winds cause havoc
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THE A74 and M74 in Southern Scotland became littered with overturned trucks and vans last week as westerly Winds reaching hurricane force played havoc with road transport.
On Thursday last week, officers from the Strathclyde and Dumfries and Galloway police forces stopped drivers of high sided vehicles aboot to cross the more exposed stretches of the A74 to warn them of the dangers of continuing their journeys.
Many pulled in to the roadside to wait for the wind to subside.
On the same day, the Tay
road bridge was closed to all traffic, while the Forth bridge was closed to high-sided vehicles.
The Meteorological Office at Edinburgh says it has not yet received local weather station reports and so cannot confirm details of wind speeds, but gusts of 122km/h (66 knots) were recorded over a three hour period on Thursday at Glasgow Airport.
Radio reports had wind speeds in the Strathclyde area even higher, and gusts of 260km/h (14(1 knots) were recorded further north in the Cairngorm mountain range.