Leading edge.
Having crawled into bed on Wednesday night to the happy sound of the television weather forecaster making wild claims of temperatures nearing 30 degrees and unbroken clear skies and sunshine for yesterday, you can imagine my slight skepticism given that we had endured two days previously of rain like stair rods falling constantly and the associated dismal views and flooding.
It was therefore no real surprise to wake yesterday morning too, you guessed it, rain, more of the stuff, incessant dingy and grey rain!
Maybe, I thought, just maybe, those oh so cheerful sounding forecasters meant the promised upturn in meteorological fortune would materialise later on in the day, but by 3pm when PG finished work and we set off for our necessary shopping trip to ,very little had changed. The stair rods had turned to a soaking heavy drizzle but the temperature was barely struggling to the 13 degree mark, let alone the promised 30 degrees and things were not looking good on the summer weather front.
Above the cloud.
Travelling back late in the evening things were only getting worse, by now the rain had all but stopped but a mist had descended even to low levels and our speed was considerably hampered....and then a sight I had never witnessed before.
As we drove higher in places we seemed to pop over the top of the cloud and although this is not the Highlands and our altitude was not considerable, at some points the cloud was below us, we were in clear, pure visibility but all around and below us the cloud clung to the land, making its way in a gentle rolling motion, little wisps at it's leading edge floating against the green of the hills, a pure white ethereal 'wall' all around us. We stopped the car and got out, it was completely silent save for the call of the occasional bird, and whilst we were stood in absolutely clear visibility, fifty or so yards from us on three sides, the cloud obscured our view at ground level completely! Amazing.
Wall of white
Unfortunately these images don't do the sight justice, a much wider angle lens was needed..... compact digital has it's limitations but I was just glad I had a camera in the car at all, the day had not held promise of photographic opportunity and I had almost left it at home.
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If you live in Scotland and you love to ski, what do you do on the first full weekend of summer? Go skiing of course, just like a group of avid skiers did on Scotland’s CairnGorm Mountain. While the lifts officially stopped May 7th, closing a seven month long season, there was still accessible snow and some intrepid Highlanders were determined to mark eight consecutive months of skiing. More than likely some of these will be making turns this month also, and it is said some years you can find patches of snow here all summer. More and more, I believe if Mother Nature snows on it somebody will ski on it.
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