Scotland/Alba weather discussion - March 2021 onwards

[Northernlights]

Cool wet with NE wind off the Firth and outbreaks of rain. Crops looking better for the rain but temperature at 6c is not doing much for growth.

[mardatha]

Sunny here but cooler, black cloud in the north west though.  Thermometer at back door says 10C but that's with the sun full on it - we really need a weather station!!

[Hairy Celt]

Nasty cold, damp north-easterly. Not a day to be out unless you have to be (sorry, @Northernlights).

[Northernlights]

Paper work day for farm assured visit .Have just let cows out for their daily visit to a grass field  so will probably come in fairly quickly in the afternoon.If it dries up later this week will probably  put them out full time with silge to top up on .

[Norrance]

Cold and cloudy with showery rain coming in on a strong ENE wind. Currently 7C. 
Quite a change.

edit. Now been steady cold rain for the last hour or two.

Edited April 27, 2021 by Norrance

[Kirkcaldy Weather]

some moon pics from last few nights   and a regular around here  

[Quinach]

Grey, cold and damp.

Light drizzly rain off and on until mid afternoon, now drying up and even hints of some brightness.

Feeling like winter out with temperature hovering round 6c, just as well the wind has been light!

[Northernlights]

Yes 5.5c here as well and some very black looking clouds coming in off the Firth giving occasional bursts of rain. Could easily be a November day. Mountain forecasts are talking of coastal hail showers for the rest of the week.The cold April continues.

[Mr Frost]

One for @shuggee 

More information here:

Frostiest April for at least 60 years in UK – Official blog of the Met Office news team

BLOG.METOFFICE.GOV.UK

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Frosty conditions have been common throughout April this year – Image: Shutterstock April 2021 has provisionally been the frostiest in at least 60 years for the UK, topping...

And just to add...more air frosts expected before the month is over!

Was just reading that forecast @Northernlights mentioned above.

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Planning Outlook

Staying cold into the weekend with higher mountains typically near to freezing point, although there will be some diurnal range of freezing level; frost common into many valleys overnight. Wind often fairly light, particularly into the weekend. Showers with hail, initially toward north & eastern coasts in the mornings will break out more widely inland into the afternoons. Showers locally frequent, but precipitation amounts mostly small, so still very dry underfoot. The air generally very clear, with cloud often above the hills away from showers. Next week may bring more widespread precipitation as lower pressure moves in; likely staying cool, especially in the Highlands.

Latest ECM monthly delivers below average temperatures into mid May for Scotland. 

26/04 to 02/05:

 

03/05 to 09/05:

 

10/05 to 16/05: (NE/SE Scotland trending average at this stage)

 

We will all appreciate a sustained warm/hot spell (one week at the very least!) when it finally arrives! 

All the best!

[Northernlights]

10 minutes ago, Mr Frost said:

One for @shuggee 

More information here:

Frostiest April for at least 60 years in UK – Official blog of the Met Office news team

BLOG.METOFFICE.GOV.UK

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Frosty conditions have been common throughout April this year – Image: Shutterstock April 2021 has provisionally been the frostiest in at least 60 years for the UK, topping...

And just to add...more air frosts expected before the month is over!

Was just reading that forecast @Northernlights mentioned above.

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MWIS.ORG.UK

Planning Outlook

Staying cold into the weekend with higher mountains typically near to freezing point, although there will be some diurnal range of freezing level; frost common into many valleys overnight. Wind often fairly light, particularly into the weekend. Showers with hail, initially toward north & eastern coasts in the mornings will break out more widely inland into the afternoons. Showers locally frequent, but precipitation amounts mostly small, so still very dry underfoot. The air generally very clear, with cloud often above the hills away from showers. Next week may bring more widespread precipitation as lower pressure moves in; likely staying cool, especially in the Highlands.

Latest ECM monthly delivers below average temperatures into mid May for Scotland. 

26/04 to 02/05:

 

03/05 to 09/05:

 

10/05 to 16/05: (NE/SE Scotland trending average at this stage)

 

We will all appreciate a sustained warm/hot spell (one week at the very least!) when it finally arrives! 

All the best!

With any luck some of the ski centres may get a few days end of season skiing in the next couple of weeks.

[Hawesy]

In a word: minging. Cold, damp and breezy and thoroughly unpleasant for late April. Felt more like December. Temperature stuck at 7c this afternoon. Quite a contrast to the dry sunny weather of the last few weeks!

[Puffy MacCloud]

Temperature maximum today was 9.4deg.C at 15:39 and minimum is now at 4.2deg.C, humidity currently 85%, wind currently 0 to 3mph north-northeasterly, pressure is 1017.4hPa rising slowly, there's been 0.6mm of rain in the last 24 hours and cloud cover is 8/8.

[Northernlights]

Cool start at 4.5c but sun trying to break through now. Small wintry looking showers out to the N and E over the Firth. More showers overnight have helped the crops.

[NUT]

Cloud has bubbled up but least we've seen sun (unlike the last 2 days) quite a contrast compared to last week

[Hairy Celt]

Much brighter today and the north-easterly has dropped right back.  Not a bad day really.

[Kirkcaldy Weather]

interesting  my weather station had a fast drop within 15 minutes of dewpoint (3 and a half degree fall) and humidity (temperature didn't move much) wasn't a shower not sure what caused it  

[Norrance]

'Some brightness earlier in the morning here at first but since then cloudy with showers. In heavier burst there has been hail, refrozen rain and graupel. Did have a max of 9C but feels colder than that in the breeze.

[Puffy MacCloud]

Well broken cloud this morning has been replaced with less well broken cloud this afternoon and it's still a tad on the cool side, however I'm not complaining as it's a perfectly usable day.

Temperature maximum today was 11.3deg.C at 14:47 up from a minimum of 1.3deg.C at 05:41, humidity is 51%, wind 3 to 6mph northeasterly with a maximum gust of 16mph at 10:14, pressure is 1016.0hPa falling slowly, there's been 0.2mm of rain today and cloud cover is 7/8.

[Northernlights]

A fine cool afternoon with a few scattered showers at 9c

Photos of daffodils on south facing dyke finished flowering but in full flower on north facing dyke.

 

In some sheltered north facing areas  behind woods they   are still opening.   

 

A photo too of a snow shower heading inland from the NE towards the Cairngorms.

[Quinach]

Another late winter's day when out of the sun, kids went out earlier with their hats and gloves on as they said they were too cold 

Max of 7.9c and mainly cloudy until mid afternoon when the sun made more of an appearance.

Dry bar one light hail shower at lunchtime.

Light winds throughout.

Some nice cloudscapes to end the day...

[Northernlights]

It really does feel like a spring from the sixties or even early seventies    when I came home from agri college full of youthful enthusiasm and sowed half the turnips in the last week of April.They emerged in the second week of May into a couple of nights of -2c and promptly bolted setting seed that summer with no bulb development. A severe lesson. They are a  biennial plant  growing a bulb (which can be eaten by sheep/cattle ) in the first year and producing seed in the second year from that bulb

Ever since then  i have waited till about 20th May to sow when frost risk should be much lower.

[Hairy Celt]

9 hours ago, Hairy Celt said:

Much brighter today and the north-easterly has dropped right back.  Not a bad day really.

Spoke too soon - the afternoon was marred by heavy hail showers and temps down to 6C. And there I was, off to physio in shorts!

[Quinach]

The sunny weather of last week is a rapidly fading memory.

Overnight low of -0.8c.

Wind has picked up compared to recently with quite a stiff northerly. 

Now showery with the temperature currently 4.8c.

Not a pleasant day to be outside, feels bitterly cold.

[shuggee]

-0.8C here too last night, sixty seventh air frost. 

And then at 7.30am I opened the curtains to this!

Chickens and cats unimpressed trudging through wet snow....

[Northern Strath]

Sorry @Mr Frost... tad late in getting back to you..... The April northerly brought 8 consecutive days with heavy snow and coverings, temps down to -7c or -8 repeatedly and nearly scratched ice-days. It was a week that wouldn’t have looked out of place mid-winter and the entire month has been a frost-fest. 

It was snowing on the morning commute yesterday. Same this morning but lying this time 

After last week a return to high pressure and sunshine with a bit of warmth would be nice. Managed to take advantage of the looser restrictions with a jaunt north up Suilven. Great as always.

 

Jeez.. have a LOT  of pages to catch up with on the forum. Hope everyone is well. 

Edited April 29, 2021 by Northern Strath