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Blair Atholl (from the Scottish Gaelic: Blàr Athall, originally Blàr Ath Fhodla [2]) is a village in Perthshire, Scotland, built about the confluence of the Rivers Tilt and Garry in one of the few areas of flat land in the midst of the Grampian Mountains. [3] The Gaelic place-name Blair, from blàr, 'field, plain', refers to this location.
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As a place-name Lairig Ghru remains an enigma. Lairig means hill pass, and map-makers of the nineteenth century solved the problem to their own satisfaction by substituting for Ghru the word Ghruamach, for which they had apparently not the slightest authority. Ghruamach means forbidding or surly, and forbidding the Lairig often is in wild ...
The nearest official Met Office weather station for which online records are available is Faskally, about 2 miles (3 km) north-west of the town centre. Typically the warmest day of the year will rise to 26.3 °C (79.3 °F) [ 20 ] and the coldest night will fall to −10.6 °C (12.9 °F). [ 21 ]
The Meteorological Office, abbreviated as the Met Office, [2] is the United Kingdom's national weather and climate service. It is an executive agency and trading fund of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and is led by CEO [3] Penelope Endersby, who took on the role as Chief Executive in December 2018 and is the first woman to do so. [4]
Map of Scotland showing roughly the district of Atholl Aerial view of Blair Atholl (Gaelic Blàr Athall, "the plain of Atholl"). Atholl or Athole (Scottish Gaelic: Athall) is a district in the heart of the Scottish Highlands, bordering (in clockwise order, from north-east) Marr, Gowrie, Perth, Strathearn, Breadalbane, Lochaber, and Badenoch.
There is also a caravan park, River Tilt Park. There are few shops within the new village, but there is a restaurant, 'The Loft' and a local grocery, the 'Tilt Stores'. Blair Atholl Primary School is located on St Adamnan Road in Bridge of Tilt. Buses stop outside the Bridge of Tilt Hotel and offer services to Pitlochry, Calvine and Struan.
The nearest official Met Office weather station for which online records are available is Dunstaffnage on the mainland north of Oban. Climate data for Dunstaffnage 3m asl, 1971-2000 (Weather station 2.7 kilometres (2 mi) NNE of Oban)