Scotland/Alba weather discussion - Jan 2021 onwards

[asjmcguire]

Hovering between 2.3C and 2.4C

It has thrown it down all day, been some rather gusty periods too. River very very full.

I'd tell you how much rain we've had, but the sensor appears to have died some time over the winter.

If it does snow, it'll probably float away....

[asjmcguire]

1 minute ago, Sawel said:

140 metres. Every little helps!

Stick it in your profile just after your location.

[Sawel]

11 minutes ago, edo said:

whats your altitude? 

I'm the dot.

[Bullseye]

Not sure if this will work but oh my the snow in Braemar in these photos. Flicking through this IG profile and seems to be just snaw since turn of the year!

https://www.instagram.com/p/CK7BbJpHZbc/?igshid=1ihd96f7fdq8q

 

[NorthernRab]

16 minutes ago, Hairy Celt said:

Wankshittery radar is on overtime tonight for the black isle.  Absolute nonsense.

Yeh "heavy snow" here too, the curse of the SErly. We'll see sweet F A unless there's a kink in the isobars. 

[edo]

19 minutes ago, Sawel said:

140 metres. Every little helps!

nice fingers crossed should be all snow for a week now for you when anything falls.

[ghoneym]

River leven burst its banks today, in leven. Its a pretty wide river with banks in the region of 10 to 15 ft in most places. Spoke to my father in law who has lived here all his life and he says he has never seen this b4 crazy precip totals the last 4 or 5 days! 

Walk the dogs here every day and never seen anything like it. Not just the volume but the current/speed of flow is unreal. Unfortunately I've been baw deep in work so not been here to appreciate it all but the pics speak a thousand words. 

Bring on the - 10 850 streamers next week tho, snow on the doorstep! Bring it on

[edo]

14 minutes ago, Sawel said:

I'm the dot.

newbiggingish id guess

[Sawel]

1 minute ago, edo said:

newbiggingish id guess

That's it! There's 2 Newbiggings in Angus (very confusing) but I'm right beside Tealing.

[edo]

1 minute ago, Sawel said:

That's it! There's 2 Newbiggings in Angus (very confusing) but I'm right beside Tealing.

aye im from Dundee so know it well, surely one should be oldbigging

[Sawel]

1 minute ago, edo said:

aye im from Dundee so know it well, surely one should be oldbigging

Snowbigging as this one is snowier than the other

[edo]

1 minute ago, Sawel said:

Snowbigging as this one is snowier than the other

[JordanH859]

No change up here in Arbroath, still hammering down and very gusty. (18m asl)

[NorthernRab]

1 hour ago, NorthernRab said:

Yeh "heavy snow" here too, the curse of the SErly. We'll see sweet F A unless there's a kink in the isobars. 

Well it has actually decided to snow heavily here now. 

[howham]

0.0C and still snowing.  It's the slowest accumulation ever!

[doctormog]

6 minutes ago, howham said:

0.0C and still snowing.  It's the slowest accumulation ever!

There’s some intermittent light rain here if that is any consolation.

[howham]

5 minutes ago, doctormog said:

There’s some intermittent light rain here if that is any consolation.

[Sceptical]

Further snow overnight has added a few centimetres to Thursdays dump. Temperature sitting at OC with light snow.

Certainly looks the part.

 

[Sanserit]

Woke up to put the dogs out and what’s falling looks to be turning slightly drier but what’s on the ground is still very wet and mushy.

Currently 1.2c/0.1c, am I right in thinking that the lower the DP goes, especially if it drops below 0c, the drier the snow should become? Or have I picked up something wrong there?

[Richard Taylor]

Right through this spell we've been on the wrong side of marginal be it precip, height or anything else. What we've got this morning as a perfect example of this  - cold, wet, damp rain. Forecast still claiming snow later but I've long given up on this. Unless its an old-style sustained northerly then winters of old are finished.

[Ravelin]

Another few cm here overnight with flurries still falling and snow blowing around in the wind. Trees and bushes are plastered with snow. I'll do a driveway measument later for overnight fall, and try to find an untouched patch for an overall depth. 

Temp currently -0.5/-0.6C and its been between 0 and -1C overnight. The radar shows the showers from the E just reaching here but not much further, which makes the Amber warning area look largely redundant. 

We haven't been up the hill where we normally walk the dog so I'd like to get up today for a look as it must be incredibly deep snow up there. The preblem will be getting parked as last weekend the forestry track entrances were largely out of action, and even the formal forestry car park at the top was getting very difficult (my 4wd with all seasons was ok but we helped extract a 2wd with summers on that has zero traction in deep, soft snow). 

I think I'll need to buy one of the fields around here and build a few houses for snow starved Netweatherees. 

[Hawesy]

@ghoneym Thanks for the photos. Rainfall at Leuchars now up to 64mm so it’s been really wet. Today should be the last of it 

Groundhog Day again this morning: rain, easterly wind, 3.6c.

Update on the -10 850s watch: GFS now saying Midnight (for Leuchars), with the dew point forecast to fall to 0c at 9pm. So, not expecting any snow here before then. As this event has again underlined you need at least -10 850s in an easterly for snow at sea level!

-6c or -7c 850s lead to this....

Edited February 6, 2021 by Hawesy

[Sceptical]

Heading over Tillyfourie on the way to Aberdeen 10 minutes ago. 

 

[Sanserit]

I got a message last night from my boss about ‘Charles Sna’ that was mentioned a couple of pages back. Seems that while he was out clearing roads around Strathdon, the weight of sna on the roof of one of the cattle courts brought it down. Thankfully no one hurt and all the beasts were out but it leaves him looking for housing for the cattle for the foreseeable.

https://www.facebook.com/100000515412854/videos/4505994886094314/

[Zerouali lives]

8 hours ago, Sawel said:

1489ft seems to be the highest point in Nenthead - 454 metres is the highest point I could find with the lowest point being around 425. Yep, that's high! 

I've actually heard that a place called Coalcleugh near Allenheads is the highest in Britain