On Feb 25, 6:44*am, "Col" wrote:
fred wrote:
On Feb 24, 7:42 pm, fred wrote:
lots of it 30cm +

snowed continuously since 9am and still dinging on at 19:46

Tomorrow will be spent with a shovel

Fed up with it now

easing off a bit @ 23:30

feet of the stuff after 14.5hrs of persistent heavy snow

I expect the sheriff to declare a state of emergency

I'm surprised that the warnings on the Met Office site are still
only on orange rather than red. Perhaps this will change later
this morning.
They were talking about 50cm snow, with drifiting, by the
time all this is over. I know this is The Highlands but that
must rank as extreme weather, even by their standards.
--
Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl

FLASH Warning of Drifting Snow for Grampian valid from 0600 Thu 25 Feb
to 1800 Thu 25 Feb

FLASH Warning of Blizzards for Grampian valid from 0600 Thu 25 Feb to
1800 Thu 25 Feb

FLASH Warning of Heavy Snow for Grampian valid from 0600 Thu 25 Feb to
1800 Thu 25 Feb