High Pressure Weather

The atmospheric pressure here today has unusually high, at 1,043 millibars.  Such high pressure brought light winds and a typical west coast overcast - low cloud, mist and and occasional light drizzle - which only cleared towards evening.

This picture shows the top of Ardnamurchan Point lighthouse at around midday.  In the old days the foghorn would have been booming out, but today the point was silent and deserted, except for two people cleaning the copper and brass fitments on the three old diesel machines which used to pump the air which powered the foghorn.