Scotland/Alba weather discussion - Autumn 2020 onwards

[edo]

Nice @Mair SnawI could watch that all day, never care how intensive just love staring out the window at falling white stuff. 

[Hawesy]

22 minutes ago, Ravelin said:

Just been out to clear the driveway and measured between 8-10cm typically. That's way more than I ever expected but as I said in the MOD thread I seem to have been in the sweet spot for the incoming snow bands. 

Wow. To put that in perspective (for me!) I've had 10cm on the ground once in the last 15 years! 

Edited December 24, 2020 by Hawesy

[Northern Strath]

A wee covering here also, few cms, -1.7c with occasional showers and squirrels 

 

[Cheggers]

54 minutes ago, edo said:

Oooft love a caramel wafer 

Xmas sorted

Edited December 24, 2020 by Cheggers

[Hairy Celt]

A glazing of refrozen slush here looks a bit whiter on the hill behind with maybe s**w above 200m.  There was a sudden frisson of excitement in the Co-op queue as a few flakes came down.

[Sceptical]

Think that's it for snow today. Looking around 3cms. Away to hit the local hills with high expectations following Ravelins report. Ill grab some pictures on the way up. 

Should be around half a foot easy at 350 meters ASL.

[Kirkcaldy Weather]

9 hours ago, LomondSnowstorm said:

Almost certainly, it looked alright as far as intensity goes but it'll take more than a fairly heavy shower to actually land a hit in Fife from a northerly

It has happened (maybe 5 times that I can remember) but I'm struggling to think of when other than those times it's associated with a proper cold front or some sort of mini-low.

I’ll have to hunt for what date it was but my only snow even if it was basically unmeasurable a few winters ago was from a trough that actually managed to get precip into fife from a northerly LOL 99% you are correct seen it lots of times where it re intensifies after going into Edinburgh and the borders. 
had a check of the overnight runs improved from the 18z

overnight low here was 0.5C 

[TinyTim]

Well, I'm so glad that some are getting the white stuff

Nothing here of course, and honestly I'm trying not to expect much over the next week or so... if we get something that will be brill, but it's rather unusual around here... mind you, not as bad as Fife, so fingers crossed for Hawsey too

Tim

[Puffy MacCloud]

This is one of those special winter days when a cloudless sky and gin-clear air provide unlimited visibility and the feeling of unlimited potential. And then you remember it's 2020 and the gloom re-descends.

Temperature 2.4deg.C today's max and down from -2.8deg.C at 01:38, humidity is 77%, wind 2 to 7mph northwesterly, pressure is 1033.4hPa rising rapidly, there's been no rain today, which is unsurprising as there's not a cloud in sight, and the dew point is -1deg.C.

[Halfamilefromnowhere]

Lovely morning 0.7C and just a tad over 4cms of snow all very seasonal.

[Northernlights]

Stunningly cold wind at 1c off the Firth from the north this morning with ground freezing up and one or two flurries of soft hail overnight on the surface. Full winter gear on. Got an ouside water trough valve repaired this morning and buried again just before tonights frost.

Snow on the Soutars of Cromarty on the Black Isle and down to sea level at Wick.Otherwise all ground over 600feet has a thin covering anddeeper higher up. Very festive looking and seasonal.

Edited December 24, 2020 by Northernlights

[Ravelin]

I'd say there was 4cm approx lying in Alford this morning compared to at least 8cm here. We also went up the hill another 100m or so to walk the dog and I'd say there was another few cm again, so height certainly has made a noticeable difference. 

 

Showers have stopped now and there's blue skies. With little wind the snow on the trees and bushes is surviving. Temp has been 0.5C or lower all day so only a slight thaw should mean we have a snowy looking Xmas day tomorrow. Kind of makes up for not being where we usually are at Xmas, on a ski slope somewhere in Austria. 

Edited December 24, 2020 by Ravelin
Added pictures

[Scottish-Irish Skier]

Enough tae land a sleigh oan. 

Merry Christmas all. Hope it brings some snaw! 

[Sceptical]

Northen facing hills took a bit of a hammering earlier on today. I was hill walking yesterday and there wasn't a hint of snow. Much different today with decent accumulations. Evidence of drifting with elevation, approaching the tops, blowing powder snow.

On the descent, bumped into a couple of cross country skiers heading up.

Just awesome!

A few pictures:

 

 

 

Edited December 24, 2020 by Sceptical

[Ravelin]

@ScepticalWhere is that? At a guess, if that's Bennachie in the top of the first photo, you were to the south of Tillyfourie somewhere? I've always meant to explore that area but never gotten around to it. 

[Kirkcaldy Weather]

@LomondSnowstorm it was actually a front  1st February 2019, still a rare achievement to get it producing in Fife from the north  

 

[Sceptical]

10 minutes ago, Ravelin said:

@ScepticalWhere is that? At a guess, if that's Bennachie in the top of the first photo, you were to the south of Tillyfourie somewhere? I've always meant to explore that area but never gotten around to it. 

That's Corrennie Woods Tillyfourie. There is so much terrain to explore you could spend days up there. Definitely worth checking out, the views are great, its super quiet and the hound will love it.

Forestry operations have ceased for a few days, allowing full access to the hills. Take advantage while its quiet

Edited December 24, 2020 by Sceptical

[Norrance]

Just a frost here that has lingered in the shade and given some black ice on back roads and pavements. As is usual with a Northerly the showers petered out over North Angus and Highland Perthshire. Something got a fright in our back garden this morning. A seagull ? The feather is 7 inches long.  No trace of a body and no-one in the house heard anything.

edit. Daughter thinks that it might be a wood pigeon.

Edited December 24, 2020 by Norrance

[Quinach]

Elevation king round here today with our 100m just on the wrong side.

About 1cm of snow at most in the shade and a slushy affair at that...

As noted above, Tillyfourie and further west a lot whiter.

Reached a max of 1.3c and currently 0.7c with a slow thaw ongoing; that should stop shortly.

Moderate westerly wind making it feel positively baltic out there.

Snow flurries off and on most of the day, Bennachie hidden behind one in the photo below.

[JoeShmoe]

merry Christmas everyone, hope Santa brings you the snaw you all want  

[blitzen]

Evenin' all.

Thought I should just check in and wish you all a day of Christmas merriment tomorrow!

Just going to start preparing Christmas dinner for 4 which should take me about an hour! and then get the turkey ready for roasting. 

 

Edited December 24, 2020 by Blitzen

[shuggee]

Got down to -2.3°C last night making it my twelfth air frost. Grey sub zero morning midday max of 1.2°C then the blue skies and sun arrived making it a beautiful afternoon. 

Exciting weather times ahead after Saturday. 

Merry Christmas everybody 

[BurntFishTrousers]

Courtesy of my DIY weather decoding software, here we have the following:

1/ Close up of outer bands of forming #StormBella

2/ Clouds over Iceland associated with #StormBella in relation to UK, Europe and north Africa. (High resolution 9Mb pic)

3/ Clear skies just south of here. Cold night ahead for UK.

Interesting weather watching ahead.

Edited December 24, 2020 by BurntFishTrousers

[BurntFishTrousers]

What have we here? The makings of a polar low 

[Mair Snaw]

Well what a day, started with Snaw even at my elevation and its just about hung around all day, i went for a stack on the icy driveway so medication was needed. Here is said medication