It's taken me a while, but an article on weather words in Orkney dialect now online at: http://www.orkneyjar.com/orkney/dialect/weather.htm -- Sigurd Towrie Blackhall - Kirbister - Stromness - Orkney Heritage of Orkney: www.orkneyjar.com Home: sigurd@orkneyjar.com Work: sigurd.towrie@orcadian.co.uk