Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

On Monday all schools will be closed to staff and pupils. Also closed are the Eric Gray at Seafield centre, council-run youth clubs and council managed-facilities of the Islesburgh Community Centre and Central Café, the games halls at the Brae High School, the Gilbertson Park, the Sandwick Junior High School and the Scalloway Primary school and the North Loch Park 3G Pitch.

Although there has been considerable snowfall in the last few days, with more to come, it has been nothing near to the genuinely heavy snowfalls experienced in former times, and remembered by older people in Shetland.

NHS Shetland has stated that all women who were known substance misusers were transferred to NHS Grampian for delivery and as a result NHS Shetland had zero number of babies born with neonatal abstinence syndrome.

The current temperature in Shetland will depend on location. Areas nearer the sea will be slightly warmer with the sea temperature still warmer than usual for the time of year.

Highlands and Islands Scottish Green member of the Scottish parliament Ariane Burgess has expressed regret that Scotland’s new muirburn licensing scheme, agreed by parliament to begin on new year’s day, has been pushed back until Autumn.

Was that snow shower a blizzard? Officially a blizzard is a driving snow-storm which lasts at least three hours, during which the wind is always above 30 knots, visibility is never greater than four hundred metres and the temperature is always lower than minus seven degrees.

The Aith lifeboat, the coastguard helicopter based at Sumburgh and the Lerwick coastguard rescue team, were tasked when emergency beacon signals were received from a small fishing vessel, with the location narrowed down to Port Arthur in Scalloway harbour.