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  1. Bit of a noisy night here last night! Top gust here in Gulberwick 81mph. Other top gusts in Shetland - Foula 98mph, Fair Isle 92mph, Lerwick 77mph, Baltasound 67mph. Some power cuts up here, ferries cancelled and schools closed. Reports of widespread power outages in Orkney, Radio Orkney is off the air due to transmitter damage and aparrently the top gust down there was 138mph!
  2. Its a tad noisy up here right now! Just had a gust of 81mph!
  3. All kicking off here again now and turning cold very quickly, temp currently dropping at over 2C/hr, current conditions:
  4. All kicking off again up here. Already getting gusts in excess of 60mph. Temp is dropping at the rate of over 2C/hr and is currently 1.9C, dewpoint dropping at the rate of 1.4C/hr and currently 1.5C, showers already turned to sleet, won't be long before its snow. Kirkwall in Orkney already had a gust of 81mph.
  5. Winds dropped and gone cyclonic, pressure bottomed out at 956hPa.
  6. Top gust so far 67kts = 74mph. Pressure 958.7hPa and still falling.
  7. Now gusting in excess of 60kts (66mph) with heavy, driving rain
  8. Top gust here at the moment is 54.8kts = 60mph steady windspeeds 40-oddkts = Severe gale 9
  9. Already getting quite unpleasant up here, driving rain and gusting in excess of 50kts. Expecting Violent Storm 11 in the next few hours and latest gale warning issued by the Meto says Hurricane Force 12 expected after about 3pm.
  10. Already quite unpleasant up here, driving rain and gusting in excess of 50kts from the SE. Latest Gale Warning for sea area Fair Isle - Hurricane Force 12
  11. Very up and down at the moment. Temps getting up to 3C between showers but dropping rapidly to around 0C in showers. Lerwick and surrounding areas quite bad, south mainland not so bad. Aparrently there was some thundersnow during the night and some of the power cables have been zapped by lighting so about 3000 folk in the north of Shetland without power at the moment. Total of 7 schools shut at the moment.
  12. Wetter and sleety now, temp and dp rising, currently both at 1C. Typical! Just as I say that its really coming down again lol
  13. There ye go! http://217.44.36.27:8081/ Eased a bit at the moment. Wind Chill currently -8C
  14. About 6-7cms, main problem is the wind, Gale Force gusting to 55kts causing drifting.
  15. Looking at the satpic we could be in for a few hours of this up here! http://www.sat24.com/
  16. Pretty atrocious conditions here at the moment, heavy wet snow being driven on a Force 7 NW wind which is gusting to 55kts.
  17. Heavy snow being driven on a gale force NW'ly currently gusting to 55kts, prettu atrocious conditions atm.
  18. Some heavy snow showers overnight and blizzard conditions at the moment
  19. Indeed Coast. Certainly expecting some more here later this afternoon and tonight looks quite interesting with the NW winds expected to reach gale force in the early hours.
  20. Bright and frosty this morning but 6-7cms of snow overnight, a real winter wonderland!
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