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Title: First Snow !!!!!!!!!
Post by: carlton care on October 21, 2008, 08:25:35 pm

This is the earliest I've ever known snow, even this far North. It was just a very light flurry, but it covered some ground for a short time.

robert m

Title: Re: First Snow !!!!!!!!!
Post by: Ken Wainwright on October 21, 2008, 08:26:44 pm

Nah Rob.

You've got dandruff ;)

safe and happy cleaning :)
Ken

Title: Re: First Snow !!!!!!!!!
Post by: carlton care on October 21, 2008, 08:59:08 pm

Honest to badness and it looks like we might get more tonight.  It's normal to get light flurries around the first, or second week of November, but never this early!!!!!!!!!!!

robert m   :o :o :o

Title: Re: First Snow !!!!!!!!!
Post by: M.Acorn on October 22, 2008, 09:21:05 am

Where are you Carlton ? i am off to Whitby end of this week for a break in a little cottage  ;D Will be going to look at all the Goths up Whitby abby on halloween should be a chuckle

Title: Re: First Snow !!!!!!!!!
Post by: Barry Livingstone on October 22, 2008, 10:03:09 am

They had snow up the Highlands Two weeks ago, earliest they have had it at the sKi centres for years.

Title: Re: First Snow !!!!!!!!!
Post by: Dave_Lee on October 22, 2008, 02:12:41 pm

Theres usually plenty of it on or near the summit of Ben Nevis all year round.
Dave.

Title: Re: First Snow !!!!!!!!!
Post by: Barry Livingstone on October 22, 2008, 06:53:56 pm

you will find theres not Dave as its too ROCKY......but there are other areas of the Highland were the snow never melts all year round but the ice caps are getting smaller and thats a worry....it shows us close to home that this Global warming is real....... :( :( :( :(

Title: Re: First Snow !!!!!!!!!
Post by: mark_roberts on October 22, 2008, 11:26:47 pm

James

How does the rocky summit of nevis hinder snow from staying on it??

Or have I missed something.

Mark

Title: Re: First Snow !!!!!!!!!
Post by: Barry Livingstone on October 23, 2008, 10:09:13 am

Due to the fact that there are no other summits near it and its thre most walked summit in scotland.

The areas thats have ice/ snow all year round are in more sheltered ares of the highlands

Ben Nevis is too wet also..as in it gets the wind and rain from all directions, there isnt a loty if areas that have ice all years round up there but the areas that do the ice is getting thinner every year.

Title: Re: First Snow !!!!!!!!!
Post by: Dave_Lee on October 23, 2008, 02:46:34 pm

Sorry James you are wrong. Mountaineering is one of my things. The emergency shelter on Ben Nevis's summit is aproximatley 3 metres above the rocky plateau. The snow gets that deep in winter that you walk straight in at snow level. I have been on the summit 7 times  in mid summer and only once has there been no snow in the top of Guardaloo Gully. Also there are many summits, Munro's included in the same area. Carn Mor Dearg is less than a mile away and those 'Mammores' just across Glen Nevis are all 3,000 footers.
Dave

Title: Re: First Snow !!!!!!!!!
Post by: Cathedral Floorcare on October 23, 2008, 03:13:04 pm

I've been up Nevis several times - the only time I remember it being clear on the summit was once in the late 80s. As for there being no summits nearby - the Ring of Steal isn't far away and there's some beauts in that little group alone.