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Everything saturated again this evening really getting serious now even fencer tracking an older grass field today.
Buds on horse chestnut which were bursting just over a week ago have turned yellow in the last few days. Nature is beginning to suffer. Currently 6c
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Better start to the day with a bit of sun and 3c. Yesterday was very bad with soaking very cold conditions and dampness everywhere. Fields waterlogged again.
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Cooling down this evening currently 1.5c with a ground frost setting in.
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High wind chill all day here with brief sharp showers obviously falling as snow above 1000 feet as some very strong arctic colours in the shower clouds as they moved over the Cairngorms to the south. Not a day for standing around. Should have posted this yesterday.
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Made it to 17c yesterday with strong wind blowing sandy topsoil across the A96 east of Elgin . Much colder start to today at 2c with just as strong wind with some sharp blustery showers. Dusting of snow down to 1000feet on surrounding hills
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First 15c day of 2024 Cats outside in sun traps loving it .Even Mrs Northernlights is gardening. Ground very wet though from last nights rain. Strong SW wind and sunny.
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Fine day to be followed by torrential rain this evening as abovr
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After a week or so of drying winds resulting in some of the low ground sandy fields on the way to Inverness blowing across the A96 we have a soaking wet morning Made a lot of progress in fields clearing stones off spring barley ground, Cold again with a NE wind and currently 5.5c
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Back to dreich cold windy weather today currently 4.5c. Was 2c this morning going through to Thainstone at the Glens of Foundland with some neep crops that looked as though they had been severely frosted in the winter completely brown.
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damianslaw In my 5 decades of farming March has aways been the hungriest month of the year for the animals on the farm. To me up here it has always been a winter month much more so than December (2010 excepted) sea temperatures are at their lowest, proximity to the arctic with more frequent north and east winds less modification. My birthday in early April has seen a lot of falling snow settling well overnight.. My mother who moved up here in the early sixties was a Londoner who used to say" spring doesn"t happen in Scotland summer arrives on the first of June" with the exception of the first of June 1975
Right up to midsummers day these north and east winds can bring fresh snow to the mountain tops. Because of the strength of light we can get some really arctic skies until late June especially in the evenings
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Fine bright day but with a cold SE wind. Things steadily drying up .Young Mr Northernlights getting a few stones off. Countryside living up to my assertion that March is the hungriest month of the year looking absolutely washed out. Currently 6c
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Very wet morning taking ground conditions to square one Snow down to about 750 feet as we delivered hay inland.. Brighter afternoon but cool currently 2c with clear intervals.
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Very windy day with a rotten old ash tree felled by the wind. But its been the first really drying day so far this year with the ground surface becoming dusty in some areas a magnificent sight. Cool all day and temperature on the way down currently 2c
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Frosty start to day at -4c but with clear blue skies Lots of tractors round here trying to take advantage of dryer weather but always managing to find a wet spot in a field where they get stuck patience needed, Managed to get a spring store of neeps up in the last week. Still potentially two and a half months of winter feeding to get through.Snow showeracross the Firth yesterday.
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Hairy Celt yes just the same here after a perfect drying afternoon when we have been able to lift neeps all day as the ground got dryer and dryer on the surface only to be halted by violent torrential rain and wind in the last half hour.
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Fine mild sunny breezy morning after yesterdays rain. First day too that you could feel some warmth in the sun when shifting electric fence in neep field. However ground is just as wet as its ever been. Currently 11c
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Kayemill We have a similar ford only thing is it consists mostly of slurry washed off the field sticks like glue to the car and smells awful this from a farmer quite happy with the smell of dung (Cow poo mixed with bedding straw)
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Quinach Certainly does not seem dry here with a very wet morning clearing a bit this afternoon. soils here are saturated . I have never seen such a prolonged period in winter with such damp humid weather. By now we are usually starting to see the odd dryer day. The east coast of Scotland has really seen some rain this winter. I wonder if the Hunga Tonga volcano has finally had an effect on the weather patterns in the Northern Hemisphere particularly with regard to the huge amounts of water blasted into and beyond the upper atmosphere.
How the Tonga Hunga volcano produced the most intense lightning ever seen
WWW.BBC.COM
The eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai produced one of the most extreme lightning storms ever and it has given scientists a unique glimpse into the volcano's secrets.Even the waterlogged banks of the tarred roads can trap cars that venture onto them.
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Miserable morning light rain misty and dark. One of the most prolonged wet winters I can remember.
On another cheerful note price of wheat has halved in the last 18 months, Where are the adverts showing the falling price of bread?
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Scottish weather discussion - Winter 2023/24
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A side effect if this long very wet spell is the price of straw is rocketing About a third of winter wheat crops have been drowned or never sown and if spring sowing is delayed till end of April yields of grain and straw will be reduced dramatically.