Benvironment
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59.6mph just now. That's the highest we've had here since 18th September 2018 (64mph). Amazing how you can hear surges like that approaching over 10 seconds or so, as the sound builds. Had to shore up the fence as a few more like that and it's coming down.
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2 minutes ago, Sceptical said:
This mornings gloomy start has given way to sunny intervals and 9C. Wind has picked up but nowhere near yesterday's gusts.
Calm before the storm?
47.9mph highest here today, which is stronger than yesterday but yep still sounds relatively calm out there.
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Rancid rancid rancid rancid rancid!!!
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2 minutes ago, Mr Frost said:
55/60mph no problem today! Low tide so no major issues.
Pretty standard stuff but still good fun.
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Peak gust here 45.6mph, so nothing out the ordinary. Just sounds worse than it is on the house up here when there's more of a southerly angle. When it's a SW'erly we barely hear it. An easterly on the other hand, well.....those sound decidedly weird. All kinds of odd rumbles and whistles and creaks.
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41 minutes ago, Hairy Celt said:Possibly. Unless you're being paid to be here, you have the option to leave, of course.
Nah, I'll happily forfeit the snow if it means I can immerse myself further in this
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5 minutes ago, Hairy Celt said:
So which part of Scotland looks least likely to see any snow over the next day or 2? Yup, chez HC. And I've only got myself to blame, buying a full set of Weatherproofs.
And by the time I get home at the end of the week, it'll be pithing down.
Bitter? Well only slightly...
SeemsI picked the worst possible week to spend a week in the far east of Sutherland and Caithness
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12 minutes ago, ciel said:
The squall line has just passed through here too, followed by a quite sudden noticeable drop in the wind speed, and a patch of blue sky. More rain on the horizon though.
Yep. We didn't get much of a squall here but the wind dropped very suddenly as the line passed. Weirdly quiet outside now.
It was 9.7C an hour ago but it's dropped to 8.6C now.
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The wait for lying snow goes on....but we did at least get snow on top of the Lomonds today. Shame they were 25 miles away!
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How delightful that the squall line was the same shape as the A911. Horrid drive home from West Lothian just now. Crash on the M90. Almost zero visibility, and stretches of road were flooding that I've never seen flood before.
Oh, and 11.8C the max up here today, making it the warmest January day I've recorded in the decade I've lived up here.
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Temperature has been edging slowly upwards all day here. Currently 9.3C and still rising. Please make it stop!
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1 hour ago, Hairy Celt said:
This is Scotland chaps. If you want snow and ice, head north and east - Scandinavia still gets proper winters, although no doubt the old fogeys there grumble like us.
'When I were a lad, we used to get hunted by packs of wolves on the way to school and had to dig shelters in snow drifts to escape. When the polar bears appeared, we knew we were up lemon creek. Paddles were no use as the ice was too thick to break.'
Ha ha! Too true! My pals in Vest-Agder are dismayed at their 8C and pishing rain as well
This is our tenth winter up here at 900ft and it looks like going down as our first without any lying snow this side of the new year
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6 minutes ago, 101_North said:
It's like late October out there! Horrible stuff!
I can't even summon the enthusiasm to go for a walk in it!
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Fun day in the snow today, up on the Ochils. Never ceases to amaze me how experiences like this are less than an hour's drive up the road
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As with others, got our first falling snow of the season here just now.....albeit wet. 2.4C.
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Sad to see the cold relent, but I must admit it’s nice to hear wind whooshing around the outside of the house this evening.
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3 hours ago, Norrance said:
I am not that far North of you but we are still dry at -1.1C and I was thinking that I might hang on for an early ice day. There must be a sharp temperature divide somewhere about North Fife / Perth which looks wet on the radar to here where it remains dry and cold.
Maxed out at 2.6C up here today, and last night was the first time we’ve dipped below freezing this season. Only got down to -0.5C though.
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1 hour ago, JamesM said:
Frost never seemed to lift today.
Got the train through to Edinburgh today and there was even frost lingering in shady places in the city.
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23 hours ago, Mr Frost said:Great stuff @CatchMyDrift - ferry goes past my street! (I am a few minutes walk from the Royal Gourock Yacht Club) Enjoyed all the pictures you posted this week - covered some distance/places and what a fantastic week of weather for it!
Speaking of weather...glorious night for a wild camp on top of a Munro! (I can see this one from the hill behind me - very jealous of this man)
I am sure @Benvironment has done this once or twice?
I have indeed But not as much as I'd like in winter, if I'm honest. Still, what few times I've done it, it's been memorable!
Yesterday might not have had camping but it was still pretty glorious in Perthshire tbh
The cover would go quite quickly in any mild spell but it's still really nice to see in November. Long may it continue!!
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Now the sun's up I can see a light covering on the Moorfoots and Pentlands as well this morning.
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High of 2.7C here in the Lomonds today. The air has been so wonderfully clear! I was tempted to head north today but was content to just pootle about at home instead, given the conditions
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2 hours ago, CatchMyDrift said:
It was a very frosty start this morning with thick freezing fog between Crianlarich and Glen Ogle. Then just a cold day with hazy sunshine at Loch Katrine with Ben Venue (Miniature Mountain) as a backdrop:
Beautiful!!! It's been a good autumn for late colour, presumably aided by the absence of anything vaguely stormy in these parts.
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1 hour ago, 101_North said:
Just like Where's Wally that drove me near demented
Likewise!
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First snowy walk of the season today. Here's hoping there will be many, MANY more
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25 minutes ago, Norrance said:
Rain finally easing off here now. Around 25 mms in my gauge but it has been worse East of Dundee. Here is the Eastbound carriageway of the A92 to Arbroath earlier. Caused a bit of disruption in the Carnoustie area as drivers sought other routes.
Yep similar here. 28mm today and 49.5mm since Friday, and there are roads flooded around here that I've never seen flood before.
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Scotland /Alba weather discussion 2020
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Yeah the Jan 2012 one was bonkers here. Never heard anything quite like that in my life. That constant roar, interspersed by the sound of the occasional 150yr old beech tree thudding down outside.
Wasn't there something in May, maybe 2011? That was quite damaging here as the trees were coming into leaf.