The usual blame game was played out in the Scottish parliament
yesterday re the "snow chaos" in the Central Belt on Monday. The
interesting part of it was the quoted snowfall from that morning
event.

10cm at Edinburgh
12cm Livingston
20 cm widely in south Lanarkshire
30cm East Kilbride

all quoted by the First Minister.

having spent the first 10 years of my life in EK I was very pleased
that it won!

On a serious note it is rather ridiculous that we have no obs from
large swathes of the central belt (Stirling etc). is it too hard to
have hourly obs from all areas with over say 30k population - is that
too much to ask in 2010?

brian
aberfeldy