Scotland /Alba weather discussion 2020

[Puffy MacCloud]

There's some organised cloud over towards the western horizon but only high, wispy stuff elsewhere allowing for a bright start to the day, although chilly again.

Temperature is currently 5.4 deg.C and the minimum last night was 2.6 deg.C at 04:52, r.h. is 98%, there's no wind, pressure is rising slowly at 1017.9 hPa, and there's been no rain since midnight.

A perfect day to take a walk later with my daughter and get some lunch somewhere locally.

[Mair Snaw]

A rather bright morning here. So home teaching today will mostly be spent at the local beach. See if we spot some seals while also learning about them and the surrounding environment. Might as well make the most of what looks like the last real usable day for the next week or so.

I'm gonna pop into the mad House to see when the snaw is arriving

[Mair Snaw]

As ever @CatchMyDrift excellent photos.

[Kirkcaldy Weather]

21 minutes ago, CatchMyDrift said:

Thanks @Mair Snaw

Here's a couple more pics from today this time, it's an utter smasher here today:

Looks like Canada is a go for a holiday in November into December, should be a bit snowy by then

Aye a 2010 redux maybe still gets me excited 10 years later  

 

 

 

[Mr Frost]

I think some folk in parts of the NE/E/SE might need a boat by the end of this weekend to get about.

I blame @CatchMyDrift for posting about a dry September. 

UKMO 96,120 and 144:

ECM total accumulated rainfall for latest run:

 

Mountain Outlook looking very wet and windy.

https://mwis.org.uk

Planning Outlook:

Low pressure and fronts will move in from the Atlantic during midweek, bringing heavy rain to west and south facing mountains on Wednesday. Generally low pressure is then expected to persist across Britain through into the weekend, although conditions will vary from day to day. Some days escaping dry, but expect areas of persistent and heavy rain, mixed with clusters of heavy showers. Close to freezing on highest tops Thursday and Friday, then warmer air is likely to be drawn in from the southeast. Winds also varied, marked lulls, but sometimes widely gale force on the hills.

@Mair Snaw If you want a snow fix head to @Kirkcaldy Weather snow and ice thread - great stuff in there at the moment! Cracking pictures from @carinthian as well in the Austria and Worldwide mountain snow thread. 

Glorious stuff up North last night I see!

Aurora and rare moonbows light up the night: Link below.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-54338080
 

With regards to Winter 2020/21 I’m just going to sit back and see what happens! Totally ignoring all long range predictions/outlooks! Local 400 meters hill already marked out as my snow fix spot. Hopefully see more than one centimetre settle at sea level here this Winter. 

Last Winter was an absolute stinker - can’t be any worse this year! Can it!? 
 

Edited September 29, 2020 by Mr Frost

[Kirkcaldy Weather]

@Mr Frost but of course others in the winter thread would have u believing snow will never happen again always best to approach it positive  

[Mair Snaw]

Cracking photos @CatchMyDrift excellent charts @Kirkcaldy Weather  @Mr Frost a level head as ever. it's been a beautiful morning/afternoon had a great walk on the beach at Costa Del Newburgh. Got some pics and videos will pop them up later.

[Sanserit]

2 hours ago, Kirkcaldy Weather said:

Aye a 2010 redux maybe still gets me excited 10 years later  

 

 

 

The Monday is the day I particularly remember as I had to get my daughter to the airport as she was leaving for her ski season job. Surprisingly, none of the flights were delayed. Oh to experience a winter of that calibre again!

@Mair Snaw where can I find this mad house?

[Mair Snaw]

@Sanserit its what we call the model output discussion thread. In winter months it turns into a place best avoided for your own sanity.. some of us in here pop in to stir the S**t pot when we have snaw and those South of the border dont.. i normally get myself in trouble for it mind.. but this winter I'm gonna be a good boy..

[Ravelin]

20 minutes ago, Mair Snaw said:

this winter I'm gonna be a good boy.

There's far more chance of us having an extreme cold & snowy winter than there is of you behaving yourself in the MOD thread. 

Glorious day here so my morning supposedly working from home didn't quite work out that way, and my afternoon in school consisted of outdoor learning, in other words I took the pupils for a walk to the River Don & back. 

[Mair Snaw]

@Ravelin thats very true but I'm gonna try my best honest..

well I was going to add some photo's and a video of my morning but for some strange reason i can't  the "click to choose files " bit is not working.. 

[Puffy MacCloud]

A very pleasant day that stayed bright and dry although coolish at a maximum of 14.8 deg.C at 14:24, which was when I was out taking my knackered knees and lungs for a walk.

Edited September 29, 2020 by Puffy MacCloud

[Mair Snaw]

Just a few pictures from today. Won't let me upload a video. Shame cos I have a couple of crackers..

[Northernlights]

Fabulous day here too with a few clouds and bright blue skies in between and no wind.  Odd fields of straw and late sown bits of crop being baled up and combined so harvest should all be tidied up before the rain arrives. We have been sorting cattle, trimming trees with overhanging branches,sorting garden and doing a bit of painting before it gets wet. Saving inside jobs for wet days. Last years weaned calves were taken in last week so winter feeding has started.

After a fabulous sunny dry April and May the summer more or less followed those of old with a few fine days and then some rain but drying up again fairly soon in this area. September has been real old fashioned too with plenty dry weather some cool nights at the end, occasional rain, along with a couple of windy days.A wet October if it arrives would be traditional too and maybe if the depressions stay in the south of  the UK  we may escape the worst of the rain.

It has been a fabulous growing year too on our boulder clay soils  both on the farm and in the garden.Will post some pictures of parsnips when we start lifting them as the tops are nearly three feet high so if the roots are as big then we will be living on them this winter.Field neeps too have huge leaves and the bulbs are very big already with a few more weeks growth yet.

Would it be too much to expect a traditional winter too with the cold building until February? Only my thoughts but the lack of aircraft in the skies could help and the skies colours are certainly brighter and stronger with not many orangy polluted skies days here this year so far

 

[Quinach]

Cracking day.

Plenty of sunshine, occasionally masked by high altitude cloud....

Light winds, max of 15c (overnight low lowest of the autumn so far at -0.3c with a grass frost lingering until 9am).

One glance at the forecast for the rest of the week guaranteed the day was spent tidying the garden.  Ground is actually very dry, me thinks that will be the last time I'll be saying that until April/May 2021.

Lovely sunset to round the day off well.

[Sanserit]

It was a cracking day today, with some warm sunshine this afternoon. From a low of 1.6 at 7am, to a high of 17.7 at 4pm it was a day to savour, shame I was indoors for the best part of it.

One of our consultants dropped off soil samples from a Deeside client for me to book in, parcel up and send to our labs in Edinburgh, 11 from barley parks and 2 from grass and I've never seen so many bags of dust! I'm used to soil samples being fairly damp with it clumping in the bags. The soil augers drill down around 8-10 inches so apparently it was hard to get decent samples with it being so dry. 

[Puffy MacCloud]

A fair bit of weather about this morning with rain and wind making a seasonal return.

Temperature currently 11.2 deg.C up from overnight minimum of 8.8 deg.C, r.h. 92%, wind at 3 to 7 mph generally and from a slightly west of southerly direction, pressure at 999.6 hPa falling, there's been 3.2 mm of rain since it started just after 04:00, and the sky is completely covered in low cloud, which is chasing briskly northwards.

[Mair Snaw]

What a horrible day.. Grey and wet. I believe the term is pish. What a massive difference from yesterday. Might have to clean the log burner out and fire it up if it continues like this.

 

[Puffy MacCloud]

It remained pretty dismal here too.

10.7 deg.C now with a maximum of 13.4 deg.C at 15:05, relative humidity 91%, a variable light breeze has come and gone throughout the day, pressure is at 999.1 hPa, and there's been 9.4mm of rain so far today.

Haven't left the house today. Didn't feel the need to.

[Norrance]

Dull here too with rain which was heavy at times. Winds generally light and variable. Drier now but still dull. Max of 11.7C and min of 7.1C last night. Currently 11.3C.

[Quinach]

Dreich.

Small diurnal range today, low of 8c, max of 11c.

Rain off and on since 9am, heavy at times.

Made mistake of looking at the weekend forecast 

[Mair Snaw]

A foul morning outside. Looks worse than yesterday.

Pinch punch first day of the month. Somebody go wake up Green Day.

[mardatha]

Bleugh!

[Puffy MacCloud]

Here we are again. No weather; no clouds, no wind, no rain. Just sunshine and a bit chilly.

Temperature currently 4.8 deg.C following a minimum of 4.3 deg.C at 07:56, r.h. 97%, pressure 997.9 hPa holding steady.

[shuggee]

Rain and associated low cloud and grey skies cleared around 8.45am - with a defined edge to blue sky and sunshine. Now a mixed bag of cloud/sun. The transition is heading north and east - so there's hope yet! Low of 6.4C last night.