A Wintry New Years Day.
1st January 2025
Not at much snow arrived as was expected but nonetheless it was good to have winter conditions arrive. A thin cover on most aspects becoming a bit deeper and widespread above 900 metres or so. Whiteout and blizzards at times in the heavy snow squalls at higher elevations. Poor visibility above 800m. Quite a lot of drifting above 900m with deeper accumulations (sometimes waist deep) in wind sheltered places on a range of Southerly aspects and in wind sheltered hollows.
Looking toward Loch Morlich from around 700m.
looking toward Coire an Lochain and Lurchers Meadow.
Loch Morlich and Meall a Buachaille from Coire na Ciste.
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Jonathan Preston
1st January 2025 6:40 pm
Hi Kathy and co… thanks for all the usual useful info.. My perennial bugbear:– get it off mu chest; New Year’s resolution not to bring it up again… When going into the Forecast Archive… ie if you want to know exactly what was going on in previous days..(a rather convoluted website search and 3 clicks to get what you want) then looking at the synopsis for the end of December it would appear — 29th Dec = Low; 30th Dec = Mod; 31st Dec = Considerable. This is the info I would pick up from a quick glance… however, when going into the relevant reports in more detail it becomes apparent that on 29th Dec the risk was indeed Low, but on 30th Dec it was Low again (not Moderate as I would infer from the archive) and on 31st Dec it was again Low — and certainly not Considerable… So when having a look at historic/previous snow conditions it is really misleading to have inaccurate data recorded in this way. I don’t understand why you do it… You would never record a forecast windspeed or temperature that turned out to be false; you record the actual windspeed and temperature….