Scotland/Alba weather discussion - Jan 2021 onwards

[asjmcguire]

12 minutes ago, 101_North said:

I'm a sucker for lamppost watching  

Tomorrow is the first attempt at outdoors, simply due to circumstances! Usually indoor pitches at this time of year but obviously there'll all shut down! We'll see how it goes!

Out of interest - what lampposts do you have, the orangey ones or the new fangled white LED ones?

I used to lamppost watch, but since they replaced our lights with the LED ones, light snow is almost impossible to see. I have to rely on the road starting to turn white on the webcam now.....

[Northernlights]

Currently  0.5c and front almost here .Can see a few areas of freezing rain on the radar just to the west of us.Going to be a nasty night on higher roads.

[Eastern Scotland WX]

13 minutes ago, asjmcguire said:

Out of interest - what lampposts do you have, the orangey ones or the new fangled white LED ones?

I used to lamppost watch, but since they replaced our lights with the LED ones, light snow is almost impossible to see. I have to rely on the road starting to turn white on the webcam now.....

I have the new LED ones, they are perfectly fine for me with snow, in some ways i prefer them.

[101_North]

4 minutes ago, MAXcrazystorm said:

I have the new LED ones, they are perfectly fine for me with snow, in some ways i prefer them.

Same. No issues here either except maybe how bright they are! 

[shuggee]

Just dipping in to report an absolutely disgusting sleety/slashy/frozen rainy mix in a howling wind at 0.8°C.  Nothing good will come of this. 

[asjmcguire]

1 minute ago, shuggee said:

Just dipping in to report an absolutely disgusting sleety/slashy/frozen rainy mix in a howling wind at 0.8°C.  Nothing good will come of this. 

Interesting, I wonder if we will do better here - it's -1.9C here.

[101_North]

31 minutes ago, shuggee said:

Just dipping in to report an absolutely disgusting sleety/slashy/frozen rainy mix in a howling wind at 0.8°C.  Nothing good will come of this. 

A shade colder at 0.1c and without the wind but yes.....a disgusting sleety/slashy/frozen rainy mix! 

[Eastern Scotland WX]

Snowing here boys!!!! In Perth. Very nice quality snow too!

[aggy]

Wee question Cumbernauld is around 140masl  dumb lane Stirling Alloa Perth etc all

much lower asl but do better with snow . Anyone know why ?

[Hairy Celt]

It was a long day...  

oh yeah, weather forum... pishing doon, 3.8C.

We have LED lamps now and they're crap for showing up snow (no snow) - I have to go out to check.

Edited January 16, 2021 by Hairy Celt

[Benvironment]

15 minutes ago, MAXcrazystorm said:

Snowing here boys!!!! In Perth. Very nice quality snow too!

Likewise. Pretty heavy too.

[edo]

Aye heavy snow here and beautiful but so depressing knowing will be 6c and drip drip tomorrow.... Still I better watch it... U never know how long till the next... I have a choice of lamppost.... Led and traditional orange... They left the lamp in my cul de sac when changed the rest of the village to LED. 

[Eastern Scotland WX]

3 minutes ago, edo said:

Aye heavy snow here and beautiful but so depressing knowing will be 6c and drip drip tomorrow.... Still I better watch it... U never know how long till the next... I have a choice of lamppost.... Led and traditional orange... They left the lamp in my cul de sac when changed the rest of the village to LED. 

Coming in and out of snow and sleet here now. 

[Northern Strath]

Snowing here too

[edo]

8 minutes ago, MAXcrazystorm said:

Coming in and out of snow and sleet here now. 

Yeah wet bulb can't be great either not really lying properly on the areas cleared of snow. 

[Hairy Celt]

2 minutes ago, Northern Strath said:

Snowing here too

1000' altitude  get away with yer terrible stuff

[Eastern Scotland WX]

3 minutes ago, edo said:

Yeah wet bulb can't be great either not really lying properly on the areas cleared of snow. 

Indeed. Wet bulb very sporadic. Gonna soon be all rain. 

[Sunny Leith]

Amongst all the crap we're all living through, maybe the loss of another season to the Scottish skiing resorts isn't the biggest thing to worry about. Even so, it's a bloody tragedy considering how this winter is playing out. Anyone got any idea of the snow depths up around Cairngorm, Glencoe etc just now? 

[Gadje]

0.3C still snowing. I expect that will change to yuck soon.

[Northern Strath]

3 minutes ago, Hairy Celt said:

1000' altitude  get away with yer terrible stuff

Well in that case, no more greetin’ about snizzle from your club Tropicana hut ? 

[Hairy Celt]

1 minute ago, Northern Strath said:

Well in that case, no more greetin’ about snizzle from your club Tropicana hut ? 

Snizzle? Who was that Australian lassie - 'I should be so lucky lucky lucky?!?!?'

Right that's the beer finished.

[Northern Strath]

1 minute ago, Hairy Celt said:

Snizzle? Who was that Australian lassie - 'I should be so lucky lucky lucky?!?!?'

Right that's the beer finished.

Few more years of climate malaise and we’ll all be huddled up cairngorm praying for snizzle 

[shuggee]

1.8°C and blowing the rain around. Triple point was always away to our northwest. Maybe I'm too old skool for the weather on the telly. 

[Norrance]

Snowing and lying here now. Not sure for how long or if I can be bothered lamp post watching. (New type light here but a lot dimmer than the orange one). Big but wet flakes so will probs watch for a while and then dream that it won't go away by morning

[asjmcguire]

Starting to cover the road woohoo