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Haar

Low cloud is quite frequent in Orkney, especially in the winter. Coming from the West, it rolls in across the central part of the mainland, over Stenness and Harray, then funnels slowly through the narrow gap at Binscarth to...

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Deploy the drones

We are now all familiar with how the ROV, the remotely operated vehicle as it is called, is deployed under water. Attached to the mother vessel by its power and communications umbilical, it can survey the sea bed and effect...

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Der Mond

I’ve been getting text messages from the moon. A note pops up on my phone asking if the moon can...

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Rain

One of the exciting things about Orkney is that it is truly oceanic. We are seventy islands in the...

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Frost

A sudden dip in temperature reminds us that, here in Orkney, we are closer to the Arctic than we...