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Friday, 2 March 2018

Settle Cut Off and Fffffffffreeeeeeezing

Well, the Beast from the East has well and truly struck hard.   The Ribblehead weather station recorded a gust of 61mph at 2205 last evening, 1st March from a direction of 90 degrees - due east!   Windchill yesterday was -17 C.       Brrrrrrrrrrrr.

Settle is cut off by road and rail so nobody is going far.    Here are some pictures at Settle railway station:





The snow is very powdery and soon blows away - inevitably causing drifts.   Railway cuttings are very vulnerable.


At the best of times we are a long way from hospitals, being about half way between Airedale and Lancaster.   Above is the air ambulance taken from the top of the tower on Wednesday.   It flew in bravely to the rugby field in a near white-out blizzard but took off into a clear blue sky.

Meanwhile, in Carlisle:


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