Here in Sanday (whose name comes from the old Norse for "island where it
gets quite windy quite often but it never snows even when the rest of
the UK is blanketed") it is actually snowing. Large flakes of wet snow.
Not quite a full covering yet, but still coming down.

Temp 0.9C, dew point 0.2C.
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Steve Loft
Sanday, Orkney. 5m ASL. http://sanday.org.uk/weather
Free weather station softwa http://sandaysoft.com/
uk.sci.weather FAQs/glossary/etc: http://weatherfaqs.org.uk/

05/02/2009 12:27:03
Steve Loft wrote in message


Here in Sanday (whose name comes from the old Norse for "island
where it
gets quite windy quite often but it never snows even when the rest
of
the UK is blanketed") it is actually snowing. Large flakes of wet
snow.
Not quite a full covering yet, but still coming down.

Temp 0.9C, dew point 0.2C.
--
Steve Loft
Sanday, Orkney. 5m ASL. http://sanday.org.uk/weather
Free weather station softwa http://sandaysoft.com/
uk.sci.weather FAQs/glossary/etc: http://weatherfaqs.org.uk/

.. . . and I see that according to Orkney Today, all Orkney schools -
apart from Westray - are to close early today "because of the wintry
weather and forecast". Dave, Fair Isle

Dave Wheeler wrote:

. . . and I see that according to Orkney Today, all Orkney schools -
apart from Westray - are to close early today "because of the wintry
weather and forecast". Dave, Fair Isle

Indeed. I have no idea why, I can only assume they expect it to get much
worse by several orders of magnitude.

Here's the view from Kirkwall airport, so you can see how terrible the
conditions a

http://www.kirkwallairport.info/capture1.jpg
--
Steve Loft
Sanday, Orkney. 5m ASL. http://sanday.org.uk/weather
Free weather station softwa http://sandaysoft.com/
uk.sci.weather FAQs/glossary/etc: http://weatherfaqs.org.uk/