Still snowing

We've had significant snowfall every day since last Saturday, so the stuff is really piling up now. For followers of my weather station data, no precipitation has been recorded since early on Tuesday because the temperature has been below freezing since then, so the snow that falls into the rain gauge doesn't melt and register as precipitation. When the thaw comes (and it can't come soon enough for me) there will be a large blip in the precipitation as a result of the accumulated snow.

It's difficult to say how much snow in total has fallen since Saturday since Sunday and Monday were largely above freezing so a lot of it has melted. It is a very long time since Monifieth has had this much snow however, and as far as I know it has never come this early in the year (it's not even officially winter until 21 December, after all). Hopefully it is just getting it out of its system early, and the rest of the winter will be largely snow-free, but only time will tell (as the Met Office is certainly incapable of telling us).

The one promising bit in the forecast is that the wind direction is due to change to the west over the next couple of days, which means that the east coast should be in the shadow of any snow, so we might get some snow free days. However, the temperature is also set to drop a bit so it's unlikely much of it will melt.