He might win this year with that pic.
Here is boringly cold. Apart from the 30kt winds and snow overnight that left me digging out my van from the carport so I could get to the shops. Up north is colder, last I heard was about about -20-25c in places
continues to be some of the weirdest snow/ice conditions I can ever remember.
The extreme cold of last night (-16C), coming after the big snow a couple of days earlier has resulted in a real mix of conditions. I was descending of Meall a' Bhuachaille today and the snow looked more like fur. On closer inspection, the top layer was made up of vertical crystals, so it had a very "3D" effect.
And one of Ryvoan, just because...
The hoar frost is mental at the moment. We have a chicken wire fence and the hoar is so big it's more or less filled in the holes. Shining a light across the fields is millions of little sparkles.
This afternoon we had 8 blackbirds feeding on the food I put out all at once. Only regularly see one. Couldn't count the other birds but I'd guess at over 100. Gold finch, greenfinch, chaffinch, 3 types of tit, siskin, robins, dunnock, bullfinch, crows. They are all puffed up almost double. God knows how they manage. There was a tit sheltering in our porch, it had its head tucked under its wing to keep warm.
Our track is basically a piste now
The tracks up on the tops are still under a foot of snow.
I was watching the birds in the garden at sunrise yesterday and saw a barn owl do a full turn of the garden with half a dozen magpies harrying it. Presumably it was still out huntingg as there’s such a scarcity of prey.
The thaw is on in Fort William.
Bit late to the defrosting cars topic but I just put a towel on the windscreen the night before. It completely stops any frost, I can just remove the towel get in and drive away. I don't get how it's not been a viral "life hack" that everyone has adopted by now
Yeah I used to put an old bed sheet over my car when I first learnt to drive. Tricky bit is several solid nights of frost when it's fully stiffend!
Nowadays it's all heated windscreens. They don't know their born!
Yeah if you're lucky you get just a tiny amount of thaw or 10 seconds of rain and the sheet freezes solid and glues itself to the glass.
Yesterday I got properly caught out, I knew I'd put the bike in the back still wet (and, er, covered in frozen snow that I couldn't shake off) but clearly it got warm enough to melt, then cold enough to freeze into a solid ice sheet all over the inside of the glass. Once I'd scraped it all off it was like it'd snowed inside the car.
Snowing in Dunblane, cold on the heels of yesterday's storm
Heavy snow and thunder in East Kilbride right now, can’t see it lasting though as it’s 1.5 degrees
The back roads and little lanes around mine were riddled with sheet ice this morning. Didn't realise it had been that cold overnight. Abandoned the ride after a while - although the main roads were fine (if damp), anything off the beaten track was too risky.
There was a real glare off the low winter sun too, couldn't see a bloody thing at times, couldn't tell between ice and wet roads.
Strava's ridiculous Athlete Intelligence feature helpfully informed me that my ride was much slower than my usual pace.
Yes Strava, that's cos I had to walk one of the descents! Idiot.
Went out at 10 when the official yellow ice warning ended, but still frost and ice in the shade. Got home at 1.30 having been seasoned by the gritter as I came back into the village.
T shirt and shorts at the weekend, snow back again this morning.
Yeah, we were running in the snow last night up Craigellachie (496m)
We're expecting a wee bit more tonight.
Not much left in the Cairngorms
The question is; will we have a (common) Easter snowfall or is that it for the year?
Not much left in the Cairngorms
The question is; will we have a (common) Easter snowfall or is that it for the year?
One thing's for sure, no way Sphinx is making it through past July or August this year 🙁
I know today is eagerly anticipated..
Just in time for the equinox.
It's that time of year when the Express starts scaring the pensioners...
https://www.express.co.uk/news/weather/2126736/uk-snow-maps-latest-huge-white-barrage-in-hours
It's that time of year when the Express starts scaring the pensioners...anyone to get a sale/click
Aye, snowmaggedon alerts ahoy ,forget all that climate change tosh 🙄
Aye, snowmaggedon alerts ahoy ,forget all that climate change tosh 🙄
"Some parts of the country" meaning all the high bits that get snow regularly between October and April, but nothing for Doris in Eastbourne to worry about.
Aye, snowmaggedon alerts ahoy ,forget all that climate change tosh 🙄
"Some parts of the country" meaning all the high bits that get snow regularly between October and April, but nothing for Doris in Eastbourne to worry about.
Ah yes, the annual 'suddenly the forgotten Highlands of Scotland are directly claimed/ relevant to Shirley in Southampton' moment on weather reports.... I've a colleague who falls for it every time and claims weather reports are crap...
Meanwhile, I'm sure all in this thread are pleased to hear that my reporter on the ground is telling me that Queenstown, NZ has it's heaviest snow fall of the season yesterday...
Surely someone has had some snow recently?
It’s just started here, East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire
Yeah. We've had a few flurries, the tops are covered and it's down to street level this evening, with a couple of road crashes/closures and at least one HGV stuck on a hill near Tomatin.
Pretty much normal. then.
Yep, woke to snow on the flysheet on a Dales summit this morning, my happy place.
A dusting of snow on the higher roads in the Peak District - Cat & Fiddle, Woodhead Pass etc. I'm assuming that there's already half a dozen idiots in Range Rovers stranded up there having thought "I have a 4x4, nothing can stop me!"
It's usually the way.
FB travel page suggests Woodhead might be closed, and a mate had sent pics of a decent dusting in Mansfield.
We had some veeeeery slippery snow on the edge of Edinburgh yesterday. Great riding.
Very light dusting on the tops of Tansley this morning (near Matlock).
-11 this morning and frosty AF, but no snow yet. Had to put a fire on and am still a little chilly. Sadly, the cat has stolen my office chair and the dog has taken the sofa, so I am forced to use a kitchen chair for work.
Been snowing reasonably heavy at times in York for the last 20 minutes or so...
Just looked out the window.... it's snowing here - Camberley, Surrey. Wasn't expecting that.
Been snowing reasonably heavy at times in York for the last 20 minutes or so...
It seemed to start just as I walked out of York train station!
Currently sitting in a coffee shop watching the snow. Surprising number of people still cycling around actually, York's done some good work recently in boosting active travel.
Snowing on and off overnight and into the morning here in Harrogate but it's stopped now and some blue is poking through. It'll be gone by lunchtime.
Rode into work wearing shorts this morning and it was definitely trouser temperature.
Rather hairy drive over to Coldstream this morning.
Sheet ice and frozen snow on an untreated road made for some unexpected sideways action even at less than half the speed limit.
Snow line on the (distant view from my window) Ochils looks to be down to around 300-350m. Quite an effort to get into my frameless-doored car this morning with rain followed by freezing temps overnight!
Bit of a dusting here. 
Snowing in London atm
Im a 1st aider in work and Ive already had to treat 1 person for fainting because she got too cold and wet on her cycle in!
Just cold around 2c in Manchester. Running my new ice tyres in on the commute before we get any ice. If its wet and sub zero I'll take the van as I dont fancy another fractured pelvis and hip socket this winter. And that was with ice tyres. Ive doubled the spikes in my new set. The old tyres were 15 years old though.
Been snowing reasonably heavy at times in York for the last 20 minutes or so...
It seemed to start just as I walked out of York train station!
Currently sitting in a coffee shop watching the snow. Surprising number of people still cycling around actually, York's done some good work recently in boosting active travel.
If you believe the local groups who try and promote cycling in York, you'd think that cycling around here was something like Squid Games. In reality its one of the most bike friendly places ever but these groups of nutters won't be happy until all motorised vehicles are banned from inside the ring road and every road is a 20ft wide cycle lane. On the flip side you have the anti-cycling lot who see JustEat delivery riders razzing around with no lights, ignoring every rule of the road and as such think that all cars should be weaponised to kill all cyclists.
Bit of a dusting on Knowl Hill, Norden baltic but nothing here.
An inch or two in Perthshire. Cold enough in the bothy last night to freeze Betty's water bowl. No phone signal. I was possibly the last peron in the country to hear the football result when I got back to the car.
Well, it has started. Now my life is clearing snow
I had to go out to make the most of the fresh snow. Didn't get back until after 5 because I know conditions can go from awesome to pish faster than you can say "Ali's Tartan Army".
Is there enough for ski Mountaineering Scotroutes?
The bike has grown antlers !
Is there enough for ski Mountaineering Scotroutes?
Maybe up at plateau level? There's lots of ski tracks round Loch Morlich where the XC folk have been but it's still thin, especially under tree cover.
Not a bad covering @scotroutes we had some really heavy showers this afternoon, but sadly it didn’t lie.
Just joined a works Teams call, about 15 people on it and everyone is talking about how cold it is, has anyone had any snow....?
Yes, it's winter, it gets cold. Now can we get on with things...?!
We have a little covering now, probably be gone soon though. I mean it is only autumn. 
The Pentlands got a good amount again and it's perfect riding conditions - saw more mountain bikers than I've ever seen before out there (four of them...)
Snake Pass is closed again due to ice.
If it's not falling down the hillside, it's frozen or covered in snow. 😉
Panic! Captain Mainwaring, Panic!
We'd planned a campervan trip to Achiltibuie and Ullapool for Hogmanay but I don't fancy the combination of gale force winds and driven snow so it's Findhorn instead.
Having changed our plans, no doubt the weather warning will turn out to be a damp squib.
Having changed our plans, no doubt the weather warning will turn out to be a damp squib.
The media goes so over the top with it now that it's almost always a damp squib. Days of build-up, the supposed EXACT TIME! that some sort of biblical SNOWMAGEDDON will wreak havoc across a swathe of the country causing TRAVEL CHAOS! and THREAT TO LIFE!
And then there's 2hrs of sleet and the next day it's up at 8 degrees again.
@Scotroutes There’s a blast from the past - we used to go to Achnahaird caravan site every summer. Is Polbain Stores still there?
Is Polbain Stores still there?
There's now a wee shop at the Port a Bhaigh campsite (opposite the pub).
Snow forecast are showing 20+ cm for the Cairngorms starting late afternoon Nye. Then continueing for approx 48hrs with gale force winds decreasing overnight. Nothing for Englandshire , a few cm for Wales and most of Scotland. The Highlands will get the lions share given the wind direction and pressure gradient
Can you please send some over to the French Alps. It hasn't snowed here since November. Every single day the weather forecast says - heavy snow in 6 days.
Had a small flurry last night (finally) and now have a -8c day with a thin 5cm layer of light snow. The next week is all about snow though; I think there is like 15cm predicted for tomorrow.
Having changed our plans, no doubt the weather warning will turn out to be a damp squib.
The media goes so over the top with it now that it's almost always a damp squib. Days of build-up, the supposed EXACT TIME! that some sort of biblical SNOWMAGEDDON will wreak havoc across a swathe of the country causing TRAVEL CHAOS! and THREAT TO LIFE!
And then there's 2hrs of sleet and the next day it's up at 8 degrees again.
Your mistaking the media for weather forecasters
Well, it arrived..
More than we've had for a while, and more falling now.
Started coming down in Whitby yesterday afternoon, cautious drive back to Pickering over the NY moors (about 3pm so stayed ahead of the worse of it) Looked very pretty this morning before we came home though.
Some hefty dumps around looking at north Wales and the north of Scotland, this map might be of interest to those watching
https://veryweather.co.uk/liveSnowTracker.html
This is likely to be the most we get down here in North Wiltshire, it’ll probably be gone by lunchtime.
Taken at 02.35.
In N.I. This is the most consisent i've seen it dump down in as long as I can remember.
In N.I. This is the most consisent i've seen it
I'm in Bangor and even we managed a fair covering yesterday morning and this morning!
Spent friday shifting the 50cm that had built up in the drive and on the path to the house, then drove in to Stockgolm on E4 in 40kt gusts and drifting snow, which was.... interesting. I'd decided to stay in town that night instead of coming back and going back in and was glad I did. Snbow turns E4 and, more importantly, Stockholm into a madhouse as all the SUVs suddenly have snow and people lose their minds, either driving everywhere at 40kph or 140kph (depending on their level of stupidity).
Made it out on Saturday night ok, but still gusty and, despite the work of the local guys and their snowploughs, the small roads near me were drifiting up in the wind.
Sunday: More snow clearing.
Monday: FINALLY a drop in the wind and clear skies. It's now -12c and I am contemplating getting the XC skis down for tomorrow lunchtime, but I need to check if the local sports club have put tracks down up at the circuit first. Just for a change, I might go and clear some more snow. LOVE clearing snow, LOVE IT.