Overnight rainfall totals
It was quite a dreich and wet day across Scotland yesterday, and not much has changed this morning across the north. There are some purple pixels in the accumulations chart for the last thirty hours indicating …
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Hows that yellow warning for heavy rain doing?
The yellow warning warning for heavy rain from the Met Office has only been running for eleven hours or so, and it’s already quite apparent that the bulk of the rain which has fallen is much …
Weekend rainfall totals from Alex
Everywhere got some rain across IONA this weekend thanks to storm Alex. The lowest totals where in parts of the south and west of Ireland, the west of Cornwall, East Anglia and Lincolnshire. The highest totals …
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 been quite widely over 80 mm in the last 24 hours, in …
Rain from Alex – day 1
In a previous post I did applaud the Met Office for updating their yellow warning for heavy rain to include Herefordshire (estimated totals in excess of 80 mm), whilst at the same time mentioning that southern …
Spot on warning from Met Office
I realise that there are still a couple more hours left for this yellow warning for heavy rain to run, but I must say that the UKMO update for it to include the southeast of Wales …
1 October 2020 – overnight rainfall totals
Now you see it – now you don’t A very wet day over central Scotland with totals in excess of 50 mm in places. If memory serves the UKMO had issued a yellow warning for heavy …
Binbrook wet spot
I noticed a hot spot, or should that be a wet spot, right along the northern part of the Lincolnshire wolds from the heavy rain that fell from storm Odette. I spent four of the more …
Overnight rainfall totals
There was a fairly large area of rainfall totals across western Scotland that exceeded 40 mm yesterday, and across higher ground estimated totals were well in excess of 80 mm. I thought that I would just …
Today’s heavy rain in the west of Scotland
I am not quite sure if the weather radar images are over estimating the rain that’s been falling so far today in the west of Scotland, but if they aren’t I think totals of 50 to …
This weekend’s heavy rain
I will let you be the judge of just how accurate the third Met Office warning was for this weekend’s rain. If you believe the estimated accumulations from weather radar it maybe should have been extended …
27 August 2020 – Heavy rain & thunderstorms
Yesterday was a strange kind of weather day as low ‘Lynn’ deepened across the south producing a lot of thunderstorms and heavy rain in the process. As you may know if you are a regular reader …
Quite surprised there’s no yellow warning out for heavy rain this afternoon
I am quite surprised that the UKMO haven’t taken the trouble to issue a yellow warning for heavy rain this afternoon, at least across Northern Ireland. Estimated accumulations of 10 mm in the space of 30 …
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Rain from storm Ellen
The funny radius across western Ireland was because the Shannon radar was u/s for a time yesterday. In light of this radar image maybe I should amend my analysis for 23 UTC?
Keep it simple
I don’t see how you can have dew points of 18°C and 19°C after the passage of a cold front, well to be exact the passage of an upper cold front inside a warm sector, then …
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 in Norfolk was a much larger >80mm event than the one in …
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 in the centre of Chelmsford. There were of a similar intensity to …
South pay the price for their recent heatwave
It looks like the south are paying the price for their recent heatwave in the form of continued scattered heavy thunderstorms through the rest of the week.
Overnight rainfall totals
Some small white pixels indicating totals greater than 80mm in this estimate of 24 hour rainfall ending at 06 UTC on the 13th August. Largish totals from Shawbury and Hereford from their SYNOP reports which fit …
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 my estimated accumulations from radar for the area, which are broadly in …
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Four inches of rain across Fife overnight
My estimates from weather radar images suggest that there has been around four inches of rain from severe thunderstorms in a belt that stretches northward from Edinburgh, across the Firth of Forth then on into Fife …
Isolated thunderstorm tracks north across the Cairngorms
All quiet across the UK on the thunderstorm front apart from this single cell moving more or less due north across the southern Cairngorms.
10 August – where the rain fell and the thunder rolled
It certainly pelted it down close to Blackpool yesterday evening with estimated rainfall accumulations from the thunderstorms in excess of 80 mm. If two flashes in Perthshire count then the Met Office got a hit for …
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