Scotland/Alba weather discussion - March 2021 onwards

[Northernlights]

Photo from about 5.00pm showing a snow shower to the south over the Cairngorms.

 

A couple of things to look out for in this image are the nightime badger scrapes in the grass and also the pale yellow  of the horse chestnut leaves and also the frosted leaves from the beginning of April at the top of the tree.

Edited May 5, 2021 by Northernlights
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[Quinach]

Finally reached a max of 7c today in one of the longer spells of sunshine mid-afternoon.

The day though dominated by impressive showers of snow/hail/sleet/rain.

These contrasting with the intense sunshine making for some lovely cloudscapes.

Bitterly cold in the strong northerly wind, this falling light here in the last hour or so.  Temperature down to 3c so a frost I suspect.

Honestly say its the first time I have seen snow falling here in May (lived here over a decade now). 

Met office teasing us with a comment of thunder tomorrow "across the south" of Grampian.  Being on the boundary of the North and South, going to be another interesting weather day.

Edit - nature continues irrespective, finally got a Hedgehog visit last night much to the kids delight.

Edited May 5, 2021 by Quinach

[Methuselah]

1 minute ago, Quinach said:

Finally reached a max of 7c today in one of the longer spells of sunshine mid-afternoon.

The day though dominated by impressive showers of snow/hail/sleet/rain.

These contrasting with the intense sunshine making for some lovely cloudscapes.

Bitterly cold in the strong northerly wind, this falling light here in the last hour or so.  Temperature down to 3c so a frost I suspect.

Honestly say its the first time I have seen snow falling here in May (lived here over a decade now). 

Met office teasing us with a comment of thunder tomorrow "across the south" of Grampian.  Being in the on the boundary of the North and South, going to be another interesting weather day.

I was in Glenurquhart, back in 1992, and we had sleet/wet snow, graupel in early June; but, two days' later it was 28C. And June 1975 speaks for itself: I was in MK back then . . . it was -1C on the Tuesday morning and +30 by the Friday afternoon!

[Methuselah]

Minus bloody six!

 

[Norrance]

Skies have cleared and the wind has dropped here this evening following the earlier hail showers. Going to be a cold one I think. 
pic is from a pal in Fife looking over the Forth to Edinburgh and beyond. Hills are quite white for May!

[Kirkcaldy Weather]

Today's convective snaps 

Didn't really have any showers directly impact here however a light flurry it was either snow or graupel but a first for me in May and at 11C! 

The timing of the first precip tomorrow morning here I expect around 10am either snow or hail then as that clears and instability builds thunder and hail widely again 

[Northernlights]

Large area of precipitation to the north  coming south across the Firth and I can  see it on the radar. Are we going to see white ground in the morning? Currently 3.5c  Really notable cold spell for May.

[Mr Frost]

14 minutes ago, Kirkcaldy Weather said:

Today's convective snaps 

Didn't really have any showers directly impact here however a light flurry it was either snow or graupel but a first for me in May and at 11C! 

The timing of the first precip tomorrow morning here I expect around 10am either snow or hail then as that clears and instability builds thunder and hail widely again 

I wonder if we will see a last minute warning go out!? Especially fairly modest high ground (100/150 meters and above) during rush hour further North.

 

Very cold overnight also.

 

I would much prefer warmth at this time of year but it’s hard to deny…this weather is very interesting (below average temperatures and settling snowfall to modest levels which sticks for more than a day!) and some of the cloudscapes/showers are very impressive. 
 

[Hawesy]

A cold start to May here too but the main talking point locally is rainfall. After just 2.6mm of rain in April there has been 38.8mm so far in the first few days of May (Leuchars figures). Quite a turnaround.

Cold last night, min was 1.7c here on the East Neuk coast.

[Hairy Celt]

2 hours ago, Northernlights said:

Large area of precipitation to the north  coming south across the Firth and I can  see it on the radar. Are we going to see white ground in the morning? Currently 3.5c  Really notable cold spell for May.

Soft hail and sleet at 2.5C here from that band so expect snow many places away from the coast, especially with elevation to see snow.

You certainly look after your cows. On their beds before tea, well almost spoiling them.

00:50 - now very heavy wet snow.

Edited May 5, 2021 by Hairy Celt

[Norrance]

The trough broke up quite a bit as it into this area but we have had a few flakes. The main line of precipitation just now on the radar is heading down through Western Perthshire where the traffic cams are showing heavier precipitation. Rannoch for example.

Edited May 6, 2021 by Norrance

[mardatha]

Didn't have any snow here, tiny bit of sleety rain is all. Slight frost on cars this morning. The weather is very tame here.

[Halfamilefromnowhere]

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Heavy  fall of wet snow here must be 3 to 4 inches with more just bi higher. The weight of the snow has brought several branches down.  Photos to follow..

 

[101_North]

Steady snow falling here! Even settling on some surfaces! 6th May

[snowidea]

Slightly shocked when I looked out of the window this morning. That'll teach me to take my eye of the weather. 

[101_North]

Edited May 6, 2021 by 101_North

[Penicuikblizzard]

Snowing at Straiton and it’s lying

[Kayemill]

Definitely May.....,be!

[Northern Strath]

What’s that saying again?.. “there are 2 seasons in Scotland, winter and June” ?... 

It snows more often than not in May but this current weather is definitely at the more extreme end. 6 inches and heavy snow as I left and a tricky a9 commute, standstill on the Daviot south

Yesterday was white and snowy and the last few days in general have had showers accompanying the cold. Aye, very impressive 2021 now give us some

[Northernlights]

Cold and wet this morning at 4c with a few slushy deposits left from a fall of snow in the middle of the night when it was white.Snow still remaining above 600feet round about. Just hope we see some better weather soon.

[Penicuikblizzard]

As much as I love snow,,,,come on it’s May let’s have some warmth now please!!!!

 

Edited May 6, 2021 by Penicuikblizzard

[BlueHedgehog074]

Gosh, Winter 2021/22 has sure started early for some of you guys

[Eagle Eye]

Morning from Kent, some snow on webcam on high ground even though we're well past normal Snow  Season down South. 

[grifter]

Caught a heavy hail shower yesterday while in Port Glasgow, had to shelter in the Garage as I was working outside. My mate who works out on the Golf course, which is quite high up,  said they were getting marble size hail and was about an inch deep over the whole course. got 2 big claps of thunder after this shower but missed them on the video.

 

 

Edited May 6, 2021 by grifter

[Hairy Celt]

39 minutes ago, DiagonalRedLine said:

Gosh, Winter 2021/22 has sure started early for some of you guys

No, this is summer. The Atlantic is giving up, we're drifting back towards Europe.  Bye bye!