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ROYAL CRESCENT

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Currently closed to road traffic following a surfeit of lum lumps. 

And Storm Amy. 

#Edinburgh 

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#Storm Amy 

SMIZZLIN SPURTLESHIRE

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After five days and nights of near constant rain, this Spurtle correspondent stepped out in leaking wellies and went for a squelch.

The sun didn't break from behind a cloud.

Instead, the neighbourhood turned out to be variously …

Droukit in St Mark's Park

CAPITAL FOG – IT COULD BE WORSE

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This morning we woke to a third day of miserable damp gloom.

It may seem grim. But Edinburgh has known worse.

The following article is extracted from a longer piece published in the Scotsman on 16 November 1929 – the day after weather conditions had combined with smoke from coal fires to spectacular effect.

 

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