Weather

[NickyRannoch]

Check out the BBC's weather updates and the photos of Jennys Lum at the 1102 update !!!

Hopefully nobody is risking it today although i was considering it, i reckon with the aid of only a jacket you could do Ben Cleuch to East Lomond traverse in around 15 minutes.

[chickadee]

It's a scary stormy day... Not too bad in Edinburgh where I am yet, windy but sunny, although it's predicted to get a lot worse. I'm staying inside!

[Frogwell]

Gusting to 89mph at the moment, according to my little weather station. Set to get worse in a few hours they say. Can't say I'm enjoying this, living on an exposed hillside as I do.

http://www.xcweather.co.uk/

[Alastair S]

MWIS has 120mph for the WHs today - for once it looks like an underestimate as I've already seen a gust of 104 in Glen Ogle on the Met Office.

[Frogwell]

Glen Ogle's like a wind tunnel. Everywhere else can be flat calm yet the Glen Ogle station is recording a hurricane.

[NickyRannoch]

130 mph on Aonach Mor, what is the record?

[Gythral]

130 mph on Aonach Mor, what is the record?

Not sure about Aonach Mor but 173mph on Cairngorm...

[Milesy]

130 mph on Aonach Mor, what is the record?

Not sure about Aonach Mor but 173mph on Cairngorm...

I think the Cairbgorm one was much higher but that was the highest it could calculate and they would need to analyse the data manually to get the true figure.

[NickyRannoch]

151 mph on cairngorm today now wiki says 170 mph odthe record on cairngorm

[Gythral]

The 173mph was in March 1986, current data and the archive from '90 is here http://cairngormweather.eps.hw.ac.uk/

[Rekrab]

very windy when I left edinburgh i'm on train back to N wales and it took us 2 hours to get to Lockerbie with the national rail placing a speed restriction in place for the trains.

when passing through the southern uplands there was a lot of flooding!

MacKenzie,

[Scotjamie]

Tried a wee walk up north berwick law this morning - 187m above sea level.......my hat is passing somwhere east of Copenhagen as I write.....

[Border Reiver]

New Years Day 1992 - an unofficial recording was made on an oil rig off Unst, of a gust of 194mph.

[Tradoch]

FIne driving east toward Edinburgh on M8 this afternoon.

Was beginning to look like black Monday heading west toward Newbridge, though. Bridge is closed and the M9 was blocked. Glad I don't live in Fife and work in Edinburgh.

[NickyRannoch]

New Years Day 1992 - an unofficial recording was made on an oil rig off Unst, of a gust of 194mph.

165 mph on Cairngorm now.