Scotland/Alba weather discussion - Jan 2021 onwards

[edo]

Good luck to @Mr Frost you deserve some snow for all your great posting helping others

and thoughts with @NUT

On home schooling couldn't agree more... My poor kids getting no help as wife and I got so much work and the direct teaching support not been amazing which I understood. However I have friends at a neighbouring school with a very different experience which is the way I guess as there are great teachers and not so great just as in any profession. Also seems the older ones in some cases toiling more with the technology. 

I have to stick kids on their devices for peace for meetings just no other way... 

We certainly all appreciate teachers more in general

[Quinach]

1 minute ago, Ravelin said:

Would standing them up against a wall in front of a firing squad be too extreme?

Discovered that a great alternative is to switch off the internet access to their specific devices (no sim cards allowed)   Always amazes how their negotiation and communication skills improve after that, and when they realise that there is no negotiating position other than get the job done, the work then gets completed.  What is really frustrating though is that there is so much high quality free training material out there these days, its getting the blighters to use them that is the challenge.  

Oh, it's a weather forum, we actually got a brief glimpse of the sun just now.

[Eastern Scotland WX]

36 minutes ago, edo said:

Just accepted no snow then back in the game.... I hope if we do get it temps fall behind it as a slush fest here now. 

UKV for us has about 4-6 hours of wet snow i would say. Bit uncertain on how cold it will get. 

[Hairy Celt]

1 hour ago, MAXcrazystorm said:

Latest UKV for tonight! , several hours of snowfall it shows across central Parts of Scotland.

Those charts are claptrap. They way overdo ppn, nearly every time.

[scott125]

Slushfest in East Kilbride, not much if any snow if you even go down the road to Clarkston

[Eastern Scotland WX]

Just now, Mr Frost said:

This is our gold standard Met Office! Are you trying to tell me they get things wrong now and then!? 

UKV tends to under do precipitation rather than over do it. 

[scott125]

4 hours ago, Glaswegianblizzard said:

Similar here. There was wet snow last night but no covering whatsoever. A few miles and a couple of hundred metres elevation up the road and Newton Mearns is plastered seemingly.

Noticed that today going from East Kilbride to Glasgow. Snow pretty much non existent from Cathkin!

[asjmcguire]

Zero snow here, overnight low was 1.2C

It's currently 2.3C and very wet.

Not holding my breath for snow.....

[Norrance]

The only decent word to describe today here is dreich. 2 C Cold rain and drizzle. Min of 1.4C.

[Geedawg]

Wow right on the line! Damn

[Ross B]

Amber warning for some of the areas that got plastered last night, another dumping on top should bring some good totals to the hills just south of Edinburgh!  Extreme storms in the summer and now the extreme snow, lucky lot!  

[JoeShmoe]

Cant see anything but rain here but said the same last night !

[Hairy Celt]

3 minutes ago, Geedawg said:

Wow right on the line! Damn

Sooooo.... d'ya want to eat the yellow snow or the brown snow? Ya makes ya choice, ya takes ya chances...

[Eastern Scotland WX]

5 minutes ago, Hairy Celt said:

Sooooo.... d'ya want to eat the yellow snow or the brown snow? Ya makes ya choice, ya takes ya chances...

I'm still not sure why there is no warning for areas across Fife and Perthshire. 

[101_North]

Yellow warning extended until 10am here and an Amber warning not a million miles away! What could go wrong 

 

[aggy]

If that system could just shift 50 miles north please 

[edo]

I've had my fill of wet snow now, I want some proper snow that makes that soft crunch noise.... Apologies to southern lurkers at moaning about the quality of snow been receiving. 

[metallikat34]

2 minutes ago, 101_North said:

Yellow warning extended until 10am here and an Amber warning not a million miles away! What could go wrong 

 

Interesting! I just got back from your suggested run up to Warklaw Hill. Was quite nice, but very muddy and wet!

On that note, almost no difference in temperature up to 200+m this afternoon. A very uniform low level atmosphere at the moment. Haven't had a look at any afternoon guidance, but i am still concerned that the best precipitation gets pulled eastward. 

[Stuart]

Light rain ? Misty melting snow yet again never lasted long

[101_North]

10 minutes ago, metallikat34 said:

Interesting! I just got back from your suggested run up to Warklaw Hill. Was quite nice, but very muddy and wet!

On that note, almost no difference in temperature up to 200+m this afternoon. A very uniform low level atmosphere at the moment. Haven't had a look at any afternoon guidance, but i am still concerned that the best precipitation gets pulled eastward. 

It's a lovely walk. Find the route OK? Hopefully you got some of the views? It did get a little slushy unfortunately.

Edited January 20, 2021 by 101_North

[asjmcguire]

Oh look an Amber Warning.... 

*zooms in*

Yup, it doesn't quite reach as far East as me....

[metallikat34]

Still don't like this low position from the 12Z GFS run. Shunting all the good precipitation rates to northeast England.

[Stuart]

2 minutes ago, asjmcguire said:

Oh look an Amber Warning.... 

*zooms in*

Yup, it doesn't quite reach as far East as me....

It happened to me today there removed the warning for parts of the highlands that includes me

[Penicuikblizzard]

16 minutes ago, 101_North said:

Yellow warning extended until 10am here and an Amber warning not a million miles away! What could go wrong 

 

The Amber could end up extending up the way who knows what’s going to happen later, full of interest though!

[Northernlights]

In spite of a little snow and some frost in the ground.  (which is supporting the tractors) we are managing to lift neeps today for a new store if February is bad. Inside cattle will be happy  for the  next month too.

 

Cuurently a bit of drizzle and 1c