Once again it shows that despite the doomsayers the weather has not forgotten how to do cold and this winter (in the northern hemisphere) has proved beyond doubt that prognostications of doom lag a long way behind the reality of things.
And it wasn't just Scotland. Parts of the USA experienced incredibly severe snow falls and farther afield snow fell in the Iraqi capital Baghdad for the very first time(see pic below)
Other badly affected regions included India, China and Afghanistan, and as other posts in this site illustrate, snow even fell in the deserts of Arabia where summer temperatures routinely top 50 centigrade. And still there's talk of Global Warming!!! Well the way things are going it will be the next Ice Age that will start to worry people. Just over 25 years ago that was the dominant fear and acres of newsprint were devoted to the inexorable slide towards an icy catastrophe that never materialised. It shows just how fickle are the assumptions on which these fears are based. Meanwhile the weather carries on regardless and seemingly intent on making a mockery of human based predictions.
