Scotland/Alba weather discussion - March 2021 onwards

[Mr Frost]

Evening all!

Great stuff in here! @Halfamilefromnowhere you live in such a great location - fantastic snow pictures as usual!

Surprised @Northern Strath has not popped up - usually guaranteed when there is snowfall in the North! 

Cold start again tomorrow.

06:00

 

Thursday feeling quite mild (wouldn’t be hard) double digits some parts. (Wet in the West)

12:00

 

Later that afternoon/evening the cold air returns! Squall line risk as @Kirkcaldy Weather previously mentioned.

Snow/wintry showers follow in behind through the evening/night.

15:00:

 

18:00

 

Friday 15:00 - snow/wintry showers - basically a poor man’s version of our current cold spell! Still impressive for the time of year. 

 

Saturday 12:00 - best chance for low level snow/wintry showers - parameters look a wee bit more conductive.

 

As ever at this timeframe all subject to change! Another cold/wintry weekend ahead on current output - especially Friday/Saturday.

UKMO for example! 

Friday:

 

Saturday:

 

Sunday:

 

Below average temperatures continue for a wee while longer! ECM monthly temperature anomalies.

05/04 to 11/04 

 

12/04 to 18/04

 

19/04 to 25/04

 

26/04 to 02/05

 

If those are on the ball we should see temperatures return to average values during the third week of April. 

It has been quite a shock to the system after a mild March!

 

 

All the best to you all!

Edited April 6, 2021 by Mr Frost

[Allseasons-Si]

Great pictures from you guys up there as always,we had a wee bit of a dusting here this afternoon and the Graupel was huge in size of around a halfpence and it was a mad half hour of it,next weekend looks like rinse and repeat for you guys

[Mair Snaw]

Some of the showers that came through today were insane.. by the time this one was over everything was white over again.. remarkable for the time of year.

[thebigyin]

Morning. Looks like Aberdeen faired fairly well if it's snow you are after. Overnight radar showed some quite persistent light to moderate snow early hours then again towards end of night. A few cm of fluffy snow this morning.

Sun had started to dent it earlier but clouded over now with light snow back on again. Looks quite a big streamer inbound. Hopefully the last of this spell!! . Looking forward to some spring warmth-ish tomorrow.

[Ravelin]

No new snow overnight here but still patches lying. Otherwise cold and mainly sunny.

[Mair Snaw]

Rinse and repeat here, if anything the most snaw on the ground of this spell this morning.

[shuggee]

-2.2C overnight, fifty fourth air frost. Grey slate skies earlier and spitting snow flakes (some of the wierdly, quiet big but completely isolated). Bit birhgter now, patches of blue. UNlike yesterday morning when it was scrape scrape, no frost on the car at all this morning.

[Northernlights]

0c start less wind and overcast. Really reminicent of Aprils in the sixties when my mothers saying that "Spring doesn"t happen in Scotland summer arrives on the 1st of June" held true.Any green  grass shrivelling. and all growth in suspended animation

[Methuselah]

4 minutes ago, Northernlights said:

0c start less wind and overcast. Really reminicent of Aprils in the sixties when my mothers saying that "Spring doesn"t happen in Scotland summer arrives on the 1st of June" held true.Any green  grass shrivelling. and all growth in suspended animation

Aye, NL: Ne'er cast a cloot till August is oot?!

[Puffy MacCloud]

There's more cloud about this morning but the sun has found a way of continuing to shine on through. Another lovely morning in what is becoming a dream ticket of a Spring season here in the southwest of Scotland.

Temperature 5.7deg.C up from a minimum of -4.2deg.C at 04:29, humidity is 55%, wind is an almost non-existent westerly, pressure is 1024.7hPa steady, there's been no precipitation in the last 24 hours, cloud cover is 6/8 and the dew point is at -3deg.C.

[Halfamilefromnowhere]

Minus 3 at start of play now nice day as wind is much lighter but snow showers still blowing through last one bit heavier.

[Wee County Exile]

3 hours ago, Northernlights said:

0c start less wind and overcast. Really reminicent of Aprils in the sixties when my mothers saying that "Spring doesn"t happen in Scotland summer arrives on the 1st of June" held true.Any green  grass shrivelling. and all growth in suspended animation

Indeed very true - I even recall one early June in the 70’s growing up in Nairn when the ‘country kids’ did not get bussed down to the town for school because of snow. Think it was the glenferness area mainly affected if memory serves me right.

[thebigyin]

Thaw on now I'd say, or at least snow disappearing in a different way to last couple of days. Showers I think now done for hear. Bit of warmth in the sun. Quick lunch walk at the golf course and even there a mile to west seem to have missed most of snow that hit the city. Dogs had fun in the drifts. And a slow mo of the last flakes of this spell ?

Edited April 7, 2021 by thebigyin

[shuggee]

Oh, my.

What were you saying about wanting the end of winter @101_North?

[101_North]

1 hour ago, shuggee said:

Oh, my.

What were you saying about wanting the end of winter @101_North?

My XC forecast has that much fantasy snow in it I can't screenshot it all in one attempt

Spring can wait

[Northernlights]

Wind has finally dropped out  so 4.5c  does not seem so cold.  Snow  showers much smaller across the Firth this evening and managed to get a phto of one in Easter Ross caught in the evening sunlight. Ben  More to the left in the photo is still shrouded in an ongoing snow shower.

 

It appears it may not be the last snow shower of the season.  It really is an old fashioned spring and I for one am really enjoying the great cloudscapes and fabulous visibility highlighting the snow capped hills

[damianslaw]

More snow forecast Friday, bitter arctic air back again, the cold holding through the weekend..

[Hairy Celt]

2 minutes ago, damianslaw said:

More snow forecast Friday, bitter arctic air back again, the cold holding through the weekend..

Yes, we know, thanks. 

Enough's enough.

[mardatha]

I find Spring getting colder and later every year. Thought it was old age but maybe not

[Halfamilefromnowhere]

Wet here and temps a dizzy 5.7c with a mildish sou westerly, still plenty of drifts left over from the last few days snow which sounds like it returns again tonight.

[Northernlights]

2 hours ago, mardatha said:

I find Spring getting colder and later every year. Thought it was old age but maybe not

Aye as one who likes cold compared to heat old agethe cold  did make me suffer a bit on Monday and Tuesday this week as the back got locked up even tighter.Never mind I have an apointment with "the other women" on 2nd May to unlock it and I am counting the days. Usually go once a month to keep mobility going but will be four month gap this time.

This to me is just like an old fashioned Scottish spring weatherwise. Term days on farm tenancies were always 31st May to give outgoing tenant time to sow crops for incoming tenant so in Scotland springs in the past were always later than they have been recently.

Edited April 8, 2021 by Northernlights

[Hairy Celt]

Pretty blustery out this morning, front approaching or even passing through just now.  And if that was a 'mild interlude', well I think it'll take a Mediterranean style heatwave to satisfy me from now on.   

[Northernlights]

Yes the inner Moray Firth dust storms have returned this morning with this very gusty wind.  I   can see fields near Nairn, Forres and Elgin taking off today.    Need the cold front to go through to calm it down a bit as it is really violent out there just now. The last few days have really dried off the soil surface. Currently 9c

Two arctic fronts in one week coming south across the Firth. Heres todays one.

 

 

More wind turbines on the move on the A96.

Edited April 8, 2021 by Northernlights

[NUT]

This wind is really quite fierce (just ahead of the main rain)

[Hairy Celt]

Squall line with hail just passed in the last 20 mins.