A Snowy Forecast

This was the view from our balcony at a quarter to eight this morning looking out across the Moray Firth, a classic 'red sky warning' for those shepherds who don't have the internet. And it looks as if it's right, because while by ten this morning it was warm enough for me to sit on one of my benches and watch the traffic hurtle down the A9, that is all set to change....

....the weather getting colder and colder from lunch time today, so by Tuesday lunchtime we're forecast a maximum of 3C with the wind round in the north bringing snow showers from the Arctic into our part of Scotland.

As if to ensure that the point had been well made, this morning's sunrise process went on for some time - the picture above was taken at ten to eight, the sun finally breaking the horizon....

....at a quarter past eight.

It really has been a remarkably warm November, so I suppose we now have to pay for it.