Month: January 2018

Strathdearn is on the map …. the weather map! Now we have a daily weather forecast created by a local man using locally gathered data.

Highlands & Islands Weather has recently installed a new weather monitoring station in Tomatin. This records temperature, rainfall and wind speed automatically and loads the data online.
https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=IINVERNE16

Highlands & Islands Weather is a donation run service operated by Lee Schofield of Carrbridge in his free time. Lee has a vast knowledge of meteorology and uses this to provide accurate local forecasts for the area each day on his Facebook page which has 90,000 followers. Non-Facebookers can view  a forecast based on the data HERE.

Highlands & Islands Weather have a large network of reporting stations across the Highlands & Islands area which feed live data to them 24/7 enabling Lee to warn people in all corners of the area of low temperature, high rainfall or strong winds being recorded in their immediate vicinity.
https://www.highlandweather.info/Selective/

Looking for a gift for your loved one this Valentines Day?

We have a lovely selection of handmade Valentines cards,

wine and chocolates in store.

And cream eggs are now on sale too!

We like to do our bit for the environment at Tomatin Community Shop. You can drop off your batteries for recycling in store. Just pop them in the red box near the front door.

Why recycle batteries?

Batteries are made from important resources and chemicals, including lead, cadmium, zinc, lithium and mercury. Each battery placed in the bright red recycling box will be taken apart and many of the materials will be recovered and used to make new batteries or something else. If you put your batteries into a rubbish bin they will be taken to landfill sites and the resources lost.

Recycling batteries is good for the environment. It keeps them out of landfill, where heavy metals may leak into the ground when the battery casing corrodes, causing soil and water pollution. If batteries are incinerated with household waste, the heavy metals in them may cause air pollution.