Scotland/Alba weather discussion - Jan 2021 onwards

[shuggee]

Forty fourth air frost at -3.0C. Foggy earlier too, but a beauty of a morning now with wall to wall sunshine, frost and blue sky.

[shuggee]

37 minutes ago, mardatha said:

When is this good spell to end?

May be good for a week - but turning colder and wintry showers (scattered) Thursday.

[Puffy MacCloud]

Beautiful morning with gin clear sky and frost on the grass; an ideal early Spring day.

Temperature 10.2deg.C up from a minimum of -0.9deg.C at 06:23, humidity is 71%, no wind, pressure is 1035.3hPa falling slowly, there's been 0.2mm of rain apparently and the sky is effectively clear bar a couple of patches of high, thin, feathery stuff.

[NUT]

Complete difference in the weather here today. After a bit of a foggy start that has cleared and it's a glorious day (OK a small bit of cloud) but at least it's broke up unlike the weekend

[Norrance]

My daughter messaged that it felt quite warm and Springlike in Glasgow today and she was working with the windows wide open. Here there has been some light cloud and a coolness in the SEasterly breeze off the North Sea. Whats more as maybe @Hawesy could confirm the first Spring haar appeared and drifted up the river. Phone ran out of charge before I got to the hill looking East but I had taken a couple of photos towards the river. 

[Hairy Celt]

6 minutes ago, Norrance said:

My daughter messaged that it felt quite warm and Springlike in Glasgow today and she was working with the windows wide open. Here there has been some light cloud and a coolness in the SEasterly breeze off the North Sea. Whats more as maybe @Hawesy could confirm the first Spring haar appeared and drifted up the river. Phone ran out of charge before I got to the hill looking East but I had taken a couple of photos towards the river. 

Not sure about haar but there was some patchy medium level stuff drifting around till about 10 o'clock.  Wall to wall sunshine since than, although it didn't feel like the 10C we were forecast.

[Hawesy]

@Norrance I certainly can confirm the first haar of the season. Earlier wall to wall sunshine has vanished under thick gloopy haar and the temperature has plummeted to 4c. A friend just confirmed it’s as far west as Cupar already. 

[Puffy MacCloud]

A spectacular sunset providing a firey forest effect tonight.

 

 

Edited March 1, 2021 by Puffy MacCloud

[Cheggers]

1 hour ago, Puffy MacCloud said:

A spectacular sunset providing a firey forest effect tonight.

 

 

Ditto

 

Stark contrast to 3 years ago

 

Edited March 1, 2021 by Cheggers

[Quinach]

Cloudy first thing but clearing to blue skies by late morning.  Max of 10.9c with light winds, feeling very pleasant.

At dusk, in rolled banks of low cloud from the SE - the Haar season has begun 

Edited March 1, 2021 by Quinach

[Hairy Celt]

2 hours ago, Hawesy said:

@Norrance I certainly can confirm the first haar of the season. Earlier wall to wall sunshine has vanished under thick gloopy haar and the temperature has plummeted to 4c. A friend just confirmed it’s as far west as Cupar already. 

oh bummer. there's really nothing good about haar is there?

[Norrance]

3 hours ago, Hawesy said:

@Norrance I certainly can confirm the first haar of the season. Earlier wall to wall sunshine has vanished under thick gloopy haar and the temperature has plummeted to 4c. A friend just confirmed it’s as far west as Cupar already. 

It got here not that long after I posted. Temp dropped from a max of 10.1C at lunchtime to 4C here also. Now cold, damp and raw feeling.

[edo]

Had my first outdoors meeting of the year on laptop today... Shorts hoody and laptop sitting on the patio in gazebo with sun feeling strong. Big change now feeling very chilly walking the dog, had a spectacular sunset much like Cheggers pic. 

[Northernlights]

Fabulous day again sunny /calm. Big store of neeps up just a few drills left for cows for March  a bit more ploughing done so as up to date as we can be . In spite of ground conditions being ideal for sowing I feel its too cold yet .Mid month onwards is time enough. And with that we had a very frosty sunset and its now 2c ,clear and  with a ground frost

[Hairy Celt]

Crap. We have the haar too 

[shuggee]

Oh it's haar - makes sense now. Hadn't thought of that!

Still got down to -1.2C and forty fifth air frost.

Looks like snow for Aberdeenshire/Moray Thursday...

[Kayemill]

Some sunset pics from last night courtesy of my wife. 
 

[Hairy Celt]

1 hour ago, shuggee said:

Oh it's haar - makes sense now. Hadn't thought of that!

Still got down to -1.2C and forty fifth air frost.

Looks like snow for Aberdeenshire/Moray Thursday...

A slender hope for here too. up the hill, at least not in my garden.

[Ravelin]

3/4C here with high light grey cloud and not much of a breeze. Having just looked at my electricity bill for the last couple of months, the cold weather and working from home hasn't been kind, especially as we largely rely on electric heating. Although the models are suggesting little in the way of weather cold enough for snow through March, they also aren't going to give my electricity bill for the month a helping hand either.

[Puffy MacCloud]

A nice bright, dry day with thin, high level cloud and a light breeze added to cool temperatures making a walk an attractive prospect for this afternoon.

Temperature 4.1deg.C down from a maximum of 4.2deg.C at 12:20 and up from a minimum of 0.4deg.C at 00:55, humidity is 86%, wind 0 to 3mph north-northwesterly with a maximum gust of only 10mph at 00:40, pressure is 1033.2hPa steady, there's been no rain today nor in the last 24 hours and cloud cover is 8/8 but high and thin.

[Hawesy]

Cold, grey and pretty miserable, it’s not even proper haar just low cloud. Temp has hovered around 4c all day. My least favourite weather type.

Fingers crossed the colder uppers coming in on Thursday also lower dew points so we at least can see the sun again!

[Northernlights]

Cool damp misty day sun did try to break through at  about 10.00  am but failed. Currently  3c

[MildCarlilse]

Up here in Lewis we’ve missed any easterly haar this time;last two days have been clear and sunny with the Clisham still holding onto drifts.

[Quinach]

Misty and murky start but the skies cleared mid-morning to leave a lovely sunny day.

As yesterday, low cloud/mist rolled in from the SE at dusk - now 100% cloud cover which is a pain as there is a strong aurora at the moment.

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Max of 9.7c and overnight low of -1.1c; light winds throughout.

 

[Sanserit]

As others have said, a cloudy start cleared away to leave a largely sunny day. Dogs were out and in like proverbial Yo-Yos and it didn’t feel as chilly as it has done. Looked to be another lovely sunset but houses round about block the view at this time of year. Roll on Friday when I finish for two weeks holiday, let’s hope it continues relatively settled so I can get the garden spruced up for spring.

Currently 1.6c so clouds must have rolled in as we had dropped below freezing earlier this evening. Daytime high was 8.7c.