Scotland/Alba weather discussion - Jan 2021 onwards

[asjmcguire]

We had snow about 30 minutes ago, it must have been the dry fine stuff because the webcam visibility dropped quite a bit, and suddenly the road and pavements started to turn white and I was quite excited.

And less than 5 minutes later, it's pretty much all gone.

I suspect it was dry stuff landing on (everything is) drenched ground, and basically melting away.

Temperature still -0.1C

You can see a bit of the dusting in the parking bay area on the right

 

[Sceptical]

Further snow overnight has meant an early start for the ploughs and tractors.

 

Colder of late at -2C, cloudy, dry and calm.

 

Edited February 7, 2021 by Sceptical

[drm]

Just very light snow throughout the night giving a merest dusting ,the North sea does appear to be showing shower activity on the increase we are now under -12 uppers  t 0.5c dp -5c 

[thebigyin]

Morning all. Well nice to see horrible cold damp surfaces all finally dried up in nice cold air and very low dp's. North sea does look to be firing up a bit now so ground ready to take it here...just very little falling!  Some amazing pictures from elsewhere and further inland . Anyone with more knowledge than me hazard a guess on the  convection potential based on latest data?

[Eastern Scotland WX]

3 minutes ago, thebigyin said:

Morning all. Well nice to see horrible cold damp surfaces all finally dried up in nice cold air and very low dp's. North sea does look to be firing up a bit now so ground ready to take it here...just very little falling!  Some amazing pictures from elsewhere and further inland . Anyone with more knowledge than me hazard a guess on the  convection potential based on latest data?

I think we see the heavier blobs in thr north sea seperate a bit and become heavier. Later this evening there are hints of more organised showers across like E Scotland ( Tayside, Aberdeenshire and Fife) developing streamer in those areas.

[doctormog]

5 minutes ago, thebigyin said:

Morning all. Well nice to see horrible cold damp surfaces all finally dried up in nice cold air and very low dp's. North sea does look to be firing up a bit now so ground ready to take it here...just very little falling!  Some amazing pictures from elsewhere and further inland . Anyone with more knowledge than me hazard a guess on the  convection potential based on latest data?

At a guess later this afternoon/evening through to tomorrow lunchtime may be our best bet for decent convective shower activity here. After that there will still be some around but the most intense stuff may be stolen by those further south (by which I mean Angus, Fife and parts of the Central Belt, not England).

[drm]

19 minutes ago, doctormog said:

At a guess later this afternoon/evening through to tomorrow lunchtime may be our best bet for decent convective shower activity here. After that there will still be some around but the most intense stuff may be stolen by those further south (by which I mean Angus, Fife and parts of the Central Belt, not England).

Agree I think the Angus, Fife area is the target area for the best of the convective snow today give or take a few miles either side , convergence is looking more likely there by my guess,if I was a betting man just north of Dundee to Forfar is my idea of the sweet spot 

Edited February 7, 2021 by drm

[Steven morrison]

Home weather station showing -1.6 with wind chill -3.7 gusts to 12mph just had very light shower more granular than snaw,the current mrs Morrison has instructed me to go and chop logs for the fire so I better wrap up and do as I’m told

bonnyrigg 178m asl 

[Sanserit]

My litmus test for knowing it’s got colder/drier is not being able to see the dogs’ paw prints when they charge out to chase next door’s cat and what’s on my patio table no longer looks like mush!

Dusting of grainy snow fallen overnight, temperature has hovered around 0c for the duration, never actually dropping below but dew point has fallen steadily. Currently 0.7c/-4.6c, wind from the East, overnight low was 0.4c/-5.0c.

Keeping my fingers crossed that we actually see some proper snow along the Dee valley today.

[Ravelin]

Ice day yesterday with a max of -0.2C here up the hill, if maybe not in Alford itself. Currently -2.7/-4.0C with flurries and perhaps a cm or two lying from overnight. Pretty calm most of the time but occasional bursts of wind blowing snow off the roof. 

[Penicuikblizzard]

Little area of snow moving into the Edinburgh area now
Light snow settling here 

Edited February 7, 2021 by Penicuikblizzard

[JoeShmoe]

Light snow started here - it begins !

[aggy]

Good luck everyone!!! 
 

I have a dilemma . I’m due to work in Ayrshire tomorrow until Tuesday morning however I can change this to Wednesday into Thursday. What is the general consensus snow wise ? As I don’t want to miss any and obvs don’t want to risk travel if I can get away with it should I change to Wednesday as Monday into Tuesday is looking much more promising for here 

[LomondSnowstorm]

1 minute ago, aggy said:

Good luck everyone!!! 
 

I have a dilemma . I’m due to work in Ayrshire tomorrow until Tuesday morning however I can change this to Wednesday into Thursday. What is the general consensus snow wise ? As I don’t want to miss any and obvs don’t want to risk travel if I can get away with it should I change to Wednesday as Monday into Tuesday is looking much more promising for here 

I think as far as falling snow goes Monday into Tuesday morning will have more falling snow especially further west (looking at the UKV it seems like there'll be a good amount of snow south for central areas too) whereas by Wednesday into Thursday it's more likely to be dry as the flow gets slacker, most likely. 

[Penicuikblizzard]

5 minutes ago, JoeShmoe said:

Light snow started here - it begins !

Powdery snow too blowing around

[Hawesy]

Morning all,

There are about 5 flakes of snizzle in the air but that’s something, right? Air temperature is 1.7c, which is a little bit above where I thought it might be with such low uppers. Let’s see how things pan out today!

[Big Innes Madori]

The caulder temps overnight appear to have done a good job of drying up a fair bit of the hellish wetness from a couple o' days o' pure pish

Been some grauple showers which have started to cover all surfaces nice and white

Just waiting oan the real deal noo!

Big Innes

[LomondSnowstorm]

2 minutes ago, Hawesy said:

Morning all,

There are about 5 flakes of snizzle in the air but that’s something, right? Air temperature is 1.7c, which is a little bit above where I thought it might be with such low uppers. Let’s see how things pan out today!

The good news is the coldest uppers are just making their way inland now (it was mixed with more -8/-9s overnight) so I would think it won't rise today, and if anything should drop a bit as the heavier stuff comes in 

[101_North]

Light snow / graupel shower on here and lying easily which is good news if / when we get some heavier showers. 

 

[Cheggers]

Woke to a dusting of snaw. Certainly colder now. Fingers crossed a lot more make it further weat

[LomondSnowstorm]

The overnight UKV is rather tasty for a lot of us...

[Northernlights]

Flurries of snow all night so have a fresh dusting .Currently partly overcast,light E wind, dry and 0c. Ground all frozen up again.

Snowdrops just starting to appear but very stunted flowering just an inch above the ground.Ground very cold now and will take a lot of warming up .Spring looks as  though it will be very late this year. Countryside starting to look very brown and yellow with all the freezing and thawing. My mothers (she was born London but moved to the farm here in the early sixties) saying that "spring doesn"t happen in Scotland summer arrives on the first of June "comes to mind

 

[Hawesy]

2 minutes ago, LomondSnowstorm said:

The good news is the coldest uppers are just making their way inland now (it was mixed with more -8/-9s overnight) so I would think it won't rise today, and if anything should drop a bit as the heavier stuff comes in 

Thanks LS. A little bit of graupel on now. Expecting a fair bit of graupel if we do see heavy precipitation. There was lots of it in 2010 and BFTE.

[howham]

-0.5C with light snow flurries.

[Cheggers]

Am liking the radar at present, not a blue or green colour to be seen.