Ranger, blogger, general evangelist for the great outdoors. Winter's biggest fan and prone to blethering. Definitely my own views!!
Joined June 2013
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27 Feb 2025
Hanging out at the other place these days 🦋
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25 May 2025
Bit of help please folks!......for UK-based folk.
Insect splat on your cars this spring. Have you found it:
- Same as normal?
- Less than normal?
- More than normal?
If you could say what part of the country you're in that would be helpful too 🙂
THANKS!
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Ben Dolphin 🏴❄️ retweeted
22 Dec 2024
All the volunteers in the Braemar Mountain Rescue Team would like to wish our supporters and followers a very merry and safe Christmas.
The photograph, taken by team member Paul Noble, was the winner of our 2024 photography competition.
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13 Dec 2024
Looks like we'll make it to 14th December with the month running bang on my long term average. Expect that to lurch upwards in the next week, however. #Fife
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12 Dec 2024
Ooo, just popped out for firewood and happened to see the best shooting star I've seen in ages! 😀 Very bright, maybe 2 or 3 seconds in duration. In the western sky.
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12 Dec 2024
‘Poorly performing scrubland’, whatever that is, seems to be a target in the new planning regulations 🙄 No surprise there. Pretty much every single planning application I reviewed for access/biodiversity impacts in my last job employed ‘scrub’ in a derogatory context.
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11 Dec 2024
Just look at the Cairn Gorm anomaly.
11 Dec 2024
Today's (11th December) maximum temperatures and anomalies (compared to '91-'20 average) from the 03xxx SYNOP sites.
#Hawarden Airport was the warmest location with a max #temperature of 12.4C.
roostweather.com/ukobs/maxte…
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11 Dec 2024
Surreal, spring-like conditions in the Cairngorms today. Warm, sunny and snowy......and not a breath of wind. Really didn't want to come down, but I hung around up high till after sunset 🙂
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10 Dec 2024
Did anyone heading up to the hills today get soft snow, or is it all refrozen crust or névé?
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6 Dec 2024
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Ben Dolphin 🏴❄️ retweeted
6 Dec 2024
#StormDarragh's wintry side kicking in over Drumochter tonight.
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Ben Dolphin 🏴❄️ retweeted
6 Dec 2024
MWIS forecast for Cairngorms NP this weekend: "Wind N-NW 60mph... may be difficult to stand... frequent snow... periods of whiteout... will feel as cold as minus 18C when exposed to wind..."
mwis.org.uk/forecasts/scotti…
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Ben Dolphin 🏴❄️ retweeted
6 Dec 2024
"As the planet finally begins to invoice us..."
6 Dec 2024
“The earlier we crash, the more reserves of resilience both our planet and this dysfunctional “thing” we call civilisation will have left in them in order to move on”
tsakraklides.com/2024/12/04/…
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5 Dec 2024
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5 Dec 2024
I just read that 4,890,677 people got married last year.
I don't want to cause any trouble but shouldn't that be an even number?
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4 Dec 2024
🧵⬇️Stats are in for November in the Lomond Hills. Despite being my frostiest Nov, and having the coldest Nov night of my dataset, the 15-day warmth at the start of the month meant Nov's overall average of 5.8C was still 0.3C above my long average for the calendar month.
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4 Dec 2024
As seems to be the trend in recent years, there were no days with gales (average wind speed of 40mph), but a high gust of 53.7mph was recorded on the 25th. Rainfall for the month was just 20.5mm.
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4 Dec 2024
Here's the updated visual representation of my weather dataset. Shows the last 167 calendar months in the Lomond Hills vs my long-term average (Dec 2010 on the far left, Nov 2024 on the far right).
Blue = colder than average
Green = equal to average
Red = warmer than average
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