Upon looking at the charts for the coming week, there are a few things which stand out for me.
1) Ahead of ex-Hurricane Ophelia, we had an easterly wind this morning along with some heavy rain.
2) The chart for Wednesday shows a weather system moving up from the south very slowly over the southern half of England and Wales with easterly winds to the north of that, here over Scotland.
3) At the weekend, there is the possibility of some disruptive weather over the south of England in particular from a weather system what could end up being named as Storm Brian (which I'm sure, wouldn't actually be named after the very person who created this site (and indeed, this forum) in the first place). According to the latest model output, that system would be taking a more southerly track than normal which would take the actual centre of low pressure across the north of England. For here in Scotland, that would result in the winds possibly starting off from the SE before backing E, then NE and finally N as that low pressure system moved away so once again, we would be in yet another position where we are experiencing easterly winds.
When you add all of that together, there is quite a high frequency of easterly winds in that model output for the northern half of the UK in particular with that being less of the case in the south where everything is more westerly and zonal. Since we have actually had very little in the way of easterly winds in recent months, that means that for here in Scotland, we would actually end up seeing more in the way of easterly winds if all of that was to come off, than what we have seen for quite a while.
So that therefore, has to leave a lot of people here in Scotland looking at this as a possible 'if only it were winter' scenario since that might potentially be quite a cold run there if this were actually the middle of winter, since there would probably be the potential there, for some decent snow events on the northern edge of these low pressure systems if this was the middle of winter, especially over high ground. It would therefore be interesting to hear what others think about that.
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.