Scotland Covered in nowIt’s cold, temperatures are projected to go down as low as -20C. The recorded record low of -16.1C was in Altnaharra which is located in the northern parts of Scotland. The lowest temperature of the winter of 2010 was -22.3C.

Approximately 850 schools have been shut down and 3,000 houses were at sometime without electric power. Scottish Hydro is hoping to have all homes back online by late tonight. Extra personnel have been brought in to help fix the problem.

Being out on the roadways is very dangerous and there are many abandoned vehicles along the way. There have been many roads shut down to hazardous conditions. Travel by air has also been affected with the closing of the Edinburgh Airport at 1800 GMT. Travel by trains has also been interrupted. A ski resort located in the Highlands, Lecht Ski Centre, also had to close down for the day. Emergency areas were set up to help shelter stranded motorist. At first there were 60 people who were looking for protection from the weather by 2000 GMT on Sunday. By Monday, there were 669 people staying there. The weather has been predicted to grow worse this week.

What surprised me about this video was how this particular area should be more than used to winter weather, especially as we start to go into December.  Even if I was a bad blizzard is seems the vulnerability of this community should be low. So, this makes me wonder, what (in anything) was so special about this storm that allowed it to make headlines? From what it looked like, it was a particularly large blizzard for a ski resort to close down and must have been in a particularly populated area.