The wind dropped early yesterday evening, but not before we'd had a bad moment when the power went off at about 4.15 in the afternoon, fortunately for only a minute. The sky cleared overnight, the temperature fell to a chilly 5C, and the wind moved into the southeast and dropped to a light breeze. By 6.30 this morning a blanket of high cloud was heaving up from the southwest: this picture, taken just after 9.00am looking across Kilchoan Bay, shows the last of the disappearing sky. The forecast is for winds of over 50mph by midday tomorrow (force 9), gusting into the high 60s (force 11).
With continuing high rainfall - we had 16mm on Christmas Day and another 6mm yesterday - the crofters' flocks are struggling. There's no grass growing and the fields are trampled to mud, so they're subsisting on pellets and silage.
The wind dropped early yesterday evening, but not before we'd had a bad moment when the power went off at about 4.15 in the afternoon, fortunately for only a minute. The sky cleared overnight, the temperature fell to a chilly 5C, and the wind moved into the southeast and dropped to a light breeze. By 6.30 this morning a blanket of high cloud was heaving up from the southwest: this picture, taken just after 9.00am looking across Kilchoan Bay, shows the last of the disappearing sky. The forecast is for winds of over 50mph by midday tomorrow (force 9), gusting into the high 60s (force 11). 
With continuing high rainfall - we had 16mm on Christmas Day and another 6mm yesterday - the crofters' flocks are struggling. There's no grass growing and the fields are trampled to mud, so they're subsisting on pellets and silage.
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