Scotland Weather discussion

[Polar Maritime]

Glad your on the mend Norrance, Lovely views!

[Puffy MacCloud]

Temperature in the upper teens today, breeze faint to faff all, cloud cover occasionally broke sufficiently to allow some sunshine after lunchtime but a couple of showers slipped through in the morning. A pretty unremarkable day for Summer '22 in Paisley.

Tomorrow I will be taking on the physios in a game of Move the Puffy. We'll see how that goes.

[Jo Farrow]

Cracking thunderstorm Thursday evening with torrential rain. The chickens looked most perplexed as the thunder rumbled overhead. End of term today

[NUT]

Stonking shower just rolled through

[Snowandrocks]

Watched the showers building to the SW over the Cairngorms as I ate my sandwich on Oxen Craig (highest of Bennachie's summits) before making a hasty retreat home. 

Just in time - hefty shower rolling through now. 

 

[Quinach]

As above, some hefty showers going round but so far just a sprinkle of rain here (though there was again some heavy rain overnight).

Currently 15c but feeling warmer than that when the sun is out; light winds.

View of the showers developing mid morning.

[Norrance]

I had thought that the showers a couple of days ago were torrential but they did not compare with this afternoons deluge. I can't remember seeing larger raindrops just as the shower ended. Currently 15C.

[Puffy MacCloud]

Temperature today was in the high teens, cloud cover in the high octas, breeze was next to nothing as was rainfall, as far as I could tell. So July has failed to make a name for itself on its first day, preferring to align with June and dull drabness.

On the ward however, well, what a day. The physios arrived as a matching pair and set about breaking my nine-week idleness  with a range of therapeutic implements such as a walking stick, zimmer, walking frame, harness, crutches and a big cushion, all of which I took exception to and refused to work with. This meant engaging further staff as bearers for my oxygen tank, chest drain pipework, chest cavity suction pump and collection vessel, intravenous medication travelling stand and a chair to catch me in if/when I collapsed. So, starting at the side of my bed and with a target of the wall on the other side of the room, off we set with one physio holding my arm, other physio holding the back of my gown shut, (why from the inside? he’s an odd boy,) a nurse holding the oxygen tank, an auxiliary carrying my chest drain kit, a porter on the intravenous stand, a passing priest, who I’d never seen before, dragging the chair and offering up suitable prayers and a couple of curious hangers-on bringing up the rear. What was billed as a walk and turned into something more akin to a tinkers’ flitting, had successfully, although slowly, traversed the ten steps to the opposite wall and crashed slow-motion concertina style into it. Turning round was a shambles, machines started beeping, physios started flapping, nurse was nagging, porter jaffa cakesed off, priest was praying, one hanger-on sought rest on the chair and the other took selfies of the whole charade. I puffed. And puffed. And puffed. Then we got it sorted and with me carrying my own drip stand we returned to the start where I was promptly sick on the physio who was holding my gown shut at the back but now from the front, which served him bloody right. I’m still puffing now but folk say I did well. I’m not convinced...

[shuggee]

Puffy - you're living up to your name! Keep going lad.

Tweed looking more like a river today, rather than an exposed gravel bed - that's my simple news.

And for the moth enthusiasts:

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[SW Saltire]

On 30/06/2022 at 20:02, Norrance said:

First wee stroll up a hill since Covid today. A few dry coughs but otherwise sound. Auchterhouse Hill, the second highest peak in the Sidlees. Forecast was mostly cloudy, coolish with showers but turned out to be warm sunshine most of the time so regretted taking the waterproofs. Max here was 19.6C but felt warmer.

How many days has that been since the start of your covid symptoms? A momentum killer exercise wise for sure.

Yesterday I decided to take on Helvellyn. Perhaps a bit foolish but quite a gradual climb actually, the ridges were good fun. I know it’s England but posting the pics.

Feels nice that my lungs are normal. A lot of wet weather recently but yesterday and today have seen some sunshine.

Edited July 1, 2022 by SW Saltire

[mardatha]

Thunder, lightning and monsoon rain in Jedburgh this afternoon. Thought the car was going to float away on the way home.

Puffy hopefully they'll all sod off and leave you in peace for a bit now. Tell them if you want any exercise then you can read a heavy book, it works for me.

Edited July 1, 2022 by mardatha

[Norrance]

1 hour ago, SW Saltire said:

How many days has that been since the start of your covid symptoms? A momentum killer exercise wise for sure.

Yesterday I decided to take on Helvellyn. Perhaps a bit foolish but quite a gradual climb actually, the ridges were good fun. I know it’s England but posting the pics.

Feels nice that my lungs are normal. 
 

My symptoms started on 30th May. Just that nagging dry cough left now.

[Quinach]

First day of the school holidays and predictably the weather is wet.  Very wet in fact as its been raining all morning.  14c and calm conditions.

[Northernlights]

3 minutes ago, Quinach said:

First day of the school holidays and predictably the weather is wet.  Very wet in fact as its been raining all morning.  14c and calm conditions.

Thats just what Mrs Northenlights kept telling me would happen when I complained the dry winds that were stopping the neeps growing.

However we cut hay hay on the forecast for next week yesterday so summer should return. In the meantime its raining pennies for those of us farming and just in the nick of time to fill the grain. Curretly 15c here

 

[snowidea]

Keep on puffing @Puffy MacCloud still making me laugh. 

We've been to Stirling on a last minute t-shirt buying quest before we set off for Orkney next weekend. I'm very, very excited.

Not a bad day weather wise bit of everything, sun, cloud, rain and breeze. 

Got a nice picture on my way to the train station yesterday 

 

[mardatha]

Orkney sounds lovely snowidea,  I'd love to visit it -  have a nice wee break. All my life I wanted to see Shetland but snot gonny happen now.

[Wee County Exile]

Not posted for a while as tend to be a winter weather lurker and enthusiast. But heading home to Nairn for a two week holiday mid July and I believe the long term signals are encouraging for dry and warm settled weather - hope so anyway. 

Just had a walk along the river Dee here at Peterculter and it’s noticeable that the showers of the last few days have upped the water levels significantly. Last weekend I had never seen the river so low with banks of shingle and rocks showing that I had never seen before.

[Halfamilefromnowhere]

Well we did much need the rain and Friday dropped 0.86 of an inch in old money which makes it the wettest day since the thunderstorms of 21ST July last year, unfortunately it hasn’t really stopped raining since…..

[Norrance]

Quite blustery today but only a few very light showers made it across to here. A few bright intervals with a max temp of 18.4C. Currently 15.0C

[Puffy MacCloud]

Nothing much happens here at the weekends; no doctors so no procedures so nurses mostly involved in domestic type care and time goes by with nothing to mark it, not even the weather this weekend, which simply repeated Friday's pattern to further confuse me about what day it is or was.

I met the priest again, the one from my recent march to chaos, and it turns out he's a chaplain here. Our pleasant conversation included the fact that I am not of his religious persuasion, but he wasn't in the least put out by that. In fact, he was a tad too magnanimous about it. Almost relieved I would say. I think, after Friday's shambles, that he was rather hoping I was a Proddy and for that to be confirmed was probably a blessing. I didn't mention that I'm not religious in any way, shape, form or practice because I thought I'd covered the point adequately. Anyway, having come to visit me with a look of the doomed on his face, he left with a skip in his step, a smile on his face and never a backwards look.

Good news Kilties. It appears that the tear in my lung has healed (at long last) sufficiently for a wee operation that will hopefully stabilise my lung for a while. Consultant coming to see me tomorrow to discuss where we're at and what we might do. Exciting. There's a chance that I might get out of here in the foreseeable future. Unless the most recent outbreak of Covid19 on the ward claims me overnight, obviously. I'm typing this while hiding under my covers...

Have a great time in Orkney @snowidea, I know you'll enjoy it thoroughly. Don't know how long you're going for but if it's more than a week you'll also pick up the 45 degree angled walk so identifiable in the folk of the northern isles. I quite liked it, at least until i got off the ferry back on the mainland and promptly fell over.

[Puffy MacCloud]

This morning my temperature is 38.8⁰C, which is somewhat more than the low teens outside.

("low teens" is a reference to temperature and not a comment on small Paisley folk between 13 and 19 years of age.)

Edited July 5, 2022 by Puffy MacCloud
Just to be clear.

[Northernlights]

Cool start to the day at 8c with some low cloud and drizzle.See it was 3c on top of Cairngorm last night so even cool up there for the  time of year.  Cloud is now breaking and blue sky appearing, there is hope for the hay yet.

Edited July 5, 2022 by Northernlights

[mistyqueen]

Orkney is a great place @snowidea, you'll maybe not want to go home! Up here we're still lighting fires and I caved in yesterday morning and put the heating on for an hour as it was so damp and dreich. Got the oil tank filled last week, took less than I expected so I've made a bit of a saving there. On the other hand I also got a new boiler installed and have just had the bill for that! EEEK! Might need to sell the family silver! Sun's just come out so depending on the midge count I may well spend some time in the garden today. Glutton for punishment me.

 

Edited July 5, 2022 by mistyqueen

[mardatha]

Sunnyish nice day here but a wee bit on the cool side. Got the garden finished, it's so neat it looks like a hotel Am in love with this rose.

[Mair Snaw]

Cloudy cool and windy here, not exactly summer weather and i do fear that the rest of summer could go the same way before the steady decline into winter, it would just be sods law that we get a long very cold winter to coincide with the mega high cost of heating oil etc..

Have managed to convince Mrs Snaw that moving to the coast is a bad idea and that a bit further inland will be better for warmer temperatures in the summers months as no sea breeze inland.. haven't told her about the colder winter weather.... now just to find a property in what is already a very very busy rental market..

@Puffy MacCloud hope you get good news for your possible release from NHS jail...

Edited July 6, 2022 by Mair Snaw