Throughout the daylight hours on Saturday there were almost continuous light snow flurries that left little on the ground but what fell was swept along on the very strong northeasterly winds, gusting to 36mph at is peak.
Saturday started with a temperature of 0.8C but the thermometer continued to slowly fall away as the day progressed so that by nightfall the thermometer read -1.6C with a windchill making it feel like -7C.
Overnight a considerable fall of snow occurred with a depth of 6 – 8cm equating to 4.5mm of rainfall.
Sunday morning has seen the remains of the heavy snowfall petering out as the weather front eased northwestwards. The temperature has risen from its lowest point of -2.8C at 03.43 this morning, to -1.8C at 08.00. Since midnight the strong wind has been easing down with maximum gusts on Sunday at 08.00 of 15mph.
Sunday update at 11.00: air temperature risen to -0.5C but wind chill like -6C as wind has increased again this morning, gusting to 28mph. Snow falling ceased for last hour.
Sunday update at 14.00: maximum today of -0.4C at 10.41 this morning but drifted downwards before midday to -0.7C and currently at -0.9C with wind chill making it feel like-7C. Melted snow gave rainfall equivalent of 4.5mm for past twenty-four hours.
Sunday update at 19.30: temperature dropped to -2.2C with wind chill at -7C
Sunday update at 20.45: snowing again so my efforts at clearing paths this morning will need repeating tomorrow morning! Temperature now dropped to -2.4C.