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A friend's up near Tain in his caravan and was texting me this morning
whilst
I was away from home, telling me that the A9's blocked by drifts...

Just got home and taken a look at the BBC's Scottish travel site which is
reporting the following: -

snip Alice in Wonderland stuff

Shopping in Tain myself this morning, not a trace of last night's snow
although A9 at Slochd would have been affected. The BBC travel sites are
a joke - issued from the Central Belt and probably don't even know
where the places are. ITV (Grampian) are a little better but tend only
to report on Aberdeenshire roads.

Road reports go into the same bin as forecasts up here - we make up our
own minds from our own experience.

Phil.

From the Kyle of Sutherland - 175 feet AMSL [NH 616916]
(40 miles north of Inverness)