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By Jonathan Amos BBC Science Correspondent Ben Nevis – the highest mountain in Britain – occasionally experiences periods at its summit when the air is bone dry. The revelation that this notoriously wet peak should have times of near-zero humidity comes from the analysis of a newly recovered, unique data-set. Weather observations were made around […]
ARTICLE FROM SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN A new effort aims to recover meteorology data collected by a group of hardy Victorian Scottish scientists By Andrea Thompson on November 7, 2017 On the evening of February 21, 1885, two Scottish meteorologists living atop Ben Nevis—the highest peak in the U.K. at some 4,400 feet—attempted to make their appointed hourly measurements. But […]
Just two years ago we witnessed the survival of 73 snow patches, lasting from one winter to the next. The most since 1996. This year we’re seeing the least with only 3 remaining. 1 on Aonach Beag, the other two tiny patches tucked within Garbh Choire Mor on Braeriach. Today I went to the largest […]
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