I was just thinking about the real lack of snow there has been in Aberdeen since the early part of the winter of 2010/11. I can only really remember back to 2000 but I doubt there have been many periods without significant snow as long as this. Even in 2013 although there was decent snow cover just outside the city there wasn't much at all in the city itself. I understand that many other parts of the UK have had snow events in this period but it just seems a very rare drought in this area. If anyone has any more statistical evidence to back up or prove me wrong I would be interested. 

I haven't seen lying snow ( more than 2 hours of lying snow ) since December 2010. The last few winters have been far worse than anything from the nineties, noughties era.

http://www.rbge.org.uk/science/plants-and-climate-change/edinburgh-weather-station . We had no lying snow in that period either.

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I'm surprised by some of these responses. There hasn't been a single year here that didn't have measurable snow at some point. Even 2014 had some.

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To clarify, we have had snow here on a few occasions however we haven't had what I would describe as proper snow for Aberdeen. To me that would be a fall of around 10cms which occured most years here from 2000 to 2010.

We have had only one proper snowfall since December 2010, in January 2013. One of the most snowless periods on record surely as we usually do quite well for snow here.

Okay. I wouldn't expect a fall of 10cm every year here, so we obviously have differing standards. In 2014, our only measurable snow was on Boxing Day, and it was about 3cm.

In January this year we had about 5-7cm. Lasted for a few days as well.

2013 was one of the best years for snow I can personally remember.. got to be one of our snowiest years ever. Jan-Mar all had noteworthy snowfalls. I took rough measurements of each fall, and we got around 37cm in Jan, 15cm in February and 30cm in March. Max depth was close to one foot. January, November and December 2010 had similar depths and proper deep cold, but the overall snowfall total was lower.

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20th January 2013 was our only notable snowfall since December 2010. By notable I mean it snowed all day, and settled to a depth of possibly 4 inches. I remember it well since my wife took a group of teenagers paintballing for her friend's son's birthday. The kids thought it brilliant - my wife, on the other hand, hates snow!!

There have been minor falls of snow at other times since 2010, but nothing that gave a full covering on the ground, or even lasted more than a couple of hours.

Last year we had a couple of dustings , previously for a good few years we have had some decent falls

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Aberdeen has suffered big style from the lack of Northerlies and cold Easterlies in the last few years. Snow has mostly arrived in Scotland on Westerly or even South Westerly winds so shelter from the mountains has kept that area in the rain shadow or influenced by proximity to the North Sea in marginal breakdown situations. Very unusually it has probably been the least snowy city in Scotland since 2010.
Meanwhile inland areas of Scotland have actually had quite decent snow records in recent years. For example my home area in Highland Perthshire recorded its 50th day of snow lying in 2015 only about a week ago. This was at 100 Mtrs asl.

It's unprecedented for the city centre to have so little snow. Even in the late 80s/ early 90s there were heavy falls in Feb 91, Dec 92, Jan 93 and Feb 93 that brought up to 20cm. We're not even getting that now.

Almost every occasion there has been snow since 2011 up here in the outskirts there has been nothing or significantly less for the City Centre.

January 2013 had 15 consecutive days here with a peak depth of 15cm but even just a mile closer to the coast the depth and number of days would have been lucky to be half that.

This is 19th January 2013 up in the outskirts:

and the same day down at the River Dee there was nothing at all:

That is the only proper snowfall that I have had since 2011. The rest has been transitory dustings, of which there has been a lot this year, but mostly gone by lunchtime. Other than 2013 the heaviest falls have been in April 2012, October 2012 and April 2015 which just says it all. The winters have been utterly useless.

Even up here in the outskirts 2014 had no snow lying the entire year. That has never happened before although Mannofield had no snow for the winter 1956/57.

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I haven't seen lying snow ( more than 2 hours of lying snow ) since December 2010. The last few winters have been far worse than anything from the nineties, noughties era.

 

Can I echo that comment .

i thought maybe after 09-10 and at times 12 we will see more snow. 

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I have to be fair given my southernmost coastal location and say that since December '10 I have experienced a proper snow event in February '12 and winter '13 was quite productive in terms of regular snowfalls (Jive Buddy will recall how it always seemed to snow on Sundays) and how it lead to that infamous stunted spring.
 The winters of '11, '14 (less said about that, the better) and the most recent one, '15 were all very sparse in terms of snowcover - or even snowfalls  - at my low lying coastal area. Will Winter '16 be the third winter on the trot to along on a snowless fashion IMBY? Only one way to find out.

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There has been ample snow here every year but it hasn't seemed too bad since 2010 which was spectacular with over two feet.

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2015 (Feb)

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We had an excellent amount back in March 2013 - the whole island came to a standstill - was some storm. 

I'm trying to insert some photos to show you all but struggling - any ideas how to do this? Keeps asking for a 'source' when I click insert image? Ta.

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Hi. You need to have the image in a "host" web site such as photobucket so that you have an URL you can copy and then paste into the "insert image" part. You can even use anything from your own web site if you have one (right click over the image and it'll show it's own URL link).

But indeed, I can recall that remarkable late snow event in March '13. Us Kent folks got properly pasted by that but it was the Islands that really got it in the neck where the snow came with winds strong enough to fell trees. 

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Thanks Ian, sorted now, here's a few photos, up to 2.5ft+ in places, more in drifts, cars abandoned, trees down. I remember driving home with my daughter in a complete 'whiteout' - only just made it back safely, very scary!!

Oh for that much snow again seems like a lifetime ago...

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