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I'm supposed to travelling up the A9 to Inverness today from Edinburgh, currently holding off to see what the storm decides to do. Can anyone up that way tell me what it's like?
Currently very blustery in Leith, but mild
Cheers
At the moment I'm right on the border between the yellow and amber warning. Flurries of snow, nothing settling and gusts of blustery wind. BBC site seems to have downgraded its forecast, and easing by 15.00 anyway.
Nothing to worry about so far, I'm going as far North as Tain today and out and about till 22.00, I don't think I'll have any issues.
cheers Sweepy that is great!
Bordering on a balmy and breezy day in Stirling.
In Windy We Trust
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windy wilson! 😀
He must do some miles.
It's fine here in Aviemore.
Actually, it's pretty mild. Most of the wind has passed through (115mph gusts on the mountain earlier) and there's been a wee bit of sleet.
Roughly what we call "winter".
Roughly what we call "winter".
Yes, but the BBC cannot fill an extra three minutes of news with Carol Kirkwood getting battered by some rain and wind or Thomas Shafernaker opportunity to upset some more public while explaining it all, if it is 'just winter'....
I remember driving home up the A9 one sunday night in 2010. All was fine, ok vis so sitting around the 60mph mark, maybe more (pre specs cameras) then all of a sudden wham! I am into a mega blizzard and zero vis, car took off over a full road width drift and I bounced about and finally came to a halt. I was convinced I had gone off the road and down the bank it was so rough but all I could see was the windscreen. After a minute the snow eased a fraction and I caught a glimpse of the top of the armco so knew I was on the road. I crept forward through the drift (snow tyres) and repeatedly had to sit out complete white outs for 10 minutes at a time. It was so scary as you knew nobody could see you ahead. At one point I was alongside a car pointing the other way but stopped - I wound down the window an inch to check they were ok then carried on gingerly. all in all a mental journey until getting to drummossie and dropping to inverness.
That was a proper winter