Weather on the North-West Frontier

by - 13:13 on 04 July 2008

Yes, I’ve had my share of promoting the ‘four seasons in one day’ copywriter’s cop-out cliché. Truth to tell, I used to hate having to give that ‘pack flexibly and prepare for anything’ stuff – though it was probably sound enough advice.


In any case, when you get north of Ullapool, normal weather forecasting doesn’t apply. It isn’t easy to make a generalisation about Scotland’s weather, but this is taken to extremes the further you go north and west.


The high tops really do catch the weather and sometimes the only way to escape is to head for the coastal headlands, where the weather passes over quickly. These pics were all taken north of Ullapool, the main town for the North-West Highlands and which is only an hour’s drive north of Inverness. With a westerly airflow, the weather comes in from the Atlantic and you’re going to get wet from time to time, but in between the showers the seascapes and the skies are just pure theatre.


And when the weather does ‘clamp’, then, these days, even in the north-west, at least you have a choice of places for a decent lunch. Here’s a tip, should you find yourself in Ullapool. It’s got a good choice of souvenir shops, but it’s hungry work, agonising over the cashmere (over-rated, difficult to wash and potentially baggy and shapeless, if you ask me), so you’ll need lunch. We had a really competent pub lunch at The Seaforth Pub www.theseaforth.com by the pier in Ullapool. It just gets on with the job of serving decent food at a reasonable price and is especially good with fish. Yes, we’d go back any time - whatever the weather.

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