It's been a while coming, but the mountains are open and snow sports are go in Scotland.
It's been a long time coming this season, but finally, there's enough snow in Scotland for some skiing and snowboarding.
All 5 main mountains are open this morning, and although none have their full raft of lifts and terrain on the go, there's enough snow for a decent slide, which after a couple of months of waiting ought to be more than enough to get up the hill if you're nearby!
One thing to be aware of if you're heading up the mountain today or across the next few days is the windchill - it's going to be way below zero so you'll definitely need to layer up and cover up your face well or it's going to hurt.
The best location for more snow currently is further east, so the Lecht, Cairngorm and Glenshee best places to get some further top-ups. Although, at this stage, there aren't expected to be any significant falls over the next 7 days. On the flipside of that, west is generally going to be best for sunshine, so Glencoe and Nevis are a good bet if you're after the best visibility.
Once again the Met Office forecast underestimates the cloud amounts on the weekend forecast.
Why do they issue a weekend forecast on the Thursday?
This was suppose to be this morning
No clear skies here.
Overcast with slight rain at times, cold but temperature up to 5.3C from its low of 2.4C;
0.8 mm of rain since midnight
A rather cold start some light rain
Temp 5.2C, low 3.6C, Barometer 1007mb falling rapidly, Wind F1 Variable, Rainfall 0.6mm
Good Morning. Some parts of the region look a little wet currently, (6am) It has stayed dry here all through the night, cloud though has kept temps up a little, 5�C dry and calm for now. At one point Rostherne and Rhyl were colder than Shap at around...
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