Met Office: Weather warning issued for snow in Glasgow

Our city's weather took a turn for the worse through the night with some in Greater Glasgow even waking up to a blanket of white this morning. 

As a result, forecasters have put in place a yellow warning for snow until around 11am today. That's 11am on May 6... 

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The likes of Motherwell, Airdrie, and Dumbarton have also been told to expect some snow this morning. 

One of our readers sent us a picture of the snow in Airdrie this morning

Met Office bosses write: "Snow penetrating to relatively low levels could cause disruption to travel at first this morning.

"Some roads and railways likely to be affected with longer journey times by road, bus and train services." 

A #cold start to Thursday morning with a sharp frost in some rural areas.

A spell of more persistent #snow and #rain moving south across parts of Scotland, leading to some tricky travelling conditions

Elsewhere there'll be some early sunshine and a scattering of showers pic.twitter.com/BtDxyMOssR

— Met Office (@metoffice) May 6, 2021

How is this possible? Well, snowfalls are actually not unheard of as late as June in Scotland. Throw in the fact that Glasgow is actually slightly to the north of Copenhagen and Moscow in terms of latitude, and you can see why predicting the weather is a thankless task.

There's even historical precedent for snow in May. During the Little Ice Age between the 16th and 19th centuries, snow and ice were common in Scotland during the month.

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When the Great Frost of 1740 hit, records show that the country remained frozen until the end of May that year.