Weather disruption

EX-HURRICANE Ophelia appeared to have blown itself out before it reached Shetland on Monday night.

Force seven to eight north-easterly and then slowly easing northerly winds are forecast to hit the isles during Tuesday.

The inter island ferry service to Yell and Unst were suspended earlier in the day but are both back to normal timetable again.

The NorthLink passenger ferries were running relatively close to timetable, with the Hrossey arriving in Lerwick at 7.30am, while the Hjaltland is expected to arrive in Aberdeen at 9am.

There has also been disruption to flights to and from Sumburgh Airport. While Flybe had to cancel all its flights until early afternoon, Loganair passengers had to endure long delays.

Both airlines managed to get back to their scheduled timetables by mid-afternoon. Flybe’s first service of the day will be the BE2925 from Edinburgh, scheduled to arrive at 4.30pm.

Some passengers due to travel with Flybe from Aberdeen to Sumburgh on Monday evening are only set to touch down in Shetland 24 hours later than first planned.

Nearly 500 people meanwhile briefly lost power in Sandwick late on Monday night after lightning struck an electricity pole.

Engineers isolated the pole at 11.10pm and supply was restored to all affected customers by 11.30pm.

One fire appliance from Sandwick also attended but it left soon after. Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks apologised for the disruption.

On Monday night a number of people across Shetland reported an ash smell in the wind, which is thought to have possibly been swept north by the weather from deadly forest fires which have struck Portugal and Spain.

Please get in touch with us at news@shetnews.co.uk if you have a weather related story you would like to share with us.

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