View across the Outer Harbour of Stornoway

Wednesday 20 January 2010

Promises


This suggests that spring will one day return. Needed the reminder today, wall to wall wind and rain.

Wednesday 20 January

A wet and breezy day in the Western Isles, and the wind will only increase. Tomorrow, a force 9 severe gale is forecast. Across in Australia, a tropical cyclone is forming off the northwest coast, and this could blow up into a category II system in the next few days. It is hurricane season there (southern hemisphere summer).

I am not apologising for switching my front picture, to a wintry scene from Laxay. I tend to change my front picture every couple of weeks, and as the snow had disappeared I felt a new image was in order. I realise the colours are quite bland, but that's the way it looks. It won't be until April that colours will return to this island.

Twitter just went into an outage, although I managed to put a tweet through using shortening service bit.ly.