•England Club Fields

•Mountain Weather

•Mountain Forecast Discussion

•Webcams and Weather Stations

The Ski Scotland ALL Area Season Pass is returning for winter 2025/26 and is now on sale through to 30th November (or until sold out). Find out more at: www.snowsportscotland.org/all-area-pass .

Get an early West coast weather check - our Glencoe webcams are updating from around 7.30am currently. Our Leadhills camera in the Lowther Hills is online 24/7 for a weather check in the Southern Uplands.

CairnGorm Mountain is now open daily for snowsports, and the bad news is that Tuesday was the day of the week, with much more unsettled and at times very windy conditions for the remainder of this week. However, the European forecast models are currently favouring a break in the wind over the weekend, but the GFS has a much more transient ridge, so too early to call the weekend yet (see forecast discussion below).

The best lift served conditions are in the Top Basin. With that in mind, please check official reports each morning for the remainder of this week as forecast wind speeds are progressively more marginal for the upper mountain lifts as we progress to the end of the week. The Ptarmigan Bowl and Ciste Fairway giving good riding on machine groomed new snow on a now consolidating base and the covering is beginning to fill out and widen the open terrain.

Heading down into Coire Cas the Traverse is good but the Zig Zags are thin and gritty and will deteriorate as mild temperatures move in during Wednesday. For the adventurous riders not trying out new kit, you could still just about get to the Daylodge on snow with a bit of creative route finding and diligent heather hopping!

Whether the rest of this week sees a net gain or loss of snow on higher terrain is up in the air at the moment. However, these storm cycles can be both friend and foe for the Scottish Skier as without them we would never get the consolidated base necessary to make the season.

The Lecht had seen runs begin to fill in, but the heaviest falls of snow in Aberdeenshire last week narrowly missed the ski area, so there was not quite sufficient snow to open anything at the weekend. There was a loss of snow Sunday, but a slight gain again later on Monday.

Over in the West Glencoe and Nevis caught fresh snow overnight into Sunday, but there is still far from sufficient snow for lift served riding as the snow was mainly restricted to further up the mountains before lowering towards the top of the access lifts in time to put down a dusting!

The Access Chairlift is currently undergoing annual maintenance following the fitting of the replacement chair carriers. It is currently anticipated that the Glencoe Access Chair will reopen on Saturday 29th November. The Nevis Range Gondola is open daily at present.

At update both the A93 Cairnwell Pass and A939 Lecht Pass were open.

:: England Club Fields

Last Wednesday saw the first UK lift served turns on outdoor snow, with a gorgeous day with 10cm of fresh snow which stayed crisp through the day with a high of -1°c at Allenheads, while Weardale got the F1 Tow running too with a thin but skiable cover.

These were joined by Yad Moss on Thursday, but with a thin cover and ground not fully frozen Yad Moss did not open on Friday.

All clubfields are now back to waiting for new snowfall.

For both Weardale and Allenheads, you need to join the club with a season pass, these are still available for both at this time.

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 6pm in the West at the Glencoe SSC hut at 850m the mid mountain temperature was -0.6°c, with an SW wind at 6 gusting 13mph. At the base it was +0.2°c.

The SAIS summit AWS on Aonach Mor was reporting -4.4°c. The Met Office station was reporting a WSW wind at 11gusting 18mph. The Tower 17 AWS on the Gondola was reporting a WSW wind at 7 gusting 14mph. At Tulloch Station (237m) the temperature was 0°c.

In the East the CairnGorm the Met Office Summit AWS reported -5°c with a West wind at 9 gusting 20mph. Aviemore was at -1°c at 6pm.

The Met Office Cairnwell AWS (3061ft /934m) reported -4°c with a SSW at a mean of 2 gusting 18 mph.

:: Mountain Forecast Discussion

A transient ridge gave a beautiful late autumn day across Highland Scotland on Tuesday, alas a change will roll into the West pre-dawn as cloud builds and wintry showers precede the approaching rain as Southerly winds ramp up to Gale Force.

During Wednesday the freezing level will rise erratically to slightly above the higher tops with a strong Southerly wind rising to around 40 to 50mph with gusts to 60 mph widely at Munro Level for a number of hours. Risk of gusting towards 70 to 80 mph in the Northern Cairngorms through the middle part of the day on and downslope of the plateau areas.

Overhead will be dank and damp in the West throughout daylight hours, with an early wintry mix quickly replaced by rain to all levels, this will be heavy for several hours on hills facing the West Coast through the middle of the day. In the East, a dry start is possible, but early snow flurries will quickly revert to drizzly rain by late morning. Any initial brightness post dawn there might be in the Northern Cairngorms early on will be short-lived. Precipitation totals are not expected to be significant in the Cairngorms, with perhaps very little towards the Deeside and the far east of the range.

It is now almost certain that the freezing level will go well above the summits during Thursday with Munro Level temperature getting up to +5 to +7°c with Severe Gale Force SW wind. Rain will be heavy and sustained in the West Highlands, but overall precipitation totals will lower towards the East with pulses of rain tending to move through the Cairngorms. The high SW winds are likely to peak around 50 gusting 70 to 80mph, risk gusts 90mph on and around the Cairngorm Plateau.

Freezing level dropping back onto the higher Munros late Thursday evening or early hours of Friday, then to or slightly below the 900m contour on Friday with snow showers on the mountains. Continuing SW Severe Gales, potentially Hurricane Force for a number of hours as the cold front comes through. In the West showers may merge into longer spells of mountain snow, with appalling or zero visibility above the snowline and risk of thunderstorms.

:: Webcams and Weather Stations

Lowther Hill: Leadhills webcam is online (24/7).

GLENCOE: All mountain webcams online and the first updated images will be around 7.30am. There will be some interruptions to webcams during November due to pre season maintenance and preparation work. Wind speed is available from base and mid mountain. Storm Amy destroyed the Summit AWS and a replacement is in the works.