Hot weather in Shetland

The temperature in Shetland rose to 21 degrees on Friday, excellent for this far north. With the hot weather comes fog which has been thick on a couple of days and thunderstorms which hit the west side of Shetland 

We know quiet a few folk that have been hit by lightening in the  past. TV's and other electrical gear blown up, brass door handles blow off and chimney stacks hit and coming through roofs

With the sea breeze its been a lot more pleasant than down south and we make the most of this for walks

The other day we walk up to Noness in the south mainland

The wind turbine companies are rubbing their hands with the news that the government are fully backing offshore windfarms, which Shetland is part of.

£557million has been allocated to this and auctions will now take place every two years.  Lets hope the interconnector costs continue to rise beyond the reach of all these companies.

Peel Energy continue to put proposals out - 17 turbines in Yell and 12 at Mossy hill in the Central mainland, add the 103 Turbines that Viking energy want to get off the ground and several other proposals you can just imagine what Shetland will look like (or see Scotland)

The lack of a scrap yard means that cars are dumped around the countryside

With many people building new houses old croft homes are now left to the elements

Looking north to Sanick in Sandwick

Good concert the other night with Kollifirboli making a come back after 3 years off the scene

Henry's Loch near Quarff completely dried up, this hasn't happened for many years

Great way to show flowers

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Rare in Shetland

When i saw these clouds over Spiggie i thought they looked unusual

I believe these are called Undulatus Asperatus clouds. The name translates approx. as ``roughened or agitated waves''. They are a ``new'' cloud type, relatively rare, the first proposed in 2009 by Gavin Pretor- Pinney who is the founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society based in Somerset England. Undulatus Asperatus was added to the International Cloud atlas in March 2017, it is the first cloud formation added since Cirrus Intotus in 1951

Although the Stratsraad Lehmkuhl is normally a regular visitor to Lerwick, this was its first visit to Scalloway as part of the 75th anniversary of the Hitra sub-chaser ( see ww2preserved.blogspot.co.uk)

It was a superb weekend with lots of people visiting, including around 150 from Norway.

Another super day on Saturday down at Ireland near Bigton. This one looking south to St Ninian's Isle

Another rare sight, the bones of a Pilot whale washed up on the beach at Ireland, normally if whale remains are found early enough they are dragged back into the sea

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