Scottish Flood Forecasting Service marks 10th Anniversary
Since we emigrated to Scotland in 2018 I think I might just add my two penneth to what seems to be a rather one-sided …
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Flooding
28-29 Jan 2021 – 24 hour accumulations
We are missing the Stornoway radar up in this part of the world as you can see from the last 24 hours accumulations of …
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 …
18-19 Jan 2021 – rainfall accumulations
Looking at the latest rainfall accumulations and the latest weather radar I still think the main focus of the rain is still west of …
Possible flooding east of the Pennines
I have been pondering this amber warning for heavy rain on Tuesday and Wednesday issued by the UKMO yesterday and looking at the latest …
Surprise amber warning from UKMO
The Amber warning for heavy rain on Tuesday and Wednesday came as a bit of surprise (at least to me) this morning. There seems …
Yesterday’s heavy rain
It was a good job the Met Office decided on Tuesday to extend their yellow warning for heavy rain northward as most places south …
Recent accumulations of rain and snow in northeast Scotland
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 …
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Let’s work together…
I was told recently that the Met Office worked hand in glove with the EA and SEPA regarding heavy rainfall events to coordinate the …
Overnight flooding in Yorkshire Dales
The last 24 hours or so has seen as much as 70 mm of rainfall fall across the Pennines and this morning there are …
Flash flooding in Aberdeen
The heavy rain to the north of the city of Aberdeen has caused the flooding of the rail line between the city and Dyce …
Heavy overnight rainfall in northeast Scotland
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 …
21 October 2020 rainfall
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 …
This explains everything!
I wondered why the Met Office had issued a peculiar belated yellow warning for heavy rain late this morning for the Moray Firth area. …
Rain from Alex – day 2
Another drenching for Aberdeenshire in the 24 hours till 06 UTC on Sunday morning. Estimates from weather radar indicate that totals across Aberdeenshire have …
Stonehaven train crash looks likely to become another casualty of global warming
It looks highly likely that Network Rail are going to put the blame for the Stonehaven rail crash on climate change. It seems that …
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17 August 2020 – Overnight rainfall
It is amazing how many of these high rainfall events always manage to slip between the rain gauges in the SYNOP network. This one …
Flooding in Essex
Just a few white pixels indicating estimated accumulations in excess of 80 mm across parts of Essex late yesterday were enough to cause flooding …
A closer look at the heavy rain across eastern Scotland
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 …
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The Findhorn in spate
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 …
GloFAS
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 …
A tale of two warnings
The only reason that I can see why almost identical warnings were issued for heavy rain across central Wales and central northern England, one …
Impacts and likelihoods of rainfall from storm Dennis
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.
Met Office tone down amber warnings
Maybe if they had given themselves that extra six hours at the start of the amber warnings they might have achieved the higher totals.