Snowy day on top of Strathspey

By Tom Ramage

- tom.ramage@hnmedia.co.uk

Published: 16:16, 04 May 2025

| Updated: 14:01, 05 May 2025

Right at the top of the hill, visiting the Ptarmigan today, visitors got the best view of the latest snow shower. Picture: Cairngorm Mountain.

Spring is here on Cairngorm.

Today’s live webcam at the Ptarmigan Restaurant confirm reports of -3C wintry blasts with a thin covering of snow.

Alana Invernon and Olivia Greenwood in the snow outside the Ptarmigan restaurant at Cairngorm Mountain on Sunday. Picture: Peter Jolly.

Highlands and Islands Weather Service, based in Strathspey, had earlier reported:

“A chilly Saturday, with a fresh north to NW wind which will touch gale force at times for the Northern Isles and along the north and Aberdeenshire coast.

“Scattered showers and bright spells, showers most frequent for Moray and Aberdeenshire where some will be heavy with hail, wintry on the tops of the mountains.”

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