Scotland/Alba weather discussion - Jan 2021 onwards

[Cheggers]

Snawwwww 

[Mr Frost]

10 hours ago, Stormeh said:

It certainly looks interesting for the central belt. The Meto updated forecasts are showing heavy snow symbols for the Glasgow area and even parts of the west coast. Hopefully @Mr Frost will get his deserved dumping of snow. Not seen him on here for a few days?

Yaaaaaaaaas! Mon the snow shower!!! 

 

[aggy]

12 minutes ago, Kirkcaldy Weather said:

OH MY ACTUAL GOD !!!!!

[Norrance]

44 minutes ago, Hawesy said:

Er, not quite enough for a snowman! 

On the positive side the temperature has dropped to 0.8c here so that’s more conducive to snow lying. Assuming we catch some at some point! 

Just a few miles up the road. More incoming from the East now looking towards the river.

[Penicuikblizzard]

1 minute ago, 101_North said:

Yep Blue sky, sunshine and cold to make up for the complete lack of snow Looking outside I'm not sure we caught so much as a light shower overnight

Similar here but looking at the forecast for tonight and into tomorrow I think it’ll be a different picture in the morning

[EastLothianSnow]

No snow here overnight. Still the same patchy dusting we had last night. 

[Ravelin]

A high of -0.5C yesterday so a second ice day in a row. So far today we have a low of -3.8C and a high of -2.6C, currently -3.6C. There's been another fall overnight so driveway clearing duty soon, but looks like at least another 10cm. Heavy shower passing over now. 

[A Winter's Tale]

A brief heavy snow shower has left a covering this morning. It’s encouraging to see the snow showers making decent progress inland with some making it to Dumbarton and Loch Fyne. The track seems to be ENE so showers around Kirkcaldy are moving into the Falkirk area, then towards Kilsyth/Cumbernauld then Bearsden/Clydebank. I think southern and western parts of Fife and Perth and Kinross, the Falkirk area, northern and western parts of West Lothian and northernmost areas of North Lanarkshire could see depths in the range of 25-50cm. Many parts of central Scotland and the borders could see 10-30cm. Let’s hope the streamers play ball later!

 

[Sceptical]

Couple of pictures from the commute to work this morning. Up on the higher routes there are drifts higher than the X5. Currently pitched up over Banchory which has had a good dump overnight, waiting for a decision if its safe to work

 

Edited February 8, 2021 by Sceptical

[aggy]

2 minutes ago, A Winter's Tale said:

A brief heavy snow shower has left a covering this morning. It’s encouraging to see the snow showers making decent progress inland with some making it to Dumbarton and Loch Fyne. The track seems to be ENE so showers around Kirkcaldy are moving into the Falkirk area, then towards Kilsyth/Cumbernauld then Bearsden/Clydebank. I think southern and western parts of Fife and Perth and Kinross, the Falkirk area, northern and western parts of West Lothian and northernmost areas of North Lanarkshire could see depths in the range of 25-50cm. Many parts of central Scotland and the borders could see 10-30cm. Let’s hope the streamers play ball later!

 

Is Cumbernauld in the 30 to 50 cm , asking for a friend 

[LomondSnowstorm]

28 minutes ago, thebigyin said:

I think you are right.  I am sort of willing it South a bit but looks to have your name on it, though hard to say who'll get it between here and further up. 

Interesting on the fax charts after the convergence jaggy line has moved down East coast over the next few days and in to Northern England, a polar low over Shetland?  and Heading down?  Wishful thinking perhaps?  (or more accurately, poor interpretation of a fax chart by me!)

 

EDIT, in fact looking at the FAX charts it is bang on them, where it shows 6am it running in just north of here, by midday just south of here, and then drifts down until midnight Fife-ish, and midday tomorrow Central Belt.

No I think you're absolutely bang on about the polar low (or at least something like that) - those -40C 500hPa temperatures we're chasing for Wednesday give exactly the setup for such a thing and the UKV for one has it developing then for Shetland. Unfortunately for the rest of us it just hangs about in the North Sea, but could easily take a bit of a detour and clobber somewhere on mainland Scotland too...

[101_North]

8 minutes ago, Penicuikblizzard said:

Similar here but looking at the forecast for tonight and into tomorrow I think it’ll be a different picture in the morning

Meanwhile I'm happy to enjoy the sun as it's been a while

[Gogoslo]

Didn’t get much snow overnight but heavy shower at the moment.  Hopefully a few of these will move in today.   

[A Winter's Tale]

3 minutes ago, aggy said:

Is Cumbernauld in the 30 to 50 cm , asking for a friend 

I think you’ve moved to Cumbernauld at the right time! I would be surprised if you saw less than 20cm and I wouldn’t be surprised to see more than 40cm between areas to the north east of Glasgow and Falkirk. Ultimately it depends on where the streamer sets up but it seems areas to the south west of the Forth will see frequent heavy snow showers. 

Another shower has now arrived here. 

 

[JoeShmoe]

snow shower here now, settling instantly 

[LomondSnowstorm]

The snow found some very creative ways of missing here overnight (actually both Freuchie and Coatbridge!), including splitting a shower north/south - looks like a pretty intense one heading down the M8 now though... 

 

The models have generally moved things a bit north as far as the main convergence lines go, generally sinking but holding a little more than yesterday evening, but I'm interested to see quite how far that holds because the flow is well primed for a Forth-Clyde streamer too and there's no lack of convection either. I suspect we could end up with a couple of convergence lines, one more Tay based and one more Forth based, developing on that basis

Edited February 8, 2021 by LomondSnowstorm

[edo]

Wow euro 4 is

Stunning morning here with about 8cm having fallen. Best fall since 2018 so delighted and the showers intensity were stunning to watch.

Heres hoping for more. 

[Dan B]

Well Dunkeld has had some fall overnight; should have been waking up to that there

 

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Bloody typical

[Cheggers]

What's it like up around Perth Airport? Have an engineer due to be there today? 

[aggy]

22 minutes ago, A Winter's Tale said:

I think you’ve moved to Cumbernauld at the right time! I would be surprised if you saw less than 20cm and I wouldn’t be surprised to see more than 40cm between areas to the north east of Glasgow and Falkirk. Ultimately it depends on where the streamer sets up but it seems areas to the south west of the Forth will see frequent heavy snow showers. 

Another shower has now arrived here. 

 

I did indeed 

 

interesting few days ahead for everyone 

[Quinach]

Overnight low of -5.3c, now -4.1c; light winds.

Sporadic snow showers that last for a few minutes but cumulatively they've added about 3 inches of snow to the ground overnight, so the thickest snow cover in quite a few years 

Bird feeders smothered in birds, the Sparrowhawk is around though so they are very skittery.

Oh, and this is making a appearance between the showers for the first time in ages..

Edit - also some mutant Wood Pigeons, they are absolutely enormous, usually stick to the fields and woods round here so they are hungry coming down to the feeders.

Edited February 8, 2021 by Quinach

[edo]

2 minutes ago, Cheggers said:

What's it like up around Perth Airport? Have an engineer due to be there today? 

Be fine scone is about 3 miles as the crow flies behind me, roads are gritted and cleared. 

[snowy owl]

40 minutes ago, Penicuikblizzard said:

Similar here but looking at the forecast for tonight and into tomorrow I think it’ll be a different picture in the morning

Wow at the Euro 4 chart! 

Not much happened here overnight but just caught a wee shower just now .

[edo]

Showers seem to be losing intensity out to sea as nearing land or am I seeing things

[Sanserit]

Pretty happy with the snowfall overnight...well, since 3.30am

Looks like another shower about to start as the sky is darkening as I type.

Before the dogs got out to make they’re mark in it:

 

Stonehaven direction:

 
 

Currently -1.8c/-2.9c, overnight high of 0.2c and low of -3.4c, dew point high of -1.7c, low of -4.4c at 7am.