Yesterday was not your typical early April day across Scotland. With daytime temps hovering at 1 to 3C during the mid and late afternoon accompanied by a near daylong snowfall which saw a coating to as much as 6 inches accumulate above 100 metres.

Yesterday’s big contrast between a cold Scotland and mild England and Wales. Most of these highs in Scotland were set early yesterday morning.

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My travels yesterday took me from a snowless Milton of Campsie to a white Cumbernauld at around 6.30am as daylight was already breaking. The coating turned into around an inch over the higher Wardpark area of Cumbernauld which is also at the Old Inns section of the M80. Seeing snow lie during the afternoon is a tough achievement given the sun strength at this time of year.

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At around 8am I headed to Wishaw where I left a snow coated Cumbernauld to nothing a few miles down the M73 but over the hour between 9 and 10am in Wishaw, a light coating formed as sleety rain changed over to snow. My travels took me back to Cumbernauld where down at Blairlinn industrial estate there was no accumulation but late morning as snow turned heavy, a coating formed here too.

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Then I headed off from Cumbernauld to Edinburgh. Once away from the Larbert area, there was no snow but a sleety snow was falling in a stiff, icy easterly headwind.

By the time I passed Linlithgow on the M9, sleet changed over to snow and once again at Newbridge, snow was lying and traffic began slowing on the M8 towards Hermiston Gait. In Wester Hailes, there was a good covering with slushy covering on the road, keep in mind it was 2pm when many April’s gone by has seen temps at that stage in the day in the upper teens, even low 20s.

From Wester Hailes down to Ferry Road in Edinburgh I once again went from snow to no snow but snow was falling steadily. Over the space of an hour, it turned white as the snow became heavy at a lower elevated Ferry Road in the Davidson’s Mains area of the capital.

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The deepest snow appeared to be around Uphall, Livingston and Bathgate.

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There was indeed even more along the A9 towards Perth.

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Right through the Central Belt, especially around Edinburgh.

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After a cold start to Thursday, lighter wind and sunshine will make for a very different afternoon today.

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There’s now some appreciable spring level warmth now lifting north as we head towards the weekend as a frontal system moves in from the west.

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It’s certainly been a cold 2nd half to winter 2017-18 for us.

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Tags: April cold, april snow