Weather!!!

Have you ever wondered if the weather in the West Highlands of Scotland is as bad as you thought or are you trying to decide whether its worth a trip to the West Highlands.

Well thanks to our on site weather station here at Loch Leven Holidays www.glencoeselfcatering.co.uk we can give you some facts about the sun, rain, wind etc over the last few months.

We had one of the driest springs on record, our statistics tells us from the 11th March to 11th May, a 3 month period we only had 110mm of rain. From the 11th May to 10th June we say 24 mm giving and average of 33 mm of rain per month, only a quarter of the normal rain fall for that period.
From the 11th June to the 10th of July, however, it has been wetter, showing a monthly total of 134 mm, which is average for this time of year but unusually the rain fell in heavy, short, sharp showers, which has continued the trend of the feeling of good weather.

From an average daily temp of 6 degrees in March, we climbed to a average high of 18 degrees throughout May, dropping back to 16 degrees for June & July so far.

During this 5 month period 67% of the wind has been below 4.6 miles per hour and we have only experienced 2 windy days, where the average speed has hit 25 miles an hour, force 5 of the Beaufort Scale.

Although our weather station does not keep sunshine records (as yet), we have experienced very bright clear weather as unusually
2/3s of the wind has been from the East, keeping the Atlantic cloud away.

Well hopefully this has made you realise you can't believe everything you hear on the BBC weather forecast!!!!