Rùm rest of the British Isles and Scotland, Rùm features a strongly maritime climate with cool summers and mild winters. There is a MetOffice weather station at Kinloch providing long term climate observations. The main range of hills on Rùm are the Cuillin, usually referred to as the "Rùm Cuillin", in order to distinguish them from the Cuillin of Skye. They are rocky peaks of gabbro, forming the Rum layered intrusion. Geologically, Rùm is the core of a deeply eroded volcano that was active in the Paleogene era some 60 million years ago, and which developed on a pre-existing structure of
Dix Hills, New York Dix Hills, New York Dix Hills is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) on Long Island in the town of Huntington in Suffolk County, New York, United States. The population was 26,892 at the 2010 census. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP of Dix Hills has a total area of , all of it land. The town of Huntington, of which Dix Hills is a part, has a total area of , of which is land and , or 31.35%, is water. Dix Hills is located centrally on Long Island, on the south edge of Huntington, bordering