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.
Web cam and weather:- http://www.windycroft.gt-britain.co....her/kabcam.htm
Some walks and treks:- http://www.windycroft.gt-britain.co.uk/walks/

"Alan White" wrote in message
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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.

Alan,

It seems to have snowed at heights above 450m, decreasing to 200m behind the
front. Nenthead was quite white before sunset, however Howhill showed
nothing lying, just 40m or so lower.

Glad you are here to tell the story, but did you read the forecast !?

Joe

On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 19:14:01 -0000, "Joe Hunt"
wrote:

It seems to have snowed at heights above 450m, decreasing to 200m behind the
front. Nenthead was quite white before sunset, however Howhill showed
nothing lying, just 40m or so lower.


Yes, after we were down and after the clearance we noticed fresh snow
on the surrounding hills above about 600 metres but no great quantity,
just a very light covering. Given the forecast, we expected more.

Glad you are here to tell the story,...

Thanks, Joe, it was a little adventure. As Lesley's sixty-one and I'm
sixty-eight we can't afford to waste time!

--
Alan White
Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow, overlooking Lochs Long and Goil in Argyll, Scotland.
Web cam and weather:- http://www.windycroft.gt-britain.co....her/kabcam.htm
Some walks and treks:- http://www.windycroft.gt-britain.co.uk/walks/

On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 19:14:01 -0000, Joe Hunt wrote:

Nenthead was quite white before sunset, however Howhill showed
nothing lying, just 40m or so lower.

Gosh someone who looks at the Cybermoor webcams... B-) I'll have to
check the actual height of the Nenthead camera, it's a fair bit higher
than the village centre. It's also in a different valley thus gets a
different exposure.

later The Nenthead camera is at about 475m (1560'). Howhill is about
425m (1400' just...)

It started snowing around 1430 here and put down quite a bit of water (3
1mm clicks in the guage over 2 1/2hrs). The temp wasn't far short of 3C,
it fell a bit but not much so nothing hung about at our level for long.

1830 sees more of marked drop in temp, 2C to a tad above 0C pretty
quickly and a sharp fall of hard snow pellets giving a 1/2" covering in
about 10mins. Looks like the wind had a sharp peak and changed from
todays WNW'ly back to NNE'ly but since that peak it's been pretty calm.
The squall line mentioned elsewhere?

Currently -0.2C F0 NNE Gust: 3mph. A lot of the 1830 fall has now gone or
turned into slush, as it's now freezing I suspect outside is rapidly
turning into an ice rink.

Glad you are here to tell the story, but did you read the forecast !?

Aye, got caught out in the paddock the other year taking photos of the
fresh snow, bright sunny blue sky, next minute (almost literally) blowing
a gale and snow pellets boy do they hurt. My little lad, about 4 at the
time, was not amused. Even though I we sheltered out of the direct wind
and I protected him from the full force of what was swirling about he
still hides his face if there is anything, rain or snow, blowing in the
wind. I'd hate to be out without cover for an extended period in such
conditions, even completely weather and cold proof.

http://www.howhill.com/weather/view....2004&m=01&d=28

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Cheers Dave.
Nr Garrigill, Cumbria. 421m ASL. pam is missing e-mail