Low cloud is quite frequent in Orkney, especially in the winter. Coming from the West, it rolls in...
Author - Alastair MacLeod
Deploy the drones
We are now all familiar with how the ROV, the remotely operated vehicle as it is called, is...
Green Flash
In the light of evening the low sun began to illuminate the wall of the croft with a soft amber...
Orkney housing in the 21st century?
The John D. Mackay Memorial Lecture in the 2014 Orkney International Science Festival looked at the...
To CERN from South Ronaldsay
Tom Levens who is from South Ronaldsay in Orkney has an unusual job. He works on the Large Hadron...
Rain
One of the exciting things about Orkney is that it is truly oceanic. We are seventy islands in the...
Frost
A sudden dip in temperature reminds us that, here in Orkney, we are closer to the Arctic than we...
A few hot days
For there to be a hot day in Orkney the wind must die down, a rare occurrence. On such a day...
An Orkney wind
Gauging the strength of the wind becomes easy – a force nine tears at the dead skirt of the palm...
John Rae: a clash of methodologies and ideologies
The scandal that rocked the Victorian establishment It is 200 years since the death of John Rae and...