From the Tuesday of this week I will be on holiday right in the
far NW of Scotland. I know that the weather up here can be
awful but I think I am right in saying that this is about the best
time of year to go when the Atlantic is at it's weakest and
before the more changeable weaterlies July/August set it.

Any early thoughts/guesses as to conditions up there then?
I think I need high pressure in exactly the right position and
the GFS is my dream model at the moment and I believe
it completely
I don't think I could imagine better looking charts for that
part of the world!
--
Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl

In message , Col
writes
From the Tuesday of this week I will be on holiday right in the
far NW of Scotland. I know that the weather up here can be
awful but I think I am right in saying that this is about the best
time of year to go when the Atlantic is at it's weakest and
before the more changeable weaterlies July/August set it.

Any early thoughts/guesses as to conditions up there then?
I think I need high pressure in exactly the right position and
the GFS is my dream model at the moment and I believe
it completely
I don't think I could imagine better looking charts for that
part of the world!

Col,

As a taster you might like to look at the following webcams from time to
time

http://www.camvista.com/scotland/sce...onancastle.php
http://www.camvista.com/scotland/scenic/skye.php3
http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/smo/dealbha...in/english.php

May/June is often the best time in the NW but if you get any sort of
northerly it can get pretty cold. Given the right situation fresh snow
can be seen on the mountains.

Norman.
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--
Norman Lynagh Weather Consultancy
Chalfont St Giles 85m a.s.l.
England

"Norman Lynagh" wrote in
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Col,

As a taster you might like to look at the following webcams from time to
time

http://www.camvista.com/scotland/sce...onancastle.php
http://www.camvista.com/scotland/scenic/skye.php3
http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/smo/dealbha...in/english.php

May/June is often the best time in the NW but if you get any sort of
northerly it can get pretty cold. Given the right situation fresh snow can
be seen on the mountains.

Thanks for that, they certainly seemed to portray the image
I have of NW Scotland, low cloud and mist!

However I will be going a lot further north than Skye.
It's on that little strech of north-facing coastline which is
about the same latitude as Stornoway.
So pretty remote, I doubt my mobile phone will work,
do they even have television up there

I take you point about the northerlies. I was wondering
how cold it could be in certain conditions, the sea will
still be pretty cold and there ain't much between there
and the arctic.

So pack the shorts along with a winter coat basically.
--
Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl

In message , Col
writes

"Norman Lynagh" wrote in
message ...

Col,

As a taster you might like to look at the following webcams from time to
time

http://www.camvista.com/scotland/sce...onancastle.php
http://www.camvista.com/scotland/scenic/skye.php3
http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/smo/dealbha...in/english.php

May/June is often the best time in the NW but if you get any sort of
northerly it can get pretty cold. Given the right situation fresh snow can
be seen on the mountains.

Thanks for that, they certainly seemed to portray the image
I have of NW Scotland, low cloud and mist!

There's been a lot of fine and sunny weather up there in the past few
weeks. It's so dependent on wind direction.

Norman.
(delete "thisbit" twice to e-mail)
--
Norman Lynagh Weather Consultancy
Chalfont St Giles 85m a.s.l.
England

On Wed, 16 May 2007 20:16:03 +0100, "Col"
wrote:


"Norman Lynagh" wrote in
message ...

Col,

As a taster you might like to look at the following webcams from time to
time

http://www.camvista.com/scotland/sce...onancastle.php
http://www.camvista.com/scotland/scenic/skye.php3
http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/smo/dealbha...in/english.php

May/June is often the best time in the NW but if you get any sort of
northerly it can get pretty cold. Given the right situation fresh snow can
be seen on the mountains.

Thanks for that, they certainly seemed to portray the image
I have of NW Scotland, low cloud and mist!

However I will be going a lot further north than Skye.
It's on that little strech of north-facing coastline which is
about the same latitude as Stornoway.

Sounds like you must be going somewhere near Lochinver. The coast
roads which run from Scourie to Kylesku to Lochinver to Achiltibuie is
indescribably beautiful. There is nowhere in Britain to match it.

It isn't always low cloud and mist. If you're lucky you'll enjoy
fantastic views and you'll have wonderful beaches all to yourself.

I can vouch for mobile phones not working! Two summers ago we somehow,
and I still don't know how, locked ourselves out of our car on the
stretch of road from Kylesku to Clashmore. There was absolutely no
signal from the mobile, but after 20 minutes a car heading west
stopped and the driver promised he would phone the RAC for us when he
found a phone box. An hour later the driver of a camper van coming the
other way stopped to tell us that he had a message for us from the
driver we had spoken to earlier to say that he had found a call box
and that RAC had been contacted and was on its way!!!

Thanks for that, they certainly seemed to portray the image
I have of NW Scotland, low cloud and mist!
It's not always like that - it was fine and sunny yesterday
although there was new snow on the tops.

However I will be going a lot further north than Skye.
It's on that little strech of north-facing coastline which is
about the same latitude as Stornoway.
So pretty remote, I doubt my mobile phone will work,
One of the benefits of being in N-W Sutherland - you can't be
got at there!

However I can vouch for the fact that phobiles do work in some
places - I've had a call every evening this week from someone
who is at a conference in Ullapool.

do they even have television up there
Yes, but who needs TV?

I take you point about the northerlies. I was wondering
how cold it could be in certain conditions, the sea will
still be pretty cold and there ain't much between there
and the arctic.

So pack the shorts along with a winter coat basically.
Good advice. But warm *and* waterproof would be better! And
don't forget the suntan cream and sunglasses.

Anne

As a Welshman, I have to swallow my pride and say that Wester Ross and
further north is the most beautiful scenery in Britain. Full stop.

I have been three times in May and been so lucky with weather, but have had
driving snow showers on Ben Alligan

We have it penciled in for next May.

next week the Pemb Coast Path and pressure seems to rising

JT

On Wed, 16 May 2007 20:16:03 +0100, "Col"
wrote:

However I will be going a lot further north than Skye.
It's on that little strech of north-facing coastline which is
about the same latitude as Stornoway.
So pretty remote, I doubt my mobile phone will work,
do they even have television up there

I first visited that area in the early 70s and have had many holidays
there. One late June I had a week of cold, drizzly weather which
culminated in snow above about 600 metres followed by a week of very
hot, blazing blue sky.

The most recent visit was last Christmas, to Reiff, overlooking the
Summer Isles. We had mobile 'phone coverage and television has been
available for over thirty years. A lot of places now have satellite or
Freeview.

If you need more detailed info., e-mail me.

--
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