{"id":12223,"date":"2015-01-08T10:21:58","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T10:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/?p=12223"},"modified":"2015-01-08T10:24:07","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T10:24:07","slug":"hillwalkers-warned-of-extreme-winds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/hillwalkers-warned-of-extreme-winds\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillwalkers warned of extreme winds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mountain Rescuers have issued a warning to Scottish hillwalkers as weather forecasts predict wind speeds in excess of 100mph for Friday 9 January with stormy weather likely to continue into the weekend. Willie Anderson, commenting after a successful rescue of two walkers from the Cairngorm plateau near Ben Macdui yesterday (Wednesday 7 January) said walkers should not attempt to climb Scotland&#8217;s mountains during the forecasted adverse weather.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/pat-winter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/pat-winter-600x397.jpg\" alt=\"pat-winter\" width=\"550\" height=\"364\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12225\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mwis.org.uk\/home\">Mountain Weather Information Service<\/a> is predicting storm force winds developing widely overnight into Friday with wind speeds expected to reach 80-100mph in some areas with severe wind chill and &#8220;appalling&#8221; visibility at times. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sais.gov.uk\/\">Scottish Avalanche Information Service<\/a> is currently warning of a considerable avalanche risk on many slopes in the five mountain areas covered by the Service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mountain Rescuers have issued a warning to Scottish hillwalkers as weather forecasts predict wind speeds in excess of 100mph for Friday 9 January with stormy weather likely to continue into the weekend. Willie Anderson, commenting after a successful rescue of two walkers from the Cairngorm plateau near Ben Macdui yesterday (Wednesday 7 January) said walkers should not attempt to climb Scotland&#8217;s mountains during the forecasted adverse weather. The Mountain Weather Information Service is predicting storm force winds developing widely overnight into Friday with wind speeds expected to reach 80-100mph in some areas with severe wind chill and &#8220;appalling&#8221; visibility at<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/hillwalkers-warned-of-extreme-winds\/\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\">Read more &#8250;<\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-walking-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12223"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12227,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12223\/revisions\/12227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}