A period of snow this morning gave a further 4-5cm, taking the depth up to
32cm. First time I've recorded a foot of snow here since the February 2001
blizzard. We've now had a complete cover of snow here for 3 full weeks and
the snow has fallen on 18 of the 21 days.
Elsewhere in the county, higher parts of Larkhall have around 40cm of snow
and further out in the countryside - the village of Douglas, in the South
East of Lanarkshire and much higher up has over 2 feet of snow lying now
(60cm+). Motherwell, lower down and further west that Wishaw, has a mere
20cm.
It looked to me as though the Borders were hit hard with snow this morning
from the radar and all roads in the region are reported as being closed on
the news. I'd doubt that to be true, but I'm sure many of them are.

Statistically the mean temperature in Wishaw for the entire winter currently
stands at -1.3ºC (the entire winter of 62/63 was around 0.0ºC here)
For the last 28 days -2.5ºC
For the last 21 days (since the snow arrived) -3.5ºC
For the last 2 weeks -4.0ºC.
The average minimum for January is currently -10.4ºC here, which must be
around the lowest in the entire country.
The beeb forecast minimum's in Scotland as low as -20ºC in the next few
days, I don't think they'll be far off the mark.
Enter the realm of frozen pipes, pointless gritting and freezing diesel.
Alex.
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Conditions in Wishaw @ 2:55pm, 6/1/10
Temperature -3.8°C. Dew point -7.0C. 79.0%RH
Mean wind speed 0mph
Remarks; 32cm lying snow
Cloud cover: none
MSLP 1014.3mb, Steady.
Today's Max. 0.6°C at 1:09pm.
Today's min. -7.9°C at 6:54am.
Today's rain 0.0mm
Wishaw, North Lanarkshire, Scotland
N55º47'14", W3º55'15". 360ft/117m amsl
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