Evening Sky

The Scottish weather delivered all sorts today.

It had been dull but warm in the morning. When I went out for a sandwich at lunchtime, there was the merest hint of a spit of rain. At around 3.30pm, I was on the phone at work, when the heavens opened. For no more than ten or fifteen minutes it was so heavy that the rain was bouncing off the windowsill and onto my desk, soaking papers and books. Lightning flashed and thunder crashed. Then it stopped. By the time we got home to Peebles at about 6.00pm there wasn't even a sign of it having rained at all.

I had to turn round and go back into Edinburgh to visit the hospital, and on the way home, just after 8.00, the light was clear and the sky glowing gently. This shot is from near Howgate, looking west towards the Pentland Hills.