I'm glad you're enjoying your weather and the view, Piers. I always
understood that the weather was different there because the Great
Glen funnelled the Gulf Stream up to the Moray Firth. It's much
colder to the east and to the north.
I first visited that part of Scotland in 1978 when I was stationed at
RAF Lossiemouth on the Jaguar Operational Conversion Unit. My batman
(halcyon days) told me that winter that it never snowed at Lossie
(because of the Gulf Stream). Of course the place was covered with a
thick layer within 24 hours ...
Chris
~~ >-)-
C M I Barker
Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
+44 (0)7092 251126
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homepage.mac.com/zuiko
On 29 Jan 2007, at 19:13, Piers Hemy wrote:
> Yes, indeed so Martyn - the weather is very considerably better -
> it comes
> from having mountain ranges to the south, west and north to
> intercept the
> nasty stuff. Such as this one from this afternoon, Ben Wyvis
> sucking up the
> rain clouds for us:
> http://www.hemy.me.uk/img/PICT2293.jpg
>
> I took the view that the additional hassle in moving 560 miles
> versus 5, or
> 6, or 56, was not worth worrying about...
>
> --
> Piers
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