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[acraichean]
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[Heavy stones attached to keep thatch secure in place in time of storm (see na strathan).]
Origin: Skye
Category: Taigh Gàidhealach / House and Furnishings
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[boinne]
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Tha boinne air a ghaoith. – The herald of a rain storm.
Origin: Lochaber
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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[spionadh]
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Tha e spionadh an t-sneachda. – the beginning of a snow-storm.
Origin: Lochaber
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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[stoirm]
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Stoirm dhearg bhristeadh nan tighean – the red storm to break the houses.
Location: Killearn
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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[storm in Barra]
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b) There’ll be a storm in Barra the next day if the mountains of Rhum [sic] seem unusually clear, and close to Barra, when viewed from hill on point above Bruernish.
Origin: [Barra]
Category: Sìde / Weather
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acair
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Quotation: Bha i cosmhail ri acair an aranach. Notes: He was so careful that he always kept his anchor ashore even when he put to sea. When the storm came, he had none to save him.
Origin: Islay, Port Charlotte
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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aiteal [?]
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a break or a lull in a storm.
Location: South Uist, Peninerine
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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anfadh
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storm of wind.
Origin: [Strathglass]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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ashadh
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storm tossed, rough passage as at sea. Fhuair iad ashadh a dol tarsainn a’ chuain an dé. (Harris)
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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baun
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band – each house had its own different method of tying the bands handed down from the days of the rig-about system – when a storm might mix up sheaves from different rigs. (Stoer, Assynt)
Origin: Assynt, Stoer
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
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beithir
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an electric storm, where lightning strikes.
Location: South Uist, Bornish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bidiridh
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(the bird) storm petrel.
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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blouraichean
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heavy seas; waves of exceptional size; breakers in a storm.
Location: [Harris], Scalpaigh [Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bùtarras
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a change in weather conditions bringing storm and rain. “Tha bùtarras orra a nochd.”
Location: South Uist, Daliburgh
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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cabhadh làir
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snow storm, i.e. hard-driven, dry snow.
Origin: Lewis, Uig
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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cas
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[kɑ˖s] Quotation: Thàinig i cho cas an deidh sinach. Notes: rough, of a storm.
Location: Mull
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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cosmhail
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[kɔsɑl] Quotation: Bha i cosmhail ri acair an aranach. Notes: He was so careful that he kept his anchor ashore even when he went out in his boat. When he was caught in a storm, he had none to save him.
Origin: Islay, Port Charlotte
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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deardal
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storm of wind.
Origin: [Strathglass]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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dearg stoirm
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an unusual storm force. [NOTES: slipped under ‘dearg’ with ‘dearg-stoirm’ as the quotation. Definition: Storm of unusual force.]
Location: Harris, Scalpay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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deargann doininn
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spot of red, indicating storm to follow.
Location: Skye, Bernisdale
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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feadag
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Quotation: an fheadag [əŋẹdɑɡ]. Notes: the green plover. Said to whistle 24 hours before a storm.
Location: Ross of Mull
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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fiacail
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[fıɤxkılʹ] Quotation: Tha fiacail anns an àirde tuath. Notes: a short length of rainbow said to indicate an imminent storm. (Usually seen to the north – DMM.)
Origin: Glenurquhart
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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ghailbhich
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raise a storm.
Location: Skye
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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marcachd shiona
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riding storm.
Origin: Lochaber
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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marcachd shíona
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the riding storm.
Origin: Lochaber
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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na sgrathan
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These were square pieces of green sod or turf thinly cut with a sharp kind of spade called a ‘caibe-làir’. There was an art in the cutting of a ‘sgrath’ and an ordinary spade would not do. The ‘sgrathan’ were laid on top of the rafters, ‘taobhain’ [q.v.] and ‘maidean-ceangail’ [q.v.] in a very methodical way, so that every inch of wood was covered. Finally the thatch, rushes or heather, was carefully spread on top of ‘sgrathan’ and held down by heather ropes, ‘sioman fraoich’, in criss-cross pattern. To the ends of these ropes, which dangled over the top of wall below, heavy stones called ‘acraichean’ were attached to keep thatch secure in place in time of storm. If the least flaw was detected in a ‘sgrath’ after it was cut, it was at once discarded as unsuitable for the roof of a building.
Origin: Skye
Category: Taigh Gàidhealach / House and Furnishings
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pàraig
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storm petrel.
Origin: Glasgow/South Uist? or South Uist, Kildonan or South Uist, Garrynamonie or South Uist or Skye, Bernisdale
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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ri port
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storm bound in port; in port, for some reason, etc.
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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roids
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[rɔḏʃ] Quot.: roids de stoirm. Note: a fairly heavy storm – half-gale with a very rough sea.
Origin: [Lewis], Arnol
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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rothtach
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Quotation: Tha rothtach math gaoithe ann. Notes: there’s a good gale of wind. Dw. has rotach ‘rush, etc…; storm (Suth’d)’.
Location: Lewis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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ruideag a Chuain a Siar
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storm petrel.
Origin: Lewis, Uig
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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sgubair
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opening in a boat’s side by the gunwale to allow the water to run from the deck back to the sea, as in the event of the boat taking spray or seawater on board when in as storm; scupper.
Location: Harris, Scalpay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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siocladh
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a slight break of [sic] [or?] abatement in a storm.
Location: [Harris], Scalpaigh [Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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sion
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storm of wind.
Origin: [Strathglass]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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stoirm uamhasach
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frightening storm.
Location: Harris, Scalpay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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tha i na griosaich
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a storm, hurricane.
Location: Na Hearadh [Harris], Cluer
Category: Cruth na Tìre / Landscape Features
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thaiseadh
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storm. Fhuair iad thaiseadh oirre. [sic] (storm and rain) (Perhaps from tais.) [SLIP: Rain-filled storm.]
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris,Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
