Scotland/Alba weather discussion - Jan 2021 onwards

[Ceitidh]

Nice wintry view out the window again today. 

[Penicuikblizzard]

The app has changed again looking interesting in the early hours 

[101_North]

1 minute ago, Penicuikblizzard said:

The app has changed again looking interesting in the early hours 

It's a fickle beast that app! Changes every coupe of hours. Was endless sleety pish earlier. I'm liking the changes! Getting near that time of day when the warnings might be updated. A good evening of radar watching again hopefully 

[blitzen]

Morning.

Oh what a grey day!   Lost quite a bit of cover overnight, just the remnants visible now.   0.9c/0.6c/980.2/W.

Doesn't really feel like there is an impending storm some how?  But, who can tell with this winter, 

going by all the various and conflicting forecasts.

[edo]

Xc weather was a fail last night.... I had 6 hours of snow and it just insisted I only ever had fog.... We had that weird wet bulb phenomenon again where the ground covers quick but then seems to barely grow in depth after that and there always seemed to be a slow thaw as it fell. 

Edited January 20, 2021 by edo

[aggy]

5 minutes ago, edo said:

Xc weather was a fail last night.... I had 6 hours of snow and it just insisted I only ever had fog.... We had that weird wet bulb phenomenon again where the ground covers quick but then seems to barely grow in depth after that and there always seemed to be a slow thaw as it fell. 

Exactly the same here . It’s actually pretty much all melted now and drizzle 

[Puffy MacCloud]

Nothing to see here. Nothing at all. Move along please. Thank you.

Temperature 1.4deg.C up from 0.5deg.C at 01:37, humidity 96%, wind between 0 and 7mph east-southeasterly, pressure 983.1hPa steady, there's been 0.6mm of rain today and 11.8mm in the last 24 hours, cloud cover is 8/8 and the dew point is at 1deg.C.

As I sat down here Diablo flashed up the snaw symbol. Diablo he take jaffa cakes.

[snowy owl]

Drip drip happening, actually doesn’t feel that cold out in a T-shirt filling bird feeders ! (Also avoiding school Google meets lol )

[Benvironment]

Our road today  

I pity the poor parents whose kids will soon be dragging them up the hill to play in the rather unpleasantly wet cover we currently have 

EDIT - then again, maybe said parents are snowmaniacs like the rest of us and it's THEM dragging the reluctant kids up the hill as an excuse to get out and play  That's what I'd do!

Edited January 20, 2021 by Benvironment

[metallikat34]

45 minutes ago, 101_North said:

Not many photos today due to Team calls and worksheets! 

Over 3 inches and still snowing lightly. A decent enough view out the back now the tree's gone. Start of the Pentlands just visible in the background.

Thinking of coming up your way for a late morning snow run! Just a lot of slush down here in Morningside 

[Geedawg]

Good old forth!

[101_North]

I'm now simply hiding from anything to do with home schooling! The kids are fed up, won't engage with anything and even getting them to join Teams calls is a running battle! This is ruining the kids and I feel heart sorry for them whilst understanding the need  for it. My frustration isn't helped by other parents and their endless perfect lockdown life updates. "Tarquin and I have been up from 6am baking cookies and solving equations. Tarquin finished all his school work half an hour before he got up"

27 minutes ago, metallikat34 said:

Thinking of coming up your way for a late morning snow run! Just a lot of slush down here in Morningside 

Do it! Park the car at the new Cala development at Kinleith Mill or Blinkbonny and head up Warklaw Hill. Easy walk, just over an hour round trip and stunning views over the city. 

Edited January 20, 2021 by 101_North

[Eastern Scotland WX]

Light sleety wet snow here near Perth. 0.9C currently. 

[Scottish-Irish Skier]

Still got ma 3 cm fae last night.

Currently just getting 'slaw' or mibbie 'sneet'. Mixture ae sleet n wet snaw. 

Cauld n driech.

Edited January 20, 2021 by Scottish-Irish Skier

[Ravelin]

6 minutes ago, 101_North said:

I'm now simply hiding from anything to do with home schooling! The kids are fed up, won't engage with anything and even getting them to join Team calls is a running battle! This is ruining the kids and I feel heart sorry for them whilst understating the need  for it. My frustration isn't helped by other parents are their endless perfect lockdown life updates. "Tarquin and I have been up from 6am baking cookies and solving equations. Tarquin finished all his school work half an hour before he got up

From a parental point of view I agree fully, my son is a nightmare. He will do the work but he prefers to do it in the evening, and getting him up and at least half awake for scheduled Teams meets with his teachers is a battle.

From a teachers point of view it's equally as annoying, driving both me and my wife (also a teacher) nuts. 

Been steady here temperature wise, sitting between 0.5 and 1C all morning, probably due to the sheet of high cloud. There's the occasional patch of blue poking through but I doubt we'll see too much sun.

[JoeShmoe]

It also doesn't help that Edinburgh Council's teams goes up and down every 20 minutes

[101_North]

2 minutes ago, Ravelin said:

From a parental point of view I agree fully, my son is a nightmare. He will do the work but he prefers to do it in the evening, and getting him up and at least half awake for scheduled Teams meets with his teachers is a battle.

From a teachers point of view it's equally as annoying, driving both me and my wife (also a teacher) nuts. 

Been steady here temperature wise, sitting between 0.5 and 1C all morning, probably due to the sheet of high cloud. There's the occasional patch of blue poking through but I doubt we'll see too much sun.

If I'm being honest, whilst some aspects of the schools handling of this frustrates me given they've had ample warning this time, I have a new found respect for teachers. This isn't an ideal situation for anyone but teachers really are caught in the crossfire here. They can't do right for doing wrong. Fair play to you both. I can't imagine being a teacher and homeschooling. 

[Mair Snaw]

We home educate and have done now since November/December 2019 so nothing has really changed here for us.. the kids do a 3 day week, we have a school routine with break times and lunch time etc. Im not claiming that its easy because its anything but that. They moan about stuff just like all kids i guess, a quick "would you behave like that at school" and the threat of technology removal does the trick.. we even make them hand in the mobiles before school starts..

[metallikat34]

It feels like a crime posting my own twitter thread.....but here I am. Posted this mini analysis just now.

 

[JoeShmoe]

Paul Blight update alert

[101_North]

6 minutes ago, metallikat34 said:

It feels like a crime posting my own twitter thread.....but here I am. Posted this mini analysis just now.

 

Blighty doesn't have to self promote  

[metallikat34]

1 minute ago, 101_North said:

Blighty doesn't have to self promote  

Never heard of him until yesterday, but he seems to be a bit notorious on these chats? Not sure if thats a good or bad thing....

[Cheggers]

I do hope BBC are right for once

 

[Ravelin]

12 minutes ago, Mair Snaw said:

we even make them hand in the mobiles before school starts..

I really wish all schools would do that. There are benefits to allowing kids to have mobiles in schools but they are far outweighed by the drawbacks. We're creating a generation who are addicted to their small screens.

[101_North]

1 minute ago, metallikat34 said:

Never heard of him until yesterday

Shhhh  No one else had either