I think it's been a few years since we've had such a driech day in the
central lowlands.
100% rh, fine light drizzle, dead calm, unchanging temps and vis' less than
500m with eerie twilight.
Driech being a Scots word for a combination of mist, murk, drizzle and
depressing grey weather.
Driech days seemed more prevalent when I was a lad, often either in the days
preceeding snowy weather or accompanying a thaw. The only thing missing is
the smell of coal fires drifting down from chimney pots.
I'm hoping history repeats itself and we can grab some of the snow that will
be around on Thursday.
Alex.



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Seems to be a marked inversion around these parts too...
Wanlockhead, 1000ft higher and 25 or so miles from here appears to have
temp's 5ºC higher and a fresh breeze?
Steve Loft: Is this the case? Or are you tinkering around with your
auto-station?
:-)
Alex.

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Wishaw, North Lanarkshire, Scotland
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"Alex Stephens Jr" wrote in message
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I think it's been a few years since we've had such a driech day in the
central lowlands.
100% rh, fine light drizzle, dead calm, unchanging temps and vis' less
than 500m with eerie twilight.

Driech was exactly how I described it this morning on my website too ALex
and it aint got much better round these parts at 1500 either.

I also recall the coal smoke as a lad and will be rekindling that smell in
about 2 hours when i get the fire on.

"Driech days seemed more prevalent when I was a lad"

careful, the GW Police will be at yer door with that kind of talk



brian
abefeldy


"Alex Stephens Jr" wrote in message
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I think it's been a few years since we've had such a driech day in the
central lowlands.
100% rh, fine light drizzle, dead calm, unchanging temps and vis' less
than 500m with eerie twilight.
Driech being a Scots word for a combination of mist, murk, drizzle and
depressing grey weather.
Driech days seemed more prevalent when I was a lad, often either in the
days preceeding snowy weather or accompanying a thaw. The only thing
missing is the smell of coal fires drifting down from chimney pots.
I'm hoping history repeats itself and we can grab some of the snow that
will be around on Thursday.
Alex.



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Wishaw, North Lanarkshire, Scotland
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Alex Stephens Jr wrote:
Seems to be a marked inversion around these parts too...
Wanlockhead, 1000ft higher and 25 or so miles from here appears to have
temp's 5ºC higher and a fresh breeze?
Steve Loft: Is this the case? Or are you tinkering around with your
auto-station?

Paul at Brampton remarked about my high temp, and now come to think of
it, I do have a reason to suspect it may be incorrect. But we do have a
breeze.

I'll attempt to check the temperature, watch this space...
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Steve Loft, Wanlockhead, Dumfriesshire. 1417ft ASL
http://www.wanlockhead.org.uk/weather/
Free weather softwa http://cumulus.nybbles.co.uk/
Experimental webcam: http://www.wanlockhead.org.uk/webcam.php

Steve Loft wrote:

I'll attempt to check the temperature, watch this space...

Yes, it appears to be reading about 3C too high
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Steve Loft, Wanlockhead, Dumfriesshire. 1417ft ASL
http://www.wanlockhead.org.uk/weather/
Free weather softwa http://cumulus.nybbles.co.uk/
Experimental webcam: http://www.wanlockhead.org.uk/webcam.php

"Alex Stephens Jr" wrote in message...
I think it's been a few years since we've had such a driech day in the
central lowlands.
Driech being a Scots word for a combination of mist, murk, drizzle and
depressing grey weather.

Hi Alex

Isn't it spelt 'dreich'?
Note for prospective users of the word, the ch is pronounced as the ch in
Mach.

Karl Cooper, Orkney

You may well be right Karl.
But I was always taught; "I before E, except after C".
Not sure if the rule appleis here though.
Still dreich here, with more in the way of moderate rain now as opposed to
the mizzle earlier.

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"Karl Cooper" wrote in message
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"Alex Stephens Jr" wrote in message...
I think it's been a few years since we've had such a driech day in the
central lowlands.
Driech being a Scots word for a combination of mist, murk, drizzle and
depressing grey weather.

Hi Alex

Isn't it spelt 'dreich'?
Note for prospective users of the word, the ch is pronounced as the ch in
Mach.

Karl Cooper, Orkney

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 15:18:41 GMT, "Brian Blair"
wrote:

I also recall the coal smoke as a lad and will be rekindling that smell in
about 2 hours when i get the fire on.

We lit up, the fire that is, at 14:00. Max temp today so far is 7.2°C
at 15:30, currently 6.8°C, with 11.8mm of rain and an average wind
speed of 0.9mph, NNE. Visibility has been no more than about 500m for
most of the day.

Pretty grim.

--
Alan White
Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow.
Overlooking Loch Goil and Loch Long in Argyll, Scotland.
http://tinyurl.com/4gday

In message , Karl Cooper
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"Alex Stephens Jr" wrote in message...
I think it's been a few years since we've had such a driech day in the
central lowlands.
Driech being a Scots word for a combination of mist, murk, drizzle and
depressing grey weather.

Hi Alex

Isn't it spelt 'dreich'?
Note for prospective users of the word, the ch is pronounced as the ch in
Mach.

And it's usually preceded by the word "gie" with the "i" pronounced as
in "tide" :-)

Norman.
(delete "thisbit" twice to e-mail)
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Norman Lynagh Weather Consultancy
Chalfont St Giles
England

"Norman Lynagh" wrote in
message ...
Isn't it spelt 'dreich'?
Note for prospective users of the word, the ch is pronounced as the ch in
Mach.

And it's usually preceded by the word "gie" with the "i" pronounced as in
"tide" :-)

Norman.
(delete "thisbit" twice to e-mail)
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Norman Lynagh Weather Consultancy
Chalfont St Giles
England

And hopefully it'll be gie snawy as the weekend approaches Norman.


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