It’s been a snowy morning here and across many parts of Scotland as well as Ireland and Northern Ireland thanks to Canadian-Arctic air driven in on the backside of Monday’s low pressure system. These systems are forming over North America and crossing the North Atlantic but dragging very cold, arctic air with it. Sure, the air mass significantly warms as it crosses over 2,500 miles of 4-6C ocean but it’s so cold to start with, it maintains enough chill to bring widespread, disruptive snow here!

Here’s the current scene looking out from my house.

Further heavy snow showers will continue to impact much of Scotland as well as parts of Ireland, Northern Ireland, England and Wales today before the next big low hits tomorrow (Wednesday).

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GFS surface shows low thicknesses and -5 to -10 at 850mb which shows a very chilly westerly air flow that’s supporting snow to ALL levels across N & W Britain.

Model ‘snow cover’ projections through 48 hours.

JUST IN: Met Office Issues AMBER SNOW WARNING for Scottish Lowlands valid tonight at 4pm through 10am Wednesday.

We’re expecting heavy snow/snow showers TONIGHT for the evening commute. A tricky drive home for many this evening across Scotland, possibly NW England also.

Snow gates are shut at Tyndrum currently.

Lorries parked up at Tyndrum just south of the snow gates.

Tricky on A9 between Dunblane and Perth

 

At Drumnochter Summit.

More Canadian-Arctic sourced air comes sweeping in behind that system too so expect more chill and wintry precipitation as we end the working week.

A Cold End To The Workweek/Weekend

With high pressure west and low pressure east early next week, we’ve some particularly cold air coming straight out of the north!

More tomorrow morning…

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