Thin Cirrus cover all day and light winds after last nights gales Temperature is a sizzling 2 C Cold and Very damp Huge waves crashing in on the shore must be 5 to 8 metres swell
Heavy rain and hail showers with a couple of sheet lightning flashes observed over the Atlantic. Wind SW 25 mph Can't see much else as its still dark up here !!
Morning everyone This must be our most stormy Autumn for a long time up here in the Western Isles Wind at present gusting to 54 mph from the SW and we are expecting Violent Storm Force 11 later. Heavy Rain Pressure 1010 and falling rapidly If you all could see the Atlantic thismorning you would really appreciate the force of nature.
Heavy Rain and Hail showers Cu Nimb clouds and some lightning observed just offshore Temp 9C dropping to 6 C in showers Wind Westerly 15 mph Vis in excess of 50 km
Lewis, Outer Hebrides Patchy cloud with light rain showers New snow on the Harris mountains down to 1500 feet. 1032mb rising Temp 5 C Wind North 15 mph
We have just had a hail AND SNOW, YES SNOW shower
Temperature plunged to 4 C in the shower
Wind still gusting to Storm 10 (60 mph) and tremendous waves on the Atlantic
A wild night with the highest gust of 72 mph and we are stormbound with no ferries or planes. The north wind doth blow and we will have snow. Temp 7 C Pressure 1005 mb and rising, Wintry Showers with hail.
Wind now gusting to 60 mph Northerly
Continuous heavy rain with a sizzling temp of 7 C
CalMac ferries stormbound - no suprise
we are awash with the worst flooding in living memory
Misty , Calm, and quite unreal for mid October up here. Looking forward to some action towards the end of the week, we may even have snow on our hills!!
A very wet and wild night in the Hebrides!
Autumn usually lasts for about 3 days up here and this year is no exception.
Wind Westerly gusting to Severe Gale Force 9 (48 mph)
Heavy Rain Showers
Temp 11 C
Press 996 mb rising
Ocean state - rough !!
at least its blown the bloody midges away
A lovely sunny day with nice mountain wave clouds (altocumulus lenticularis) forming over the Harris mountains.
Temp 17 C
Press 1011 falling
Wind SSW 15 knots
Vis over 30 km
Just what we needed after a miserable week.
Thought the clearance had arrived from the west about an hour ago, but looks like everything is moving back from the east again just now. Cloudy, Drizzle, calm after a 45mph gale overnight, and of course those bloody MIDGES are out again!