Snow in Scotland.

Hi

Early this year

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-34626210

A bad winter on the horizon?

I think so, winter birds arriving early, hens stopping laying early, all the signs.

Strangely enough bad winters here in the UK will be a sign of Global Warming, at least in the early stages as weather patterns change.

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The geese have been late in arriving this year - 3 or 4 weeks later than usual. A couple of weeks ago I was up in Speyside and the trees were turning some lovely autumn colours while here in N.E. Aberdeenshire, they were still green.

In the 9 years I've been here, we've been getting less snow each year. Hope we don't get any this time...

This is from 2009 outside my house....

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Good for the skiing trade up North...Still pretty mild here in the Lowlands though,

All to do with EL NINO apparently.

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My car windscreen was frozen over this morning for the first time this autumn.

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The snow looks very pretty Grumblewagon. Do I miss it? Definitely not, the only place I want to see snow is in a picture.

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nice to see it snowing xmas day --- makes it perfect ''' log fire / tv ...lunch ..wot more u need

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I recently posted a thread about the Bewick Swans breaking the previous record for their early arrival...
http://www.over50sforum.com/showthread.php?t=26764

I have a feeling it will be a cold long winter. Many of the leaves have already fallen here unusually early due to the frosts we have been getting for a few weeks now.

That is the way of things, some winters are hard but few seem to match the frequent hard winters we seemed to get when I was a child growing up in the Peak District

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Brrrr. Bet my friend is glad she's just moved down from the Highlands to nearer Glasgow last week.

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I'm not really fussed. If it gets bad I'll put winter tyres on the car - no big deal. People in Canada cope with ten times worse and consider it "normal".

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They're probably a lot more used to it than we are though.