here. Blue skies and bright sunshine , will it last? Probably not but I'm gonna enjoy it while I can.

[mardatha]

Lovely morning here, sunny bright and a gentle breeze. Temp currently 14c.

[mardatha]

Gone cloudy and dull AGAIN!!!! every day this happens!!!

[Mair Snaw]

@mardatha I took the kids to town for an ice cream and literally as soon as we walked out the shop the clouds rolled in.

[mardatha]

Well please stop going oot! STAY HOME lol

[Hawesy]

Updated figures on the Edinburgh Gorgarbank sunshine totals:

March 111.5

April 190.7

May 228.5

June 115

July 117.6

August 86.7

July and August combined saw less sunshine than May!

[NUT]

Another very fleeting sun day (very briefly the sun was out earlier this morning but I was shopping in tesco when it was even then disappeared by the time I was done)  Bit warmer tho so that was something I suppose. Got to admit glad we getting a bit of weather action tomorrow. MIGHT clear the skies a bit eventually

[Quinach]

A reasonable start to Autumn.

Plenty of lovely sunshine in the morning but by lunchtime a lot of cloud had bubbled up accompanied by a stiff southerly breeze.

Afternoon thereafter a shifting battle between overcast conditions and sunny intervals - photo summarises it well.

Dry throughout and a max of 16c; feeling a lot milder outside this evening compared to last night (overnight low of 4c was lower than expected).

[Northernlights]

 A great day to be baling up all the straw left behind the combines on the last two Mondays mostly into round bales but some into small square ones. Lovely golden straw in great order due to sun and wind and a temperature of 18c mid afternoon.The smell in the winter when bedding cattle should remind us of harvest. A long day making the most of the weather and I can still hear  combines working just now as the wind is very strong and keeping the dew away.

[Mr Frost]

August stats against the 1981-2010 anomaly/average:

Summer 2020 stats against the 1981-2010 anomaly/average:

 

Autumn delivers heavy rain and wind gusts of 35mph tomorrow afternoon for here...no change from Summer really! 

Looking forward to a frosty/sunny October/November and then a freezing cold and snowy December/January/February. 
Throw in a wee named storm as well!

Edited September 1, 2020 by Mr Frost

[Mr Frost]

Here are the actual Summer 2020 stats against the 1981-2010 anomaly/average. (Spot the errors above! )

 

One to forget around these parts!

Current temperature 15C, heavy rain and windy.

Low risk of lightning later.

 

A deep low and the associated forward side of an upper trough (PVA) will move into Ireland and northern and western Britain during Wednesday. Outbreaks of showery rain with some heavier downpours will develop along and just ahead of an advancing cold front through the period. Instability in this zone is very limited / non-existent (up to 200 J/kg) so lightning is not expected to be very widespread. However, the trough/front will generate a strongly sheared environment with deep layer and low-level shear of 30-40kts.  The could help to force some embedded deeper convection and thus some lightning cannot be ruled out. An area over central and northern Ireland into W/SW Scotland is the favoured area for lightning between 15z-22z. 

http://www.convectiveweather.co.uk

Edited September 2, 2020 by Mr Frost

[Mair Snaw]

@Mr Frost thanks for those really cheered me up on this windy wet morning.

[Northernlights]

Up at 6.00am looked at local forecast on here which said it would be dry and windy all day ,then looked at the threatening clouds and thought I don"t belive this forecast.       30 minutes later it was moderate rain and is still raining off and on now .Strong southerly wind and warm at 16c.

Nice warm feeling knowing grain is all tucked up in shed and 85% of the straw was baled in wonderful conditions yesterday.Just young grass straw to bale which which will need to ly for a few days to allow the grass part to dry into hay.

[Kirkcaldy Weather]

12 hours ago, Mr Frost said:

August stats against the 1981-2010 anomaly/average:

a freezing cold and snowy December/January/February. 
 

Shows those dark blue thunderstorm tracks nicely, and unlike in winter with the snowy convection it’s the smaller part of the Firth of Forth that is intensifying the storms obviously with it being a southerly rather than an easterly but still interesting.

and here’s hoping ️  

[Mair Snaw]

Nice photo's @CatchMyDrift nothing but cloud and wind up here. And that wind had been very strong this afternoon. Anybody on here know hiw to find wund gust speeds??

[shuggee]

Well this evening's weather is several degrees worse than forecast. Moan moan put me in a home.

And with 56mph gusts. Lovely.

[mardatha]

Yep, I'm under that lot too.

[Mair Snaw]

Oh dear very wet night ahead for you both.. remember the animals come 2 by 2... your gonna need a bigger boat..

Wet here tonight as Mrs Snaw has discovered a new colour changing Gin and I've raided the local beer section in Aldi.

Finally that wind is slowly dying down.

[mardatha]

Def Ark weather. And my god I wish I had some gin.   I've never tasted gin but I think I want to, tonight!!

[Hawesy]

Thanks for the charts @Mr Frost they neatly illustrate how poor the summer has been (away from the far north). 

[Mair Snaw]

@mardatha never tried Gin???? 

[Mair Snaw]

Absolutely lashing it down. That wasn't in the forecast  

[Northernlights]

13 minutes ago, Mair Snaw said:

Absolutely lashing it down. That wasn't in the forecast  

I think we saw what you had to the east with very stormy looking sky at sunset around 8.00pm.

 

Another photo taken half an hour later.

Edited September 2, 2020 by Northernlights