BBC News - Disruption after 'thundersnow' hits Scotland
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-55184493
This is what woke Edinburgh at 0445 this morning!
Exactly, and that is why a convection thread has just been started on this forum for reporting that sort of thing.
Since I was the first person to report that here on this forum, I probably could have started that thread myself.
Since that isn't normally something which we would expect to be seeing during the winter (it is normally during the summer that convection threads turn up on this forum), I didn't think that starting such a thread would be all that worthwhile.
However, the fact that this thread has now been started shows that there is obviously a bigger demand for it than what I had thought.
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.