Scotland/Alba weather discussion - Autumn 2020 onwards

[101_North]

Been out for a quick walk. Maybe just shy of an inch on the car and grass. Hard surfaces about a cm and frozen solid! 

[Mr Frost]

Morning all!

Slushy dusting at sea level here - roughly fifty meters for anything settling! Lovely though - another snow shower has just gone through! 

It was never in doubt! 

 

 

 

[Norrance]

A frozen dusting (just) here. My daughter skidded off the road earlier this morning in Bearsden on a thin layer of slush as she turned off the main road. Going a bit too fast perhaps! Luckily two passing guys pushed tbe car back on to the road for her. 
Here would this count as lying snow?

 

Currently clear at -0.4C here but some cloud off to our West and South.

Edited December 3, 2020 by Norrance

[Stormeh]

A nice wee dusting of snow this morning. The roads are pretty lethal with the ice. 
 

 

I was lucky enough to capture a flash of lightning on my dash cam on the way home from work last night.

Hopefully this is a sign of a decent winter 

[NUT]

Most of what was on the ground has been taken by the gritters unfortunately but was really nice to see it keep snowing more or less after than rumble of thunder (not too loud and no lightning) long may this continue all winter (OK it won't)

[Northernlights]

-1c dry and clear .Mud at least is frozen up so walking around this morning is easier.

[A Winter's Tale]

A nice covering this morning - looking rather festive. It snowed heavily around around 2am and left a covering of around half a cm. A nice start to winter - better than the last couple of Decembers and hopefully the start of a decent winter for cold and snow.

[Ross B]

22 minutes ago, Stormeh said:

A nice wee dusting of snow this morning. The roads are pretty lethal with the ice. 
 

 

I was lucky enough to capture a flash of lightning on my dash cam on the way home from work last night.

Hopefully this is a sign of a decent winter 

Great capture, that's about a minute away from my house so I definetley slept through it 

[blitzen]

Morning all!

Well, I guess my reverse psychology paid off!   I'm foxing freezing though!

Woke up to a very light dusting which is nice to see.   Haven't witnessed any flakes falling yet though.   Saw one flash of lightning and heard a very loud clap of thunder too.

Currently 0.6c  Dew point 0.2c   Pressure 987mb.

Edited December 3, 2020 by Blitzen

[Daniel*]

2 hours ago, 101_North said:

I wasn't expecting to introduce my new back garden so early in the winter  

Getting close to an inch but not been outside to check for sure! Quite slushy though but a nice surprise!

I definitely need a new back light though

 

Glad to see I won’t be homeless

[Puffy MacCloud]

Was that it?

Temperature 0.7deg.C up from 0.2deg.C at 08:43, humidity 96%, wind zero, pressure 989.5hPa falling, 2.0mm of rain (sleet), dew point 0deg.C, 4/8 cloud cover.

Diablo still say snow.

[Mr Frost]

Just quickly looking further ahead into the early hours of Friday.

Three things to note:

1. Evening/tonight will be absolutely baltic with a widespread/severe frost for many - minimum of -5/6/7C for a few! Even the risk of a -10C popping up somewhere. 

2. This track is subject to slight changes/timing.

3. Later you stay up/earlier wake up - more chance you have of seeing falling/lying snowfall (before it turns to sleet/rain) - higher ground favoured of course as per current Met Office warnings. 

Friday 00:00

 

02;00

 

04:00

 

06:00

As long as there is a risk of snowfall for someone in here I am happy. 

Good luck again everyone! 

[Kirkcaldy Weather]

Had a rumble of thunder from that shower u guys in the west were mentioning at around 1am. Great to see all the snow pics and the thunder reports, my little summary was pretty accurate so that’s good best thing really is looking like being radar watching and looking at the temperatures from weather stations for tomorrow, still quite a bit of differences between the short range models with less than 24 hours to go so anyone’s guess how much and where but I have a pretty decent idea what I think will happen here. I’ll be right on the boundary of the colder / slightly warmer air whilst the likes of @Blitzen to my west gets a couple of cms Honestly those dewpoints are going to drive me insane! if I can’t get snow I would probably take freezing rain don’t think I’ve seen that yet. 
guess I’ll just continue ing for an easterly with sub zero dewpoints 

[jmp223420]

This is Glasgow east, elevation about 55m asl at 10.06AM.  It's about 2 to 3 cm.  Was a delightful surprise, went out a walk for a paper and it's hard snow underfoot.  for low dews and north sea convection tonight and enough wind to blow it east into the colder air the charts are showing in the clyde valley :).  Spot the squirrel in the pic lol.

Edited December 3, 2020 by jmp223420
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[shuggee]

Nothing at home. Not even an air frost (minimum at 0.2C). Had to drive into Edinburgh today to fix my car, and the settled snow started at West Linton and lasted all the way in and around the bypass even to the A1/East Lothian boundary. Frozen slush on the cars in Seafield even. Arthur's Seat looking very pretty, as of course are the Pentlands...

[BurntFishTrousers]

Managed to capture M2 satellite image as it went overhead. Plenty snow cover over Scotland if you look closely . 

[TinyTim]

Well!  That was a turnup for the books  Lying snow here, but barely counts as a dusting - however, as I said yesterday, already beaten last winter!! 

More please!!

Tim

[Ross B]

The met office have expanded tomorrow's warnings West a bit so it includes here. That's rain tomorrow then! As soon as they expanded today's warning at 6am a heavy snow shower heading towards us died off and we never got any more 

 

Edit: meto warning page is having technical difficulties so may not be accurate, who knows then! 

Edited December 3, 2020 by Ross B

[101_North]

First opportunity to post my favourite local webcam image. Pentlands looking fantastic this morning! 

 

Edited December 3, 2020 by 101_North

[Mair Snaw]

Nowt here apart from Frost, tonight im forecast 6 hours of sleet and then pish for the next 2 days.. my need to move inland and higher up is now more important, even the kids are moaning about the lack of snaw..

[mistyqueen]

Afternoon all! As expected, a dusting of snow atop the Cuillins. Temp dropped to -1.1c last night and was at 1.4c at 7.15 this morning. Now at -0.1c. Clear skies, no wind, looks a it'll be frosty tonight! Lit the stove in the kitchen this morning. It only gets lit when it's very cold. 

[Benvironment]

2cm here.....and still no air frost this season. Headed straight out the door before even having breakfast though

 

[Benvironment]

2 hours ago, Mr Frost said:

 

3. Later you stay up/earlier wake up - more chance you have of seeing falling/lying snowfall (before it turns to sleet/rain) - higher ground favoured of course as per current Met Office warnings. 

 

Hmm.....pondering whether to stay up for a headtorch walk or risk getting up super early to do the same. Might have to do the former, as walking through sopping wet snow as it turns to rain is the absolute pits!

[NUT]

Quite a nice pic as I stood waiting for taxi outside tesco

[Quinach]

Temperature took a plummet after 2am last night reaching a low of -4.8c; an ice day by the look of things as still -0.4c outside and sparkling white with frost out of the sun.

Crystal clear blue skies so unbroken sunshine as a result; calm conditions.

Could get used to this kind of sunny weather 

Council finally decided to grit the road this morning, so the snow forecast tomorrow is now guaranteed to be rain!