Unusually, Scotland is still receiving fresh snow, more than two weeks into this cold weather. Looks like most of the country’s councils have now run out of road salt and we’re in for a deep freeze this year. Schools haven’t gone back after the Christmas holiday and Dumfries and Galloway’s children can enjoy uninterrupted sledging. Let’s hope the gas supply holds out.
Fresh snow fell on Christmas night.
Well, not only did the snow hang around until Christmas Day, but we also had a fresh fall that evening. The Scottish bookies won’t be happy, but there are a lot of happy kids who got to go sledging on Christmas Day. The phrase “living memory” comes to mind when trying to think of Dumfries white Christmases. We’ve been very lucky with this one and did our best to make the most of it. There’s a little bit of a thaw on now but we’re expecting more snow to follow. So the snowy theme on this site is likely to continue for a while yet.
So this is what’s been happening here this week. We also haven’t had the luke warm rain to follow and it looks like there might be a layer of snow here for the rest of the week. There may be a white Christmas this year?
I can’t remember when we had snow in late December. Probably the last time this happened was in the 1960s.
Even our garden robin was impressed and posed for this Christmas card shot.
Now we’re hoping for scenes like this on Christmas Day. Although the weather forecast is for fog – more likely from past experience. 
I woke this morning to the sound of scraping on car windscreens. We’re no sooner into the autumn than the first frost has arrived. Typical Scottish seasons – they can turn up at any time during any day – and it looks like we’ve had a little bit of winter this morning.
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