Sorry wrong information. Glencoe closes after next Monday, the bank holiday. The forecast from today is much milder and often cloudy so conditions will not be as good as recently.

That is actually warmer than what it was here in Edinburgh yesterday and so, that just shows how bad it was here then underneath all of that east coast haar.

I was bagging Munros the week before last and we had some stunning weather. Still plenty of snow on the higher peaks as the picture of Ben Lui from Ben Oss taken on 16th May shows. The snow will be fast disappearing with the present heatwave though.

Ben Lui 16th May

Very mild start to the day up there but turning colder over the next few days. Could just about be some wet snow on the very highest tops.

Some snow patches are still surviving up there despite the warm summer. Iain Cameron thinks the Aonach Beag patch will survive through to lasting snow but i haven't seen him be optimistic about the other patches and doesn't fancy the chances of the ones on Braeriach making it (the two main patches - Sphinx and Pinnacles - are still there at the moment but rather small).

https://medium.com/@theiaincameron/27-august-snow-survey-2018-418a0886dca2

https://twitter.com/theiaincameron/status/1031245324596244481

If that happens it will be the first time that snow patches in the West have outlasted the Garbh Coire Mor patches ( as far as is known). The Point 5 gully patch at Nevis still has some depth left also so could also make it.

Lasting snow often does come to the high Cairngorms some weeks before the Nevis range though.

The Iceman Cometh...eventually more widely.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10156479136085049&set=gm.910822705784448&type=3&ifg=1 

A dusting on the higher Cairngorms this morning and at the top of the Nevis range.

Reports of the death of the Sphinx have been exaggerated, it lives on 

https://twitter.com/theiaincameron/status/1043246851053551622

Only a couple of inches of ice deep and a few feet wide but it had a thin layer of snow on it this afternoon. Would imagine there will be a rapid thaw early next week when it turns milder for a time (850s of +10).

Snow patch looking good on Aonach Beag (link below), also still some patches on Ben Nevis covered in fresh snow.

https://twitter.com/theiaincameron/status/1043578279876280321

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-45705249 

Some who were unprepared for the conditions. More snow up there today and down to lower levels this morning.

Aonach Beag's patch is still there, despite the unfavourable conditions recently.

Some good news at last. Brian Morrison went up Aonach Beag today to see how big the snow patch is. It’s approximately 30-35 metres long, and a good couple of metres deep. Almost certain to survive. If Ben Nevis’s snow is gone then this is the only snow left in Scotland. pic.twitter.com/ne1SYXEUgo

— Iain Cameron (@theiaincameron) October 15, 2018

Too early in the season for any chance of snowsports but the centre owners have confirmed it will open for skiing on the 1st of December.

Today Iain Cameron visited the one remaining snowpatch from Winter 2018 at Aonach Beag and found it was still substantial, solid and a certainty to survive. Now covered by new snow which has also filled in all the gaps underneath. This is the first time snow has survived in the Nevis range when none remains at Braeriach.

Nice covering up at Glenshee this morning....

Makes a nice image.