the deep freeze

Sun, Nov 30, 2008

Got up this morning to see Dawn coming back down the road in the car. Couldn’t get out. Last night was -15 in some parts of the highlands, though being on the coast it was a little “warmer” here but it was still absolutely baltic! Now we’re snowed in and the forecast is for heavy snow all next week and I need new crampons from Inverness! I presume global warming has been put on hold, or perhaps it’s gone the way of acid rain and we’re back to the mini ice age hypothesis. It’s so cold the sea loch has frozen!

Saw an interesting sight yesterday on the way to Broadford. A Blackbird was fluttering wildly on the overhead power cables. It would approach the cable, land, flap madly like it was being electrocuted, fly off and attempt the same manoeuvre again and again. I suddenly realised it was slipping off the frozen cable!