Hairy Celt

The temp here has just dropped below 0C for the 1st time in er several days. <sarcasm alert> @dryfie Yay let's have some conspiracy theorizing! Go on, it's all a plan to make out the atmosphere is just as stable as ever and we'll be fine burning oil and gas as fast as possible so the big oil companies can keep on getting wealthier for their already stupidly rich shareholders.

An average January day today, which is a bit of a novelty for this January. Little wind, started bright but now overcast, and the temp struggling to reach 5C. I like the little wind part, strong winds are pretty destructive or at least disruptive.

@ANYWEATHER Of course, that's the only thing that affects air temperature?

@Snowandrocks Was your friend north or south of the mountains?

@drm If you draw a line due south from Kinlochewe, the line does cross lots of mountainous ground. The air has possibly been over mountains as far south as Goat Fell! It will certainly be a lot colder in the west Highland places tomorrow! 4C so possible ground frost at dawn.

@ANYWEATHER I think the temperature goes up in the air in the valve because the pressure is being increased but the volume is constrained. Can that be analogous to an air mass?

Maximum here of 13C, very gusty (probably some gale-force blasts), dry apart from a few mins light rain early afternoon. Chris Faulks on the radio talking about the Foehn effect being partly responsible for the high temps.... Is that actually the case when the wind is so strong? My poor understanding suggests that with very strong and gusty winds, there'll be so much mixing that air warmed would be diluted by cooler... But I suppose the answer is, well, what else is causing these elevated temps, and I have no answer.

@Polar Maritime That's wibbly wibbly. The planet's wibbled. I see a wunderground station reported 19.7C.

@Scottish-Irish Skier If you add temp between 10C and 15C and 50% cloud, that's an average day all year round for here. Do not move to the Black Isle for exciting weather, it rarely happens. Like last week's snow was quite an event! (And the locals still grumbled.) @Northern Strath How's the little one doing? All well I hope.

Considering we've just (apparently) had a storm pass through, there's a stunning lack of activity in here! 14 posts in 24 hours.... Yay, top of the page

Showers, moderate westerly breeze, 6C. No sign of a storm immediately here but local reports of trees damaged or down.

Well it's a bit blowy out but for here it looks like the strongest winds maybe after dawn. More crap (as in small twiggy bits and pieces) blowing down the street to clear up.

Cat yawns and looks out of the window. She waves a clean white paw in my direction: 'I'll take a gin, HC. Be quick, and tidy this blanket.' Still raining.

I would guess quite hilly sites too?

Those windspeeds look a bit wild - it's flat clam calm here just now. The rain has been no more than moderate the last couple of hours. So certainly some gloom, but not all doom.

Yes. Opening the curtains at 9am made little difference - most of the indoor lights are still on here. I just looked at the radar and wish I hadn't. The cat's put a sign up on the sofa - Do Not Disturb Until Dinner Is Served

A friend travelled north today and reported rivers running really high - the Helmsdale and Halladale he mentioned...

I fell asleep last night before the worst of the wind was forecast. It didn't wake me up so I can't comment other than to say there are local power outages and more trees down. What I hadn't remembered to report here was that the heavy snow last Thursday brought down the odd tree locally. That's the first time I remember this happening round here since 2010. Brief but lively showers blowing through today...

wibble. Flickers here now.

We've put down an indoor litter tray for this cat in the last few days, for the 1st time since she was small. She just won't go out when it's like this and tbf, I'd prefer a litter tray to baring my weeble over a patch of snow or a mound of sodden soil in the p1$$1ng rain.

We had about an hour of torrential rain that stopped about about 15 mins ago, as abruptly as it started. The last remnants of snow in the gutters all joined in the fun of the rivers running down the roads and puddles you wouldn't try paddling through.

Where's my boat??

No rain, no wind here, just dark and (yawns) mild. No dogs either! Lol hang on - anaprop shouldn't get me wet!!

Well the IMBY forecast seems to have lowered the gust speeds for tonight a touch.

I misread tornadoes as tomatoes at 1st and thought, really, tomatoes in January? I've not even sown seeds yet Windy with traces of ketchup...