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It’s been snowing for the last wee while with a small covering, it will amount to a mere white blip but it’s still a reminder that it will probably make some appearances up until early May, or a time when nobody can really be ar5ed with it. Spent the recent frosty start/blue sky days in the central/southern highlands. A sunny Arrochar Alps and a ridiculously glass-like Loch Tay were hard to stop looking at.
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Dreadful day with cold gales, surface water galore and heavy rain which has finally relented to very heavy snow in the last half hour. Last summer felt particularly bereft of lightening so that would be a nice surprise if it pops up *(upon seeing the next post maybe hold off with the lightening surprises! Good grief, glad all safe)
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At times it’s been far from pretty and the sodden, windy and mild interludes (like Sunday morning) really aren’t fun but at least these last few February days have been undoubtedly ‘winter’. Friday evening local walk Saturday in Badenoch Return from a day jaunt to Lothian was a snowy one last night, Ralia being the best bit
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The most driving fun I’ve ever experienced was Reykjavik to Vik and back one March a few yrs back. The speed and confidence they drove at in exceptionally wintry conditions was everything you’d expect from a country so used to it. Coaches with tyres you’d have on a JCB. What a place. It was like Skye on stilts. Some heavy sleety crap rattling sideways through Inverness just now. Pretty horrid.
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Yesterday afternoon’s deluge turned to snow around teatime, automated forecast had us down for about 6hrs heavy snow, in reality it translated to about an inch of the stuff by midnight. This morning there was less fanfare in the local forecast with about 8cms and continuing heavy showers providing a slow but steady commute on the A9. I generally take automated forecasts with a snow shovel of salt, maybe reliable within a couple hours or so. Which leaves plenty scope for surprises..
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Aye. This. A wintry mix this morning, some wet snow showers while working circa 200m Inverness. Cold and grim but some spells of sunshine. ‘Dudley and Eunice’ sounds like some hellish Canary Wharf corporate law firm, or maybe a 1920s trapeze act? Either way I hope they don’t impact on people too drastically and the candles can remain in the cupboard.
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Random useless information but I understand some of Cameron’s family history goes back to an old Croft on Drummossie moor (Muckovie farm) overlooking Inverness. (Maybe that’s where his um..interest in pigs came from? ). A useable day. Bit breezy at times with some sun around. Plenty snow melt in the 2nd half of the day.