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 Youngs
Brussels

In message , Colin Youngs
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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 ?


Not particularly unusual. It can snow on the peaks at any time of the
year. I recall standing on the summit of Cairngorm on 1st August in
heavy snow many moons ago.

Norman.
(delete "thisbit" twice to e-mail)
--
Norman Lynagh Weather Consultancy
Chalfont St Giles
England

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.

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

"Colin Youngs" wrote in message
...
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 Youngs
Brussels

Snow was visible on the http://www.cairngormmountain.com webcam today.

Joe

"Joe Hunt" wrote in message
...

"Colin Youngs" wrote in message
...
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 Youngs
Brussels

Snow was visible on the http://www.cairngormmountain.com webcam today.

Joe

Colin,

You are in luck, as the webcam isn't actually today's image but that of
Friday and clearly shows snow on the ground -

http://www.cairngormmountain.com/cams/image2.jpg

ATB Joe

Joe Hunt wrote in message ...
:You are in luck, as the webcam isn't actually today's image but that of
:Friday and clearly shows snow on the ground -
:http://www.cairngormmountain.com/cams/image2.jpg

Thanks, Joe. I think my Belgian correspondent had seen the snow on a
webcam - it must have been that one.

Colin Youngs
Brussels

Colin

According to weatheronline:

Max temp at Cairnwell Mountain (933m) nearby only 5c on Friday (from 29c on
Tuesday!), so possibilities?

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/cgi-b...=03072&LANG=en

or

http://tinyurl.com/yq8dn

Paul K Hudson


"Colin Youngs" wrote in message
...
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 Youngs
Brussels

Hi,


Thanks Colin for your support in finding more information about the
snow on the Cairngorm Mountains.

I read some messages in which they mentioned snow above 800 m.
Unfortunately the webcams dropped out then.


Here in Brussels it's a bit warmer now after the rain around noon with
a temperature then of 11°!


Ciao,
Karel Holvoet
Halle

weather pictures 2004: http://www.phys.uu.nl/~holvoet

Karel Holvoet Halle, B wrote in message
. ..
:Thanks Colin for your support in finding more information about the
:snow on the Cairngorm Mountains.
:I read some messages in which they mentioned snow above 800 m.
:Unfortunately the webcams dropped out then.

I hope you find the information useful, Karel. Thanks to Norman, Mike, Joe
and Paul for their contributions in this thread.

Colin Youngs
Brussels

"Colin Youngs" wrote in message
...
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 Youngs
Brussels




I was told that some years ago there was enough snow on the Cairngorms in
June for them to open some of the ski runs.
There were also still several quite large winter snow patches remaining
visible above 3000 feet last week despite the warmer weather.
Certainly the weather "feel" around Aviemore on Saturday was more like late
autumn with an incredibly cold wind chill.

JP

JP


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