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Old February 27th 06, 06:59 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
Alan White Alan White is offline
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Default [WR] Monday, 27.02.06, Passage of CF.


At 13:00, we were on the summit of Beinn Bheula, (779 metres,
NS155983) as the CF passed through.

Visibility dropped from about 100 metres to about 25 metres with
driving snow and wind sufficiently strong for us to be clutching one
another for support. Initially, our route off the summit took us
straight into the wind which made life mildly interesting as high
speed, horizontal snow flakes pack quite a punch when hitting the
eyeball.

No temperatures, I'm afraid, as we were quite busy finding our way
down.

We broke through the cloud base at about 500 metres and by the time
we'd returned to the car, 15:30, it was a 'golden' afternoon.

We were wearing...sufficient ;-)

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Alan White
Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow, overlooking Lochs Long and Goil in Argyll, Scotland.
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