 Poster: A snowHead
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roga, haven't you learnt by now never to trust predicted amounts???
The GFS runs are all over the place (still) which means the computers cannot be sure what may actually happen...
see here that all the various runs are not in agreement http://www.gregh.co.uk/php/gfsruns.php?select=Cairngorm
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Now your talking YeeeHaaaa
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THe webcams are looking better now (on first page of thread). Glencoe and The Lecht especially.
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Ptarmigan webcam looks best of all. 
How do you post a pic here?
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I have my own server I just wondered if there was a snowheads dropbox.
That was the pic BTW roga.
What are the chances for sliding next sat? Going up to Moray next weekend. Norway the following weekend so will get some in then.
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Chances of sliding next week slim or none IMHO
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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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Just to add another shot to the 3 above here's the last one from the cams on the 24th and it's been snowing again!
EDIT: BTW, for anyone interested I've just put up a copy of the new (classic style/retro) poster that Cairngorms National Park have produced to publicise the 3 ski areas in the park - The Lecht, Cairngorm and Glenshee. I rather like it, see what you think here
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You know it makes sense.
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Weather report from the central belt
It was 2c for my cycle to work today
Brrrrrr
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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roga, are the local forecasts still going with rain and increasing temps over the next few days?? Looks like it may cool down again by the end of the week....
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Poster: A snowHead
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Have a quick look at the Lecht webcams. Its a flash site so i cant seem to framegrab the image, however, look at "THE BUZZARD" Webcam.
Looks like someone has started the season early and has had a few runs down it.
Jammy so and so
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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kitenski,
Aberdeenshire council website's weather forecast doesn't seem to be getting as warm as for example the BBC/metoffice forecast with max/mins of 13/7 and the heavy rain being tonight only. It then starts cooling down from the end of the week with daytime temps of 9C on Monday. Thats for the aberdeen not the hills
A quick edit - the heavy rain for tonight has now dissappeared off the forecast when I went to check just now. Thast a changed from this morning.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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kitenski, not sure, have been looking at the online forecasts which still seem to be predicting a warm up into tomorrow morning and through the whole of Tuesday, bit cooler thereafter though but still warmer than the last week - there's a bit of rain forecast over the next day too 
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Was that at the weekend.
WOW
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Have a look at the lecht webcams roga. The snow has been blitzed.
And weirdly there are about 50 cars in the car park.??????
http://www.lecht.co.uk/
Cheers
Bob
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Just a note on the SSC Hut cameras on CairnGorm, the whole system shutsdown for a period mid-morning and gets fired back up again by timer switches.
Basically the vodafone mast on Meall a' Bhuachaille only has basic GSM provision and can't cope with the strain getting placed on it in busy spells (such as current holiday period) and as a fall back it limits data connections to prioritise voice data. To prevent prolonged outages the system is shutdown 3 times a day completely and fired back up to re-attempt connection. There needs to be a fairly decent down period to ensure the computer is cleanly shutdown before the power gets pulled.
The vodafone contract expires next month and if some tests prove promising it's hoped to switch to a several mb connection from three using external antenna to reach the Aviemore mast, if this is a goer it will allow increased frequency of uploads, more video clips and possibly additional webcam at the Timing Hut or Sheiling Tow. The current vodafone connection is at it's absolute limit in terms of uploading 3 cameras every 5 minutes!
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guys, don't panic about snow melting on the 26th October, even on the 26th November I'd still not be that concerned at any lack of snow...
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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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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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roga, not surprising given it's only October....
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Poster: A snowHead
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^ agreed, it's sad to see after all that lovely whiteness but I totally agree that there's no surprise in it melting back at this time of year.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Damn Oh well just xscape on tuesday/wednesday night for me then.
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Just to tease us here's this mornings Ptarmigan cam:
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BBC suggesting some decent snowfall later on for the tops....
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Yep BBC forecasts are predicting significant snow for the tops of the mountains as warm moist air from the south west pushes into colder air here in the North. Interestingly the scottish forecast seemed to show a larger patch of snow over the scottish mountains than the UK wide forecast. Still it will probably only be snow for the top bowl at Cairngorm.
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There's a fair bit of new snow on Meall a Bhuiridh today ...
http://www.glencoemountain.com/webcams.html
... enough to start usefully filling in some holes perhaps ?
Most of the cams are hosted by winterhighland and that web page has now got to be the model for good webcamming in Scotland.
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moffatross, snow at Meall a Bhuiridh is curerntly looking better than at Cairngorm! (Mind you the cam stopped updating just before 1 so it might have changed.)
Anyway the weather forecast for the next few days seems to be bouncing all over the place at the moment, looks like much colder from tomorrow onwards though with perhaps some snow - fingers crossed!
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FAQ
They were generally correct about temps though!
), looking more white than i thought it would actually. forgot camera so no pics. snowline really only starts at well o' the lecht. snow donuts in the car park to get in the mood 
