Chocolate Snowdrifts
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Chocolate Snowdrifts by Anne Burgess as part of the Geograph project.
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Chocolate Snowdrifts
Image: © Anne Burgess Taken: 14 Feb 2021
After the snow had lain white and sparkling for two or three days, the wind got up and started blowing the snow off the fields and into drifts along the roads. Once all the soft powdery snow had been blown away, the wind blew the topsoil out of the same fields, covering the snowdrifts in earth and making them look like chocolate. Things were not too bad here, but just a few miles further east the conditions were very much worse and the A98 between Fochabers and Buckie was closed for over 24 hours, with vehicles almost buried in choc ice. See https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-56062659
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Image Location
Latitude
57.622651
Longitude
-3.120698