With a deep, cold trough anchored over much of continental Europe and a large slow moving 976 low centred over Ireland, we have the continuation of a stuck moisture plume that streaming into eastern Scotland.
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Here’s the ECMWF surface.
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With this being a relatively cool flow, driven by strong to gale-force SE winds, precipitation is falling as snow above about 1,500ft.
Check out the projected 10m wind gusts along the east coast for today.
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Factor in an air temp of 4-6C along with a steady rain and hill snow and SE gale on the coast from Fife to Aberdeenshire, it’s a pretty miserable time for this part of the world given that’s it’s been raining/snowing through much of the weekend and is set to continue through today into tomorrow morning.
This afternoon’s 2m air temp.
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Following a good 2-3 inches this past weekend and an additional 4 inches through today into tomorrow, flooding will become an increasing problem.
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Snow totals too are stacking up above 1,500ft.
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As for Europe, snows continue to pile up throughout the Alps as well as Balkans as arctic air meets mild air coming up from the Mediterranean.
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The cold continues to gain strength from Germany eastwards.
Sunday’s highs and lows.
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The low spinning over Ireland and moving into the Irish Sea tonight has dominated the past weekend and on into the early part of this week. By Wednesday it finally clears bringing some drier conditions.
However, this is quickly followed by another frontal system in which the occluded front bends in a NW to SE orientation due to the influence of the cold dome across Europe. That means more wind, rain and snow for the hardest hit areas at the moment.
See this afternoon’s video!
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