Current Highland weather

[neloon]

In case anyone's interested, this is what the Eastern Highlands ski area is like just now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwrp42PFC4o
The snow gates were shut just after this. "Spors-sneachda" = snow-sports.
The grouse seem quite happy - they know Jock Scot's not around!
Over in the West, Jock is about to be hit by storm Barbara.
But Jock never gets blown away!
Alan

[Jock Scot]

Nothing to worry about at the moment Alan, but by all accounts it could get a bit draughty before long. The grouse are safe from the likes of me as the season is now over. My word they are tough birds to live in the climate they do and thrive.

[fflex]

Had some good times at Glenshee back in the day ⛷

[T90]

Grouse are definitely a tough, but when you are as stupid as a Ruffed or Franklin grouse you better be tough.

[estimaa]

Eastern Highlands ski area.
The snow gates were shut just after this. "Spors-sneachda" = snow-sports.

Sounds like a mix of Russian & Welsh.. sneg (ru) + da (cym) sportivny. (ru)

No chance of big cold in Scotland, we have a big thaw at 60N right now, and nothing forecast here until 1st week Jan.

Snow in the UK is usually pretty wet stuff, quite different from our Ural weather which was close to -40C on monday but will hit ZERO in the next week.

Mad contrasts really.
I don't like wet snow for ski, it's so darn heavy, - when you nearly always get injured or thrown off, but I don't like skiing at below -10C either.

[neloon]

sneachda = snow is pronounced snyachka (ch as in loch)
Both words go back to an assumed Primitive Indo European root "sniegwh- ". Latin "nix", Ancient Greek "nipha", Russian "sneg" etc though the Welsh (p-Celtic ) word is "eira".

There is talk of Aberdeen having a UK record temperature of 16C on Christmas Day followed possibly by snow a few hours later so crazy weather indeed At present it is just very windy here but I suspect it will be more than windy for Jock Scot over in the West.

Alan

[The Q]

My favourite weather site Xcweather is currently reporting gusting 74mph on South Uist, but only gusting 38 at Oban., not much different to my local weather station in Norfolk which is reporting Gusting 37. Aberdeen (Dyce Airport) is only recording 27 (but the gusts will be higher).
At Those sorts of wind speeds up in the mountains it will be horizontal blizzard time, not nice.

Keep safe folks...

[estimaa]

sneachda = snow is pronounced snyachka (ch as in loch)
Both words go back to an assumed Primitive Indo European root "sniegwh- ". Latin "nix", Ancient Greek "nipha", Russian "sneg" etc though the Welsh (p-Celtic ) word is "eira".

We southern Celts don't sound like anyone else.
(Thank goodness, I get so tired of hearing...but isn't Welsh like English? from ignorant foreigners..)

Interesting about Gaelic and Russian eg. "черный" снег which is easy similar to Ukrainian "чорний" сніг, bulgarian, "черен" сняг, or up here sniẽgas it Lithuanian.

We don't have anything remotely similar as you rightly point out...even more so how it falls,-

bwrw literally is to throw...and weather is female, (like dragons too incidentally).

"bwrw eira", "bwrw glaw"

...Mae hi'n bwrw hen wragedd a ffyn
NEU cyllyll a ffyrc"..

There's lots of nice exceptions, - even the verb form is unusual**... (Mae yn...gynnes) "It is in the state of being" warm + treigliad front of word mutates from C to G not end as in other languages,-

so Welsh is a language of anticipations, unlike German where you are waiting for ever to work out what is happening in the verb when it arrives at the end..

As expected the BBC,has let us down once again.
Do they care?
Of course not.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/welshdictionary/

Nid yw Geiriadur BBC Cymru ar gael bellach.
Lit,- It is not the Dictionary of BBC to be had further


Mae’r geiriadur wedi cau gan nad yw’r dechnoleg oedd **yn cefnogi’r wefan **yn cael ei chynnal bellach.

Literally,- The dictionary is after closing, - Our technology is not in state of supporting the web site, in the state of having it's continuing further!

Another nail in the coffin of a 1500 year old dying language.

[Jock Scot]

So far so good. We are sheltered a bit where we stay with the wind in this direction, although we were in Fort William for a while this morning and there were strong gusts and torrential rain for about an hour. This evening might get interesting apparently.

[Jock Scot]

Well, we survived. Actually the storm was not as fierce, for us, as forecast. I understand it was a bit rougher North of us and on the Western Isles, but I have not heard of any real problems about.