Hebridean Life - Weather

The weather, can only be described as appaling. It is almost always raining and when it isn't the dreded midges decend over the island in a microscopic plague that makes the great outdoors almost unusable.

In five years I can remember only two summers where it was dry and sunny. I can also only remember only having to scrape the car windscreen twice in the same period. The wind that blows straight off the Atlantic is mighty cold even in the so called summer season and certainly pegs back the temperatures you see on the weather maps and means usually you have the heating on all year round.

A great local weather site can be found here. It shows life data feeds as well as weather records for the island. To visit Eoropie weather click here

On your relocation visit don't let the islanders fool you into thinking they have great summers as they are few and far between, mostly its very wet and extremely windy.