Scotland/Alba weather discussion - March 2021 onwards

[Northernlights]

19 minutes ago, carinthian said:

Looking at those low temps across Scotland and other parts of the United Kingdom during the first 12 days of April, must be close to an extreme cold spell for the time of year .  Overall you lot seem to have had a lot of frosty nights up north !

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I think I have to go back here  to early  April 1968 for sustained cold and snowfall Historically usually its just a 24hour cold snap in April and then it soon warms up again. Have to say again its so nice to see a traditional Scottish spring  something  I thought we had lost forever.I remember lots of cold spells in the sixties in April as a kid up here.

Talking to my private pilot hay customer yesterday he said the jet stream was far south over the atlantic when he came back from the  Caribbean last week and helped speed them home.Other weather/atmosphere patterns round the world are not quite as theyusually are at this time of year.

He was telling me too that he had just bought a Tesla car which has fairly impressive acceleration.He arrived in Aberdeen airport and was able to switch on an app to start the heated windscreens and heated front seat as he picked up his luggage.Car ready and warm when he got to car park then 15minutes on the fast charger which recognises the car and bills accordingly to his account and then drove home. His only criticism was some of the build quality.  The future electric cars

 

 

[Mr Frost]

Such a shame for some of the ski resorts - decent Spring conditions once again.

Spring 2020, Winter 2020/21 and now Spring 2021 have all delivered the goods - weather wise.
Hopefully similar weather for Winter 2021/22 - we can all then enjoy it again!

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High pressure influences Britain through the next week to 10 days, maintaining quiet and fairly cool conditions, although a gradual rise of temperature is expected. Frost remains common, with a general rise of freezing level on the mountains into the afternoons. Existing lying snow on higher mountains will stay in place, thawing slightly during daytimes. Sun and variable cloud; most mountains often clear. Very little precipitation, apart from very isolated showers of snow or soft hail. Mostly light winds, but there may be some strengthening of wind around next weekend.

[Kirkcaldy Weather]

Lows here were -2.0 C / DP - 4.6C

 

[Puffy MacCloud]

A cloud has bubbled up in the heat of the midday sun. It's not much of a cloud but then it's only 6.8deg.C.

[NUT]

Still cold but don't feel too bad with no wind and not as much cloud building say compared to previous days

[shuggee]

On 11/04/2021 at 10:50, Mr Frost said:

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@shuggee risk of frosts continues right through until next weekend (current output) - must be a new all time record approaching for you. (Total number of recorded air frosts - not sure what period you cover? Just Winter and Spring or all seasons combined?)

I've only lived in this spot for four winters, so don't have a long term record. But after last night's -7.7C it's at fifty eight now starting on 24 Sep 2020, as it's a "frost season" that I'm interested in. The snow day count is winter/spring though - not least because we haven't had a snow day in autumn in that timeframe!

[damianslaw]

Suspect mean temps in Scotland at least 3 degrees below the mean..

[Hairy Celt]

1 hour ago, Puffy MacCloud said:

A cloud has bubbled up in the heat of the midday sun. It's not much of a cloud but then it's only 6.8deg.C.

You could try poking it with a sharp stick...

[Hairy Celt]

-3C overnight minimum but I wasn't up to see a frost apart from some frozen clumps of yesterday's soft hail. I'm glad the tomatoes weren't out in that!

It was nice and sunny till about 11 but mostly cloudy since. 

[Puffy MacCloud]

2 hours ago, Hairy Celt said:

You could try poking it with a sharp stick...

I could try poking you with a sharp stick. Now there's dozens of the little blighters.

Temperature has, I think, maxed out at only 9.7deg.C but it feels much warmer in the sunshine. A really nice day.

[bomdabass]

2 hours ago, Hairy Celt said:

-3C overnight minimum but I wasn't up to see a frost apart from some frozen clumps of yesterday's soft hail. I'm glad the tomatoes weren't out in that!

It was nice and sunny till about 11 but mostly cloudy since. 

I definitely went too early with my tomatoes, even though it's been cold my tomatoes have been getting >8 hrs a day of sunshine in my mini greenhouse so I'm now having to move 18 x 20cm tomato plants in and out every night 

[Norrance]

Blue skies all day here until a few clouds bubbled up in the late afternoon. First double figure max for some time at 10.5C ans with lighter winds felt much warmer than of late after a low this morning  of -2.8C. Looking like another cold night to come. The fair weather clouds did allow for a decent sunset.

[Northernlights]

Took Mrs Northernlights to Elgin at lunchtime for her jab today and even on the A96 there were patches of snow still lying next to shaded north facing woods.

Roads had   white dry salt like dust blowing off them reminicent of a day in late February and the countryside less green than it was two weeks ago. Couple of fields of winter rye which had been about 6 inches high looking very sorry for themselves after the frost.

On a positive note our spring barley is just breaking the surface this afternoon.

Edited April 12, 2021 by Northernlights

[Quinach]

Still felt like a day in late winter, but we did manage to raise the max temperature to 6.5c, so the warmest it has been for quite a few days.

Must have been some heavy snow showers overnight as everything was white first thing, soon melting in the sun.

Cloud bubbled up from mid-morning onwards leading to the lightest of hail showers in the late afternoon.

Not a bad day overall, especially if you were in the sun.

[Northernlights]

Just out checking cattle disturbance and its already -3c .I suppose the high has taken over with cold air in place without any mild air from the Atlantic blowing it away so the cold spell continues.

[Northernlights]

7 hours ago, Northernlights said:

Just out checking cattle disturbance and its already -3c .I suppose the high has taken over with cold air in place without any mild air from the Atlantic blowing it away so the cold spell continues.

Down to -4c again at 6.00am this morning but blue sky and sunshine compensation now.

[Hairy Celt]

Not for the faint-hearted

The crappy end of farming. Depressing breakfast reading really, good job the sun's shining.

[Halfamilefromnowhere]

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minus 5.7 lowest this morning with rock hard frost again, stunning vista again.  Remains of snow drifts holding on.

[Northernlights]

Early mornng sun picking out a tinge of green across the spring barley fields in spite of the frosty morning.

[NUT]

Small band of rain out to the west but staying away from us for now if we do get any shouldn't be that bad (clouded in after another clear start)

[Sanserit]

Day started off with wall to wall blue skies but clouds coming over from the north once again. Currently 11.6c, up from an overnight low of -3.3c.

I am so over this cold weather now and just want to get some heat although not much chance to get out in it as our office, along with the 22 other area offices in our organisation, are fully ensconced in IACS form filling for over 8000 farmers throughout Scotland. All would be well if the Rural Payments website speed would cope with the number of agents and farmers trying to access it at the same time.  The only upside of cold, showery weather is that farmers are more likely to find time to speak to us as they’re not in amongst field work, and a surprising number of Deeside farmers are ahead of themselves and have got their sowing done which is obviously down to a much drier than normal spring so far.

[Kirkcaldy Weather]

Minimum temps last night -1.1C / -6.0DP 

 

[NUT]

Showers didn't stay away infact really coming down at the moment

[Puffy MacCloud]

This morning was mainly overcast, which developed into light rain at lunchtime and then returned quickly to overcast, then, by mid-afternoon the cloud started breaking up and some sun got through. It's now heading back to overcast. I feel we've been overly overcast today.

Temperature reached a maximum of 10.9deg.C at 17:27 up from a minimum of 0.0deg.C at 06:03, humidity is 75%, wind is a very light southerly, pressure is 1034.0hPa steady, there's been 0.2mm of rain today and cloud cover is 7/8.

[Quinach]

Overnight low of -2.1c and just scraped a double digit max of 10.1c.

Light winds, oodles of sunshine.

All in all a very useable day ending with a lovely sunset.