More snow overnight, we now have 6cm snow and 2 or 3 times that where
it's drifted. The snow on the ground is still drifting now in the F5
(estimated, anemometer frozen) SW'ly. Beautiful sky this morning, pinks
and blues, but darkening now from the west. Looks like it's going to
start snowing again shortly.

Temp -2.3C, overnight min -2.5. 988 mb.
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Steve Loft, Wanlockhead, Dumfriesshire. 1417ft ASL
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I can't believe there's more snow here than in Wanlockhead.
It doesn't happen very often!
A fairly level 8cms here, and snowing moderate to heavy since around 8.30am.
This is the greatest depth of snow at this site for 3 years, when we reached
8cm on 23rd February 2002.
A very nice site. Shame it's expected to rain this afternoon.
But the roads are a disaster, no doubt many will fail to get to work this
morning.
As ever, picture on the front page of my website.
Alex.

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Conditions in Wishaw @ 9:15am , 18/1/05
Temperature 0.3 °C. Dew point -0.6 ºC. 94.0 %RH
Mean wind speed 8 mph from the South South West . Gusting to 20 mph.
Remarks; Heavy snow, 0.0 mm precipitation in the past hour.
Snow depth: 8cm
Cloud cover: Broken Clouds
MSLP 983.6 mb, Falling .
Today's Max. 0.7 °C at 12:52am .
Today's min. -0.7 °C at 6:48am .
Today's rain 0.2 mm
Wishaw, North Lanarkshire, Scotland
N55º47'14", W3º55'15". 360ft/117m amsl
http://www.alex114.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
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"Steve Loft" wrote in message
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More snow overnight, we now have 6cm snow and 2 or 3 times that where it's
drifted. The snow on the ground is still drifting now in the F5
(estimated, anemometer frozen) SW'ly. Beautiful sky this morning, pinks
and blues, but darkening now from the west. Looks like it's going to start
snowing again shortly.

Temp -2.3C, overnight min -2.5. 988 mb.
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Steve Loft, Wanlockhead, Dumfriesshire. 1417ft ASL
http://www.wanlockhead.org.uk/weather/
Free weather softwa http://cumulus.nybbles.co.uk/
Experimental webcam: http://www.wanlockhead.org.uk/webcam.php

Alex Stephens Jr wrote:
I can't believe there's more snow here than in Wanlockhead.
It doesn't happen very often!

That's because you've got half of our snow! It's hardly having a
chance to settle before the wind whisks it away.

snowing moderate to heavy since around 8.30am.

Same here. The road here is quite bad with the drifting, and no sign of
the snow plough yet.

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Steve Loft, Wanlockhead, Dumfriesshire. 1417ft ASL
http://www.wanlockhead.org.uk/weather/
Free weather softwa http://cumulus.nybbles.co.uk/
Experimental webcam: http://www.wanlockhead.org.uk/webcam.php

"Steve Loft" wrote in message
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Alex Stephens Jr wrote:
I can't believe there's more snow here than in Wanlockhead.
It doesn't happen very often!

That's because you've got half of our snow! It's hardly having a chance
to settle before the wind whisks it away.

snowing moderate to heavy since around 8.30am.

Same here. The road here is quite bad with the drifting, and no sign of
the snow plough yet.

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Steve Loft, Wanlockhead, Dumfriesshire. 1417ft ASL
http://www.wanlockhead.org.uk/weather/
Free weather softwa http://cumulus.nybbles.co.uk/
Experimental webcam: http://www.wanlockhead.org.uk/webcam.php

Now we have the best snowfall here since the Feb 01 blizzard, which at 40
odd centimeters, shan't be eclipsed today obviously.
Thank you for blowing it all this way Steve.
It's hard to imagine this'll change to rain anytime soon down here.

For those of you who wish to see the central lowlands snowfall in the
cities, you'd do well to check out these url's - some excellent web cams;
http://www.nadics.org.uk/views/map_glasgowGB.asp
http://www.nadics.org.uk/VIEWS/map_edinburghGB.asp

Alex.

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Conditions in Wishaw @ 9:45am , 18/1/05
Temperature 0.2 °C. Dew point -0.4 ºC. 96.0 %RH
Mean wind speed 8 mph from the South South West . Gusting to 14 mph.
Remarks; Heavy snow , 0.0 mm precipitation in the past hour.
Snow depth: 10cm
Cloud cover: Obscured. MSLP 983.2 mb, Falling .
Today's Max. 0.7 °C at 12:52am .
Today's min. -0.7 °C at 6:48am .
Today's rain 0.2 mm
Wishaw, North Lanarkshire, Scotland
N55º47'14", W3º55'15". 360ft/117m amsl
http://www.alex114.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
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On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 09:45:18 +0000, Steve Loft wrote:

Same here. The road here is quite bad with the drifting, and no sign
of the snow plough yet.

Tut tut, came past here, blade down, last night once in each direction
about midnight and again this morning about 0830 and again at 1230.

There was about 1cm at midnight and that had increased to 2.5cm this
morning. Around 1000 the winds picked up and started to shift it
about, visibilty much reduced, then it started to snow and left
another 2.5cm. Couple of shorter snow showers since 1100. Conditions
now very light and broken cloud with sunny intervals 0.7C F3 WNW.

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Dave. pam is missing e-mail

Dave Liquorice wrote:

Tut tut, came past here, blade down, last night once in each direction
about midnight and again this morning about 0830 and again at 1230.

I think they must have had a problem - a plough arrived eventually but
it wasn't the usual one, it was a funny looking little one. And the
Lanark to Sanquhar bus service seems not be running today.

Looks like you're in for a few hours of interesting weather according to
the latest MO weather warnings!
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Steve Loft, Wanlockhead, Dumfriesshire. 1417ft ASL
http://www.wanlockhead.org.uk/weather/
Free weather softwa http://cumulus.nybbles.co.uk/
Experimental webcam: http://www.wanlockhead.org.uk/webcam.php

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:29:03 +0000, Steve Loft wrote:

I think they must have had a problem - a plough arrived eventually
but it wasn't the usual one,

One of the local ones broke down with a puncture the other day, they
other isn't particulary well either apprently. Well, we don't get any
snow anymore do we, not like the old days... I must remember to ask
permission to use some photos taken around this house that are in the
local museum, road a channel through a 12' bank, digging through 3'
deep lying snow etc.

Looks like you're in for a few hours of interesting weather
according to the latest MO weather warnings!

Well looking out of the window and at the radar I don't see it. It's
an F4 to F5 NW'ly, still about 1C so a gentle thaw is taking place,
before the light went it was a pleasant occasionally sunny evening,
provided you were out of the wind, -15C windchill...

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Dave Liquorice wrote:

Well looking out of the window and at the radar I don't see it.

Looks like it's lurking in the Irish Sea, mustering its forces for a
strike on Cumbria
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Steve Loft, Wanlockhead, Dumfriesshire. 1417ft ASL
http://www.wanlockhead.org.uk/weather/
Free weather softwa http://cumulus.nybbles.co.uk/
Experimental webcam: http://www.wanlockhead.org.uk/webcam.php

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 19:06:46 +0000, Steve Loft wrote:

Looks like it's lurking in the Irish Sea, mustering its forces for a
strike on Cumbria

Aye, still mustering... Now if that flash warning (now vanished from
the meto website...) had been issued about 0800 it would have been
more reasonable. It was really rather 'orrible up between 1000 and
1100.

Now if me, a very amateur forecaster, can see that it isn't going to
precipitate much or be particulary windy from public data on the web
how come the meto get it so wrong? It's not even blowing a gale on the
top of GDF, just F7 Near Gale. Come on Sods Law...

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Dave. pam is missing e-mail