•Glencoe Snow Sledge Park

•England Club Fields

•Mountain Weather

•Mountain Forecast Discussion

•Webcams and Weather Stations

Further snow loss in very high winds overnight into Saturday finished off the Top Basin on CairnGorm, so all areas are waiting for potential new snowfalls. The only lift served snowsports is 1 beginner magic carpet at the Daylodge on CairnGorm and ski school lessons at Glencoe.

Get an early weather check - our webcams are updating from around 5.30am this week before the clocks go forward next weekend!

Thursday as expected did prove to be the last day of lifts served snowsports (at least for the time being) for the Top Basin on CairnGorm with Storm Force preventing uplift on Friday morning, then very mild temperatures and later rain accompanying said wind breaking up the largely baseless cover.

So over the coming days the only general snowsports open to the public is the lower of the two beginner magic carpets at Daylodge level on CairnGorm. This is in reasonable condition, but surface conditions will fluctuate through the week with as the temperature yoyos. However it is being groomed each morning to spread out a fresh layer of machine made snow.

At Glencoe, the Plateau Cafe remains open daily along with the adjacent sledge park, which remains full length. Beginner ski and snowboard lessons can be accommodate on the sledge park in the mornings, but as this needs to be managed for safety it is not available for general snowsports use.

Blustery winds will be a feature of this week, the least wind will be Monday morning and Tuesday afternoon, potentially stormy mid-week before colder air looks set to spill in from the West at least for a time.

The clocks go forward to summer time this coming weekend, so that could be the cue to herald the return of winter!

:: Glencoe Snow Sledge Park

The Access Chair is open daily from 9am. Sledging is available at the Plateau Cafe and is complimentary with a chairlift ticket. The Plateau Cafe on the mountain is open daily (weather permitting) from 10am until 3pm. If going sledging it is recommended to arrive by 2.45pm at the latest to get a reasonable length of time on the mountain, as the last chair down is 4.30pm.

Thanks to ongoing snowmaking the sledge park remains full length / width.

:: England Club Fields

All the club fields are awaiting the return of snow.

Please check club access rules / availability if not a club member / pass holder.

Weardale: https: //skiweardale.com/ .
Allenheads: http://ski-allenheads.co.uk/ .

Yad Moss: https: //yadmoss.co.uk/ .
Raise: https: //www.ldscsnowski.co.uk/ .

:: Mountain Weather

At 7pm in the West at the base of Glencoe at 366m the temperature was +6.4°c with an intermittent breeze occasionally gusting to 7mph. At 850m at the SSC Hut mid mountain the temperature was +3.0°c.

The SAIS AWS at the top of the Summit Tow was reporting +0.3°c on Aonach Mor. The Tower 17 AWS on the Gondola was reporting a NE wind at 2 gusting 7 mph. At Tulloch Station (237m) the temperature was +7.7°c.

In the East the CairnGorm the Met Office Summit AWS (4084ft/1245m) a SSE wind at 15 gusting 23 mph (no valid temperature data is being transmitted). Aviemore was at +5.8°c.

The Cairnwell AWS reported +1.6°c (3061ft /934m), with a North wind at a mean of 9 gusting 8 mph.

:: Mountain Forecast Discussion

Monday will start fine and fairly bright with sunny spells for Highland Mountains, but cloud will start to increase from the West later Monday morning and rain showers will push in during the later part of the afternoon. Glencoe is on the edge of getting away with staying dry while the Access Chair is due to be open, but with wind picking up later too, the morning is looking more promising for a sledging or sight seeing visit.

Around +2 to +4°c at Munro Level, generally higher towards the East. Westerly 30 gusting 45 to 50mph, but by dusk around 50 gusting 70mph into the West Highlands. Gusts by mid to late morning to 60mph on and near the Cairngorm Plateau.

Tuesday will dawn dry with bright spells developing in the West with the overnight rain expected to have cleared in the early hours, possibly wintry on the highest tops before doing so. Wind speeds will gradually moderate, with the least wind from late morning through the afternoon. Munro Level temperatures will creep up with the freezing level rising from around the higher tops to above the summits, with +4°c in the West and +5 to +6°c in the Eastern Cairngorms.

Wednesday will start with bright overhead, but this will deteriorate in the West by or from late morning with rain showers in the afternoon. In the West it will be around +3°c at Munro Level in the early afternoon as cloud builds, but +6 to +7°c for easternmost Munros. Wind speeds will ramp up, with Gales or in prone locations Severe Gales developing.

Early indications for Thursday is for a cooler and stormy day, FL back down onto the higher tops in the East and around Munro Level in the West, where snow showers will merge at times and combine with a Severe Gale force wind to give whiteout conditions. A severe windchill will develop. Wind widely 40 to 45mph gusting 60mph, but 50 gusting 80mph possible on the Cairngorm Plateau later in the day.

Detail and timing later in the week is uncertain, though the general pattern of fairly changeable Westerly flow looks pretty set. At this stage Friday looks likely to be a degree or two colder than thursday, between zero and -2°c at 900m with a moderating Westerly wind bringing snow showers in for Highland Mountains, these more frequent and persistent in the West.

:: Webcams and Weather Stations

Lowther Hill: Leadhills webcam online.

GLENCOE: All webcams online and the first updated images will be from around 5.30am. Base AWS and mid mountain AWS online. The summit weather station was damaged by nearby lightning and is out of service.