"Colin Youngs" wrote in message
...
A member of the Belgian (Flemish) weather discussion group has told me in
an
e-mail that it was snowing in the Cairngorms on Friday. Can anyone
confirm
this ? How unusual would snowfall be on the highest Scottish peaks in
the
second half of June ?

Snow is not visible on the present Cairn Gorm webcam picture
http://www.phy.hw.ac.uk/resrev/aws/piccloud.htm

Colin Youngs
Brussels




I was told that some years ago there was enough snow on the Cairngorms in
June for them to open some of the ski runs.
There were also still several quite large winter snow patches remaining
visible above 3000 feet last week despite the warmer weather.
Certainly the weather "feel" around Aviemore on Saturday was more like late
autumn with an incredibly cold wind chill.

JP

JP


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