Rain clears northwards
Just call me an old skeptic, but I’m still not at all convinced about the amber heavy rain/flood warning which the Met Office have …
Just call me an old skeptic, but I’m still not at all convinced about the amber heavy rain/flood warning which the Met Office have …
Looking at the latest rainfall accumulations and the latest weather radar I still think the main focus of the rain is still west of …
I have been pondering this amber warning for heavy rain on Tuesday and Wednesday issued by the UKMO yesterday and looking at the latest …
The Amber warning for heavy rain on Tuesday and Wednesday came as a bit of surprise (at least to me) this morning. There seems …
It was a good job the Met Office decided on Tuesday to extend their yellow warning for heavy rain northward as most places south …
Yesterday was what the Scot’s term dreich and it certainly was in Easter Ross. The northeast of Scotland was in the firing line for …
Recent accumulations of rain and snow in northeast Scotland Read More »
I was told recently that the Met Office worked hand in glove with the EA and SEPA regarding heavy rainfall events to coordinate the …
The last 24 hours or so has seen as much as 70 mm of rainfall fall across the Pennines and this morning there are …
The heavy rain to the north of the city of Aberdeen has caused the flooding of the rail line between the city and Dyce …
The Morayshire warning I must say that the amounts quoted in yesterday’s yellow warning of heavy rain from 1600 BST till 0800 BST this …
The wettest place in the UK yesterday was across the northwest of Scotland on Wednesday (0000-2355 UTC), where extreme estimated accumulations were as high …
I wondered why the Met Office had issued a peculiar belated yellow warning for heavy rain late this morning for the Moray Firth area. …
Another drenching for Aberdeenshire in the 24 hours till 06 UTC on Sunday morning. Estimates from weather radar indicate that totals across Aberdeenshire have …
It looks highly likely that Network Rail are going to put the blame for the Stonehaven rail crash on climate change. It seems that …
Stonehaven train crash looks likely to become another casualty of global warming Read More »
It is amazing how many of these high rainfall events always manage to slip between the rain gauges in the SYNOP network. This one …
Just a few white pixels indicating estimated accumulations in excess of 80 mm across parts of Essex late yesterday were enough to cause flooding …
In light of the rail accident near Stonehaven I am adding a supplemental to this morning’s post about the heavy overnight thunderstorms after updating …
A closer look at the heavy rain across eastern Scotland Read More »
A friend of mine sent me these interesting pictures of the River Findhorn in Moray. The two images were taken at Randolph’s leap a …
If you don’t know what the acronym GloFAS stands for then join the club, neither did I until today. Here is an explanation from …
The only reason that I can see why almost identical warnings were issued for heavy rain across central Wales and central northern England, one …
No one of course care’s about the minutiae of what the various warnings that were issued, in the final analysis it probably made little difference in alerting people to the chances of flooding, because the media have been all over this story for days, with flocks of TV reporters already vying for best positions along the river Taff in south Wales to capture all the details.
Maybe if they had given themselves that extra six hours at the start of the amber warnings they might have achieved the higher totals.
There certainly was a large area of rainfall accumulations of 50-75 mm and within that smaller areas of 75-100 mm in the 24 hours. No wonder there was flooding at Hebden Bridge.