Freuchie Flood Action Group

We’re now integrated and working with the Weather Underground website. Our station ID is IFIFECUP2 (automatic name, not our choice)

See current and past weather data on the Weather Underground website:
http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=IFIFECUP2

Here’s what occurring at the moment:

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We’re trying to put in place as many different ways as possible to keep residents informed of the weather and flood information from Freuchie Flood Action Group.

You can now follow the Freuchie Mill Weather Station on Twitter. There will be a tweet every 60 minutes announcing the current weather data. The Twitter account name to follow is FFAGWSFM, which incidentally stands for Freuchie Flood Action Group Weather Service – Freuchie Mill.

Feel free to follow us: http://twitter.com/ffagwsfm 

Future weather stations will be offered as they become available. Please contact us if you have a weather station in Freuchie or nearby that is capable of getting data onto the Internet.

Finally, don’t forget you can also follow Freuchie Flood Action Group: http://twitter.com/ffag 

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SEPA has issued a Flood Watch for Fife.

FLOOD WATCH

This statement was prepared on 19 November 2009 at 7:03 am.

A FLOOD WATCH has been issued for Fife and Clackmannanshire rivers.

A band of rain will stagnate over Clackmannanshire today with widespread totals of 25 to 40mm at low levels and 50 to 60mm over the higher ground. As the ground is already saturated localised flooding is expected.

This FLOOD WATCH is now in force until further notice.

Please continue to keep an eye on the situation in your area and listen to local radio and television for further information.

The Met Office has also issued an Advisory of Severe or Extreme Weather for Fife that covers today and tomorrow:

There is a moderate risk of severe weather affecting many western parts of Britain. During Thursday very wet and windy conditions are expected at times with widespread rain and gales in places with winds gusting around 60 MPH. Rain will be heavy at times, especially over windward hills and mountains. Rainfall accumulations of 30 to 50mm are expected through the whole period with locally over 80mm mainly across higher ground.

Issued at: 0645 Thu 19 Nov

The weather forecast over the next 36 hours isn’t too good. Ensure you are prepared to deploy flood defences and you have moved all valuables, and anything else you can’t afford to lose, to an upstairs room or attic.

For those of you who been following our Twitter account, you may have noticed Freuchie Mill residents were heading to Cupar to collect sandbags to dam off Freuchie Mill Road and to fully protect the few homes that haven’t yet got flood doors. We got there to discover Fife Council would rather bring them out to us on this occasion.

FFAG committee members have also inspected sites around the village and further afield to ensure we have a handle on potential flooding. You may well have seen us out at 5am touring the village.

We have discovered the water draining off the railway is causing flooding at the chicken farm, water that ultimately ends up at Freuchie Mill.

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Webcams are currently being installed in flood risk areas of Freuchie to provide a mechanism for the residents to check from anywhere in the world if flooding is putting their property at risk.

At the moment these are still images captured every 5 minutes. In the near future it will be possible to subscribe to a live feed at a small annual charge.

Freuchie Mill is the first area being covered by this new system. Other areas will be done as finances become available to do the work. If you are interested in sponsoring a camera and have mains power and a wired or wireless broadband network available then we’d be interested in hearing from you.

Checkout the Freuchie Webcam Network.

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Freuchie Mill now has a hand held air horn to signal a flood emergency. If you are first to spot the beginning of a flood then bang on the door of No 15 and we’ll get the alarm sounded. You could also use your car horn to signal an emergency situation. It is advisable to respond immediately to the air horn or a car horn sounding in a strange manner.

Get your car out of Freuchie Mill when the alarm goes off and put it up on Freuchie Mill Road or across in the main part of the village. DO NOT park on the bridge area or on the slope up to Freuchie Mill House as this prevents the emergency services from doing their job.

Residents at Green Tree Brae have flood alarms mounted to warn of the rising burn levels. We’re relying on residents at risk warning each other to the rising water level.

We will be looking into automating the alarms and monitoring over the new month or two, including the possibility of SMS (text) messaging, weather data and a webcam image of the area. More details as procedures and systems develop.

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SEPA has issued a Flood Watch for Fife:

FLOOD WATCH

This statement was prepared on 13 November 2009 at 6:57 pm.

A FLOOD WATCH has been issued for Fife and Clackmannanshire rivers.

Heavy rainfall is expected this evening and into the early hours of Saturday. 25-30mm is forecast with 50mm possible on high ground.

Localised flooding from surface water and small watercourses is possible.

This FLOOD WATCH is now in force until further notice.

Please continue to keep an eye on the situation in your area and listen to local radio and television for further information.

The heavy rainfall has started in Freuchie. There are going to be a lot of Freuchie residents having a restless night tonight!

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The Met Office has issued a “Flash Warning of severe or extreme weather”:

Rain will spread northwards across southern and central Scotland during this evening and right through into tomorrow morning becoming heavy at times with totals of 25 to 30mm generally but with 50mm possible over the high ground. The public are advised to take extra care and refer to the latest Scottish Environment Protection Agency Live Flood Warning Information.

This warning is in effect from 9pm tonight until 10am tomorrow morning.

SEPA has no flood warning in force for Fife so far.

Standby your sandbag and grab some sleep now!

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Amazingly the Norwegian Institute of Meteorology makes available an hour by hour forecast for Freuchie. They have predicted around 18mm of rainfall over the remainder of today and tomorrow. This level of rainfall is certainly less worrying than the deluge predicted by the Met Office, which provides a general forecast for large parts of the East of Scotland.

A link has now been added to the sidebar in the Forecasts and Warnings category of the blog.

Big thanks to Ross Robertson for this fabulous find.

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SEPA has issued a FLOOD WATCH for Fife and Clackmannanshire:

 

This statement was prepared on 20 October 2009 at 9:54 pm.

A FLOOD WATCH has been issued for Fife and Clackmannanshire rivers.

Heavy rain is forecast for the remainder of Tuesday evening and into Wednesday.

Localised flooding is possible from small watercourses and surface water.

This FLOOD WATCH is now in force until further notice.

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The Met Office has issued a “Severe or Extreme Weather Advisory” that includes Fife.

Wednesday:

There is a moderate risk of a severe weather event affecting parts of east Scotland during Wednesday. Outbreaks of heavy rain may give 40 mm on low ground and 60 to 75 mm over high ground during the day.

Thursday:

There is a moderate risk of a severe weather event affecting parts of east Scotland during Thursday. Outbreaks of heavy rain may give an additional 15 to 25 mm over high ground during the morning with overall totals through Wednesday and Thursday of 80 to 100 mm.

We’re certainly in very dangerous territory if those rainfall estimates fall on and around Freuchie. Flooding on a scale seen last year may even be a possibility. 

It is time to ensure your flood protection measures are ready for action.

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