Not so much an item as a Twitter dump of stories, charts, graphs and images from tweets I wrote concerning Storm Babet. Not sorted out too well chronologically either. I’ll try to do better next time. Maybe I’ll stick with the blog and just upload links to Twitter from now on?
Temperatures & Anomalies
Rather cold in the NENE North East, much milder further south. Not a single mention of temperatures for today on the BBCBBC The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the national broadcaster of the United Kingdom, based at Broadcasting House in London. It is the world's oldest national broadcaster, and the largest broadcaster in the world by number of employees, employing over 22,000 staff in total, of whom approximately 19,000 are in public-sector broadcasting. too caught up on listing the number of flood warnings
Surface analysis
Something like that
13 UTC
Surface analysis
Surface analysis
Inverbervie is a notoriously windy place, but the E’ly gale that’s been running there for the last 31 hours must rank as one of the windiest spells the AWSAWS Automatic Weather Station there has ever recorded
A surprisingly dry and bright day with sunny intervals here in StrathpefferStrathpeffer Strathpeffer (Scottish Gaelic: Srath Pheofhair) is a village and spa town in Easter Ross, Highland, Scotland, with a population of 1,469. after yesterday’s afternoon rain, although it feels cold in the strong easterly wind.
Flooding on the A834 Strathpeffer to Dingwall road close to Castle Leod
Estimated accumulations from weather radar
The heavy rain has finally stopped after almost 13 hours. Quite remarkable accuracy with estimate of 43.1 mm for Strathpeffer, Vantage Pro reports 43.4 mm
Goodbye Babet
Three large rainfall events
6-8 Oct the storm that never was 87.6 mm 48hr
19 Oct storm Babet 32.6 mm in 16 hr
21 Oct 29.2 mm in 9 hr so far 192.4 mm
Inverbervie Anemograph
Mean Speed Average hourly [kts]
A 33 kt mean speed is not bad going for 72 hours at Inverbervie.
The wind has moderated slightly this morning but still blowing force 12 from SE’E. Temperatures now sub-zero and wind chill close to -12°C so it’s either white or has a very icy glaze up there at the moment
Glenshee Snow above 2500 ft today now clearing from southeast.
Amazing rain shadow cast by Cairngorms persists across Nairn & Forres. Kinloss 0.4 mm [06-18] Lossiemouth 0.8 mm [06-18]
Estimates from radar Had to change to high colour range contouring Purple pixels indicating wettest areas have seen >175mm in last 20 hrs across E Scotland, and close to the city of Aberdeen itself. 32.4mm in 14 hrs in Strathpeffer
Rainfall totals from weather radar estimates More white pixels appearing across E Grampians indicating totals of >80mm since 06 UTC. Ben Wyvis has some too as well. 17.4 mm since 13 UTC here in Strathpeffer in heavy rain.
Here’s a pseudo hyetograph for a spot close to the Bridge of Dee gleaned from 5 minute weather radar imagery. Estimates of 41.6 mm so far today.