It's been pretty stormy here today but, until I saw the pictures on The News I had no idea how bad it had been. I recorded winds of about 50mph here at the house but 100mph has been recorded in central Scotland. At the time of the 6 o'clock News 42000 households were reported as being without electricity and I think they said only 5 train services were running in Scotland. A friend was stranded in Glasgow. Fortunately he has a son there. By about 7.15 the whole of the Western Isles was powerless too. Fortunately it lasted less than a couple of hours with us.
The sea in the bay below the house gives an idea of what things were like at about 1400 this afternoon.
And then at just before 1600 the sea suddenly calmed down as the wind swung round off shore:
This is pretty rough weather for this time of year. Impossible to believe that I was in shorts in the garden when I first came home around three weeks ago and the pier looked like this:
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