Six Scottish snow patches survive until winter 2009/2010

Snow patches in England and Wales during spring 2011

“…As with the longer-established annual paper on Scottish snow patches (e.g. Watson et al, 2010), field work by enthusiastic amateurs is the basis for most of this report. Photographs by unattributed others also proved useful in assessing snow cover where visits were not possible.…”

“…These were observed on 2 April, but had disappeared by the afternoon of the 3rd (D. Perkins). Even by the standards of recent decades, this was an early final melt-date (Watson and Cameron, 2010).…”

Two Scottish snow patches survive until winter 2011/2012

“…The winter 2010/2011 was the third consecutive cold and snowy one but, much like the previous two, few patches survived. Much of the snow fell on light winds off the North Sea, with relatively little drifting (as in Figure 1 of Watson et al , 2011). This produced some big patches facing south and west, but the most persistent patches over decades have been in far deeper hollows with easterly aspects.…”

Six Scottish snow patches survive until winter 2010/2011

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In this article we present our fifteenth annual report on the survival of Scottish snow patches. Last year's report (Watson et al, 2010) also commented on snow survival in England and this was extended by Cameron (2010). This year we confine ourselves to Scotland, as a later article by Cameron is planned to cover its incidence south of the Scotland/England border.

MethodsOur account relies on field observations.

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