Can anybody comment on how usual/unusual
the current warmth in the Shetlands is?

05/1200 from Ogimet
Sumburgh A/P 20
Baltasound 19.5
Lerwick 18.5

My correspondent reports folk divesting themselves
of their fleeces in the Islands capital.

Thanks

Jim
Castle Douglas

On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 06:31:27 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

Can anybody comment on how usual/unusual
the current warmth in the Shetlands is?

05/1200 from Ogimet
Sumburgh A/P 20
Baltasound 19.5
Lerwick 18.5

My correspondent reports folk divesting themselves
of their fleeces in the Islands capital.

Thanks

Jim
Castle Douglas

I have a friend who lives just north of Lerwick. He has just been on Skype
boasting that it is several degrees warmer up there, with beautiful blue
skies, than what it is here in Cornwall.
He reported 19.2°C - here it is only 13.4°C with rain and a SW gale.
--
MCC

I worked in Shetland many years ago and I can tell you that 21C in Lerwick
is not that common.

Will
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Can anybody comment on how usual/unusual
the current warmth in the Shetlands is?

05/1200 from Ogimet
Sumburgh A/P 20
Baltasound 19.5
Lerwick 18.5

My correspondent reports folk divesting themselves
of their fleeces in the Islands capital.

Thanks

Jim
Castle Douglas

"MCC" wrote in message
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On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 06:31:27 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

Can anybody comment on how usual/unusual
the current warmth in the Shetlands is?

05/1200 from Ogimet
Sumburgh A/P 20
Baltasound 19.5
Lerwick 18.5

My correspondent reports folk divesting themselves
of their fleeces in the Islands capital.

Thanks

Jim
Castle Douglas

I have a friend who lives just north of Lerwick. He has just been on Skype
boasting that it is several degrees warmer up there, with beautiful blue
skies, than what it is here in Cornwall.
He reported 19.2°C - here it is only 13.4°C with rain and a SW gale.
--
MCC

As much as that!
11.2C here in Haytor in balmy Devon with continuous heavy driving rain.
Funny old world :-)

Will
--

On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 15:17:01 +0100, Will Hand wrote:

I worked in Shetland many years ago and I can tell you that 21C in Lerwick
is not that common.

Will

They'd be dropping like flies in that heat :-)

I too worked in Shetland between 1985 and 1991.
I can remember attending a function at Lerwick Observatory. Walking home
down the hill afterwards the spray was being blown off the Sandy Loch
reservoir and turning to ice before it got to me and my partner.
Vicious little bullets they were, but they helped with the sobering up
process :-)
--
MCC

"MCC" wrote in message
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On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 15:17:01 +0100, Will Hand wrote:

I worked in Shetland many years ago and I can tell you that 21C in
Lerwick
is not that common.

Will

They'd be dropping like flies in that heat :-)

I too worked in Shetland between 1985 and 1991.
I can remember attending a function at Lerwick Observatory. Walking home
down the hill afterwards the spray was being blown off the Sandy Loch
reservoir and turning to ice before it got to me and my partner.
Vicious little bullets they were, but they helped with the sobering up
process :-)
--

My very first shift I had to walk up that hill against a force 9 at 0530 in
the morning. Sheesh I only made it because some kind soul stopped to give me
a lift. Got to work and the wind was 45 knots gusting 60 knots, the night
shift said it was getting a bit windy, a bit windy ... ! What a place to
live.

Will
--

On Jul 5, 2:31*pm, wrote:
Can anybody comment on how usual/unusual
the current warmth in the Shetlands is?

05/1200 from Ogimet
Sumburgh A/P * * *20
Baltasound * * * * * 19.5
Lerwick * * * * * * * *18.5

My correspondent reports folk divesting themselves
of their fleeces in the Islands capital.

Thanks

Jim
Castle Douglas

Pretty unusual, I'd say, given that the all-time record is 24°C
(I think).

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 15:42:07 +0100, Will Hand wrote:

"MCC" wrote in message
. ..
On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 15:17:01 +0100, Will Hand wrote:

I worked in Shetland many years ago and I can tell you that 21C in
Lerwick
is not that common.

Will

They'd be dropping like flies in that heat :-)

I too worked in Shetland between 1985 and 1991.
I can remember attending a function at Lerwick Observatory. Walking home
down the hill afterwards the spray was being blown off the Sandy Loch
reservoir and turning to ice before it got to me and my partner.
Vicious little bullets they were, but they helped with the sobering up
process :-)
--

My very first shift I had to walk up that hill against a force 9 at 0530 in
the morning. Sheesh I only made it because some kind soul stopped to give me
a lift. Got to work and the wind was 45 knots gusting 60 knots, the night
shift said it was getting a bit windy, a bit windy ... ! What a place to
live.

Will

Wasn't too bad for me having been born and brought up in Orkney and spent
most of my working life at sea.
--
MCC

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: Can anybody comment on how usual/unusual
: the current warmth in the Shetlands is?
:
: 05/1200 from Ogimet
: Sumburgh A/P 20
: Baltasound 19.5
: Lerwick 18.5
:
: My correspondent reports folk divesting themselves
: of their fleeces in the Islands capital.

Max. temps reported in synops - Fair Isle 18.2°C, Lerwick 18.9°C,
Baltasound 20.1°C.

Colin Youngs
Brussels

Pretty unusual, I'd say, given that the all-time record is 24°C
(I think).

Something sticks in my mind that 24°C is the record for Orkney as well. I
would have thought that Shetland's record would have been lower than Orkney
but you never know.

I was in Orkney when the thermometer 'hit' 21°C. All the locals were moaning
and asked how I coped with the dreadful heat and humidity being out 'in it'
all day long. I replied that I thought it was the first really pleasant day
I had experienced in the 6 weeks I had been there that summer.

One of the Orcadians visited me the following year in July 1995. They had
only ever visited Aberdeen a few times. It was during that very hot summer
and it nearly killed them. They spent the first few days just lying down and
covering their head with a wet flannel. It was exceptionally hot but they
had never experienced anything like it before. Gradually they acclimatised
and started to enjoy the hot evenings outside in the garden and swimming in
the nearby river.
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Nick.
Otter Valley, Devon
83 m amsl
http://www.ottervalley.co.uk