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Yep, but its not much and I doubt it will last long - should start taking the temperature of the ground down a bit though  . I'm srurprised any snow survived the winds of last night. Went from Aberdeen to Huntly for the HNSC training night. Hit one large bit of tree that had decided to lie in the middle of the road - fortunatley came to a halt just into the outer branches without hitting the thick main branch. At the ski centre were several large branches down across the track when I arrived, when I left there were a couple of whole trees down across the tracks. Driving back home I had to take two detours around fallen trees - council workers must have had a busy night removing the trees and redirecting drivers.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Blimey Dave sounds bad, glad you got there and back again okay.
Great seeing that skiff of snow though
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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yeh also agree it won't last, but it's nice to see after such a warm october!!
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Now, now, let's be happy - the glass is half full (even if it's set to melt) 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Blimey Dave sounds bad, glad you got there and back again okay.
Great seeing that skiff of snow though Fri Oct 27, 2006 10:10 am
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It was a bit scary.
Should have a look on winterhighland snow ramping thread - deer have appeared on the ptarmigan cam now .
Still -3C on the top so any more ppt should be fall as snow at the moment. Make that -2C its starting to warm up. But weatheronlines forecast is predicting it will warm up over the weekend, but then will snow on and off from tues 30th onwards to the end of their forecast period in early november.
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brian
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II, Santa must be having lunch in the Ptarmigan 
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Hey! There's reindeer in that photo  Where's Santa?
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brian, how did you manage to answer my question before I asked it? Spooky...
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II, fantastic!
Xmas is coming early to the Ptarmigan eh!
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II, wow, that looks good.
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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^ I reckon it's a Dalek
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I think you're right roga 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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ohhh look, the 'gorms got a new hat...
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roga, looks like they've been testing the cannons in the car park
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looks like it's coming back again
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^ That was taken yesterday (the 14th) on Cairngorm - not quite first tracks of the season but almost.
More pics and details on Winterhighland here
I only wish it had been me up there!
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How come that I live in the midlands but the snow in Scotland is sooo far away?!?!?
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Looks better than anywhere in France at the moment!
Cue Scots saying "it always looks better than anywhere in France.
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shoogly, hmmm, don't know about loads, some nice looking drifts on the M1 though, it's a start.
There was a really interesting thread recently on winterhighland about removing some of the M1 fencing to let more snow drift onto the lady which is a much better natural snow holding area. That pic really shows how much the fences are catching.
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think more is forecast as well this week, hopefully the drifts will freeze/refreeze and setup an iron base
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kitenski, there's a warm front sweeping its way northwards as we speak (well, type).  Should be short lived though, fingers crossed some might survive to be built on at the weekend.
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ben wright, You're not kidding! We've had another balmy, sunny, late summer day. Seems an insult after the freezing temps of the PSB!
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Yup brian quite right, looking good and hopefully more consolidated after a slight thaw and then freeze which is precisely what we need.
There's a couple of inches at Nevis too (see webcam here) and that looks good, although The Lecht hasn't had much benefit over the last couple of days. i haven't got a clue how Glenshee are doing or Glencoe - no cams at these centres although Glencoe are apparently installing some (to go with their nice new website).
Sounds like it's actually looking better in Scotland at the moment than some places on the continent - have you seen the Too Warm even for Articficial snow (Bad News) thread? Hopefully it'll improve there - I have a vested interest 'coz I'm off to Les Gets at Xmas but leaving that aside it looks like I'll have a decent chance of getting something in at the Gorm on the weekend of the 9th which is great!
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Bizarre really.
We're all getting excited about a bit of snow in Scotland and no snow in the Alps.
Come May when there is feet of snow on the Scottish tops and Metres in the Alps - no one will be interested and hardly anyone will be skiing.
The real start of the season is still at least 2 months away and probably 3 in Scotland.........(but its still exciting isn't it  )
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This on the BBC weather site:
"Latest UK Weather and Flood Warnings
Thursday 16 November WEATHER WATCH Sleet and snow is likely to affect Northern Ireland and Central Scotland during Friday morning. Accumulations of snow are expected mainly over hills and mountains, however there is a risk of some snow falling to low levels causing disruption to transport for a time Further updates will appear here " 
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