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  • Location: Lochgelly - Highest town in Fife at 150m ASL.
  • Weather Preferences: Snow and cold. Enjoy all extremes though.
  • Location: Lochgelly - Highest town in Fife at 150m ASL.
1 minute ago, LomondSnowstorm said:

Another point on the wet baws, as it's known - the best approximation for it at low temperatures is the "1/3 rule" where you subtract 1/3 of the difference between the temperature and dewpoint from the temperature. So for example, 2/-4 gets you to a 0C wet bulb temperature. However, if you have heavy showers, and the temperature and dewpoint start to converge as the humidity increases, you'd only need the temperature to drop 1C for every 2C the dew point rises in order to keep the wet bulb temperature at the same level, and obviously if the temperature drops a little more the wet bulb temperature will drop too. That's why I'd think that, even without the even colder uppers coming in, you only really need a heavy shower to end up with lying snow. 

Whit?!!   I wish they had a cross eyed emoji!   Suppose this will do!

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  • Location: Glasgow, Scotland (Charing Cross, 40m asl)
  • Weather Preferences: cold and snowy in winter, a good mix of weather the rest of the time
  • Location: Glasgow, Scotland (Charing Cross, 40m asl)
Just now, Blitzen said:

Whit?!!   I wish they had a cross eyed emoji!   Suppose this will do!

Basically the wet bulb is closer to the temperature than the dew point, so if the snow's heavy today it'll probably cause the wet bulb to lower and make the snow lie

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  • Location: Lochgelly - Highest town in Fife at 150m ASL.
  • Weather Preferences: Snow and cold. Enjoy all extremes though.
  • Location: Lochgelly - Highest town in Fife at 150m ASL.
1 minute ago, LomondSnowstorm said:

Basically the wet bulb is closer to the temperature than the dew point, so if the snow's heavy today it'll probably cause the wet bulb to lower and make the snow lie

..." ad infinitum"...Sod off!!

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  • Location: Cumbernauld
  • Location: Cumbernauld
8 minutes ago, LomondSnowstorm said:

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Still looking promising for most places up to tomorrow night (with at least another 18 hours of good snowfall potential to come after). 

If that comes off that would be incredible 

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  • Location: Premnay, Insch, Aberdeenshire, 184 m asl
  • Weather Preferences: Snaw
  • Location: Premnay, Insch, Aberdeenshire, 184 m asl

Showers pepping up a bit here. Teeny wee blobs joining up intae mair substantial blobs off the Berwickshire coast.

So far I'm lucky if I've accumulated a cm in the gairden.

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  • Location: Westhill, Aberdeenshire 150m
  • Weather Preferences: Snow winter, hot summer
  • Location: Westhill, Aberdeenshire 150m

Proper powder snow here now with icicles. It is blowing off the roofs.

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  • Location: Cumbernauld
  • Location: Cumbernauld
15 minutes ago, LomondSnowstorm said:

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Still looking promising for most places up to tomorrow night (with at least another 18 hours of good snowfall potential to come after). 

Met o have us down for heavy snow late Tuesday into Wednesday 

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  • Location: aberdeen 65m
  • Weather Preferences: Snow in winter Sun in summer
  • Location: aberdeen 65m
4 minutes ago, doctormog said:

I am enjoying watching the showers approach on this webcam. 

WWW.SEACROFTMARINE.COM

 

Me too, temperature has taken a sharp drop now 0.1c -3dp come on snow ❄️

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  • Location: Lochgelly - Highest town in Fife at 150m ASL.
  • Weather Preferences: Snow and cold. Enjoy all extremes though.
  • Location: Lochgelly - Highest town in Fife at 150m ASL.
1 hour ago, Puffy MacCloud said:

Good for you! Keep up the good work and then enjoy the game.

Would the team consensus be that it's a tad early for the snow chains?

Thought so...

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With the amount of beer bottles you have apparently had to clear up, should you even be driving today?!! Thought not!!

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  • Location: Irvine 10ASL
  • Location: Irvine 10ASL
5 minutes ago, aggy said:

Met o have us down for heavy snow late Tuesday into Wednesday 

Well no snow on the forecast here and not even an ice day !!!  temp only dropping to  -3c at night.    Was colder on the run upto xmas !   Quite pathetic

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  • Location: South Falkirk 111m asl
  • Weather Preferences: Sunny in summer, cold in winter.
  • Location: South Falkirk 111m asl
9 minutes ago, Cheggers said:

Proper snaw shower now on. 

We've just had that one, it quite upset the cat  

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  • Location: Cumbernauld
  • Location: Cumbernauld
6 minutes ago, jellybaby1969 said:

Well no snow on the forecast here and not even an ice day !!!  temp only dropping to  -3c at night.    Was colder on the run upto xmas !   Quite pathetic

I used to live in ayr so I feel your pain hopefully some or slit blows through for you 

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  • Location: Morningside, Edinburgh (98m ASL)
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, and lots of it
  • Location: Morningside, Edinburgh (98m ASL)

Alright @101_North, whats going on up your way? I've had nothing but graupel at 100m all day today!

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  • Location: Scottish Borders (SE) 150m/492ft
  • Weather Preferences: Lightning, Snow
  • Location: Scottish Borders (SE) 150m/492ft

Oh boooooo!

I've just noticed, we actually went up to 0.1C at about 2am. So no, it's not an ice day!

So close too!

(nothing to report on the snow front, radar says yes, reality says no)

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  • Location: Rural East Ayrshire 127m asl
  • Weather Preferences: Cold and bright.
  • Location: Rural East Ayrshire 127m asl
1 hour ago, Sceptical said:

Is that a Land rover Defender? If so, I've never seen one fitted with snow chains, even on the farms higher up. Those machines are pretty much unstoppable in snow.

Nice colour by the way  

It is a Defender, an older one, pre traction control and ABS, and it is just about unstoppable, which is exactly the problem. It will go just about anywhere but in 2, 3, or 4 inches of snow it's really hard to stop. Like a two ton toboggan. I'm hoping the chains might help. I like the colour too. I call it blue.

The rugby is good. Wales looked surprisingly competent early on but Ireland, despite or is it because of having an 84 year old stand off, are now controlling the game. Stamina will decide who wins, and I don't care who it is as long as it's not Wales.

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  • Location: Lochgelly - Highest town in Fife at 150m ASL.
  • Weather Preferences: Snow and cold. Enjoy all extremes though.
  • Location: Lochgelly - Highest town in Fife at 150m ASL.

Oh... slight improvement in the downward direction of the stats:

0.1c/-2.4c/E/14mph/   Still flurrying.

 

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  • Location: Rural East Ayrshire 127m asl
  • Weather Preferences: Cold and bright.
  • Location: Rural East Ayrshire 127m asl
17 minutes ago, Blitzen said:

With the amount of beer bottles you have apparently had to clear up, should you even be driving today?!! Thought not!!

I won't be driving tomorrow either. Another coo's nest building up.

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