At least Edinburgh has seen lying snow this winter albeit very briefly!
As for Aberdeen? Isn't this the coldest part - surely you must have caught a snow shower at the very least Rich?
I know NW highlands is the place but surely you saw something white from this colder snap??
To a certain extent, Richard might have a point when it comes to seeing some white stuff because if you have studied the rain radar maps over the last couple of days, you may well have spotted that very little of the precipitation which we have been seeing during that period, has actually been getting all the way through to locations in the east of Scotland such as the city of Aberdeen and the Aberdeenshire council area.
According to weathercast.co.uk, the nearest major station to Aberdeen where sunshine is reported is at Dyce where this is shown by the fact that a total of 7.2 hours of sunshine was recorded there during yesterday (which is far more than what we have had at Edinburgh Gogarbank on any day during this winter so far) with nothing at all in the way of rainfall.
This means that whilst Richard might well have not seen any snow during the last day or so, he would have at least been able to enjoy a nice, sunny day during yesterday and possibly, a better chance of getting an official air frost which we hardly ever get here in Edinburgh these days.
Here in Edinburgh on the other hand, it is a different story because despite also being in the east of Scotland, it is actually more exposed to winds from the west than what it is to winds from the SE because when the wind is from the SE, we are sheltered by the Lammermuir Hills but when the wind is from the west, there are no mountains in the way at all, and everything just gets blown in this direction through the Forth-Clyde Valley.
The rain radar maps over the last day or so, picks that out clearly as this has been the only part of the east of Scotland as a result, which all of this precipitation has been able to reach on a regular basis. From that, our main issue now is the question of whether or not, it is ever going to stop raining here because with the way that this is going, we could well be on course for this month to end up being our wettest February on record.
At the same time, Richard also reported in January's PW thread that January was a very dry month in his part of the world whereas we haven't had a significantly drier than average month here in Edinburgh since last April. We also haven't had a drier than average season since the winter of 2018/19 and this winter is about to go down as our wettest winter since 2015/16 regardless of what happens from now on.
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11 February 2020 08:07:24
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The north of Edinburgh, usually always missing out on snow events which occur not just within the rest of Scotland or the UK, but also within the rest of Edinburgh.