Dear Diary,
CFCF Chris Fawkes is a BBC Weather Forecaster, presenting across all the BBC’s channels. believes for some reason that the weather station in Aviemore is up at about “three or four hundred metres”. The station height at Aviemore in reality is just 220 metres AMSLAMSL The height Above Mean Sea Level., not on top of a hill, but in the Spey valley and within a kilometre of the river itself. That’s what makes it such a great frost hollow in the shelter and shadow of rising ground the other side of the A9 to its west. In fact only one of the four sites he calls “higher communities” are that high, Merthyr Tydfil is at ~180 M, Buxton ~305 M and Enniskillen ~51 M.
CF, thinking that Aviemore is some kind of hill station will have no doubt coloured is thinking of observations from their over the years, but then again he does suffer from Scotia MyopiaScotia Myopia The inability to recognise the weather in Scotland in any of their forecasts, often preferring to talk about anywhere else in the UK, but usually the SE of England. Often incurable. quite severely.
