It just had to happen this year.

Mega cold winter and massive energy costs....

Great start for the season so far. Surely can’t be far off to get things going at the lecht?!

An interesting read from Netweather - signals strongly favour Northern Blocking into December:

[www.netweather.tv] .

While higher than average sea surface temperatures can moderate the cold particularly near the coast, with the right wind direction and some instability with cold air aloft the temperature contrast can help drive convection leading to more snowfall potential on hills getting onshore winds.

NE winds could thus see convective streamers set up off the Moray Firth and push into the Northern Cairngorms for example.