Good old Scottish weather

[Backpacker]

Just canned my planned trip to Skye this weekend due to the high possibility of gales when I plan to traverse the Trotternish Ridge.

Oh well, looks like I'll be doing a few LDW's pretty close together this summer

[hailiamdigby]

Try the Formartine & Buchan Way then

[mellowmark]

Bit early to tell for sure, but weekend looks okay - high pressure coming in from the South West: https://twitter.com/DerekTheWeather/status/323757768228081664/photo/1 and jet-stream possibly moving further north: http://twitter.com/DerekTheWeather/status/323555664280559617/photo/1 The really windy weather is tomorrow due to the Atlantic low over Scotland: http://twitter.com/DerekTheWeather/status/323795676125347840/photo/1 but will be wet and windy for a few days.

But from Friday should be nice and much less windy, maybe rain from Sunday afternoon though and unsettled into next week? http://www.weatherweb.net/wxwebtv2.php

[Backpacker]

Bit early to tell for sure, but weekend looks okay - high pressure coming in from the South West: https://twitter.com/DerekTheWeather/status/323757768228081664/photo/1 and jet-stream possibly moving further north: http://twitter.com/DerekTheWeather/status/323555664280559617/photo/1 The really windy weather is tomorrow due to the Atlantic low over Scotland: http://twitter.com/DerekTheWeather/status/323795676125347840/photo/1 but will be wet and windy for a few days.

But from Friday should be nice and much less windy, maybe rain from Sunday afternoon though and unsettled into next week? http://www.weatherweb.net/wxwebtv2.php

I did think I was being a bit premature but a couple of forecasts have said it's to be windy sunday and monday. I was probably going to need all day to traverse the ridge as it is and I didn't fancy being stuck up there if I didn't make it off before dark and the winds really picked up

[Meatball]

Skye has it's own weather system. ..

[Caberfeidh]

Skye has it's own weather system. ..

It's got more than one - Loch Coruisk itself has it's own weather system! You can sit in sunshine at Elgol or Camasunary and see the storm-clouds and curtains of rain swirling in the cauldron of Coruisk. At Glen Brittle you can watch clouds being formed as the damp Atlantic air gets pushed up and over the Cuillin Ridge, moisture turning to visible white clouds as it rises, then evaporating into invisiblity as it sinks again. In Portree it just rains incessantly...