Scotland/Alba weather discussion - Jan 2021 onwards

[Sceptical]

Safety officer shut the site at 0930 due to weather forecast??

As it stands the site is expected to stay shut until Thursday.

Roads are a bit of a mess. Couple of pictures from Torphin area on the way home. Temperature over deeside was -6C. Here comes the freeze.

 

[Cheggers]

Might have to go work from home, depressing watching all the showers pass through Denny. 

 

[howham]

Things seem to have slipped slightly south this morning so we probably won't get anything too spectacular from here onwards but perhaps the "Polar Low" will come good later in the week...  happy with what I've got at the moment.

[sn0wman]

Anyone got the latest UKV snow accumulation chart?

[CameronWS]

Nothing here and not confident - all the warning are just east of here. A shame because I was just hoping for 1 small covering all winter

[Penicuikblizzard]

Snow shower incoming to the east of Straiton

[Allyw12]

57 minutes ago, MAXcrazystorm said:

Here are my thoughts on where and when the most frequent snow showers will occur across Scotland. Thinking Tayside will get most frequent snow showers today, this will slowly move south into south Tayside and into Fife this evening and overnight. By tomorrow morning most shower activity will be getting into parts of the central belt and by the end of tomorrow most showers will be moving through the central belt more. i expect 5-10cm for most, locally 20cm possible. 

Awww was hoping we’d get showers here until Tuesday  

[Cheggers]

This mornings drive.

[Sceptical]

Pretty nasty conditions heading up the North facing hill out the back of Torphins. Passed a couple of embarressed looking drivers who were completely stuck. I waved politely as I pressed on then started regretting my decision.

 

 

[Quinach]

Measuring duty completed.

For the older generation the total is...

And for the younger whippersnappers...

Showers passing by the south of here, so plenty of sunshine at the moment.

With the light winds, feels lovely outside in the sun - temperature has continued to rise, now -0.5c.

[A Winter's Tale]

No wonder the met office have issued an amber warning. I still think the snow depths they’re predicting are on the conservative side. Annoyingly I’m just outside the warning area but it’s a good sign that Glasgow isn’t too far away from the amber warning. 

[Hairy Celt]

13 minutes ago, Quinach said:

Measuring duty completed.

For the older generation the total is...

And for the younger whippersnappers...

Showers passing by the south of here, so plenty of sunshine at the moment.

With the light winds, feels lovely outside in the sun - temperature has continued to rise, now -0.5c.

We were being taught in metric from the first year primary in the mid 60s so you have to be pretty ancient (or uneducated?) not to know what a cm looks like!

[thebigyin]

32 minutes ago, howham said:

Things seem to have slipped slightly south this morning so we probably won't get anything too spectacular from here onwards but perhaps the "Polar Low" will come good later in the week...  happy with what I've got at the moment.

Yeah, looking like we might just catch it as long as does not slip any further south.  Nearly here though....looks to me a good few hours of snow (there, that has bu$$ered it) - MetO have removed the snow symbols, which is usually a good sign for the opposite to happen...!)

[Zerouali lives]

A potential streamer to hit Aberdeen just before midday perhaps...

[edo]

25 minutes ago, Allyw12 said:

Awww was hoping we’d get showers here until Tuesday  

We can still catch showers just frequency will likely be less and more intense further south... We are in the warning area for the latest Amber so that's good.... Or bad on recent met success

[scott125]

Blue skies and sunshine in East Kilbride

[LomondSnowstorm]

18 minutes ago, A Winter's Tale said:

No wonder the met office have issued an amber warning. I still think the snow depths they’re predicting are on the conservative side. Annoyingly I’m just outside the warning area but it’s a good sign that Glasgow isn’t too far away from the amber warning. 

Me too - Freuchie makes it in (not quite as far as @Hawesy sadly!) but we must be a mile at most from it at this end of Coatbridge because Gartcosh is covered by it Can't argue too much about the placement (not that far from what I sent last night if I remember correctly albeit a little later?), I'd think Edinburgh on Tuesday night/Wednesday morning could end up with one, we could see this one extended a little north/south depending on changes and still time for a red warning within the area somewhere. 

[Eastern Scotland WX]

5 minutes ago, edo said:

We can still catch showers just frequency will likely be less and more intense further south... We are in the warning area for the latest Amber so that's good.... Or bad on recent met success

what i think we will see is that whole area of showers out in the N sea will very slowly move S over time, but also heavier and more frequent snow showers mixed in. 

[Serac]

Hhhhmmm : both BBC and Metoffice show near enough 24 hours of heavy snow here starting late afternoon / evening. That’s a ramp from them 

[Mair Snaw]

1 hour ago, jon_d1983 said:

Most snow I’ve seen in a long time.

Nothing here since 9am... everything gone south of here.. radar looks empty for my location so game over by the looks of it..

[EastLothianSnow]

3 minutes ago, LomondSnowstorm said:

Me too - Freuchie makes it in (not quite as far as @Hawesy sadly!) but we must be a mile at most from it at this end of Coatbridge because Gartcosh is covered by it Can't argue too much about the placement (not that far from what I sent last night if I remember correctly albeit a little later?), I'd think Edinburgh on Tuesday night/Wednesday morning could end up with one, we could see this one extended a little north/south depending on changes and still time for a red warning within the area somewhere. 

How’s it looking to the east of Edinburgh @LomondSnowstorm? Are we likely to be in the firing line at some stage in my neck of the woods? 
 

MetOffice app showing heavy snow/heavy snow showers here from this evening and most of tomorrow, but we aren’t in the amber warning area so not expecting too much. 

Edited February 8, 2021 by EastLothianSnow

[Frosty the Snowman]

12 minutes ago, Hairy Celt said:

We were being taught in metric from the first year primary in the mid 60s so you have to be pretty ancient (or uneducated?) not to know what a cm looks like!

And the conversion rate of inches to cms was still being taught as a refresher when I left school 5 decades later. 

 

You'd need to pretty young not to be able to do the conversions in your head 

[jon_d1983]

8 minutes ago, Zerouali lives said:

A potential streamer to hit Aberdeen just before midday perhaps...

Yes potential to get a another good dumping. One of my customer has just sent their staff home from office in westhill as there is apparently heavy snow due later on towards end of business day Maybe they know something we don’t

[Mr T]

About 30cm lying snow now here in Aboyne but difficult to gauge with depths varying everywhere. I cleared the patio table last night so nice top up of dry powder overnight. Just cleared ours and elderly neighbours drives and paths. Hard work but good alternative to the usual jogging and cycling. Need to sort out our 6yr olds snowboarding ramp in the back garden now as it's looking smaller with all the new snow around it. Might be a streamer lining up to follow the river Dee early afternoon. Have had huge snow falls from Dee streamers before. 

[Puffy MacCloud]

14 minutes ago, Hairy Celt said:

We were being taught in metric from the first year primary in the mid 60s so you have to be pretty ancient (or uneducated?) not to know what a cm looks like!

Is it similar to a centipede? (I'm old too.)