On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 00:22:41 +0200, Colin Youngs wrote in


A member of the Belgian (Flemish) weather discussion group has told me in an
e-mail that it was snowing in the Cairngorms on Friday. Can anyone confirm
this ? How unusual would snowfall be on the highest Scottish peaks in the
second half of June ?

Snow is not visible on the present Cairn Gorm webcam picture
http://www.phy.hw.ac.uk/resrev/aws/piccloud.htm

Colin - in some ways I'd be surprised if snow wasn't falling on the peaks
of Scotland in the last two days. This is the 00Z ascent for Albermarle
last night and it shows the wet bulb melting level as low as about 3,500
feet, so I'd guess snow fell down to about 3000 ft.

http://weather.uwyo.edu/cgi-bin/soun...900&STNM=03238

Given the airflow was/is from arctic regions, I would think it isn't that
rare an event.

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Mike 55.13°N 6.69°W Coleraine posted to uk.sci.weather 19/06/2004 22:41:32 UTC