This cold zonality should be very very good for the western ski resorts snow levels.

Indeed WI, and the last couple of weeks have meant our local (and lowest altitude centre) at the Lecht has had some nice conditions at times. For example this was the view on Sunday http://www.winterhighland.info/pix/displayimage.php?photo_id=34848 

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Indeed WI, and the last couple of weeks have meant our local (and lowest altitude centre) at the Lecht has had some nice conditions at times. For example this was the view on Sunday http://www.winterhighland.info/pix/displayimage.php?photo_id=34848 

Great photo, hail The Lecht

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https://www.facebook.com/CairnGormMtn/ 

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Cold SE-ly flow accelerating over the Cairngorms is bringing a classic windstorm this afternoon. 1500 observation at Cairngorm summit is 86 gust 110 knots which is 99 gust 126 mph, and with a temperature of -4!

Not a day to be anywhere near the mountains. Even at the car park at 650m the wind will probably be gusting close to 100mph and the air full of blowing snow and grit. If you've ever been up there in one of these storms you'll know exactly what I'm talking about - it's just beyond belief.

 

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Still great skiing at Glenshee and the Western resorts in particular. Might be an idea to get out there by Monday if you are interested though as if some of the forecasts are correct windy moist humid air will severely damage the snowpack next week.

Glencoe closed yesterday with good skiing right to the end. Many regulars are saying that this year has been the best ever there when combining snow conditions and great skiing weather.

Just to add that this has followed possibly their worst season ever in 2016/7.

Just to add that this has followed possibly their worst season ever in 2016/7.

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Glencoe closed yesterday with good skiing right to the end. Many regulars are saying that this year has been the best ever there when combining snow conditions and great skiing weather.

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.

15C on Cairngorm yesterday, and looking similar today. I think that’s the first temperature in the teens this year. 26C at Aviemore. With the blue skies it must have been a beautiful few days.

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15C on Cairngorm yesterday, and looking similar today. I think that’s the first temperature in the teens this year. 26C at Aviemore. With the blue skies it must have been a beautiful few days.

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.

 

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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

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Aviemore the hottest place in the U.K. today. 27C

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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

 

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.

Snow was reported to be falling today on Cairngorm summit.

Snow was reported to be falling today on Cairngorm summit.

The Iceman Cometh...eventually more widely.

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Sphinx patch on Braeriach almost gone. For the first time recorded snow patches in the West (Nevis range) will outlast Braeriachin the Cairngorms. Will they last through to the new lasting snows though?

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).