Weather

The weather is a Scottish obsession. It can change so quickly that you can experience all four seasons in one day. As we say, "if you don't like the weather, don't worry - it'll change in 15 minutes."

There are numerous ways you can keep up to date with local weather on-line.

For a detailed daily weather forecast for the Royal Deeside and the Cairngorms area provided by the  Mountain Weather Information Service visit  www.mwis.org.uk/eh.php

This forecast is sponsored by Hilltreck Outdoor clothing specialists in Aboyne and is maintained by The Mountaineering Council of Scotland and SportScotland.

www.weatheronline.co.uk is another good site for regularly updated forecasts.

The Met Office site at www.met-office.gov.uk can give an overview with long term forecasts.

Finally, if you are really fascinated by all things weather, Heriot Watt University operate a weather station on Cairngorm Mountain which supplies info and all sorts of technical data to a website which is updated several times a day. You can find it at www.phy/hw.ac.uk/resrev/weather.htm