The winds have dropped (S 3) as has the pressure (983).
An amount of rain descended also - 26.5mm to 0900.

Cloudy with showers at present,and warm (8°)

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Gianna
Peterhead, Scotland

buchan-meteo.org.uk

On Sunday, 23 December 2012 11:19:34 UTC, Buchan Meteo wrote:
The winds have dropped (S 3) as has the pressure (983).

An amount of rain descended also - 26.5mm to 0900.



Cloudy with showers at present,and warm (8°)



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Gianna

Peterhead, Scotland



buchan-meteo.org.uk

yep - popped out here in Aboyne for an hour - torrential rain again now

The good news is that our favourite footpath still exists - mostly.

The path to the landward of the fish factory is flooded and is presently
a small stream through which we paddled.
To the seaward side, the path is destroyed and littered with slabs of
rock. One piece is about 3 metres by 2 ... the power of the sea. The area
where the vehicles were working has been sprayed with concrete to
stablilise it - it is a mess and might have been better left.

The main path is strewn with rocks. Again, some are much larger than one
would think likely. At the far end, a significant chunk of path has
collapsed about 3 metres into the sea and it is not possible to go beyond
that. The edges of the path are a bit precarious in places.

So, all in all, not as bad as I had expected. The harbour remains as
reported earlier and the entire area is closed off with barriers - we
went through anyway. No doubt work will begin after Hogmanay.

A warm and reasonably calm day, so nice for a walk even though it is
pouring with rain. We did the sensible thing and got wet!
The sea is still very rough but is where it belongs rather than on land.

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Gianna
Peterhead, Scotland

buchan-meteo.org.uk

On 23 Dec 2012 13:12:23 GMT, Buchan Meteo wrote:

To the seaward side, the path is destroyed and littered with slabs of
rock. One piece is about 3 metres by 2 ... the power of the sea. The
area where the vehicles were working has been sprayed with concrete to
stablilise it - it is a mess and might have been better left.

The main path is strewn with rocks. Again, some are much larger than
one would think likely.

Archimedes. Rocks in water are rather more bouyant than they are in air.
"Rock" is about 2.5 tonnes/cu m, water 1 tonne/cu m. So a rock that "weighs"
2.5 tonnes in air, will only be 1.5 tonnes in water. Water is also
incompressable and more viscious than air so can impart more force onto
objects.

I often heard the rocks clonking along the bottom of the rivers here when
they are in spate. Rocks 1 to 2' across.

Still sounds like a fair bit of infrastructure damage. Stonehaven caught it
last night with flooding on a par with Braunton.

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Cheers Dave.
Nr Garrigill, Cumbria. 421m ASL.

On Sun, 23 Dec 2012 04:05:46 -0800 (PST), fred wrote:

Cloudy with showers at present,and warm (8°)

yep - popped out here in Aboyne for an hour - torrential rain again now

If the sun has put in appearance here I missed it. Have seen Cross Fell
briefly, still mostly covered in snow.

Very warm over night, max 8.6C now back below 5C where it has been since
about midday on the 23rd November. Bit breezy, F8 for an hour between about
0200 and 0300 only F4 to F5 W'ly now.

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Cheers Dave.
Nr Garrigill, Cumbria. 421m ASL.