On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:09:56 -0000, "Col" wrote:

Interestingly, Countryfile has just done a feature on the Cairngorm
weather station, and they said that winds of over 100mph were pretty
common. It looks a pretty desolate place though, they had to hack
their way in with an ice axe!

I was up there in 1987 and the weather station was enclosed. When a reading was
due, it emerged, accompanied by the sound of grinding motors, stayed out for a
little while and then disappeared into its 'box'.

Things may have changed since then.

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Alan White
Mozilla Firefox and Forte Agent.
Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow, overlooking Lochs Long and Goil in Argyll, Scotland.
Webcam and weather:- http://windycroft.gt-britain.co.uk/weather