On Jan 30, 6:05*pm, "Colin Youngs" wrote:
"mittens" schreef in ...

Along that line, I am curious about the occurrence fohn winds in
Scotland. Is such a weather phenomenon possible in the mountains up
there?

I think a föhn effect in the lee of the Scottish mountains was apparent as
recently as last Monday. * On that day - with a strong roughly WSW flow -
the mildest places in the UK were in NE Scotland, e.g. 12.1°C at Kinloss on
the south side of the Moray Firth.

Colin Youngs
Brussels

I suspected that SW would need to be present for a fohn effect in
Scotland. I went to Wikipedia and I read about the Moray Firth. I
didn't realize that the bay along the NE coast of Scotland is the
Moray Firth. I always thought that a firth was more like an inlet, as
in the Firth of Forth. It makes sense that a fohn effect would happen
here, at a place like Inverness, with a SW wind.

Bob