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Glorious mild (during day) weekend, if only the rest of November could be like this - personally find it the most depressing of months. Unbroken sunshine today with calm conditions - overnight frost down to -1c. Not seen many geese skeins so far this year.. Perfect evening yesterday for the Banchory Fireworks display, no need for the usual layers and hat.. And it has been an excellent week for sunsets, yesterday evening no exception..
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Impressive inversion in the West today, nice if you were above it, not if you were below the higher summits! Looking North from the top of Glencoe ski area, Ben Nevis in the distance left of centre on the horizon. Glencoe Webcam // Meall a' Bhuiridh // Winterhighland Webcams // Winterhighland WWW.WINTERHIGHLAND.INFO Ski Scotland Snow Conditions. Scottish Snow and Mountain Sports, ski reports and webcams
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More sections of the 1941-70 AAR map covering Scotland. Let me know if you want a section showing your own area of interest. Yes - these our old maps - my intention is to update some key Scottish 30-year annual averages for later periods up to 1991-2020 in tabular form (no maps). I do not know if good quality 30-year average maps are on the web for the latest one, i.e. 1991-2020. If any one is happy to provide a source/link that would, indeed, be helpful.
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Can place photographs of sections of these, here, in due course. (Subject to mods approving there is no copyright infringement.) I was privileged to have worked in Edinburgh in the late 1970s on the averages and the Scotland section of the chart. Clearly, with climate change since this standard 30-year period, the isohyets (lines of equal rainfall) will not be exactly like this now. However, the general shape and relativity of the amounts will still be similar.
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'twould appear that the cold front has swung back within the anticyclone as a warm front this morning. Temp 12.4 now at 1pm. 2.6mm in the rain gauge - ppn was moderate in intensity at times yesterday. Not bad for within an anticyclone, and another lesson for those who believe anticyclones guarantee dry weather. Not getting at anyone in the UK at all - I used to think that way, too, long ago!
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Scottish-Irish Skier Speaking as a fellow geologist by background, Mrs SIS sounds like she might be more patient than my wife about me going on about rocks everywhere we go! We had almost the same chat about the Spanish floods earlier this afternoon too! Felt like it might turn frosty earlier in the evening but a slight breeze has got up now which seems to be keeping the temperature up.
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Hawesy It used to be fun when I was small... there'd be a nominated teenager who'd go and get us the best deal on fireworks from one shop, then boxes of bangers from somewhere else, and that would be us sorted for a few days of dodgy fun. There was also the vigilante protection of our bonfire from the children from other parts of town. I don't remember taking any notice of hallowe'en (except to pacify parents) though.
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Forecast was colder and brighter further North with cloud moving South through to Central Scotland where it will be mild and dull. Caught in the worst of both worlds here this afternoon with rain and now in the colder air. Fair first thing this morning with a temp of 14.2C at noon. Now 8.1C in the rain so dropped >6C since lunchtime.
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Hairy Celt As a geologist originally, I find watching the processes that create landscapes in action fascinating, even if it the effects on the modern world are very grim to see. While such events seem extreme, on geological timescales, they are regular, and if you dig into the river banks and flood plains, what you find is or course a nice record of these. This one must have been a 1 in 100 year or greater event. Maybe 1 in 500. A crazy amount of rainfall in such a short space of time. The area is semi-desert and the rivers almost wadis. Most of the time they are dry or a trickle. Occasionally torrents. Every 100 years or so, a massive flood. Lack of vegetation away from hill tops means the overland flow once the ground saturates carries masses of material with it. Geologically, this would ultimately become conglomerate. As a geologist, you also feel helpless knowing that this will happen at some point to the buildings, roads etc constructed on nice, flat plains of flash flood deposits found along the banks of the innocent looking trickle of a river. Mrs SS say's it's useful to have a geologist husband as your house won't get flooded! Some lovely examples of sands (lower Devonian) and conglomerates (upper) for when Scotland was a desert back in the Devonian and we had flash floods shaping our landscape. Beach at Arbroath below. Sorry for being off topic, but the weather is boring without a flake in sight for now! Scottish Unconformities: Arbroath — Ogilvie Geoscience WWW.OGILVIEGEOSCIENCE.CO.UK Unconformities are important in the geological record as they are a record of missing time i.e., that was not deposited. This blog recognises the importance of Hutton's Unconformity in Berwickshire and...