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Heavy snow showers and brighter spells Temp: -0.2C Dew: -1.5C Wind Chill: -4.7C Wind: N @ 13.6kts I quite like the look of this trough headed my way, could get interesting in a couple of hours time! http://www.sat24.com/de/eu?ir=true

Oil fired or wet systems using a megaflo boiler. They used to bring coal up here but it was very expensive to freight up here and in any case if you had an open fire there was a plentiful supply of fuel under your feet - peat! Some people up here still burn peat. Most of the houses around me are new and therefore don't have open fires. Update: Heavy snow shower here now (see pic below)

Couple of pics taken this morning:

Snowing here again and we have a light covering of lying snow. Would think it will melt though once the sun gets up.

Cold with snow showers and a light dusting of lying snow and currently snowing at the moment. Temp: 0.4C Dew: -0.9C Wind Chill: -3. Overnight min: 0.1C Wind: NNW @ 11.1kts Pressure: 1018 hPa (falling) Humidity: 91% Rainfall: 0.0mm

We have a light covering of snow here this morning

A few light snow flurries early today and a more substantial shower just recently leaving a dusting.

Snowing quite heavily, everyhting white. Temp: 0.1C Dew: -0.9C Wet Bulb: -0.3C Wind: NNW @ 6.4kts

Snowing quite heavily here in Shetland at the moment and everything is white! Temp: 0.2C Dew: -0.8C, Wind Chill -2.5C

Albeit a couple of blustery showers so far, although overnight looks quite promising especially into the early hours. I'm quite pleased with myself because I flagged this up on the gulberwick weather website and FB page a week ago and issued a Yellow Alert on Monday (the Met office have followed suit today). It's always nice to get one up on the experts, especially will all the gear at their disposal! As I write (7.20pm) the temp is 2.2C and the Dew is -1.2C which is not bad for October"! I get copied in to the forecasts the Meto issue to the local authority which puts more details on the alert issued. It says: "[font=Arial]Shetland, in particular, will see some testing conditions on Thursday and Friday with cold temperatures, strong to gale force northwesterly winds (possibly reaching severe gale force for a time around midday on Friday) and frequent wintry showers. " We'll see. I'm certainly hopeful of a covering by morning so I'll get some photos taken if thats the case.[/font] [font=Arial]If you go to my website the webcam image is on the front page. It updates every 5 mins so just click refresh to get the latest pic.[/font] [url="http://www.gulberwickweather.co.uk/"][font=Arial][size=2][size=2][size=2][size=2][size=2]http://www.gulberwickweather.co.uk/[/size][/size][/size][/size][/size][/font][/url] Update: Awoke to a light covering of snow as I thought. Further snow showers this morning.

Occasional snow showers and sunny spells. Cold. Temp: 2.9C Dew: -2.8C Wind Chill: -2.4C Wind: N @ 15.7kts

The forces of "if it isn't snowing in Englandshire then it isn't snowing" are legion!

Cold with blustery snow showers. Temp: 1.9C Dew: 0.1C Wet Bulb: 1.2C Wind Chill: -3C Wind: N @ 14.2kts

Snowing quite heavily here at the moment

Just had a blustery snow shower. Temp 2.9C, Dew 0.3C I like this, I like this a lot! : http://www.sat24.com...oop.aspx?type=1 Much heavier shower this time, not lying as yet though. This is a quote from the full text of the warning just issued by the Meto that I get via e-mail: "Shetland, in particular, will see some testing conditions on Thursday and Friday with cold temperatures, strong to gale force northwesterly winds (possibly reaching severe gale force for a time around midday on Friday) and frequent wintry showers. "

Cold with light snow showers. Temp: 3.1C Dew: -0.1C Wind Chill: -2.2C Wind: N @ 21kts (Force 5)

Certainly chilly up here today! Temp 3.2C Dew -0.5C. Like the look of tomorrow for here!

Cold and breezy with wintry showers this morning. Currently 3.1C, Dew 0.3C

Cold and breezy with wintry showers. Temp: 3.2C Dew: 0.6C Wind Chill: -1.4C Wind: N @ 16.1kts Pressure: 1019.2 hPa (falling slowly) Humidity: 82% Rainfall: 0.6mm

Looking forward to a bit of the white stuff. Not unusual to get snow up here last week in October. In 3 of the last four years its happened and looks like it will again this year. Temp falling here already down to 5.5C with a dew of 3.8C, expecting some wintry showers later on and then turning to snow tomorrow morning. Friday looks quite good atm

Cloudy but dry and becoming colder. Temp: 5.6C Dew: 3.9C Wet Bulb: 4.8C Wind: N @ 10.7kts Pressure: 1024.5 hPa (falling slowly) Humidity: 89% Rianfall: 0.6mm

Mainly cloudy and getting colder. Temp: 7.6C Dew: 5.6C Wind: N @ 6kts Pressure: 1025 hPa (falling slowly) Humidity: 87% Rainfall: 0.6mm

Cloudy. Temps starting to fall quickly already, dropped 1.1C in the last hour. Temp: 8.7C Dew: 8.4C Wind: W @ 2.7kts Pressure: 1023.9 hPa (falling) Humidity: 98% Rainfall: 0.0mm

Here comes winter! Not unusal to be getting snow up here at this time of year (had lying snow last week of October in 3 of the last 4 years) but I'm still looking forward to it! Expecting wintry showers here overnight Weds into Thurs and then some snow.

A cloudy start this morning, mainly fine this afternoon with varying cloud cover and sunny spells. Temp: 9.8C Dew: 8.3C Wind: WSW @ 8kts Pressure: 1029 hPa (falling slowly) Humidity: 90% Rainfall: 0.0mm