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alan


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Re: 2015 Scottish snow patch season
Date Posted: 11.00hrs on Mon 1 Jun 15
Could be big gains on the aspects where the principle snow patches usually are, Violent Storm, possibly Hurricane Force S to SSW winds overnight with heavy snow to below Munro Level today. Perhaps 20cm of further snowfall isn't out reach, with radar returns showing 14-18cm of snow on higher levels of Meall a' Bhuiridh over the past 24 hours already.





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firefly


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Re: 2015 Scottish snow patch season
Date Posted: 05.06hrs on Tue 2 Jun 15
Fresh snow down to 2000 foot this morning at Cairn Gorm, Glen Coe and Lochaber. Remarkable.

[flic.kr]



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Re: 2015 Scottish snow patch season
Date Posted: 15.56hrs on Tue 2 Jun 15
Utterly remarkable photo from Mark Trigg, showing the most snow on Aonach Mór since I can remember for the time of year. I'd say it eclipses 1994. Unprecedented stuff for early June! [flic.kr]

MartinT


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Re: 2015 Scottish snow patch season
Date Posted: 17.14hrs on Tue 2 Jun 15
Bad news for snow patch count though; the whole of Aonach Mor is just one big patch winking smiley

snowpatch94


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Re: 2015 Scottish snow patch season
Date Posted: 20.06hrs on Tue 2 Jun 15
With cover like that..... How about opening for Summer skiing ?

Harve


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Re: 2015 Scottish snow patch season
Date Posted: 20.15hrs on Tue 2 Jun 15
When are the Highland's more durable patches (rather than overall snow cover at 900m+) at their deepest/largest/most expansive? It wouldn't surprise me if this year they've been accumulating volume all throughout spring. I'm not sure how this compares to other years though.

firefly


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Re: 2015 Scottish snow patch season
Date Posted: 20.44hrs on Tue 2 Jun 15
Harve Wrote:
When are the Highland's more durable patches (rather than overall snow cover at 900m+) at their deepest/largest/most expansive? It wouldn't surprise me if this year they've been accumulating volume all throughout spring. I'm not sure how this compares to other years though.

It's a question I've been asking myself. My own belief is that the snow on Ben Nevis, particularly in Observatory Gully, is the deepest that it's been all season. When the Observatory was in use many years ago, the deepest snow was sometimes recorded in May. However, from memory I do think it was ever June. Of course, this is just a hunch and has no basis in fact.

It will be very interesting to see the temperature figures for May. There has been very little in the way of any meaningful snow loss, and the recent storms seem to have put down more snow than was lost.

There will be a little bit of heating up this week according to forecast but the medium to long term charts sure that the weather is to remain relatively cool. Not great for the barbecues, but great for the snow!



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Re: 2015 Scottish snow patch season
Date Posted: 11.03hrs on Wed 3 Jun 15
Third day of June snow on Lochaber. Summit temperatures below freezing and precipitation. Not sure if it's been snowing on Cairn Gorm, but the webcam suggests there's been a sprinkling.

alan


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Re: 2015 Scottish snow patch season
Date Posted: 11.18hrs on Wed 3 Jun 15
Snow is currently falling at 2750ft at the SSC Hut at Glencoe. Third day of June, third consecutive day of June snowfall on Meall a' Bhuiridh!

firefly


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Re: 2015 Scottish snow patch season
Date Posted: 17.01hrs on Wed 3 Jun 15
Very unusual angles of the NE corrie of Ben Lomond in this walk report from May 30th. Lots of snow for the time of year. [www.walkhighlands.co.uk]

firefly


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Re: 2015 Scottish snow patch season
Date Posted: 18.43hrs on Wed 3 Jun 15
No real surprises here!


'For maximum temperatures, this was provisionally the coldest May since 1996. It was coldest relative to average in northern and western areas. Rainfall was above average, with more than double the average in a number of places, and near-normal totals were restricted to southern and eastern areas.'

[www.metoffice.gov.uk]



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Peter Woolverton


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Re: 2015 Scottish snow patch season
Date Posted: 09.58hrs on Thu 4 Jun 15
June snow in the SW

I was on Alhang yesterday in the Carsphairn Hills. There are still 2 patches on the east facing slope of Cairnsmore of Carsphairn. The bleached grass shows the extent of a much longer recent patch. More distant I could just make out a patch in what I took to be the eastern corrie of Corserine.

Peter Woolverton

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firefly


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Re: 2015 Scottish snow patch season
Date Posted: 12.49hrs on Thu 4 Jun 15
Thanks very much, Peter. Very informative.

I'm struggling to make out if the patch of snow is the small, whiteish looking bit on the right, or the larger area of dirty-white looking stuff to its left. Can you clarify?

Thanks!

Peter Woolverton


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Re: 2015 Scottish snow patch season
Date Posted: 15.25hrs on Thu 4 Jun 15
C of C snow patches

Confirm two patches - one small spot lower to the right, one long dirty patch on the left. A zoom on the latter attached.

Peter Woolverton

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firefly


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Re: 2015 Scottish snow patch season
Date Posted: 20.30hrs on Thu 4 Jun 15
Sorry, I meant on Corserine!

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