Online Weather: Scotland Overview - Gives maps and predictions for various periods ahead, special interest forecasts, climate tables and links to the rest of the world.
Scotland Online: Weather - Displays summary map and text, Scottish regional, local and outdoor pursuits forecasts, satellite images and climate data.
Scotland Calling - Links to local five-day forecasts for centres around the country and to various providers of weather data.
Sky News Weather - Largely text-based service which includes warnings and special-interest forecasts.
Online Weather: North East Scotland - Maps and text forecasts up to five days ahead, covering Moray, Aberdeenshire, Angus and parts of Perth and Kinross and Highland.
Online Weather: West Central Scotland - Maps and text forecasts up to five days ahead, covering Argyll and Bute, Glasgow and parts of Stirling and Ayrshire.
Online Weather: Southern Scotland - Maps and text forecasts up to five days ahead, covering the area south of the Forth-Clyde corridor.
Online Weather: Highlands and Hebrides - Maps and text forecasts up to five days ahead, covering the Western Isles, Highland and areas directly north of the Clyde.
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-- Arthur Schoperhauer We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
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-- George Bernard Shaw Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
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-- George Bernard Shaw Weather Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
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-- Marcus Aurelius Weather
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
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- Antoine de Saint Exupery Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
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-- Dave Barry Weather
The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
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- William Jennings Bryan It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Weather
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
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-- Virginia Woolf Weather
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
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Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
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-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Weather
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-- Rose Franken Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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-- Oscar Wilde Weather If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
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-- John Kenneth Galbraith Weather
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-- Charles Evans Hughes People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
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