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Benvironment

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  1. It started settling here while the temperature was below 1C, but now up to 1.9C and the snow line is retreating upwards.
  2. Dew point currently 1C here……but the temperature has climbed from 1.3C to 2.2C in the last hour. It’s ‘orrible out there!
  3. Certainly a noisy night here in Fife, although that can as much be because of the wind direction as the wind speed. Topped out at 56mph. My weather station at Mar Lodge similar at 57mph.
  4. Ugh, really could do without that Fife is a saturated sponge just now, water still pouring over the roads…..which made the road up from Falkland this morning the worst I have ever seen it. Usually there’s SOME bare tarmac to cling to but it was just ice from top to bottom! Car said -10C at Pitagowan this morning, although it was considerably milder by the time I’d inched my way over to Kinloch Rannoch. Nice to see so many folk getting out on the hills today. One of those ‘grab it while you can’ days
  5. Just beautiful!! Always worth getting up high with a full view of the horizon before and after sunset. Folk tend to use ‘alpenglow’ to refer exclusively to the pink colour that comes when the rising/setting sun shines direct onto the surface, but it’s also used to refer to the effect similar to what you’ve posted….when you get those beautiful hues on the horizon opposite to the sun This was here at Mar Lodge after sunset…but looking north. Meanwhile…..
  6. Braemar at lunchtime. It was already -7C at 4pm! Bit ‘warmer’ here now than in the village proper, at -10.8C.
  7. Assuming it was the same ones, they photobombed me at about 2pm. Two of them flew up the Slugain from Braemar and then did a steep climb into the cloud.
  8. A very wet 1cm here, which took all evening to accumulate in steady dandruflurries. 0.5C and hasn’t been below freezing since Sunday night.
  9. High of 1.8C today, and stayed below freezing till about 1pm. A week ago it was T shirt weather at 800m. Today, not so much! Felt great to be properly cold, walking over frozen mud, but as others have said, given the saturated ground there was a lethal glaze on many paths. Enjoy it while it lasts…..
  10. View from home this morning Light snow down to around 780m above Glen Clunie. Lower please!
  11. It’s been an undeniably beautiful day here but freakishly mild, which felt even warmer given the absence of wind. Temp fell away after dark in that calmness but we’ve just gone from 3.6C to 10.6C in the space of 40 minutes!
  12. Came on here to check out how other folk are taking the mildness and find solidarity and you haven’t disappointed ‘Ridiculous’, ‘stupidly mild’ etc. It was 17 C when I was walking down Kirkcaldy prom this morning, warmer than it was when I walked that stretch of the coastal path on a gorgeous calm sunny day in September! Up here in the Lomonds it topped out at 14.1C this morning, which is 0.8C higher than my previous November record of 13.4C, recorded in both 2020 and 2021. Dandelions, knapweed, oxeye daisies blooming at 900ft. Picked three ticks off myself yesterday. Grass putting on growth. This new normal SUCKS!
  13. <stretches> <yawns> <blinks> AHA! Tantalising view up the glen on patrol this evening
  14. 21.4C today....which is the first time the 20C threshold has been breached in the Lomonds this year, and the first time since last September. 2nd latest 20C in my dataset: 2022: 15th June 2021: 1st June 2020: 20th May 2019: 21st April 2018: 6th May 2017: 24th May 2016: 4th June 2015: 10th June 2014: 17th June 2013: 21st May 2012: 26th March 2011: 2nd June
  15. Interesting to crunch the numbers for May and the recent spring up on the hill. I've got data from 2011 and this was the 3rd warmest May I've recorded, going by the mean average, but the warmest if you just take the night time lows. Freakishly warm nights yet again, continuing a consecutive run of 12 months when that's been the headline news. No real heat like recent Mays - the May max of 17.7C was actually the second lowest May max - but evidently the warm nights are bringing the overall average up regardless. Something that's happening across all calendar months now, it seems. Spring 2022 has come in at the warmest I've recorded so far, the overall average temperature of 8.3C nudging 2011's record-breaking spring (8.1C) into second place. But again the average night time low for the entire spring was crazy high compared to any of the previous 11 springs. Unsurprisingly therefore, there were only two days when the temperature dipped below 0C, which is pretty awful for a whole spring season, to be honest. The highest temperature was 17.9C, and that was way back in March. Snow fell on two days, and there were no days at all with lying snow. That's pretty awful too, even for here, but not as bad as 2014 when there was also no lying snow but only one day when snow fell. Interesting times! But it really would be nice to be able to say 'cooler than average' for one of these monthly / seasonal summaries. Haven't been able to do that since May 2021!
  16. Yet to get a 20C in the Lomonds either....but that's not tooooo unusual. Previous breaches as follows: 2021: 1st June 2020: 20th May 2019: 21st April 2018: 6th May 2017: 24th May 2016: 4th June 2015: 10th June 2014: 17th June 2013: 21st May 2012: 26th March 2011: 2nd June
  17. Temperature's dropped from 2.4 to 1.4 in the space of 5 mins, snow now falling again rather than sleet.
  18. 9cm in the end. Down the hill in the village, it's green. Amazing what some modest height will do!
  19. 2 inches up here, falling horizontally, but very wet and sticky. Looks great when it's intense but also looks like it'll be over soon. I actually don't mind too much if it means the higher hills farther north that have been woefully brown all winter finally get a pasting. Looks great for what appears to be the current pivot point up towards Tyndrum / Crianlarich
  20. 2cm up here, blowing all over the road. Nice to see but it's a sad reflection on winter 21/22 that this is only our third day with lying snow, and our deepest snow of the season! This day last winter was our 39th day with lying snow.....which was obviously exceptional but this winter is currently tied with 19/20 as our most snowless. But back then, around this time, we were just entering a more prolonged cold spell that gave 5 or 6 days of lying snow, so with prospects still poor I'm currently expecting 21/22 to take the dubious title of my most snowless winter up here on the hill.
  21. Average of 57mph gusting 67mph. Strongest storm here since February 2016.
  22. Crikey, what a difference a short distance makes. Today the sun is blazing but aside from the odd day or two it's been ridiculously grey and sunless here since December. Jan 22's mean temp for up here on the hill is currently 4.8C, which is just a shade behind Jan 2020, my warmest January (since 2011). Looking at the forecast for the final week of Jan, there's a chance this month could end up matching or even exceeding that. As has been the trend in recent years, and especially the past 12 months, it's night time temperatures that are notably higher. Easily my least snowy January too. Interesting though, how I had both my warmest and my coldest January's in the last two years.
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