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Troon - Calm Before Storm Eowyn   The Scotsman visits Troon before storm Eowyn.

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00:00I'm down at Troon front beach and I've come down here for a bit of exercise. I'm going

00:16to walk today from Troon to Barrissite and back. I'll see the cam before the storm, so

00:21we'll see what light tomorrow brings if it's going to be a lot more wilder. I don't think

00:26I'll be driving down to Troon but I will check to see how it is and if it was just a wind

00:31I would still go out and walk but if it's going to be heavy rain and storms then I'll

00:36probably stay in the house. There's a lot more storms especially into winter, it seems

00:41to be lasting longer and it's probably down to global warming. The weather's definitely

00:47changing, we don't get the summers we used to get. Years ago we didn't get these big

00:52long storms, maybe one or two, but now we're definitely getting more. When I get up in

00:57the morning I'll check the weather forecast and see how it is, what it's saying and then

01:02if it wasn't too bad I still might go out and walk but if it's going to be severe weather

01:07I'll probably just do something at home and stay in the house. It's definitely important

01:11to make sure you're well wrapped up. I've got on about four layers a day including a

01:17waterproof jacket. There's no point in going out if you're going to get soaked and the

01:22wind going right through you. I think people do definitely check the weather forecast to

01:26see when these storms are coming. The problem is that we get told that there's going to

01:31be a storm and then it doesn't materialise for some reason, it's not as bad as they're

01:36making out. Red is severe so if that's the case then I would expect this place to be

01:43you know, waves coming right over the walls. So I don't think there'll be any boats sailing

01:49out tomorrow. My daughter's just messaged me to say her school's closed tomorrow as

01:53are many schools in and around Glasgow and Scotland. I suppose there's weather forecasts

02:00and there's weather forecasts, I'll start by looking out the window and see if it's

02:03actually came to fruition. I'll think about where I might walk my dog and where I might

02:08not walk my dog. Probably not go in amongst trees which I would normally do if there's

02:12high winds. And yeah, get the fire on, hunker down, watch some television with the kids

02:18because they're not going to be at school. I don't know so much in Scotland if the weather's

02:23changed dramatically. I suppose I always think that giving storms names tends to make people

02:30more aware and more anxious about them. Again, meteorologists have a job to do and weather

02:36forecasters have a job to do on television, it's all part of the news. And I do think

02:40giving them names makes people more concerned about the weather. I don't see that winter's

02:50changed that much, it's probably not as cold throughout the winters in Scotland and maybe

02:56not as much snow and ice. Well I'm actually a bit worried about it because I came here

03:01to collect a new set of bagpipes, I'm due to play at a number of Burns Suppers next

03:06week and so my plan is to get back to Cambridge tomorrow evening. So from hearing the forecast

03:14I'm beginning to get a bit worried about whether that's actually going to happen or not. I

03:18was going to fly here, so we'll see what happens. Even if it begins to calm in the evening I'm

03:23worried that the planes will all be in the wrong places so we'll just wait and see what

03:28happens I guess. I think it's difficult to point to any single weather condition and

03:33say that that's got something to do with climate change but there's absolutely no doubt

03:37in my mind that when you look at the totality of it all, what's going on in Los Angeles

03:43with fires and the floods and so on, there's no doubt in my mind whatsoever. And the global

03:47temperatures increasing year on year, no doubt in my mind that that is all part of a set

03:53of man-made weather change.

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