SW Saltire

Whilst the nagging wind is a bit on the cool side, both Tuesday and Wednesday were lovely days. Really feeling warm (ish) in the early afternoon with some shelter. Maxes of 13c and 12c. Ground is drying up well. I sympathise with those in the East who will have had enough of cool cloudy weather if an easterly develops. However for me in the West it should be fairly sunny and pleasant.

Flakes of snow in a heavy shower about 7am this morning. Now just very windy and frequently wet, looking forward to the incoming drier weather 9b2901f9-2a90-434f-8432-7e006964bd47.mp4

Northernlights I find it crazy to read you say the surface is looking dry. More very heavy rain today, about 10mm so approximately 110mm for the month so far. I have not known the ground this wet in almost mid april ever.

Unusually wet for April. Another 24.6mm which will take us to 85mm for the month, already above the monthly average. So windy as well, was gusting to 40mph for a short time earlier. On a positive note, the sun is packing a punch now. Before the rain arrived yesterday the car was reading 14c and it certainly felt very mild. We really need some drier weather.

Was down near Preston today, wind was not notable and when I left it was 17c. Very pleasant. The drive home was wind assisted until I hit the border, turning West was when I felt it. Infrequent strong gusts here, sunshine at times. 14c.

Reliably informed it was a nice weekend, sadly I was in cloudy Germany for that. Was a poor Monday here and today is shocking. March reached nearly 150mm of rain which is well above average. April is statistically our driest month (77mm) but it looks like in a weeks time we’ll be rapidly approaching that figure… Grim. Only positive is I’ve heard lambing went well overall, no harsh cold to cause problems.

@Scottish-Irish Skier Absolutely stunning, very jealous. I’m quite sad I didn’t get a ski holiday in this winter but saving the pennies. Been a nice few days down here, quite different conditions to the posts above. Today we reached 10.8c here (car was saying 12c), very sunny day and you can feel some warmth in it now. Yes March can be wintry (2013, 2018) but down here it’s a bit rarer than the north of the country. I’m hoping we get a warmer spring and a 2022 hay/haylage year and not a 2023. Not long back from a short break in Tenerife, weather was cracking

Quinach’s taste of spring must have pushed South overnight as today certainly felt springlike in the sunshine. A high of 9.4c but with not much of a wind it was pleasant. Felt like it was 4 weeks later Fingers crossed for another cold spell!

Shockingly awful. Light/moderate rain all day (11mm so far), currently 4c. Grim

Echo what others have said, a welcome lull tbh after some wild weather. Some dry weather is most welcome, thankfully the fields aren’t too bad but unbelievably this month will record average/above average rainfall. Currently on 129mm (avg 143mm) with rain coming Monday and Wednesday. Hopefully the cold returns next month

Haha yes, that’s crazy Leuchars have had just 1mm. Aberdeenshire/Tayside has been battered this autumn so only right the West take a hit! December was 217mm (25/30% above average) but we were only on 15mm to the 19th so I wrongly assumed January would be a pretty dry month… That’ll be us at 60mm at the time of writing, probably going to be at 75mm+ by end of play today with rain forecast for Tuesday and Thursday. Might not reach the average of 150mm but could get close. Tonight i’m staying at my gf’s who lives around a mile from solway firth, could get interesting.

41.8mm since early yesterday. A decent effort with much more on the way…. Let’s see how wild tonight gets

I currently do 4/4 and it’s amazing. Best shift pattern i’ve worked, perhaps in the future I might go back to an office job and ideally get condensed hours and work Mon - Thurs 10 hour days. That would be a close second to 4/4. Looks like a tasty storm coming, what’s most rare about this is that for 4 days in a row (Sat to Tues) it’ll be pretty windy. The sunny cold weather will be a distant memory soon sadly.

Some snow showers in Wigtownshire last night made for a fun drive home. Been a better cold spell than I thought it was going to be. Saw falling snow (a few times), annoying about Tuesday’s warm sector. Plus some harsh frosts, (-8.7c the low, would have gone double digits below if there had been proper snow cover). Those of you in the North have done really well. Amber warning now out for Sunday into Monday, tomorrow looks hideous too. Excellent

I work in the public sector for another big employer and it’s the exact same. Staff passing each other on the road (and where I live that’s 30+ miles each way). This has been flagged up to bosses and the attitude is like it or lump it, stop complaining. All training has been centralised and results (like me today) doing very high mileage, I just put 400 miles on a diesel in 2 days.