Some light rain overnight with fresh to strong SW winds. Quite a contrast this morning.

Our first snow of the season

The temperature at Dyce (Aberdeen Airport) saw the temperature crease from -3 to +3°C in the space of half an hour this morning. Here in the city, closer to the sea, it is now the mildest it has been for many days at 5.4°C and the snow is starting to thaw.

Don't you just love south-easterlies Doc! 😂

Last night's overnight minimum temperature at Edinburgh Gogarbank was -2.5°C with an official air frost at all three of my local stations but the temperature here in Edinburgh has now risen to around +2°C.

Winter is Over!!😡

Temperature -3 C in early hours, 2 C at 7am and now 1 C in the snow 🤔

Noticeably warmer. Temperature now 5.5°C+ at 13.35, less gusty. Local snow has mostly gone now. Light rain, with heavier rain expected.

YUCK!!!!

Temp has risen to 10.6c, amazing to think it was sub zero and blizzard conditions this morning. 

Still full snow cover on the lawns , pavements are a mess. Rapid thaw now obviously. 

I would have expected the wind to have picked up by now and before that initial rain turned to snow this morning, it had looked as though that was happening but that's not how it has turned out so far and there's still very little in the way of wind here as I write.

Meanwhile, the temperature here in Edinburgh is still only around 2°C as I write but regardless of the official maximum temperature as given by the 18z or even the 21z raw SYNOP data and with milder weather on the way, I don't believe that either of those two figures will confirm today's actual maximum temperature as that probably won't occur until the temperature goes up at some point in time during the overnight period.

Storm Bert has brought only snow here, no wind or heavy rain. Infact it's been calm across southern Scotland

It's still only 1.5 C here though with a steady thaw. The side roads and pavements are terrible

1 C in southern Scotland, 16 C in the south-west. Quite a contrast

This is probably more appropriate for a different thread or forum but it's not just the pavements and side roads which are terrible as the Queensferry Crossing was closed during today with traffic being diverted onto the old Forth Road Bridge and even the buses were taken off the road for a period of time, something which hasn't happened since the Beast from the East event in 2018.

That would no doubt have had a massive impact on anyone trying to get to any sporting event and so, I'm just astonished that all of today's top flight football matches in Scotland were still able to go ahead (albeit with a few of them being delayed) in spite of all of that.

Weather online currently reports 1.4c at Glasgow bishopton and 13c at Prestwick 35 miles away

https://www.weatheronline.co.uk/weather/maps/current?LANG=en&UP=0&R=310&TYP=temperatursyn&ART=tabelle&LANG=en&DATE=1732395600&KEY=UK&LAND=UK&CONT=ukuk&SORT=0&SI=mph&CEL=C&UD=0 

With that, all of the snow which was around has virtually disappeared now and the wind is finally starting to pick up a bit and switched around to the SSW.

Winter is over!!😡