mgb2010 Posted September 3, 2008 Report Share Posted September 3, 2008 Has anyone got any good photos of yesterdays freak weather in Skeld? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fairislefaerie Posted September 3, 2008 Report Share Posted September 3, 2008 Freak weather ? Angie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxFusion Posted September 3, 2008 Report Share Posted September 3, 2008 Saw some rather nasty lookin thunder clouds over skeld way yesterday afternoon and some big rumbleing sounds coming from there too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulb Posted September 3, 2008 Report Share Posted September 3, 2008 you had better belive it was freaky we still have a foot of hail drifts at the front. the storm seemed stuck above us for about 3 hours some truly powerful lightning. 3 strikes in our and next doors fields. the loch at the bottom was flooded and the stream to the sea was getting close to flooding the road. that will teach me to laugh about the weather down south the roads had a good few inchs of hail on them and they had to be gritted. very simular to a mid winter scene Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Njugle Posted September 3, 2008 Report Share Posted September 3, 2008 It wis fine tae see a grain o snaa aboot da place Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rasmie Posted September 3, 2008 Report Share Posted September 3, 2008 Its the price you pay for living up North.Down here in the balmy South, we were oot i wir sark sleeves, cuttin' da girse............................... mind you yun sunscreen is a bit o'a clatch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PJ of Hildisvik Posted September 3, 2008 Report Share Posted September 3, 2008 According to the Met office in Aberdeen yesterday, all we had were a few light scattered showers!, you get a better forecast from seaweed, it's about time we had Shetland weather forecasting done from Shetland, and not 300 miles away, imagine being on top of Ronas Hill in a Lightning storm with no shelter or protection what's so ever, because you listened to the Bloody Stupid forecast from Scotland and decided to go for a hike.PILLOCKS!. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Njugle Posted September 3, 2008 Report Share Posted September 3, 2008 @ Rasmie Well.....not entirely. I spoke to a gentleman of the Northmavine area during the evening and he informed me they hadn't even seen rain and had faintly heard the thunder in the distance. Haven't checked with the north isles as yet @PJ, the Met office have a branch in Lerwick http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/os/lerwick_latest_weather_graphs.html (but they only had 2mm of rain.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PJ of Hildisvik Posted September 3, 2008 Report Share Posted September 3, 2008 He does'nt live in Hillswick then, plenty of lightning and torrential rain, hence no power from 4.30pm till9.30pm, as regards the forecasting from Aberdeen this whole summer has been very poor and very misleading especially for tourists, who just may venture up on say Ronas Hill and get caught out in thunder storms etc that weren't forecast, being local i know not to listen to the Forecast but to use my own expierience from hiking round different parts of the world and knowing the un predictable weather of these isles. Studying the Met office's saterlite pictures helps, something that they don't seem to do themselves! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fairislefaerie Posted September 3, 2008 Report Share Posted September 3, 2008 Not a hint of it in fair isle, yesterday was hot & muggy the whole day Angie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PJ of Hildisvik Posted September 3, 2008 Report Share Posted September 3, 2008 Yeh the weather station is at the Knab, it doesn't give a true indication of the weather throught out Shetland, ie, fog in Lerwick for 4 days, whilst it is sunny and warm on Yell for 4 days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
engineer21 Posted September 3, 2008 Report Share Posted September 3, 2008 I heard the Rumbles of thunder most of afternoon and i was fishing at the south end of bressay then we started seeing lighting strikes out west, during that time the clouds shifted our way east even tho wind appears too be coming a differnt direction. then there were a few good strikes in the sea off bressay too the east pretty spectacular! follwed by that heavy rain in the town early evening!Strange for the weather to end up like that was a superb afternoon mostly! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fifi Posted September 3, 2008 Report Share Posted September 3, 2008 Ok. I'll hold my hands up and say sorry. It was all my fault.. I'd just finished torturing the monkeys when the sky turned the most amazing ominous dark grey and then there was a bolt of lightning. I scrabbled to disconnect the computer.. As if that wasn't enough, I was then punished with a 5 hr power cut.. Divine retribution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pooks Posted September 3, 2008 Report Share Posted September 3, 2008 Knew there had to be a reason for it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fairislefaerie Posted September 3, 2008 Report Share Posted September 3, 2008 Ahhh Women who play with monkey anger the sky gods. Blimey these forums have a lot to answer for.... Angie (who's watching North Ron be rained upon... wonder how many monkeys they have ...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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