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there is snow forecast in some of the models for next week 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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and not in others. MWIS is predicting mild and wet. Lets hope he is wrong.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Looks like a big dump tomorrow
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brian
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Glenshee is obviously getting some, hope it's drifting in the right places, more forecast tomorrow and over the weekend when the west should start faring better ....
http://saisscairngorms.blogspot.com/
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brian, Why is the north of the uk, ie scotland so hit and miss with snowfall, compared to the alps its alot futher north. Something which has always puzzled me- perhaps you can shed some light on the matter?
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harrymac,
Not high enough, so not cold enough. It certainlys gets enough precipatation.
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brian
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harrymac, as johnboy says, not high enough, and we are more exposed to the sea and the pesky gulf stream.
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harrymac, because edinburgh releases so much methane, something to do with the amount of sh*t that comes out of there. Believe it or not we are on the same latitude as Labrador in Canada (did an English higher close reading on it) the sea freezes in winter and theyre are alot of icebergs right into summer. In 1963 there was a winter where the temperature averaged 0.63 degrees celcius-my father was telling me they even drove the post van OVER loch lomond-you would not have caught me doing that! My mother reflected that they had "ice slides in the play ground for WEEKS" Anyhoo this is because of the Gulf Stream-West is generally warmer than Eastern and Central Scotland as Atlantic temps tend to be warmer. Wikipedia informs me that some of the highlands can average up to 105 days of snow a year although istead of landing on them it blows past. Our wind prevails from the south-west, bringing warm, wet air from the Atlantic resulting in rain-not very often snow. In saying that there was alot of snow at sea level today in Helensburgh and more forcast. Hope that was useful-feel free to proof read and point out errors because i haven't!
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johnboy, brian, Rossfra8, Thank you.How does whistler get so much snow then. Its right on the coast?
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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harrymac, Because they get massive storms coming in off the pacific, the brew in the paciffic then track up the coast and filter out. At sea level ie, vancouver, this falls mostly as rain, but further up at whistler (altitude something like 600m) it tends to turn to snow. Rain at villiage level is not uncommon right enough.
" High coastal mountains force the uplift and cooling of the moist pacific air masses, leading to heavy precipitation on the windward slopes. Whistler is here because it precips. Winter season precipitation falls mainly in the form of rain in Vancouver and normally as snow in Whistler. Whistler Valley is actually a sub valley of the main predominant flow. The Callaghan valley site of the 2010 nordic events recieves about 2/3 of the total precip. Whistler recieves about a third of that. ie. We get 40cm of fresh in Whistler, and up there they get 120cm. "
Some crafty googling!
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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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harrymac -- Southwest Canada, Northwest USA and Northern Japan often get perfect storms. As Rossfra8 says, the warm, rainy Pacific bangs into frigid Arctic winds, leading to megasnowfalls.
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brian
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Whistler and Blackcomb mountains are both about double the height of the top of Cairngorm. If we had a few 2000m+ mountains we'd have fantastic skiing. (Although admittedly the wind might be a tiny issue  ).
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brian
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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brian, hows edinburgh? i drove home through powder snow, travelling very slowly (sea level)
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brian
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Rossfra8, nothing down here in Leith at sea level. Probably still snowy at home in Balerno (about 200m), it was powdery last night but going a wee bit slushy this morning. Better than any snow we had last year though. The pentlands look majestic !
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firstracks,
Excellent. Looks pretty quiet too
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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The Tiger is officially opening at Glenshee... who'll get bitten first??
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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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brian
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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oooo decisions decisions!
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Just back from Glenshee. Epic day - blue skies, no wind and lots of snow . Great snow cover on tiger, and between between tiger and cairnwell tows, where you can really let rip. Best early Jan cover I've seen at Glenshee for 20+ years.
Crowds not too bad, although chair queues were much longer than drag lift queues. 15 min queue on tiger chair, but no queue at all on Tom Dearg, and 5 min queues on Sunnyside pomas.
Staff were great as usual - everything ran like clockwork. Chatted to ski patroller who reckoned Meall Odhar would be opening next day or two. Also spotted a piste basher at work on the lift track late afternoon.
More snow forecast for tonight, Monday and Tuesday. I need to go now, I feel a mid-week sickie coming on
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markymark,
Excellent. Good to see Glenshee doing well
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Do we think the snow will hold out till the weekend???? I want to go to Glenshee. I want to go now, I want to go now, I want to go now, but I have meetings today wed and thursday at work. No fair! Could try and squeeze a day off on Friday at a push.
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Don't see it myself - steady accumulation over the next week is my guess 
Feel free to answer my other question ab the likelehood of snow at valmeinier next week 
but more snow is forecast this week for the west 
