Local weather
Jan. 9th, 2016 09:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mtbcFor weeks now much of the UK has suffered from wind and a lot of rain. There has been flooding around this region and seeing sunshine became a rare treat. This weekend the wet weather has been giving way to cold weather. We now get frost, but it doesn't get much below freezing.
We live at low altitude east of Perth among riverside farmland that the Scots call a carse. Our everyday life is just north of the Firth of Tay, which lately has run high enough for the Queen's Bridge into Perth to sometimes be closed. For work I commute east into Dundee. It is a pleasant enough drive, but I miss having more choice of reasonable daily routes. The carse seems to be rather temperate; being so near the Firth, and the North Sea, probably helps. Since moving here I've needed neither gloves nor shorts.
More through luck than judgment, I seem to live and work somewhere that hasn't been much hit by the weather. A little north of the region between Perth and Dundee are hills, perhaps they help to shelter us. After all, further north the hills become small mountains on which people ski in the winter. We haven't even lost power, except for a few seconds on one occasion, despite all the wind.
I don't know if all the recent rain is simply unusual or something that climate change is making the new normal for early winter. The first week I lived in Scotland it rained continuously and I was glad that it turned out to have been an unusually wet week. Our area is actually among the sunniest in Scotland.
We live at low altitude east of Perth among riverside farmland that the Scots call a carse. Our everyday life is just north of the Firth of Tay, which lately has run high enough for the Queen's Bridge into Perth to sometimes be closed. For work I commute east into Dundee. It is a pleasant enough drive, but I miss having more choice of reasonable daily routes. The carse seems to be rather temperate; being so near the Firth, and the North Sea, probably helps. Since moving here I've needed neither gloves nor shorts.
More through luck than judgment, I seem to live and work somewhere that hasn't been much hit by the weather. A little north of the region between Perth and Dundee are hills, perhaps they help to shelter us. After all, further north the hills become small mountains on which people ski in the winter. We haven't even lost power, except for a few seconds on one occasion, despite all the wind.
I don't know if all the recent rain is simply unusual or something that climate change is making the new normal for early winter. The first week I lived in Scotland it rained continuously and I was glad that it turned out to have been an unusually wet week. Our area is actually among the sunniest in Scotland.
