A wind gust whipping up the Clyde yesterdy passed the Armadillo, turning the water surface into a mass of spindrift. This phenomenon only happens when wind speeds top 40 miles an hour. This was taken after the red storm warning had ended at 5pm, so goodness know what it would have looked like at the height of Storm Eowyn, when the gusts were more than twice this speed in places.

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Without this structure in the Firth of Clyde, Glasgow could never have become a dominant force in shipbuilding, engineering and trade. Until the late 1700s, the Clyde was unpassably shallow east of Dumbarton. This all changed when John Golborne designed and built the 800-yard long Lang Dyke in 1773. It effectively narrowed the width of the main channel, so increasing its depth.

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