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snowshine, Great, that should be good for my drive up to Glen Coe on Friday!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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brian
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roga, bee-yoo-ti-ful 
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Top camera now working - nothing spectacular yet in the way of snow depth,but more than most of the alps has at the moment 
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That top cam doesn't show any drifting, I'd guess the fences are catching some decent depth on top of what was left over last time??
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brian
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kitenski, it's actually surprisingly unwindy across the Highlands today, an eye of the storm type thing I think. The forecast is for wind to pick up from the South which is good for Cairngorm. Pick up some snow off the plateau and dump it on the ski area, with a bit of luck !
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Will they get out and bash it down to help create a base for the season or do they just wait until there's been quite a few snowfalls before bothering with that sort of malarkey?
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brian,
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it's actually surprisingly unwindy across the Highlands today
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I'm surprised cos here in aberdeen its blowing and absolute hoolee and has been all day!
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brian
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ben wright, don't know if they'll be at bashable depth yet or if they'll have basher driving staff on hand.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Poster: A snowHead
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brian,
Seems very local from that map - though the way its howling around the building at work seems much stronger than the 18mph quoted a at Dyce airport.
roga,
Same here, but I want snow in the Dolomites as that's where I'm spending Christmas. At the moment there looks to be no new natural snow and the forecast for the next few days has the lowest temperatures at 3000m higher than cairngorm at the moment. The lack of snow on the Ptarmigan cam aint due to it being windy according to Brian's windspeed map. Though the last time I looked just as it was getting dark it looked like there had been about 15cms of snow going by the depth ontop of the wall around the viewing terrace.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Dave Horsley, buildings and cities (and hills of course) can amplify wind strength locally. I used to think that the corner round the MetO in Bracknell had the world's highest average wind speed. Not that ever got ridiculously high, just that it seemed permanently strong.
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II, is that the Nevis car park ?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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[insert expletive] down with rain in London this afternoon/early evening.
Hope it kept on snowing up in Scotland. The pics from the webcams look good for a bit of guerilla skiing on the old skis.
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Have a look at the Cairngorm webcams this morning - it's a winter wonderland, all white!
Gorgeous
Lecht webcams down at the moment dash it and no new piccies up at Nevis as yet.
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Looks like the 3 days holiday that I need to use could come in useful over the next week
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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II, yes fair point and many would but running a few websites myself I don't like it when people grab my bandwidth. I'd prefer to post a small copy of the piccy here for people to see (I can dump it on one of my servers) and link to more piccies on Winterhighland. that's the way I'd prefer people to treat piccies on my sites so admitedly I'm draging my feet a bit because of that and I think it's the couteous way to do it - call me me an old fashioned stick in the mud/snow 
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You know it makes sense.
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The Ciste looks the biz doesn't it? A couple of machines and a loo or 2 in operation in the old cafe, run the lifts, to hell with the Cas side!
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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easiski, too right - I like your thinking!
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Poster: A snowHead
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roga, It is one thing to post a pic with the{img} {/img} around it (sponging) I think it’s called ?
But links that are clickable I think are normally OK? I may be wrong but that is my take on things
May give winterhighland a PM?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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II, a clickabkle link still uses the host's bandwidth each time someone clicks it and views the pic. The host may well see a surge in demand for it when that link finds its way into a new place like here.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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FenlandSkier,
yes but only if you click the link - if the pic is in [] the bandwidth is used just by a page view:
 The above pic is currently hosted on my website so if someone looks at this page my bandwith is used.
http://www.kyleartmarket.co.uk/files/cam1_bennevis_00002.jpg
Is a link and only when somone clicks the link is my bandwith used.
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II, I'm simply doing what I would like others to do with pics on my site. If the image is on Winterhighland's servers all clicks use Winterhighland bandwidth, it's correct to say that directly posting an image on this page uses badwidth each time the page is viewed and posting a link uses less but it's still Winterhighland's bandwidth. If that happens to pics on my sites I may end up paying for extra bandwidth with no discernalbe benefit to my sites, IMHO I don't want to do the same to others 'coz I don't like it done with my images so I'd rather post a sample image (if permission is given) and tell people where to see the rest.
If you view the matter diferently fair dooos but I'll stick with my way of doing things thanks because I personally think it's fairer. Alan at WH might agree, he might not but I'd rather do things in a way that I personally think is fairer to all concerned. With links to the threads themselves Winterhighland has more benefit than with a link to just the image and people who go to Winterhighland have the benefit of seeing all the images in context, rather than just the one, which I think is better for everyone. That's my opinion so we'll have to agree to disagree on the issue but I'd guess we agree on the main point which is that the snow looks cool and we want to spread the word
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| With links to the threads themselves Winterhighland has more benefit than with a link to just the image and people who go to Winterhighland have the benefit of seeing all the images in context, rather than just the one, which I think is better for everyone. |
That's a very good point.
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roga, severely tempted. I don't have much time in the next few weeks but I might be able to squeeze in a trip to Glencoe if the weather looks half decent next Saturday. I need it to complete my "2006 set" of the Scottish centres 
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