Arctic Blast

[tyneandrew]

How is the snow looking on the hills up there this week? Is the Deeside catchment gathering a bit more of the white stuff?

[jollyrodger]

Plenty snow up Deeside Andrew and loads more to come apparently...thank god! Not nice seeing the Dee at summer level in February.

[fishingd0]

A large dumping of snow last night. There is about half a foot here in Inverness and I hear that quite a few roads on speyside and deeside are shut due to the snow.

There are further falls expected in the Aberdeen regions today and tomorrow. Lets hope it thaws gradually and not all at once.

[macd]

Aberdeen is a t gridlock today. Biggest dump of snow I remember for long time. Most of the region is snowbound. Northsound reckon we will get another 15cm today.

keeping fingers crossed it melts slowly.........

macd

[tyneandrew]

Hopefully it will last a while into the spring, on the very tops anyhow. I remember reading an article by Bill Currie in The Field a few years ago and there was a picture of snow still on the hill tops in mid May on the upper Dee.

Is it still the case that snow can keep rivers topped up a little in the later spring, or has global warming lessened the likely-hood of this in the past few years?

[turrifftackle]

The snow will help keep levels up in the spring but the trouble we have on the Deveron is that the catchment is not high - high and a return to very mild temperatures will brinh most of it down quickly.
However as long as the catchment is wet the peat bogs will allways retain some moisture to release slowly.

Frank

[johnmac]

happy days! no snow at Blairgowrie at all.... and hopefully none to come!

[juniorspey]

happy days for me too!!! last 2 days off school!!!!! 14/15'' of snow here! all good! ;D

[Bogyoch]

Malcolm - A tractor will be useful for this weather, as well as for getting down to The Glebe in the summer.

[storlaks]

Malcolm, I do feel sorry for you, but if buy a car that sounds like a soft drink, then what do you expect.

As for not cathing fish.....it's just a phase your going through....you'll grow out it (-:

Me, I haven't cast a line since Oct 5th, have been knee deep in snow here in France since November and will probably arrive at Crathes on March 20th to be greeted by a massive snow melt and the river sitting at a 3ft!! Can't bloody wait though (-:

[johnmac]

i spoke to soon.....its snowing in Blairgowrie now!

[Fruin]

Oh no! It's now snowing in Glasgow which means I'll probably have to drive all the way to Cargill on the Tay at about 30mph in the morning.

[Fruin]

Thanks Owen,

It has now stopped in Glasgow as well. Let's hope it stays off at least until tomorrow.

[williegunn]

Graham

I have just received the Arctic Blast he has found out
I think his mobile was non stop today with messages of support,I think they must have thought a nervous breakdown was imminent.
We could have done with the Green Banger today,I was getting towed all over Arndilly,never mind he is on the way to being commatosed again,I think it is "Vino collapso" he drinks
See you tommorow

[kercock]

Hey fruin,you better hope it do es'nt snow during the day at Cargill, that is one STEeeeeeep hill out of there ! But good luck anyway. Did you see the pic on page 131 in T/S this month ,the Cargill ghillie with a "fish"

[Fruin]

Kercock,

I always like a challenge, especially when my car is in the garage and I've borrowed my father in laws! ;D
I did see the T&S this month and I've a feeling that the young captour of the fish is the daughter of a Loch Lomond angler. At least one of the guys on the Loch was telling me that a friend of his was fishing Cargill and his daughter got an eleven pounder.
Looking forward to Cargill, but I think I'm looking forward to my two days on Kercock a wee tad more!

[munro]

Graham - that's a great picture of the reel in the snow - the definition is superb.
WG looks a little bemused!- hope he got in the door!
Are perfects still used a lot today?

[wilbert]

[It looks like one of the new Carron sinking lines on the reel./quote]
It also looks just like my IG fast sinker, dark blue head and light blue running line.
Why does the media blow everything out of all proportions? Most of the country is not experiencing anything like Arctic conditions, it may have got colder but it isn't what I would class as extreme. It will be very cold on the high ground with lots of snow but they probably get weather like this every year. Any way enough of a rant about the big softies at the Met office / media lets hope there is a good thick blanket of snow up in the mountains to keep the skiers happy and then a slow thaw to keep us happy.

[johnmac]

very nice pics!

[wilbert]

Graham I am not saying that some parts of the country have not had lots of snow but that as a nation we seen to getting a bit soft when it comes to cold weather, central heating, double glazing and cavity wall insulation have spoiled us. Its a little later than normal but not that extreme. As you said

[ It is actually the most snow recorded up this way during March for 50 years./quote] so 51 years ago there was more snow in March.