The weather in Scotland at this time is extremely unusual for this time of year. Forecast overnight temperatures for the next couple of days could get as low as -25C inland and around -10C to -15C on the easterly coastal areas. This is unheard off at the start of December mainly due to the country surrounded by relatively warm water from the Atlantic gulf stream. i.e. the coldest time of year should be a couple of months away at the beginning or February.

Today there has been no newspaper deliveries and the supermarket has run completely out of bread. Milk and eggs were still available. What was interesting was that there was plenty of bread flour and bread yeast available still. I guess folks don't know what bread is made from.

The main road to the main supermarket was littered with abandoned cars at the side of the road and the snow ploughs/gritting lorries were have difficulty clearing the road of snow. Public transportation within the city of Dundee is only able to run a very limited service on the main roads which can be kept open with the snow clearing vehicles.



Snow piled 8 feet high at the local Supermarket attempting to keep the car park open. There were very few vehicles able to make it to this supermarket, the ones that were able to get there were the 4x4s. One little tip if walking to and from the supermarket in 12-18 inches of snow is to not use traditional shopping bags as they drag along in the snow. Best to use a large capacity backpack as it is a lot easier to haul 50-60lbs of shopping over 2-3 miles in the snow.