View across the Outer Harbour of Stornoway

Tuesday 28 September 2010

Tuesday 28 September

Overcast today, and after about 3pm, the rain started. Not amounting to very much, and the rainfall radar shows it's only a relatively narrow and patchy band of precipitation moving across from the Atlantic. Looking at the weathercharts, it appears that we're in for a gale on Friday, which could well last into the weekend.

I've been into the library this afternoon to look at ancient copies of the Stornoway Gazette (our local weekly paper) from 1917. These have been put on microfiche, and I'm looking for tributes to island men who had fallen in battle during the First World War. There is a steady trickly of these, and I'm adding them to my WW1 tribute site "Faces from the Lewis War Memorial".

Looking across the water at the Arnish Fabrication Yard, the barge that came in on Sunday is now in place alongside the quay at Glumag Harbour, and a crane is moving stuff either to or from the barge. The Yard makes items for the renewable energy industry (e.g. windturbines).

3 comments:

  1. Guido we have had rain on and off for the last 5 days ~ today has not been too bad but they forecast rain tomorrow ~ I assume we are not going to have an "Indian Summer" :o)

    Your picture looks very bleak and Gloomy ~ Ally x

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  2. My cousin in Coventry has been keeping me abreast of the weather there, she is quite dismayed at the chill & rain. Here in NJ, we have had quite a lack of rain; although we got some today, it is still quite warm & muggy.

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  3. Hello from the sunny lake district.
    That is.. above the clouds! lol
    It is very dreich here.

    Jeanie

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