A friend's up near Tain in his caravan and was texting me this morning whilst
I was away from home, telling me that the A9's blocked by drifts...

Just got home and taken a look at the BBC's Scottish travel site which is
reporting the following: -

A939;
TOMINTOUL
NORTHBOUND BETWEEN A939; [Tomintoul] and A939; [TOMINTOUL] CLOSED AFFECTING
ALL DRIVING LANES
CLOSED BOTH WAYS BETWEEN TOMINTOUL AND THE LECHT BECAUSE OF BLIZZARD
CONDITIONS. (BBC Travel)

LAST UPDATED: 2003/12/27 14:31:17
B974 [DEE STREET]
BANCHORY
BETWEEN B974 [BANCHORY] and B974 [BANCHORY]
BLOWING SNOW ON B974 DEE STREET FROM BRIDGE STREET. (BBC Travel)

LAST UPDATED: 2003/12/27 13:41:42

A916;
BALCURVIE
BOTH WAYS AT A916; [Balcurvie] CLOSED
CLOSED BOTH WAYS AT BALCURVIE, EAST OF GLENROTHES BECAUSE OF FLOODING (BBC
Travel)

LAST UPDATED: 2003/12/27 04:28:35

So as we see their reports are all over the place

Nothing amiss down here in Northallerton apart from much cooler than
yesterday, and quite a bit windier !
--
Nick in Northallerton
nrw7 on Yahoo! Messenger & nickw7coc on MSN Messenger too !
http://www.whelan.me.uk

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from Nick contains these words:

A friend's up near Tain in his caravan and was texting me this morning
whilst
I was away from home, telling me that the A9's blocked by drifts...

Just got home and taken a look at the BBC's Scottish travel site which is
reporting the following: -

snip Alice in Wonderland stuff

Shopping in Tain myself this morning, not a trace of last night's snow
although A9 at Slochd would have been affected. The BBC travel sites are
a joke - issued from the Central Belt and probably don't even know
where the places are. ITV (Grampian) are a little better but tend only
to report on Aberdeenshire roads.

Road reports go into the same bin as forecasts up here - we make up our
own minds from our own experience.

Phil.

From the Kyle of Sutherland - 175 feet AMSL [NH 616916]
(40 miles north of Inverness)

Nick wrote in message
...
A friend's up near Tain in his caravan and was texting me this morning
whilst
I was away from home, telling me that the A9's blocked by drifts...

Just got home and taken a look at the BBC's Scottish travel site which is
reporting the following: -

A939;
TOMINTOUL
NORTHBOUND BETWEEN A939; [Tomintoul] and A939; [TOMINTOUL] CLOSED
AFFECTING
ALL DRIVING LANES
CLOSED BOTH WAYS BETWEEN TOMINTOUL AND THE LECHT BECAUSE OF BLIZZARD
CONDITIONS. (BBC Travel)

LAST UPDATED: 2003/12/27 14:31:17
B974 [DEE STREET]
BANCHORY
BETWEEN B974 [BANCHORY] and B974 [BANCHORY]
BLOWING SNOW ON B974 DEE STREET FROM BRIDGE STREET. (BBC Travel)

LAST UPDATED: 2003/12/27 13:41:42

A916;
BALCURVIE
BOTH WAYS AT A916; [Balcurvie] CLOSED
CLOSED BOTH WAYS AT BALCURVIE, EAST OF GLENROTHES BECAUSE OF FLOODING (BBC
Travel)

LAST UPDATED: 2003/12/27 04:28:35

So as we see their reports are all over the place

Nothing amiss down here in Northallerton apart from much cooler than
yesterday, and quite a bit windier !
--
Nick in Northallerton
nrw7 on Yahoo! Messenger & nickw7coc on MSN Messenger too !
http://www.whelan.me.uk


When I lived near Tomintoul in the 70's and 80's it was blocked from
September to May (well it seemed like it, in fact the guy that owns the
Lecht Ski Centre used to open it up down to Cockbridge to get the skiers up)

Trevor
East Yorkshire (still a bit of Snow left from Sunday!)






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- On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 17:06:21 GMT, it was spake thus said in message Phil Gurr :

snip Alice in Wonderland stuff

Shopping in Tain myself this morning, not a trace of last night's snow
although A9 at Slochd would have been affected. The BBC travel sites are
a joke - issued from the Central Belt and probably don't even know
where the places are. ITV (Grampian) are a little better but tend only
to report on Aberdeenshire roads.

Road reports go into the same bin as forecasts up here - we make up our
own minds from our own experience.

Phil.

- And on Sat, 27 Dec 2003 17:07:01 -0000, it was spake thus said in message "Trevor Appleton" :

When I lived near Tomintoul in the 70's and 80's it was blocked from
September to May (well it seemed like it, in fact the guy that owns the
Lecht Ski Centre used to open it up down to Cockbridge to get the skiers up)

Many thanks for that both, I shall let him know only to believe what he sees !

--
Nick in Northallerton
nrw7 on Yahoo! Messenger & nickw7coc on MSN Messenger too !
http://www.whelan.me.uk

On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 17:07:01 -0000, "Trevor Appleton"
wrote:

When I lived near Tomintoul in the 70's and 80's it was blocked from
September to May (well it seemed like it,...

From February '82 until May '90 I drove over the Lecht at least once a
month and was only once stopped by bad weather.

--
Alan White
Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow.
Overlooking Loch Goil and Loch Long in Argyll, Scotland.
http://tinyurl.com/55v3

In message , Nick
writes
A friend's up near Tain in his caravan and was texting me this morning whilst
I was away from home, telling me that the A9's blocked by drifts...

Just got home and taken a look at the BBC's Scottish travel site which is
reporting the following: -

A939;
TOMINTOUL
NORTHBOUND BETWEEN A939; [Tomintoul] and A939; [TOMINTOUL] CLOSED AFFECTING
ALL DRIVING LANES
CLOSED BOTH WAYS BETWEEN TOMINTOUL AND THE LECHT BECAUSE OF BLIZZARD
CONDITIONS. (BBC Travel)

LAST UPDATED: 2003/12/27 14:31:17
B974 [DEE STREET]
BANCHORY
BETWEEN B974 [BANCHORY] and B974 [BANCHORY]
BLOWING SNOW ON B974 DEE STREET FROM BRIDGE STREET. (BBC Travel)

LAST UPDATED: 2003/12/27 13:41:42

A916;
BALCURVIE
BOTH WAYS AT A916; [Balcurvie] CLOSED
CLOSED BOTH WAYS AT BALCURVIE, EAST OF GLENROTHES BECAUSE OF FLOODING (BBC
Travel)

LAST UPDATED: 2003/12/27 04:28:35

So as we see their reports are all over the place

I can only think there is a blocked drain or similar in Balcurvie. It
did rain in Fife yesterday but was not spectacular - went for a walk
round Birnie Loch without getting more than very, very slightly damp.
However it was 'bracing' on the beach at Burntisland this morning!


Nothing amiss down here in Northallerton apart from much cooler than
yesterday, and quite a bit windier !

--
Five Cats
Email to: cats_spam at uk2 dot net

Just got home and taken a look at the BBC's Scottish travel site which is
reporting the following: -

details snipped

we see their reports are all over the place

I looked at various teletext and online road reports on 27 December 2003
too. The one that amused me most was that the A9 was hazardous, or
difficult, or blocked, or something, from Drumochter summit - northbound!! I
found this a bit hard to believe, as it's a single carriageway road over the
summit and for several miles to the north.

However, as I was travelling southbound, I decided to ignore the above
report, and drove uneventfully all the way down the A9 from Kinveachy to
Ballinluig on a nice safe black snow-free surface.

Now that I am safely home again, I'd like to wish everyone a Happy New Year,
including as much interesting weather as you all could ever want.

Anne