A knife edge
There are only 54 miles or so between Aonach Mor (next to Ben Nevis) and Cairngorm, but the temperature contrast between the too this …
Mountain
Peak temperatures over Christmas
A quick look back over the last ten days temperatures and dewpoints across a couple of high peaks and a pass across the UK. …
A few more euphemisms
I shouldn’t really complain because at least the person who wrote this forecast for the Highlands at the Met Office is obviously trying their …
The Mount Everest AWS
Kate Ravilious has been reading the bulletin of the AMS again. The research article she is talking about in her article which you can …
Yellow warning for heavy rain is only part of the story
The details in tomorrow’s yellow warning for rain only tell part of the story about the weather across northeast Scotland. At first glance the …
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Great day on Scotland’s mountains
It’s a shame that tomorrow will be an absolute nightmare if you’re caught out on them.
Rain turns to snow on back edge of cold front
It’s a shame that the SIESAWS is not online at the moment on Aonach Mor because I reckon the heavy rain that’s been falling …
Snow level falls overnight
The snow level has fallen to around 2,000 feet overnight across the northern Cairngorm as you might expect. Further west where they’ve seen much …
Winter drawers on
The northern corries of Cairngorm have already been picking up a fresh mantle of snow over the last few days. I wonder if last …
Snow in June
Snow on the mountains of Scotland in June, not unheard of, but quite a contrast to the warm spell that we saw at the …
Absolutely glorious day
Despite a temperature of only 7°C at lunchtime, it felt just like a summers day in the garden up here, in strong sunshine and …
Contrasting fortunes for Scottish ski resorts
Temperature during February across the high ground of central and northern Scotland were in stark contrast to the extremely mild conditions of last year …
Last nights occlusion
Last night was not a night for any wild camping in Scotland although the sunrise from the Grampians must have been quite spectacular.
The mysterious gust of 194 mph
We will never know if the wind didn’t veer more sharply into the northwest on the passage of that cold front, and allow the wind to funnel directly up Coire Cas and produce that record gust seen at the Ptarmigan station.
Doing a ton on Cairngorm
Conditions must be truly horrendous up there at the moment as the temperature is currently -2.6°C in snow and blowing snow.
Inversion rises and sharpens rapidly at the Cairnwell
Can these observation from Cairnwell be believed?
