On 2010-11-30 18:32:11 +0000, Alan Greig said:

Tried to dig my own car out of the snow in Dundee today. Gave up. I
estimate about 90% of cars in Dundee are still stuck in side roads.
Only a limited bus service on priority routes. All schools still closed.

Roof collapse in Dundee city centre - see
http://www.thecourier.co.uk/News/Dun...g-consort.html

My

gutters are in danger too.

After three hours the car is free and down by Lundie church hall, so IF
there isn't too much more snow and IF I can get up to the Coupar Angus
road I'm quite confident of at least getting to Kingsway Tesco tomorrow
and stocking up on red wine and bird food. (Please tell me Tesco is
still open ... I never thought I'd look so much forward to shopping!)

I think I don't really understand lightning in snow. Presumably the
clouds above were cumulonimbus, and there must have been enough
convective energy to force ice up and down the cloud? And that energy
still came from the temperature difference between the top and bottom
of the cloud, so even though it was very cold at the surface, it was
much, much colder at the top? Or is this too much of a simplification?
Or just plain wrong?

Trevor
www.trevorharley.com
More current snow photos near the bottom at:
http://gallery.me.com/trevor.harley#100169