Summer on hold

June 24, 2007

Sunset over Loch Dunvegan 2007After a couple of months with generally really nice weather, there’s been a major change since last Friday. By the end of the afternoon the wind turned north and within a maybe half an hour temperatures dropped from around 20C to 14C ~ 15C. Right now it’s even down to just around 10C.

It’s amazing how you live with the weather here and how you start noticing changes. When we lived in Holland I did not bother to know where the wind came from. You just left home or left the office and “Ah, nice weather…” or “Damn, it’s cold today”. When looking out of the kitchen window towards the Loch I’ve found a trick to quickly the wind directions: there’s some boats moored there and a boat’s habit is to turn its bow towards the wind. Just looking at those boats tells you the wind direction… easy!!

I also found out that a southern doesn’t necessarily mean good weather. It means higher temperatures but also tends to bring in rain.

So far the weather chat… Below is a nice picture I took from a sunset. It was taken a couple of days ago, at about midnight or just before… amazing colors…. The mountains are the outer isles Harris and Lewis.

Posted by roger | Filed Under Blog, Nature 

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