Electro-ramblings

Sorry for the lack of posts over the past week, but I've been away in Scotland doing a bit of mountaineering.

February half-term week north of the border is a regular feature of the Wrekin Mountaineering Club, but over the past few years the weather and conditions have become more and more variable.

This year was no exception. For the whole of last week the freezing level didn't go below 800 metres, and what little snow there was disappeared through the week. The picture below shows Liathach from Beinn Eighe, and it should be absolutely plastered with snow.

It didn't rain much, so plenty of good walking was available in the Torridon hills, but precious little ice-climbing was available, and all five ski resorts in Scotland were closed by the end of last week.

So is it the fault of global warming - or just a statistical abberation? All I know is that we saw seriously unusual conditions, and something odd is happening year after year.