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January 13, 2022

1 hour ago, Quinach said:

But nothing compared to the stunning sunset yesterday, where surfaces literally glowed with red at the peak of it - was visiting friends at the time and we thought there was a fire outside initially!

Some lovely detail in the underside of the cloud as well.

I do love it when the nation has a collective 'natural' experience like this, when my Facebook/Twitter feeds suddenly fill up with different views of the same amazing sight across the country (remember the nacreous cloud incident?) We didn't really get yesterday's amazing sunset here as there was that stubborn low cloud, but it was thin enough to mean that the grey murk outside went the weirdest shade of pinky brown, which did prompt me to get up out of my chair and peer out the window cos the room had filled with an odd glow

January 13, 2022

14 hours ago, 101_North said:

The weather is so benign I'm looking at GFS charts of a northerly at 7 days out A setup to deliver precisely hee-haw to these parts like every other northerly ever

I genuinely can't remember being less interested in winter weather as I am right now. This is interminable!!

PS - I really don't remember much these days anyway

January 1, 2022

9 minutes ago, Hawesy said:

It can only get colder and snowier from here. All the best for 2022 to everyone on this forum!

Gawd I hope so!! 12.1C here this morning, which makes it the warmest January day I've recorded since moving to the hill in 2010

December 31, 2021

8 hours ago, 101_North said:

What a surprise waking up to more weather misery! The last few weeks of 2021 have been awful! Good riddance

It really has been dire. Yesterday there was a bit of sunshine in the Lomonds.....but other than that, there's been nothing for two weeks. We were fortunate two weeks ago to be above the cloud on the Saturday, but for most other people in Fife and West Lothian (where I work) they were still below the murk, so for them it's been even longer without sunshine. I genuinely can't recall a greyer, drizzlier, foggier, soggier spell of weather as we're currently experiencing. January 2013 springs to mind as being similar for overbearing greyness. Worst run of weather in years! (and that's saying something!!)

So.....erm.....Happy new year I guess !

PS - pretty sure I heard on the radio on the way home just now that it has been the 'dreariest December' in 65 years. Not entirely sure the newsreader was referring exclusively to the weather tbh

December 18, 2021

I did a double take just now when I glanced at the weather station. 10C here above the fog!

We had a low of 2.3C this morning with a good frost too. Unusual for us to get a diurnal range like that in winter. I was in the Cairngorms yesterday and within maybe ten steps, at about 1150m, you could feel the air get very suddenly warm. T-shirt weather on Stob Coire Sputan Dearg but still icy underfoot, with a glaze of ice on the paths and rocks

...but then the walk out back to Derry Lodge was thick with frost, where it had sat all day. Lovely weather!

December 12, 2021

On 11/12/2021 at 18:13, Norrance said:

@Puffy MacCloud Hope that you get sorted soon!
Miserable day here too. After a frosty start it has been cool and wet with a max of around 4C.
Just saw ITV weather and was surprised to hear that "We are still in the cold air with a max of only 9 or10C".

Surely for a Scottish Winter 10C is warm or have I missed something?

Shifting Baseline Syndrome I do find it especially depressing when professional weather folk succumb to it. You hear it the other way around too these days, with presenters saying that 5C will be ‘bitterly cold’ after it’s been 12C in November for three weeks

December 4, 2021

9 hours ago, Sceptical said:

What a miserable day, heavy rain gusty winds and it is so dark! The lights and the log burner were called into service around 12pm.

The plan for today was hill walking

Plan B, will be feet up in front of the fire, couple of films and Staropramen beer

Ooo, lovely house!

December 3, 2021

4 hours ago, CatchMyDrift said:

I'm back in Canada after 3 months in Kilmacolm looking after my knee-less Dad, thanks for having me and I hope you get crazy snow soon.

The trip home was good, some fantastic views over Greenland and a few flakes of snow on arrival. It's currently -5C with some winter sunshine this morning:

Aww, fantastic! It baffles me that when Canada-bound planes pass over Greenland, 99% of folk on the plane AREN'T looking out the window. I'm glued to it for hours!!

November 28, 2021

Sorry to hear some of you still don't have power. 24hrs was bad enough but two days is the pits. Last time it happened to us was Jan 2012, and after two days we'd had enough and booked in to a hotel in Freuchie We were lucky to get a room actually cos the hotel was stuffed full of folk fixing all the power lines.

Hope you're back to normal soon. And you just know that 20 mins after you get home with your new generator, the power will magically come back on

This morning's early morning jaunt wasn't nearly enough wintriness ....given you never know whether this is all we'll get this year or......god forbid....we all get locked down again.....so in late afternoon I headed next door into Kinross-shire for a sunset walk up its highest hill. A fair few footprints from earlier in the day but didn't see a soul

November 28, 2021

I see everyone's happy today

I'd intended to head up to Spittal of Glenshee today but I never like to miss the first lying snow at home, even if it's only 2cm....so it was an early stroll from the door Nice to see the reservoir frozen over so early, although that's mainly cos there's so little water in it!

Arrival of 'first lying snow' in previous winters......

20/21: 3rd Dec
19/20: 28th Jan (yeah that was a horrid year!)
18/19: 15th Dec
17/18: 25th Nov
16/17: 9th Nov
15/16: 30th Nov
14/15: 10th Dec
13/14: 19th Dec
12/13: 5th Dec
11/12: 5th Dec
10/11: 27th Nov

PS - power came back on around 8pm last night

November 27, 2021

52 minutes ago, Jo Farrow said:

Lots of trees down at John Muir country park and bad news for Foxlake Adventures their zip line

https://www.facebook.com/foxlakeadventures

Awww Brings back memories of the storm in Jan 2012. Beecraigs lost its new Go Ape and zip wire when every single tree on the course was brought down.

November 27, 2021

Well....certainly not the most violent storm we've ever had here but the direction made it sound much worse. Just the weirdest noises creaking around the house. Anyway as with so many other folk, power went off at 9pm and I doubt it'll be on till tomorrow tbh. We're always way down the priority list up here.

My other half thought I was overreacting by filling all the saucepans for when the water pump cuts out Hope everyone without power is managing to stay warm!

November 26, 2021

Loads of great analysis in here as usual.

Eerily quiet cos the adjacent barn shields us from the north, but very lightly snowing a moment ago despite being a balmy 4.5C! I spent an hour this morning moving the weather station away from its normal SW-prone position to somewhere a bit more exposed to the north. Really curious to see what happens up here in a northerly gale like this.....but also filling saucepans just in case there's a power cut, cos we need the electric to draw water via the pump.

Have to say, feels like it's been years since we've had a big storm here. Back in 2011/2012 it felt like we got them all the time, even in May, and I do remember there being a steady supply of fire wood from all the beech trees coming down. Haven't been able to saw up a downed tree in a very long time.

November 25, 2021

Met Office has gusts nearing 60mph here tomorrow. I have to say I'm intrigued to find out what that sounds like, cos I don't think we've had such strong winds from the north since I've been up here on the hill, and the house makes all kinds of weird noises even when it's a tame northerly

November 20, 2021

10 hours ago, edo said:

....things keep flirting between very cold and seasonal

I'd gladly take either of those! Even the latter would be very welcome, especially if it means that night time temperatures can finally return to something approaching normal. They've been freakishly high up here since June. I'm outside working with some volunteers tomorrow morning and I genuinely can't wait to finally.....FINALLY.....be out on a sunny, cold morning

October 20, 2021

Oh my! Look closely

October 16, 2021

13 hours ago, Sanserit said:

What is going on with Mother Nature?

Everything feels at least a month out so far. August weather for September. September weather for October. I was out along the Water of May today and while many of the birch have dropped already, everything else still feels some way off. Still looked lovely though!

Same with Dollar Glen last week, although that's mostly oak and so is usually on the late side anyway:

But thankfully there was at least a taste of proper autumn yesterday, albeit fleeting. Nipped up to Meall nan Tarmachan just to roll around in some proper frost

Gutted that it's already a memory and that we've got a soggy 17C forecast this week!! Eurgh! It has however been interesting the last couple of days, driving up & down several hill roads in Fife, Kinross and Perthshire, to see that the lapse rate is actually working again after months of being broken Rapid decrease in temperature with height, whereas the last few months it's been pretty much the same up here at the top of the hill as down at the bottom.

September 27, 2021

Wet, windy and cold at 8.5C....and it's flippin' marvellous!

September 17, 2021

<stirs>

<yawns>

Right.....what did I miss?

September 8, 2021

7 minutes ago, A Winter's Tale said:

Glasgow airport reporting a temperature of 21C at 10.20pm which is pretty remarkable for the 8th September.

It was still 20.1C here after 10pm. I know I’ve only been recording weather here since 2010 but in all that time, that kind of warmth at night time is unprecedented up here on the hill. Even in the hottest summer heatwaves we cool down quickly at night time, so I couldn’t quite believe what I was seeing when I checked the thermometer!

High of 25.5C today smashed my previous September high of 22.9C. Warmest Jun Jul Aug in my dataset by some margin too. Dearth of single digit nights since mid May. Little or no wind. Next to no rain. Feels all kinds of wrong!

Other than that hope everyone’s tickety boo! Been lurking and reading and respect all you stalwart contributors Waiting for the cool down but feels further away than ever.....

February 13, 2021

Holy moly it's cold out there in that wind this morning! Beautiful.....but cold

-4C and steady 25mph. Taking a while to get the house warmed up.

February 9, 2021

20 minutes ago, Hawesy said:

Bringing this back to review (original post Saturday). Some over/under estimation (and definitely under for Dundee) but overall I don’t think I need to hang my head in shame!

20cm here

February 9, 2021

Best snow of the 'event' so far, pushing us up to 20cm

Mesmerising. May as well pull up a chair, seeing as I spend hours standing at the window gawping

February 9, 2021

FINALLY IN ON THE BLOB ACTION!!!!

February 9, 2021

Aww, really nice to see so many folk loved up with snow this morning So far the same thing has happened as with all the other easterlies I've experienced up here - the lines have gone south over Ballingry, Cowdenbeath etc....or north along the Tay....and we kind of skim the edges.

Sooooo....a very welcome but relatively modest 6cm this morning, but nice and cold at -2.3C

PS - Supposed to be over at Beecraigs for work but can't see that happening cos they've been completely dumped on by the sounds of it.

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