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East Highland: latest pressure

Tuesday, 7 February 2012: dawn to dusk

Printable view Forecast issued: 0244 on Tuesday, 7 February 2012

Overview for Tuesday

All climbing areas across Scotland will stay dry. Cold and bright over eastern ranges but cloudier over West Highlands with strengthening winds across the tops.

Hazards	Risk	Explanation
Blizzards	No Risk
Heavy snow	No Risk
Storm force winds	No Risk
Gales	No Risk
Severe chill effect	Medium	Freshening winds over tops in afternoon will produce significant wind-chill.
Persistent and extensive hill fog	No Risk
Thunderstorms	No Risk
Heavy persistent rain	No Risk
Strong Sunlight	Medium	Glare from the snowfields.

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Weather summary and probability of precipitation for Tuesday
Dawn to 0900	0900 to 1200	1200 to 1500	1500 to dusk
Sunny intervals	Sunny intervals	Sunny intervals	Sunny intervals
0%	0%	0%	0%

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Tuesday

Weather

All parts of the East Highland area will have a dry day. It will be a cold and frosty start with some patches of freezing fog at lower levels. A few patches could well linger all day. Otherwise bright once you gain any height with some good spells of sunshine. The ground will be mostly frozen resulting in firm underfoot conditions. There will be a freshening breeze over higher ridges and summits making it feel much colder.

Visibility

Some patches of very poor visibility at low levels otherwise mostly good or very good with many of the snow covered hills in the near to middle distance clearly visible but a haze will obscure the more distant hills.

Hill fog

Apart from some fog patches at low levels slowly dispersing, there will be occasional fog above about 750M.

Maximum winds above 600m

Southerly and very light at first. Average speeds will increase 20 to 30mph over higher ridges and summits in afternoon. This will result in considerable buffeting and wind-chill.

Temperature

Glens	Minus 6 Celsius rising briefly to plus 3 Celsius before falling again.
900 m	Minus 2 Celsius.
Freezing level	700M.

Wednesday

Weather

It will be another dry day with some bright spells. However it will be a very windy day with storm force winds over higher ridges and summits. And certainly a much colder day with severe wind chill. It will be very treacherous on the more exposed ridges and summits due to the extreme buffeting of the wind and the icy conditions underfoot.

Visibility

Generally good however the very strong winds will whip up the lying snow and cause some very poor visibility over higher parts leading to navigational difficulties.

Hill fog

Much of the cloud will be above the summits. There will be occasional fog above about 700 to 800M, especially over the Perthshire hills.

Maximum winds above 600m

Southerly winds with average speeds of 50 to 60mph and gusts 80mph. This will mean a risk of being blown over.

Temperature

Glens	Minus 4 Celsius rising to plus 4 Celsius.
900 m	Minus 2 Celsius with a severe wind-chill effect.
Freezing level	Around 700M.

Outlook

Thursday

A cloudier day with the chance of a few light snow flurries over the tops, dying out during the day. Staying cold although winds will be much lighter.

Friday

Mainly dry and bright. Odd very light snow flurry possible on the tops. Freezing level about 500M with strengthening winds making it feel bitterly cold.